HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update (ir.tesla.com)

203 points by kgwgk on Aug 1, 2018 | 229 comments

482.

The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children (medium.com)

203 points by seanhandley on Aug 13, 2018 | 136 comments

483.

Chess over ActivityPub (castling.club)

203 points by rainbowmverse on Aug 5, 2018 | 63 comments

484.

How much countries spend in R&D (uis.unesco.org)

202 points by yoquan on Aug 31, 2018 | 83 comments

485.

Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping (techcrunch.com)

201 points by confiscate on Aug 7, 2018 | 183 comments

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Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? (webbkoll.dataskydd.net)

200 points by octosphere on Aug 26, 2018 | 41 comments

487.

A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists (physics.bu.edu)

200 points by yoquan on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments

488.

San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft (wsj.com)

199 points by virtica on Aug 31, 2018 | 301 comments

489.

Everything Is Booming Except for Wages (bloomberg.com)

199 points by paulpauper on Aug 26, 2018 | 236 comments

490.

Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

199 points by onuralp on Aug 19, 2018 | 207 comments

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Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic (bbc.com)

199 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 | 100 comments

492.

Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine (rave.dj)

199 points by ozzmotik on Aug 27, 2018 | 94 comments

493.

Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier (medium.com)

199 points by iou on Aug 7, 2018 | 50 comments

494.

A dull, resilient stream processor in Go (github.com)

199 points by ngaut on Aug 16, 2018 | 30 comments

495.

Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

198 points by PieShell on Aug 20, 2018 | 315 comments

496.

Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road (bloomberg.com)

198 points by smacktoward on Aug 13, 2018 | 180 comments

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Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals (techcrunch.com)

198 points by e1ven on Aug 6, 2018 | 168 comments

498.

Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract (defenseone.com)

198 points by theDoug on Aug 21, 2018 | 90 comments

499.

LyX: combine the power of LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface (lyx.org)

198 points by delib on Aug 28, 2018 | 68 comments

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John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings (web.stanford.edu)

198 points by blacksqr on Aug 17, 2018 | 63 comments

501.

Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points (techdirt.com)

198 points by econ4all on Aug 31, 2018 | 27 comments

502.

Why U.S. Corporate Boards Don’t Include Workers (bloomberg.com)

197 points by petethomas on Aug 27, 2018 | 238 comments

503.

Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old (security.googleblog.com)

197 points by tomweingarten on Aug 11, 2018 | 172 comments

504.

Don’t Shoot Messenger (eff.org)

197 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 24, 2018 | 20 comments

505.

Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? (keyvalues.com)

196 points by lynnetye on Aug 9, 2018 | 359 comments

506.

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017) (github.com)

196 points by migueldemoura on Aug 17, 2018 | 164 comments

507.

Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens (buzzfeednews.com)

196 points by tortilla on Aug 7, 2018 | 77 comments

508.

Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation (anandtech.com)

195 points by rerx on Aug 13, 2018 | 175 comments

509.

OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress (openai.com)

195 points by gdb on Aug 20, 2018 | 75 comments

510.

Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines (github.com)

195 points by kenarsa on Aug 7, 2018 | 64 comments