HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

301.

U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism (theprivacyissue.com)

327 points by burnaway on Jan 22, 2020 | 126 comments

302.

Coding Interview Problems with Detailed Solutions, Test Cases, Program Analysis (hoanhan101.github.io)

327 points by hoanhan101 on Jan 7, 2020 | 70 comments

303.

How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains (lithub.com)

326 points by pseudolus on Jan 31, 2020 | 104 comments

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A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code (theregister.co.uk)

324 points by kick on Jan 23, 2020 | 182 comments

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The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development (americanaffairsjournal.org)

323 points by boh on Jan 16, 2020 | 283 comments

306.

Haters (paulgraham.com)

321 points by razin on Jan 11, 2020 | 295 comments

307.

Design Tips for Developers (paul.copplest.one)

321 points by kiwicopple on Jan 23, 2020 | 54 comments

308.

How is search so bad? A case study (svilentodorov.xyz)

319 points by Tenoke on Jan 19, 2020 | 396 comments

309.

Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust (deno.land)

319 points by alexellisuk on Jan 20, 2020 | 84 comments

310.

The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (thehustle.co)

318 points by Anon84 on Jan 26, 2020 | 268 comments

311.

Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org)

318 points by matthberg on Jan 7, 2020 | 173 comments

312.

The Cruise Origin (getcruise.com)

317 points by tzhenghao on Jan 22, 2020 | 273 comments

313.

Bash $* and $@ (2017) (eklitzke.org)

316 points by oftenwrong on Jan 12, 2020 | 234 comments

314.

Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway (spaceweather.com)

316 points by duncancarroll on Jan 7, 2020 | 98 comments

315.

First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S. (npr.org)

315 points by adenner on Jan 21, 2020 | 203 comments

316.

U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams (reuters.com)

313 points by dredmorbius on Jan 28, 2020 | 227 comments

317.

Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (medium.com)

313 points by Pneumaticat on Jan 13, 2020 | 109 comments

318.

TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex (blog.asana.com)

312 points by lobster_roll on Jan 31, 2020 | 209 comments

319.

The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City (atlasobscura.com)

312 points by ecliptik on Jan 9, 2020 | 82 comments

320.

RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation (blog.rstudio.com)

312 points by hadley on Jan 29, 2020 | 49 comments

321.

Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it (npr.org)

311 points by moorage on Jan 15, 2020 | 357 comments

322.

Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste (rollingstone.com)

311 points by elijahwheelock on Jan 24, 2020 | 94 comments

323.

Hacker News Classics (2018) (jsomers.net)

311 points by dsalzman on Jan 9, 2020 | 42 comments

324.

Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me (abe-winter.github.io)

310 points by awinter-py on Jan 14, 2020 | 246 comments

325.

CollegeHumor shuts down (washingtonpost.com)

310 points by rahuldottech on Jan 15, 2020 | 214 comments

326.

WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines (onezero.medium.com)

310 points by pslattery on Jan 21, 2020 | 96 comments

327.

Machine learning is fundamentally conservative (blog.lareviewofbooks.org)

308 points by macawfish on Jan 4, 2020 | 200 comments

328.

Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

308 points by close04 on Jan 22, 2020 | 154 comments

329.

Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US (lenovo.com)

308 points by popey on Jan 30, 2020 | 123 comments

330.

Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript (pakastin.github.io)

308 points by pkstn on Jan 1, 2020 | 88 comments