HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

Brittle starfish are second known example of vision in an organism without eyes (cell.com)

72 points by bookofjoe on Jan 5, 2020 | 20 comments

1622.

Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say (nytimes.com)

72 points by boyd on Jan 3, 2020 | 19 comments

1623.

Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution (ai.googleblog.com)

72 points by luthfur on Jan 14, 2020 | 12 comments

1624.

Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold (jamanetwork.com)

72 points by fspeech on Jan 25, 2020 | 6 comments

1625.

Branch prediction minutiae in LZ decoders (mikejsavage.co.uk)

72 points by luu on Jan 7, 2020 | 4 comments

1626.

Data Detox Kit (datadetoxkit.org)

72 points by rahuldottech on Jan 5, 2020 | 3 comments

1627.

9-gigapixel image of the Milky Way contains 84M stars (eso.org)

72 points by hongzi on Jan 21, 2020 | 3 comments

1628.

A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain (arxiv.org)

71 points by lelf on Jan 29, 2020 | 66 comments

1629.

Ask HN: How to make an extra $2000 monthly?

71 points by smithmayowa on Jan 7, 2020 | 64 comments

1630.

Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea (0day.work)

71 points by gehaxelt on Jan 16, 2020 | 55 comments

1631.

Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starliner needs another test (techcrunch.com)

71 points by zecken on Jan 30, 2020 | 55 comments

1632.

What's the longest distance that can be traveled by using free transportation? (travel.stackexchange.com)

71 points by jxub on Jan 20, 2020 | 47 comments

1633.

Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed at increasing opioid use (fiercehealthcare.com)

71 points by JshWright on Jan 28, 2020 | 38 comments

1634.

Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago (newsweek.com)

71 points by stopads on Jan 9, 2020 | 29 comments

1635.

Show HN: Pong in 512 bytes (boot sector) (github.com)

71 points by matsz on Jan 3, 2020 | 20 comments

1636.

Tau PET imaging beats amyloid-based approach in battle against Alzheimer’s (healthimaging.com)

71 points by howard941 on Jan 6, 2020 | 15 comments

1637.

A recursive descent parser in Forth (mcturra2000.wordpress.com)

71 points by lizmat on Jan 21, 2020 | 11 comments

1638.

Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake (economist.com)

70 points by prostoalex on Jan 18, 2020 | 100 comments

1639.

23andMe licenses its own drug compound to Spanish firm Almirall (bloomberg.com)

70 points by theobon on Jan 9, 2020 | 74 comments

1640.

The two party system is killing our democracy (vox.com)

70 points by dangjc on Jan 23, 2020 | 71 comments

1641.

Announcing RDS/Aurora Snapshot Export to S3 (aws.amazon.com)

70 points by nitesh_aws on Jan 24, 2020 | 61 comments

1642.

Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to (theverge.com)

70 points by Tomte on Jan 26, 2020 | 51 comments

1643.

Noether’s Theorem – A Quick Explanation (2019) (quantum-friend-theory.tumblr.com)

70 points by panic on Jan 13, 2020 | 30 comments

1644.

Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables (github.com)

70 points by adamnemecek on Jan 29, 2020 | 24 comments

1645.

.NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS (hanselman.com)

70 points by benaadams on Jan 21, 2020 | 15 comments

1646.

Precious Plastic Version 4 [video] (youtube.com)

70 points by mmastrac on Jan 7, 2020 | 12 comments

1647.

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Gray Matter Volume (mayoclinicproceedings.org)

70 points by prostoalex on Jan 11, 2020 | 12 comments

1648.

Chinese lab studying world's most dangerous pathogens located in Wuhan (nature.com)