HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

106 points by lermontov on Jan 7, 2020 | 79 comments

1232.

Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown (nature.com)

106 points by bookofjoe on Jan 25, 2020 | 64 comments

1233.

Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target (jakob.space)

106 points by jsnell on Jan 11, 2020 | 50 comments

1234.

Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond (gowaterfalling.com)

106 points by rubidium on Jan 15, 2020 | 45 comments

1235.

Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks (sonant.generated.space)

106 points by hardmaru on Jan 19, 2020 | 19 comments

1236.

Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s (github.com)

106 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 15, 2020 | 11 comments

1237.

Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News (yahnd.com)

106 points by yaj54 on Jan 28, 2020 | 8 comments

1238.

A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops (news.mit.edu)

105 points by jelliclesfarm on Jan 18, 2020 | 95 comments

1239.

A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock (bbc.com)

105 points by antongribok on Jan 13, 2020 | 50 comments

1240.

‘Matryoshka’ diamonds unearthed in Siberia (2019) (siberiantimes.com)

105 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 21, 2020 | 42 comments

1241.

Why “Gradient” Descent? (scienceofdata.org)

105 points by JunaidB on Jan 3, 2020 | 26 comments

1242.

Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot (nist.gov)

104 points by amjaeger on Jan 31, 2020 | 158 comments

1243.

It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too (zeroequalsfalse.com)

104 points by techtor on Jan 8, 2020 | 107 comments

1244.

The Y2K bug is back, causing headaches for developers again (zdnet.com)

104 points by nikbackm on Jan 14, 2020 | 91 comments

1245.

Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO (ifre.com)

104 points by uijl on Jan 29, 2020 | 90 comments

1246.

Who’s Watching Your Porch? (nytimes.com)

104 points by benryon on Jan 25, 2020 | 83 comments

1247.

The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark (onezero.medium.com)

104 points by etxm on Jan 15, 2020 | 75 comments

1248.

Reiser5 (marc.info)

104 points by alexclear on Jan 1, 2020 | 69 comments

1249.

FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions (beseen.com)

104 points by sjunlee on Jan 10, 2020 | 65 comments

1250.

How to Allocate Memory (2016) (geocar.sdf1.org)

104 points by tosh on Jan 12, 2020 | 44 comments

1251.

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (numinous.productions)

104 points by kristianc on Jan 25, 2020 | 44 comments

1252.

Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles (towardsdatascience.com)

104 points by dsr12 on Jan 9, 2020 | 28 comments

1253.

Pilecki's Report (en.wikipedia.org)

104 points by jorgenveisdal on Jan 23, 2020 | 20 comments

1254.

Ishikawa diagram (en.wikipedia.org)

104 points by dedalus on Jan 29, 2020 | 16 comments

1255.

The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases (blog.diffbot.com)

104 points by miket on Jan 1, 2020 | 9 comments

1256.

What the death of iTunes says about digital habits (theatlantic.com)

103 points by howrude on Jan 18, 2020 | 112 comments

1257.

All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen (polygon.com)

103 points by MBCook on Jan 14, 2020 | 108 comments

1258.

Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor (forbes.com)

103 points by finphil on Jan 8, 2020 | 81 comments

1259.

Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale) (wh0.github.io)

103 points by luu on Jan 3, 2020 | 79 comments

1260.

Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data (wsj.com)

103 points by Bostonian on Jan 11, 2020 | 77 comments