HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

Double Faults (os.phil-opp.com)

86 points by octosphere on Jul 29, 2018 | 8 comments

1292.

A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery (nytimes.com)

85 points by kpozin on Jul 28, 2018 | 78 comments

1293.

Uber executive resigns following probe into racial discrimination (reuters.com)

85 points by jbegley on Jul 11, 2018 | 71 comments

1294.

Researchers contest widely-accepted UN's predictions on urban population growth (thisisplace.org)

85 points by zprickett on Jul 13, 2018 | 63 comments

1295.

The Influence of Railways on Military Operations in the Russo-German War 1941–45 (hgwdavie.com)

85 points by Vigier on Jul 8, 2018 | 57 comments

1296.

The Bay Area caste system (wired.com)

85 points by tsunamifury on Jul 14, 2018 | 47 comments

1297.

“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning Representations” (blog.insightdatascience.com)

85 points by neuhaus on Jul 6, 2018 | 35 comments

1298.

Oasis Labs: privacy-first high-performance cloud computing on blockchain (oasislabs.com)

85 points by ryscheng on Jul 9, 2018 | 34 comments

1299.

You Can Now Trade Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash on Robinhood Crypto (techcrunch.com)

85 points by sahin-boydas on Jul 12, 2018 | 34 comments

1300.

A record-breaking microscope (nature.com)

85 points by moh_maya on Jul 19, 2018 | 27 comments

1301.

Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses (columbia.edu)

85 points by pera on Jul 20, 2018 | 19 comments

1302.

Remote Spectre exploits demonstrated (lwn.net)

85 points by signa11 on Jul 29, 2018 | 16 comments

1303.

Homes 'Earn' Minimum Wage or More in Almost Half the Nation's Largest Cities (zillow.com)

84 points by CharlesDodgson on Jul 1, 2018 | 106 comments

1304.

It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros (macrumors.com)

84 points by okket on Jul 23, 2018 | 89 comments

1305.

Facebook Q2 2018 Earnings (investor.fb.com)

84 points by champagnepapi on Jul 25, 2018 | 67 comments

1306.

In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable (nytimes.com)

84 points by throwaway5752 on Jul 30, 2018 | 62 comments

1307.

Ask HN: Is software engineering really a dead-end job after 35-40?

84 points by dosy on Jul 27, 2018 | 61 comments

1308.

Ask HN: Anyone rather just be alone during work day?

84 points by 0x01030307 on Jul 11, 2018 | 52 comments

1309.

My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014) (parallella.org)

84 points by peter_d_sherman on Jul 28, 2018 | 32 comments

1310.

Understanding JavaScript Objects (blog.halolabs.io)

84 points by octosphere on Jul 27, 2018 | 27 comments

1311.

Pandas on Ray – Early Lessons from Parallelizing Pandas (rise.cs.berkeley.edu)

84 points by xmo on Jul 7, 2018 | 19 comments

1312.

Show HN: Snibox – Self-hosted snippets manager (github.com)

84 points by mickey_spb on Jul 4, 2018 | 18 comments

1313.

Spiffy: Enabling File-System Aware Storage Applications (usenix.org)

84 points by mpweiher on Jul 14, 2018 | 5 comments

1314.

How to port your OS to EC2 (daemonology.net)

84 points by Tomte on Jul 14, 2018 | 0 comments

1315.

Reasons not to use Netflix (stallman.org)

83 points by ivanche on Jul 7, 2018 | 117 comments

1316.

Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance (cbc.ca)

83 points by breitling on Jul 26, 2018 | 114 comments

1317.

Pop_OS 18.04: the state of the art in GNU/Linux on desktop (ar.al)

83 points by jgalvez on Jul 27, 2018 | 106 comments

1318.

Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search engine based in Europe (vivaldi.com)

83 points by jonmccull on Jul 19, 2018 | 75 comments

1319.

A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result (nytimes.com)

83 points by danso on Jul 20, 2018 | 70 comments

1320.

EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best available science (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

83 points by okket on Jul 13, 2018 | 59 comments