HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

901.

Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for water-splitting using sunlight (greencarcongress.com)

131 points by Gravityloss on May 9, 2018 | 33 comments

902.

Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models (osim-rl.stanford.edu)

131 points by kidzik on May 17, 2018 | 26 comments

903.

General Thinking Tools: Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems (fs.blog)

131 points by BerislavLopac on May 22, 2018 | 8 comments

904.

Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins (bloomberg.com)

130 points by devy on May 23, 2018 | 163 comments

905.

86% of CrashCrate subscribers used passwords already leaked in other breaches (troyhunt.com)

130 points by edward on May 2, 2018 | 143 comments

906.

Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot (blog.online.net)

130 points by olragon on May 4, 2018 | 60 comments

907.

Every 202,500 Years, Earth Wanders in a New Direction (nytimes.com)

130 points by montrose on May 24, 2018 | 51 comments

908.

Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free (medium.com)

130 points by DonHopkins on May 18, 2018 | 49 comments

909.

Growing up with AI (medium.com)

130 points by kawera on May 21, 2018 | 33 comments

910.

How stress echoes down the generations (economist.com)

129 points by sethbannon on May 27, 2018 | 46 comments

911.

Best Practices for ML Engineering (2017) (developers.google.com)

129 points by dsr12 on May 20, 2018 | 11 comments

912.

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) (lwn.net)

129 points by ingve on May 20, 2018 | 7 comments

913.

UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds (wired.co.uk)

128 points by ohjeez on May 23, 2018 | 110 comments

914.

Plainbudget: Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting (galvez.github.io)

128 points by jgalvez on May 27, 2018 | 78 comments

915.

Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform (wired.com)

128 points by joubert on May 4, 2018 | 70 comments

916.

US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)

128 points by nikunjk on May 14, 2018 | 23 comments

917.

Lightweight Concurrency in Lua (wingolog.org)

128 points by kgwxd on May 16, 2018 | 9 comments

918.

Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud (wsj.com)

127 points by smacktoward on May 17, 2018 | 143 comments

919.

Kitty Marion: an actress who became a suffragette who planted bombs (bbc.co.uk)

127 points by DanBC on May 27, 2018 | 109 comments

920.

A secondary market has emerged for buying and selling Telegram tokens early (techcrunch.com)

127 points by dsr12 on May 4, 2018 | 103 comments

921.

A Dying Scientist and His Rogue Vaccine Trial (wired.com)

127 points by tchalla on May 3, 2018 | 81 comments

922.

The Weather Channel has stopped publishing video on Facebook (digiday.com)

127 points by petethomas on May 23, 2018 | 40 comments

923.

The emotional journey of creating anything great (twitter.com)

127 points by gballan on May 27, 2018 | 29 comments

924.

Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970) (fermatslibrary.com)

127 points by gballan on May 2, 2018 | 18 comments

925.

A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies (nytimes.com)

127 points by robg on May 18, 2018 | 18 comments

926.

The Philosophy of Computational Complexity (ristret.com)

127 points by matt_d on May 29, 2018 | 13 comments

927.

Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube (arxiv.org)

127 points by indescions_2018 on May 30, 2018 | 11 comments

928.

Testing distributed systems (asatarin.github.io)

127 points by Dawny33 on May 4, 2018 | 2 comments

929.

Rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with techno-utopian ideologies (longreads.com)

126 points by walterbell on May 14, 2018 | 111 comments

930.

Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback (nytimes.com)

126 points by aaronbrethorst on May 22, 2018 | 110 comments