HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

991.

Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated (medium.com)

561 points by robertwiblin on Jul 14, 2019 | 336 comments

992.

HTML is the Web (petelambert.com)

561 points by mmoez on Jun 26, 2019 | 328 comments

993.

AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018) (diginomica.com)

561 points by Anon84 on Nov 23, 2019 | 182 comments

994.

Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382… (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

561 points by techgipper on Jul 23, 2019 | 75 comments

995.

How does a video codec work? (github.com)

561 points by dreampeppers99 on Nov 21, 2019 | 48 comments

996.

Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet (netblocks.org)

560 points by anigbrowl on Oct 2, 2019 | 304 comments

997.

Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined (businessinsider.com)

560 points by hkmaxpro on Oct 21, 2019 | 283 comments

998.

Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky (fair.org)

559 points by zachguo on Oct 16, 2019 | 302 comments

999.

Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch (npr.org)

559 points by drewvolpe on Jan 30, 2019 | 174 comments

1000.

Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people (soranews24.com)

559 points by mpweiher on Jan 2, 2019 | 133 comments

1001.

Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text (news.stanford.edu)

558 points by jonbaer on Jun 6, 2019 | 202 comments

1002.

A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers (twitter.com)

558 points by allthebest on Aug 10, 2019 | 200 comments

1003.

Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks (30hourjobs.com)

558 points by nbrempel on May 14, 2019 | 137 comments

1004.

Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search (theintercept.com)

557 points by jbegley on Mar 4, 2019 | 286 comments

1005.

There is no evil like reCAPTCHA (thestoic.me)

557 points by eitland on Aug 5, 2019 | 284 comments

1006.

Microsoft Japan’s 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity (soranews24.com)

557 points by nefitty on Nov 3, 2019 | 210 comments

1007.

قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic (nas.sr)

556 points by kick on Oct 25, 2019 | 623 comments

1008.

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward (zdnet.com)

556 points by CrankyBear on May 9, 2019 | 372 comments

1009.

AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead (arstechnica.com)

556 points by JaimeThompson on May 14, 2019 | 173 comments

1010.

Firefox is getting language translation (zdnet.com)

556 points by jeremiahlee on Oct 22, 2019 | 123 comments

1011.

Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019 (fast.ai)

556 points by jph00 on Jan 25, 2019 | 75 comments

1012.

Windows 95 UI Design (twitter.com)

555 points by luu on Dec 25, 2019 | 298 comments

1013.

How to parent more predictably (2018) (jefftk.com)

555 points by wheresvic1 on Jun 13, 2019 | 248 comments

1014.

An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? (old.reddit.com)

554 points by m0ck on Dec 13, 2019 | 362 comments

1015.

Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing (theverge.com)

553 points by tmm on Mar 19, 2019 | 695 comments

1016.

Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015) (alexmeub.com)

553 points by maxmouchet on Jan 20, 2019 | 354 comments

1017.

Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches (projectvesta.org)

553 points by QuickToBan on Jul 10, 2019 | 333 comments

1018.

Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine (digital.com)