HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1471.

The top 1% of the US makes $480k or more in adjusted gross income (bloomberg.com)

62 points by kaiyi on Feb 22, 2018 | 43 comments

1472.

How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 MTA Delays (2016) (nymag.com)

62 points by CaptainZapp on Feb 5, 2018 | 40 comments

1473.

Some Notes on the “Andrew Ng” Coursera Machine Learning Course (ftrsn.net)

62 points by harveynick on Feb 11, 2018 | 30 comments

1474.

The special data device SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy sent to orbit is just the start (techcrunch.com)

62 points by john58 on Feb 9, 2018 | 29 comments

1475.

We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years (vox.com)

62 points by jseliger on Feb 19, 2018 | 26 comments

1476.

In Shanghai, a prototype of a new 24-hour convenience store (2017) (fastcompany.com)

62 points by tintor on Feb 11, 2018 | 19 comments

1477.

Sulong – A high-performance LLVM bitcode interpreter built on the GraalVM (github.com)

62 points by gfredtech on Feb 11, 2018 | 17 comments

1478.

How We Bootstrapped Our Mailing List to Ramen Profitability of $2k/mo (tachyonsoftware.io)

62 points by lambdabit on Feb 21, 2018 | 11 comments

1479.

Link Deployment with AWS LambdaEdge (blog.plaid.com)

62 points by jessedhillon on Feb 21, 2018 | 5 comments

1480.

Making Sense of the Bias / Variance Trade-Off in Deep Reinforcement Learning (medium.com)

62 points by kawera on Feb 8, 2018 | 0 comments

1481.

Google Parent Alphabet and Aramco in Talks to Build Tech Hub in Saudi Arabia (wsj.com)

61 points by bko on Feb 1, 2018 | 93 comments

1482.

Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlightenment Now’ (news.harvard.edu)

61 points by drewvolpe on Feb 28, 2018 | 73 comments

1483.

When will the world reach 'peak child'? (ourworldindata.org)

61 points by fanf2 on Feb 9, 2018 | 68 comments

1484.

Gaming's most fiendish anti-piracy tricks (2010) (gamesradar.com)

61 points by trueduke on Feb 3, 2018 | 54 comments

1485.

A geographer's theory of regional inequality as a cause of revolt (bloomberg.com)

61 points by blegh on Feb 8, 2018 | 50 comments

1486.

New plan to defund space station opens up some surprising possibilities (nbcnews.com)

61 points by gvb on Feb 23, 2018 | 45 comments

1487.

Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe (granta.com)

61 points by lermontov on Feb 15, 2018 | 35 comments

1488.

An Astronaut Who Might Get Us to Mars (texasmonthly.com)

61 points by johnny313 on Feb 3, 2018 | 34 comments

1489.

Camels in early medieval western Europe (2016) (caitlingreen.org)

61 points by Thevet on Feb 14, 2018 | 27 comments

1490.

Live Views of Starman (youtube.com)

61 points by ktta on Feb 6, 2018 | 23 comments

1491.

Walmart has acquired VR startup Spatialand (recode.net)

61 points by prostoalex on Feb 6, 2018 | 23 comments

1492.

An Update to Our Event Ticket Reseller Policy (adwords.googleblog.com)

61 points by rexbee on Feb 8, 2018 | 20 comments

1493.

Launch HN: Medumo (YC W18) prepares patients for surgeries

61 points by adeelyang on Feb 8, 2018 | 18 comments

1494.

Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset (randyzwitch.com)

61 points by jonbaer on Feb 25, 2018 | 15 comments

1495.

“Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows...” (twitter.com)

61 points by jxub on Feb 11, 2018 | 14 comments

1496.

The search for Jackie Wallace (nola.com)

61 points by merraksh on Feb 4, 2018 | 7 comments

1497.

“Column Tetris” – Calculating and Saving Space in PostgreSQL (stackoverflow.com)

61 points by nreece on Feb 27, 2018 | 7 comments

1498.

Facebook suggesting security app – it secretly owns – that tracks usage (cnbc.com)

61 points by huntermeyer on Feb 13, 2018 | 4 comments

1499.

Symbolic Assembly: Using Clojure to Meta-Program Bytecode (2017) [video] (youtube.com)

61 points by espeed on Feb 9, 2018 | 2 comments

1500.

African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia (blogs.bl.uk)

61 points by diodorus on Feb 5, 2018 | 1 comments