HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

FBI Says Chinese Operatives Active at Scores of U.S. Universities (mcclatchydc.com)

180 points by meri_dian on Feb 14, 2018 | 179 comments

512.

JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp (tromey.com)

180 points by deng on Feb 9, 2018 | 50 comments

513.

Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain (sciencedaily.com)

180 points by lxm on Feb 2, 2018 | 32 comments

514.

The Tripartite Identity Pattern (2008) (habitatchronicles.com)

180 points by mooreds on Feb 12, 2018 | 3 comments

515.

What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe? (nytimes.com)

179 points by js2 on Feb 13, 2018 | 306 comments

516.

Writing space invaders with Go (sausheong.github.io)

179 points by dcu on Feb 2, 2018 | 58 comments

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We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)

178 points by leeny on Feb 13, 2018 | 96 comments

518.

Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona (arstechnica.com)

178 points by nopinsight on Feb 17, 2018 | 76 comments

519.

Are Monads a Waste of Time? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

177 points by YouAreGreat on Feb 20, 2018 | 270 comments

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97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals (thebaycitybeacon.com)

177 points by apsec112 on Feb 10, 2018 | 180 comments

521.

Ad Companies Love Google’s Ad Blocker, but Hate Apple’s Privacy Features (howtogeek.com)

177 points by artsandsci on Feb 14, 2018 | 142 comments

522.

Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?

177 points by arikr on Feb 3, 2018 | 136 comments

523.

Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles (github.com)

176 points by keredson on Feb 15, 2018 | 62 comments

524.

Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World (quantamagazine.org)

175 points by IntronExon on Feb 21, 2018 | 83 comments

525.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) (youtube.com)

175 points by bmcooley on Feb 6, 2018 | 70 comments

526.

Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year (coinsocial.io)

174 points by vthallam on Feb 23, 2018 | 158 comments

527.

Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed (kguttag.com)

174 points by IntronExon on Feb 14, 2018 | 85 comments

528.

How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger (nytimes.com)

174 points by montrose on Feb 23, 2018 | 84 comments

529.

Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching?

174 points by penetrarthur on Feb 24, 2018 | 58 comments

530.

Introduction to Functional Programming (1988) [pdf] (usi-pl.github.io)

174 points by noch on Feb 27, 2018 | 12 comments

531.

Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier (github.com)

174 points by polm23 on Feb 5, 2018 | 9 comments

532.

MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (agi.mit.edu)

174 points by cdl on Feb 4, 2018 | 3 comments

533.

Telegram Login for Websites (telegram.org)

173 points by jfroma on Feb 7, 2018 | 138 comments

534.

Google Calendar should prevent spam by default (daynebatten.com)

173 points by dbatten on Feb 22, 2018 | 67 comments

535.

An Argument Against Quantum Computers (quantamagazine.org)

173 points by amaks on Feb 7, 2018 | 62 comments

536.

We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important (nytimes.com)

173 points by dr_ on Feb 26, 2018 | 48 comments

537.

Making Light of the “Dark Web” (troyhunt.com)

173 points by andimm on Feb 14, 2018 | 35 comments

538.

Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released (ruby-lang.org)

173 points by petercooper on Feb 24, 2018 | 26 comments

539.

Show HN: Headless Chrome Crawler (github.com)

172 points by yujiosaka on Feb 22, 2018 | 33 comments

540.

The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick (nytimes.com)

172 points by dnetesn on Feb 15, 2018 | 31 comments