HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable (nautil.us)

142 points by dnetesn on Jun 20, 2018 | 20 comments

782.

Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s (medicalxpress.com)

141 points by danielam on Jun 13, 2018 | 207 comments

783.

Beware the ‘Buyback Economy’ (washingtonpost.com)

141 points by LarryDarrell on Jun 12, 2018 | 124 comments

784.

Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?

141 points by search_ on Jun 13, 2018 | 121 comments

785.

YouTube introduces channel memberships, merchandise and premieres (techcrunch.com)

141 points by newman8r on Jun 22, 2018 | 107 comments

786.

How Tolkien created Middle-earth (theguardian.com)

141 points by mhb on Jun 6, 2018 | 73 comments

787.

California Unanimously Passes Historic Privacy Bill (wired.com)

141 points by ax00x on Jun 28, 2018 | 49 comments

788.

Show HN: World Cup API for 2018 (worldcup.sfg.io)

141 points by llamataboot on Jun 14, 2018 | 41 comments

789.

Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync: Study (quantamagazine.org)

141 points by bovermyer on Jun 8, 2018 | 36 comments

790.

Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part Two (articles.fti.bi)

141 points by AlexAtFTI on Jun 21, 2018 | 18 comments

791.

Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au)

140 points by mparramon on Jun 8, 2018 | 214 comments

792.

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) (depauw.edu)

140 points by pmoriarty on Jun 19, 2018 | 50 comments

793.

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion (centauri-dreams.org)

140 points by sohkamyung on Jun 29, 2018 | 50 comments

794.

Scikit-learn user guide (2017) [pdf] (scikit-learn.org)

140 points by ghosthamlet on Jun 30, 2018 | 12 comments

795.

My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift (rant.monkeydom.de)

139 points by mgrayson on Jun 10, 2018 | 140 comments

796.

Atom 1.28 (blog.atom.io)

139 points by maxbrunsfeld on Jun 21, 2018 | 110 comments

797.

Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse (mobile.nytimes.com)

139 points by xbryanx on Jun 25, 2018 | 75 comments

798.

Star Citizen's ARK Starmap (robertsspaceindustries.com)

139 points by voidreaper on Jun 18, 2018 | 74 comments

799.

A GTK+ 3 update (blog.gtk.org)

139 points by ognyankulev on Jun 24, 2018 | 69 comments

800.

Ultibo – Environment for embedded development on Raspberry Pi (ultibo.org)

139 points by open-source-ux on Jun 15, 2018 | 43 comments

801.

EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, copyright proposal (boingboing.net)

139 points by dredmorbius on Jun 8, 2018 | 38 comments

802.

New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7 (nytimes.com)

138 points by Jerry2 on Jun 22, 2018 | 171 comments

803.

Electron 3.0.0-beta.1 – Chrome 66 and Node 10 (electronjs.org)

138 points by STRiDEX on Jun 21, 2018 | 103 comments

804.

Understanding contravariance (typeclasses.com)

138 points by allenleein on Jun 22, 2018 | 80 comments

805.

The world's smallest desert is in Canada (bbc.com)

138 points by wellokthen on Jun 26, 2018 | 54 comments

806.

A Linguistic Enclave in Central Europe (culture.pl)

138 points by jxub on Jun 10, 2018 | 49 comments

807.

Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs (blog.github.com)