HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6841.

A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (2017) (bbc.com)

199 points by happy-go-lucky on May 14, 2019 | 97 comments

6842.

Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement? (ctrl.blog)

199 points by superkuh on Mar 27, 2019 | 95 comments

6843.

How to Design for the Web in 2019 (medium.com)

199 points by cruxex on Jun 13, 2019 | 95 comments

6844.

What design tools get wrong (kilianvalkhof.com)

199 points by deanalevitt on Apr 12, 2019 | 79 comments

6845.

Why scientists need to be better at data visualization (knowablemagazine.org)

199 points by Anon84 on Nov 14, 2019 | 76 comments

6846.

Open Source Needs Open Source Companies (blog.jessitron.com)

199 points by luu on Mar 13, 2019 | 62 comments

6847.

AI competitions don’t produce useful models (lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com)

199 points by baylearn on Sep 19, 2019 | 62 comments

6848.

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds (neh.gov)

199 points by samclemens on Feb 5, 2019 | 61 comments

6849.

Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses (nytimes.com)

199 points by johnny313 on Aug 16, 2019 | 61 comments

6850.

Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations (github.com)

199 points by ingve on Jan 6, 2019 | 56 comments

6851.

Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014) (elastic.co)

199 points by donbox on Apr 2, 2019 | 55 comments

6852.

Raster CRT Typography According to DEC (masswerk.at)

199 points by fanf2 on Mar 30, 2019 | 53 comments

6853.

Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs (blog.paperspace.com)

199 points by hsikka on Oct 13, 2019 | 49 comments

6854.

RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler (docs.google.com)

199 points by Impossible on Oct 21, 2019 | 45 comments

6855.

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS (tom7.org)

199 points by tantalor on Nov 15, 2019 | 33 comments

6856.

Meet Dash O’Pepper (filipeherculano.dev)

199 points by tayllanb on Dec 30, 2019 | 20 comments

6857.

Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time (sciencemag.org)

199 points by rbanffy on May 20, 2019 | 17 comments

6858.

Why Child Care Is So Expensive (theatlantic.com)

198 points by jseliger on Dec 9, 2019 | 496 comments

6859.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves (qz.com)

198 points by prostoalex on Feb 5, 2019 | 393 comments

6860.

Is there hope for IPv6? (internetgovernance.org)

198 points by danyork on Jan 5, 2019 | 392 comments

6861.

The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S. (gfintegrity.org)

198 points by resalisbury on Jul 26, 2019 | 240 comments

6862.

Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters (latimes.com)

198 points by lnguyen on Oct 2, 2019 | 222 comments

6863.

Special Cases Are a Code Smell (blog.conjur.org)

198 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 24, 2019 | 216 comments

6864.

Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

198 points by barry-cotter on Dec 24, 2019 | 209 comments

6865.

What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf] (devstreaming-cdn.apple.com)

198 points by sebiw on Jun 11, 2019 | 187 comments

6866.

Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project” (groups.google.com)

198 points by f2f on May 28, 2019 | 177 comments

6867.

Momentum is building to explore Venus (nature.com)

198 points by 6d6b73 on Jun 6, 2019 | 173 comments

6868.

Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video] (youtube.com)