HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

751.

Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem (quantamagazine.org)

188 points by rbanffy on Mar 2, 2021 | 38 comments

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Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018) (medium.com)

187 points by whitepoplar on Mar 22, 2021 | 77 comments

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Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B (investor.okta.com)

187 points by marc__1 on Mar 3, 2021 | 1 comments

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Stripe valuation soars to $95B after latest fundraising (ft.com)

186 points by minimaxir on Mar 14, 2021 | 147 comments

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Open source is not a business model (2018) (anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)

186 points by JNRowe on Mar 27, 2021 | 145 comments

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The fingerprint inside photos (bbc.com)

186 points by LordAtlas on Mar 28, 2021 | 79 comments

757.

Beach High School (www2.cruzio.com)

186 points by PebblesRox on Mar 31, 2021 | 68 comments

758.

Interview with Patrick Collison (noahpinion.substack.com)

186 points by jger15 on Mar 8, 2021 | 53 comments

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Problems with low DNS TTLs (00f.net)

185 points by JimWestergren on Mar 29, 2021 | 158 comments

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New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease (cbc.ca)

185 points by curmudgeon22 on Mar 18, 2021 | 124 comments

761.

Darker Corners of Go (rytisbiel.com)

185 points by signa11 on Mar 23, 2021 | 90 comments

762.

How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries (shopify.engineering)

185 points by chrisseaton on Mar 29, 2021 | 60 comments

763.

Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites (gourav.io)

185 points by feross on Mar 11, 2021 | 32 comments

764.

Julia and the satellite Amazonia-1 (2020) (discourse.julialang.org)

185 points by montalbano on Mar 25, 2021 | 28 comments

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„We were chased out of SF after trying to give free Internet to the poorest“ (twitter.com)

184 points by _Microft on Mar 28, 2021 | 92 comments

766.

Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new employee or their history (twitter.com)

184 points by Tenoke on Mar 23, 2021 | 75 comments

767.

Flipper Zero: Tamagochi for Hackers (flipperzero.one)

184 points by tarsiec on Mar 9, 2021 | 48 comments

768.

A “Better C” Benchmark (zserge.com)

183 points by bshanks on Mar 25, 2021 | 185 comments

769.

EC2 Serial Console (aws.amazon.com)

183 points by TangerineDream on Mar 30, 2021 | 117 comments

770.

Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models (foundingfuel.com)

183 points by haltingproblem on Mar 3, 2021 | 46 comments

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CXX - Safe interop between Rust and C++ (github.com)

183 points by dgellow on Mar 24, 2021 | 32 comments

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How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success (aws.amazon.com)

182 points by steveklabnik on Mar 3, 2021 | 76 comments

773.

Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now available freely online (blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu)

182 points by DoreenMichele on Mar 20, 2021 | 40 comments

774.

Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole (blog.urth.org)

181 points by zdw on Mar 30, 2021 | 157 comments

775.

Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case (spectrum.ieee.org)

181 points by tmfi on Mar 22, 2021 | 141 comments

776.

Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer (github.com)

181 points by yagizdegirmenci on Mar 30, 2021 | 123 comments

777.

Shitty Software Kills People (val.demar.in)

181 points by ingve on Mar 27, 2021 | 107 comments

778.

System Shock (filfre.net)

181 points by doppp on Mar 19, 2021 | 98 comments

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She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director (goodnewsnetwork.org)

181 points by RickJWagner on Mar 19, 2021 | 96 comments

780.

When Should I Interrupt Someone? (zwischenzugs.com)

181 points by zwischenzug on Mar 15, 2021 | 91 comments