HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

An Introduction to Mathematical Optimal Control Theory [pdf] (math.berkeley.edu)

161 points by mindcrime on Jul 22, 2018 | 18 comments

602.

Why Envy Might Be Good for Us (sapiens.org)

160 points by anarbadalov on Jul 10, 2018 | 118 comments

603.

Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

160 points by sbjs on Jul 24, 2018 | 107 comments

604.

'Japan's millennium bug' ahead of Akihito's abdication (theguardian.com)

160 points by Manu1987 on Jul 25, 2018 | 97 comments

605.

The Food of My Youth (nybooks.com)

160 points by axiomdata316 on Jul 18, 2018 | 90 comments

606.

Tencent loses $143B in market value (bloomberg.com)

160 points by phantom_oracle on Jul 31, 2018 | 79 comments

607.

Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised (tails.boum.org)

160 points by hartz on Jul 8, 2018 | 57 comments

608.

Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

159 points by delian66 on Jul 18, 2018 | 190 comments

609.

Why I published Venmo users’ “drug” deals on Twitter (blog.usejournal.com)

159 points by oedmarap on Jul 24, 2018 | 154 comments

610.

Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst (theatlantic.com)

159 points by rsgoheen on Jul 15, 2018 | 116 comments

611.

To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional (nautil.us)

159 points by dnetesn on Jul 30, 2018 | 69 comments

612.

The Biomass Distribution on Earth (pnas.org)

159 points by ArtWomb on Jul 25, 2018 | 52 comments

613.

Something about functions in Bash (2017) (catonmat.net)

158 points by okket on Jul 5, 2018 | 102 comments

614.

The year Mexico legalised drugs (historyextra.com)

158 points by monort on Jul 25, 2018 | 69 comments

615.

Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux (2015) (20papercups.net)

158 points by dnate on Jul 10, 2018 | 40 comments

616.

An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld (notion.so)

158 points by state on Jul 6, 2018 | 29 comments

617.

NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory Over Network [pdf] (misc0110.net)

158 points by razer6 on Jul 26, 2018 | 22 comments

618.

Tesla has asked some suppliers for cash back to help it become profitable (wsj.com)

157 points by Puer on Jul 22, 2018 | 150 comments

619.

Banner ads on CNN.com contain keyloggers (twitter.com)

157 points by braxxox on Jul 17, 2018 | 79 comments

620.

Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History (bookworm.club)

157 points by kaycebasques on Jul 29, 2018 | 68 comments

621.

Ask HN: How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?

157 points by srameshc on Jul 26, 2018 | 63 comments

622.

Why I’m Using a Flip Phone (pam-moore.com)

156 points by mooreds on Jul 27, 2018 | 266 comments

623.

Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator (github.com)

156 points by panic on Jul 30, 2018 | 42 comments

624.

Almond – The Open Virtual Assistant (almond.stanford.edu)

156 points by Jerry2 on Jul 14, 2018 | 11 comments

625.

In 5 states, richest Americans live in a “new Gilded Age” (cbsnews.com)

155 points by hellofunk on Jul 19, 2018 | 195 comments

626.

Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge (blog.cloudflare.com)

155 points by a17anxx on Jul 2, 2018 | 64 comments

627.

Designing an email-only Slack interface (kevinlynagh.com)

155 points by luu on Jul 3, 2018 | 60 comments

628.

Improving the fast inverse square root (2010) (rrrola.wz.cz)

155 points by cpdt on Jul 9, 2018 | 55 comments

629.

Composing Programs – An introduction to programming in the tradition of SICP (composingprograms.com)

155 points by jxub on Jul 31, 2018 | 53 comments

630.

Ask HN: Please help me recall a certain programmer horror story

155 points by kuba-orlik on Jul 23, 2018 | 40 comments