HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1891.

Into Thin Error: Mountaineer Ed Viesturs on Making Mistakes (2010) (slate.com)

60 points by ColinWright on Jun 17, 2020 | 45 comments

1892.

Synthetic Biology (axial.substack.com)

60 points by jmelkington on Jun 23, 2020 | 28 comments

1893.

Ask HN: Which is that site which gives learning path for learning algorithms

60 points by 4444 on Jun 5, 2020 | 25 comments

1894.

Keeping your private information private (blog.google)

60 points by tantalor on Jun 25, 2020 | 25 comments

1895.

Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling [pdf] (pages.uoregon.edu)

60 points by tasubotadas on Jun 2, 2020 | 21 comments

1896.

Rust's Huge Compilation Units (pingcap.com)

60 points by Bella-Xiang on Jun 23, 2020 | 18 comments

1897.

Joanna Hoffman: Facebook is peddling 'an addictive drug called anger' (cnbc.com)

60 points by laurex on Jun 14, 2020 | 7 comments

1898.

Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting (shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works)

60 points by emme on Jun 13, 2020 | 6 comments

1899.

A World Without Clouds: early attempts to make photos look more like the world (laphamsquarterly.org)

60 points by prismatic on Jun 25, 2020 | 3 comments

1900.

Ask HN: Most life changing things that you bought?

59 points by ggregoire on Jun 28, 2020 | 157 comments

1901.

Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export (thedrive.com)

59 points by clouddrover on Jun 19, 2020 | 143 comments

1902.

Revenge of the Suburbs (theatlantic.com)

59 points by lxm on Jun 20, 2020 | 99 comments

1903.

FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms (arstechnica.com)

59 points by kyle_morris_ on Jun 14, 2020 | 88 comments

1904.

Github Is Down

59 points by Sholmesy on Jun 19, 2020 | 70 comments

1905.

Babylon Health admits GP app suffered a data breach (bbc.co.uk)

59 points by g_p on Jun 9, 2020 | 40 comments

1906.

Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) (cacm.acm.org)

59 points by Anon84 on Jun 6, 2020 | 39 comments

1907.

When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity (krebsonsecurity.com)

59 points by todsacerdoti on Jun 17, 2020 | 38 comments

1908.

NSA assisting Minnesota with intercepted communications (twitter.com)

59 points by monocasa on Jun 1, 2020 | 24 comments

1909.

Ask HN: Why is the bandwidth on the big 3 cloud providers insanely expensive?

59 points by rydre on Jun 12, 2020 | 24 comments

1910.

Slate Star Codex must remain anonymous (unherd.com)

59 points by emiliobumachar on Jun 24, 2020 | 24 comments

1911.

Facebook acquires Mapillary (blog.mapillary.com)

59 points by hampelm on Jun 18, 2020 | 18 comments

1912.

Files by Name (Minix 3 Filesystem) (blog.stephenmarz.com)

59 points by pavehawk2007 on Jun 15, 2020 | 15 comments

1913.

New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles (quantamagazine.org)

59 points by exanimo_sai on Jun 29, 2020 | 12 comments

1914.

The Senate’s new anti-encryption bill is even worse than EARN IT (eff.org)

59 points by DiabloD3 on Jun 25, 2020 | 9 comments

1915.

The Diamond-Square Algorithm (diamond-square.netlify.app)

59 points by _fourzerofour on Jun 27, 2020 | 9 comments

1916.

Differentiation Strategy (and the Sea of Sameness) (cxl.com)

59 points by rcarrigan87 on Jun 9, 2020 | 7 comments

1917.

Tsunami is a general purpose network security scanner (github.com)

59 points by todsacerdoti on Jun 21, 2020 | 7 comments

1918.

Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (arstechnica.com)