HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

Multics: An Ancestor of Unix (multicians.org)

151 points by lordleft on Dec 27, 2019 | 33 comments

782.

Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses (fox5atlanta.com)

150 points by lxm on Dec 12, 2019 | 192 comments

783.

China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak (newsweek.com)

150 points by off_by_one on Dec 22, 2019 | 162 comments

784.

Modern garbage collection: Part 2 (blog.plan99.net)

150 points by mariuz on Dec 12, 2019 | 91 comments

785.

Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon (coffee-and-dreams.uk)

150 points by dredmorbius on Dec 6, 2019 | 63 comments

786.

NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf] (david-abel.github.io)

150 points by rebelhit on Dec 21, 2019 | 33 comments

787.

Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over (wired.com)

149 points by monsieurpng on Dec 14, 2019 | 309 comments

788.

Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take (backreaction.blogspot.com)

149 points by chmaynard on Dec 16, 2019 | 201 comments

789.

Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs (ifixit.com)

149 points by jbuild on Dec 4, 2019 | 140 comments

790.

The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found (twitter.com)

149 points by whytai on Dec 2, 2019 | 121 comments

791.

French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers (washingtonpost.com)

149 points by andrewl on Dec 22, 2019 | 115 comments

792.

The Art of Dying (newyorker.com)

149 points by kaboro on Dec 21, 2019 | 81 comments

793.

To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down (blog.8tracks.com)

149 points by RmDen on Dec 27, 2019 | 43 comments

794.

Video: A Language for Making Movies (lang.video)

149 points by brudgers on Dec 29, 2019 | 40 comments

795.

Show HN: Clayoven – a minimalist website generator for math, code, and articles (github.com)

149 points by artagnon on Dec 15, 2019 | 32 comments

796.

Natural Language Processing Best Practices and Examples (github.com)

149 points by sharatsc on Dec 5, 2019 | 5 comments

797.

Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf] (pmj.bmj.com)

148 points by joak on Dec 1, 2019 | 154 comments

798.

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real (newyorker.com)

148 points by fortran77 on Dec 9, 2019 | 132 comments

799.

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015) (plato.stanford.edu)

148 points by DanielleMolloy on Dec 18, 2019 | 90 comments

800.

No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004) (jdebp.info.)

148 points by Tomte on Dec 30, 2019 | 80 comments

801.

Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline (news.berkeley.edu)

148 points by chris1993 on Dec 7, 2019 | 78 comments

802.

Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find (nytimes.com)

148 points by pseudolus on Dec 6, 2019 | 48 comments

803.

Categories of deep recommendation systems (jameskle.com)

148 points by le_james94 on Dec 28, 2019 | 37 comments

804.

Introduction to Bert (towardsml.com)

148 points by seshagiric on Dec 2, 2019 | 10 comments

805.

Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering (muppetlabs.com)

148 points by breadbox on Dec 6, 2019 | 10 comments

806.

Unicode Is Awesome (wisdom.engineering)

147 points by jagracey on Dec 2, 2019 | 152 comments

807.

McDonald's holds communities together (2016) (theguardian.com)

147 points by Tomte on Dec 28, 2019 | 144 comments

808.

Progressive React (houssein.me)

147 points by brandonhall on Dec 20, 2019 | 84 comments

809.

LocalStorage or WebSQL unexpectedly cleared (bugs.chromium.org)

147 points by ssddanbrown on Dec 15, 2019 | 74 comments

810.

Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures (seriss.com)

147 points by luu on Dec 8, 2019 | 70 comments