HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

How JavaScript works: the rendering engine and tips to optimize its performance (blog.sessionstack.com)

209 points by zlatkov on Mar 15, 2018 | 11 comments

542.

BMW says electric car mass production not viable until 2020 (reuters.com)

208 points by Mononokay on Mar 22, 2018 | 364 comments

543.

Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls (time.com)

208 points by bryanrasmussen on Mar 27, 2018 | 273 comments

544.

The Role of Luck in Life Success (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

208 points by kevinyen on Mar 2, 2018 | 202 comments

545.

Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

208 points by ausjke on Mar 10, 2018 | 202 comments

546.

Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative (lists.gnu.org)

208 points by noch on Mar 2, 2018 | 64 comments

547.

Examining overlooked clues reveals how ultrasound could have caused harm in Cuba (spectrum.ieee.org)

208 points by NicoJuicy on Mar 15, 2018 | 41 comments

548.

Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights (theguardian.com)

207 points by pmoriarty on Mar 12, 2018 | 203 comments

549.

The Bitter Truth of Learning: It’s Tough, Unpleasant, and Often Pointless (shubhamjain.co)

207 points by shubhamjain on Mar 24, 2018 | 80 comments

550.

Founding Stories Are Myths (medium.com)

207 points by howitworks on Mar 5, 2018 | 62 comments

551.

It all made sense when we found out we were autistic (bbc.co.uk)

206 points by pbhowmic on Mar 26, 2018 | 200 comments

552.

Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

206 points by honksillet on Mar 24, 2018 | 167 comments

553.

Snap is laying off about 100 engineers (cnbc.com)

206 points by artsandsci on Mar 7, 2018 | 128 comments

554.

An Italian Region Where Co-Ops Produce a Third of GDP (2016) (yesmagazine.org)

206 points by danielam on Mar 9, 2018 | 119 comments

555.

NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking (nytimes.com)

206 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Mar 17, 2018 | 95 comments

556.

Largest Animal Study on Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (sbwire.com)

206 points by Mononokay on Mar 23, 2018 | 74 comments

557.

Swift for TensorFlow (tensorflow.org)

206 points by gok on Mar 30, 2018 | 52 comments

558.

'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer (motherboard.vice.com)

205 points by danso on Mar 29, 2018 | 197 comments

559.

Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s (techcrunch.com)

205 points by fstuff on Mar 12, 2018 | 124 comments

560.

Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away (irishtimes.com)

205 points by vinnyglennon on Mar 4, 2018 | 93 comments

561.

The Effective Tech Lead Is a 100x Engineer (hackernoon.com)

205 points by kevinSuttle on Mar 28, 2018 | 79 comments

562.

Vim-db: Modern database interface for Vim (github.com)

205 points by petercooper on Mar 8, 2018 | 56 comments

563.

FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew (gizmodo.com)

204 points by dsl on Mar 7, 2018 | 111 comments

564.

Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes (sciencealert.com)

204 points by aaronbrethorst on Mar 19, 2018 | 71 comments

565.

Canon's 120MP Camera Sensor (petapixel.com)

203 points by artsandsci on Mar 29, 2018 | 140 comments

566.

Thunderbird 52.7.0 released (mozilla.org)

203 points by danielroe on Mar 24, 2018 | 89 comments

567.

Announcing Rust 1.24.1 (blog.rust-lang.org)

203 points by steveklabnik on Mar 2, 2018 | 65 comments

568.

Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers (securelist.com)

203 points by jonbaer on Mar 12, 2018 | 63 comments

569.

A 48Khz digital music player for the Commodore 64 (brokenbytes.blogspot.com)

203 points by SwellJoe on Mar 28, 2018 | 57 comments

570.

A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

203 points by okket on Mar 2, 2018 | 17 comments