HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io)

168 points by mjmein on Aug 27, 2017 | 170 comments

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Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows (washingtonpost.com)

168 points by justin66 on Aug 25, 2017 | 121 comments

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The significance of plot without conflict (2012) (stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com)

168 points by open-source-ux on Aug 28, 2017 | 94 comments

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How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps: An annotated reading list (osf.io)

168 points by ehudla on Aug 16, 2017 | 12 comments

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Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country (brilliantmaps.com)

167 points by wsc981 on Aug 8, 2017 | 256 comments

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The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013) (peterturchin.com)

167 points by metasean on Aug 20, 2017 | 180 comments

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Stop Using the Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy (joshlehman.com)

167 points by Deinos on Aug 25, 2017 | 108 comments

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'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks to Lure People with Addictions to Bad Rehab (npr.org)

167 points by Mz on Aug 16, 2017 | 79 comments

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Can we know what animals are thinking? (medium.economist.com)

166 points by _dps on Aug 26, 2017 | 226 comments

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My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) (wired.com)

166 points by traviswingo on Aug 18, 2017 | 135 comments

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Tofu – The opposite of a font (github.com)

166 points by juanpotato on Aug 6, 2017 | 63 comments

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Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new computational techniques (spectrum.ieee.org)

166 points by sohkamyung on Aug 1, 2017 | 58 comments

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Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown (2015) (blog.system11.org)

166 points by shawndumas on Aug 14, 2017 | 37 comments

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Show HN: Transformation Invariant Reverse Image Search (pippy360.github.io)

166 points by pippy360 on Aug 9, 2017 | 30 comments

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Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (journals.plos.org)

165 points by abpavel on Aug 27, 2017 | 89 comments

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Inception movie explained programmatically with C and assembly (github.com)

165 points by geospeck on Aug 16, 2017 | 87 comments

677.

Name-letter Effect (en.wikipedia.org)

165 points by privong on Aug 5, 2017 | 71 comments

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McCLIM: A GUI Toolkit for Common Lisp (common-lisp.net)

165 points by tosh on Aug 20, 2017 | 50 comments

679.

Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo (blog.servo.org)

165 points by robin_reala on Aug 24, 2017 | 42 comments

680.

Coding Machines (teamten.com)

165 points by amilios on Aug 13, 2017 | 29 comments

681.

Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller (theguardian.com)

164 points by robin_reala on Aug 30, 2017 | 122 comments

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Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski (spectrum.ieee.org)

164 points by edshiro on Aug 15, 2017 | 119 comments

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Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city (theguardian.com)

164 points by clumsysmurf on Aug 18, 2017 | 81 comments

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1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016) (gobankingrates.com)

163 points by helloworld on Aug 23, 2017 | 289 comments

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'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm (npr.org)

163 points by merraksh on Aug 25, 2017 | 180 comments

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'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007) (phys.org)

163 points by MichaelAO on Aug 28, 2017 | 115 comments

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Japan Is Selling Ice Cream That Doesn't Melt (cntraveler.com)

163 points by sndean on Aug 19, 2017 | 110 comments

688.

Build Uber-for-X within a day using HyperTrack (blog.hypertrack.com)

163 points by thesanerguy on Aug 25, 2017 | 57 comments

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iOS 11 has a feature to temporarily disable Touch ID (theverge.com)

162 points by Shank on Aug 17, 2017 | 83 comments

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Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM (medium.com)

162 points by fanf2 on Aug 2, 2017 | 53 comments