HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

Why Learn Awk? (2016) (blog.jpalardy.com)

420 points by LinuxBender on Jan 21, 2020 | 235 comments

182.

WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 (winaero.com)

419 points by pndy on Jan 21, 2020 | 305 comments

183.

Medications that change who we are (bbc.com)

419 points by daveytea on Jan 11, 2020 | 274 comments

184.

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf] (scholar.princeton.edu)

419 points by plickdixon on Jan 7, 2020 | 214 comments

185.

Microsoft Application Inspector (github.com)

419 points by pjmlp on Jan 28, 2020 | 61 comments

186.

How housing became the world’s biggest asset class (economist.com)

418 points by yarapavan on Jan 21, 2020 | 645 comments

187.

Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images (scientificamerican.com)

418 points by fortran77 on Jan 9, 2020 | 106 comments

188.

The Era of the Trident Engine (schepp.dev)

415 points by ttepasse on Jan 25, 2020 | 186 comments

189.

Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019 (greenm3.com)

415 points by sohkamyung on Jan 9, 2020 | 74 comments

190.

Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service (arstechnica.com)

414 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 18, 2020 | 303 comments

191.

After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free (spectrum-soft.com)

414 points by lightlyused on Jan 9, 2020 | 82 comments

192.

Notes on Technical Writing (mkaz.blog)

414 points by marcuskaz on Jan 4, 2020 | 63 comments

193.

Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3 (gregoryszorc.com)

411 points by ngoldbaum on Jan 13, 2020 | 367 comments

194.

Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet (postmediadriving.wordpress.com)

410 points by elliekelly on Jan 18, 2020 | 360 comments

195.

How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? (theverge.com)

409 points by ecliptik on Jan 24, 2020 | 273 comments

196.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015) (automatetheboringstuff.com)

407 points by saranshk on Jan 1, 2020 | 70 comments

197.

Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?

407 points by passenger on Jan 10, 2020 | 49 comments

198.

250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web (comparitech.com)

405 points by el_duderino on Jan 22, 2020 | 173 comments

199.

New Cambridge Analytica Leaks (techcrunch.com)

404 points by mindgam3 on Jan 6, 2020 | 193 comments

200.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

403 points by whoishiring on Jan 2, 2020 | 695 comments

201.

How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy (conradbastable.com)

403 points by izhak on Jan 21, 2020 | 317 comments

202.

I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS (maxleiter.com)

403 points by MaxLeiter on Jan 17, 2020 | 87 comments

203.

Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time (cnn.com)

401 points by lelf on Jan 12, 2020 | 273 comments

204.

Why are some things darker when wet? (aryankashyap.com)

400 points by aryankashyap on Jan 9, 2020 | 164 comments

205.

Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon (onezero.medium.com)

398 points by maxfan8 on Jan 2, 2020 | 327 comments

206.

How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” (medium.com)

396 points by lelf on Jan 16, 2020 | 323 comments

207.

FreeBSD is an amazing operating system (unixsheikh.com)

395 points by hggh on Jan 20, 2020 | 191 comments

208.

Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’ (news.wttw.com)

393 points by mayiplease on Jan 6, 2020 | 323 comments

209.

Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler (snowpack.dev)

391 points by codecurve on Jan 8, 2020 | 232 comments

210.

23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline (cnbc.com)

389 points by coloneltcb on Jan 23, 2020 | 436 comments