HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

17821.

The hidden story behind the suicide of ECE PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (medium.com)

81 points by loganadams_ on Jul 2, 2019 | 11 comments

17822.

Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block (grapevine.is)

81 points by praptak on Apr 29, 2019 | 10 comments

17823.

Typesetting Markdown – Part 4: Theme Style (dave.autonoma.ca)

81 points by thangalin on Jun 24, 2019 | 10 comments

17824.

More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp (schneier.com)

81 points by Deimorz on Aug 2, 2019 | 10 comments

17825.

Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial (playermissile.com)

81 points by matt_d on Dec 4, 2019 | 10 comments

17826.

Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev (gamedevnotesblog.wordpress.com)

81 points by atomlib on Dec 27, 2019 | 10 comments

17827.

Don’t build systems, build subsystems (blog.jessitron.com)

81 points by ingve on Oct 14, 2019 | 9 comments

17828.

Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by amynordrum on Jan 6, 2019 | 8 comments

17829.

Ex-Joyeur (dtrace.org)

81 points by skreuzer on Jul 31, 2019 | 8 comments

17830.

Show HN: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly (zkwasm.kobi.one)

81 points by kobigurk on Feb 8, 2019 | 7 comments

17831.

Mesa 19.2 (mesa3d.org)

81 points by jrepinc on Sep 25, 2019 | 7 comments

17832.

Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More (thume.ca)

81 points by trishume on Jul 20, 2019 | 6 comments

17833.

Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf] (bwlampson.site)

81 points by RossBencina on Jan 5, 2019 | 4 comments

17834.

The Year in Math and Computer Science (quantamagazine.org)

81 points by Anon84 on Dec 28, 2019 | 4 comments

17835.

Reddit quarantines its biggest headache (techcrunch.com)

81 points by ETHisso2017 on Jun 26, 2019 | 3 comments

17836.

Mining Social Media (socialdata.site)

81 points by danso on Dec 5, 2019 | 3 comments

17837.

Registering to vote can allow re-identification of your anonymized data (medium.com)

81 points by bingdig on Sep 26, 2019 | 2 comments

17838.

EU beckons Indian tech talent (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

80 points by r_singh on Dec 24, 2019 | 240 comments

17839.

Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next? (sfchronicle.com)

80 points by objections on Jan 9, 2019 | 180 comments

17840.

Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists (cbc.ca)

80 points by pseudolus on Oct 4, 2019 | 177 comments

17841.

How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare (bloomberg.com)

80 points by anarbadalov on Nov 6, 2019 | 163 comments

17842.

Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear to renewables (spiegel.de)

80 points by howard941 on May 14, 2019 | 157 comments

17843.

Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras (wsj.com)

80 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 7, 2019 | 152 comments

17844.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)

80 points by whoishiring on Jun 3, 2019 | 132 comments

17845.

Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music (bloomberg.com)

80 points by pseudolus on Aug 3, 2019 | 126 comments

17846.

The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad (theatlantic.com)

80 points by diodorus on Sep 6, 2019 | 125 comments

17847.

Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches (jordanhall.co.uk)

80 points by DivineOmega on Jan 18, 2019 | 123 comments

17848.

YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video (theverge.com)

80 points by pseudolus on Nov 11, 2019 | 119 comments

17849.

The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)

80 points by michaelfeathers on Nov 24, 2019 | 116 comments

17850.

Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018 (economist.com)

80 points by spac on Apr 1, 2019 | 113 comments