HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do to Your Brain? (lithub.com)

195 points by dpflan on Aug 11, 2018 | 49 comments

512.

Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program (gitlab.com)

195 points by jD91mZM2 on Aug 10, 2018 | 31 comments

513.

A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012) (rszalski.github.io)

194 points by apsec112 on Aug 9, 2018 | 45 comments

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Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis (thelancet.com)

193 points by bookofjoe on Aug 13, 2018 | 152 comments

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Memristor – The fictional circuit element (arxiv.org)

193 points by godelmachine on Aug 21, 2018 | 86 comments

516.

Solve Less General Problems (hacksoflife.blogspot.com)

193 points by kiyanwang on Aug 27, 2018 | 82 comments

517.

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation (aeon.co)

193 points by anarbadalov on Aug 1, 2018 | 65 comments

518.

In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor (nytimes.com)

192 points by danso on Aug 13, 2018 | 112 comments

519.

A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global Illumination (blogs.nvidia.com)

192 points by mariuz on Aug 2, 2018 | 36 comments

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From developer to entrepreneur: Learning to build an indie startup (twomakers.io)

192 points by seapunk on Aug 1, 2018 | 16 comments

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Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target (thisisinsider.com)

191 points by plasticchris on Aug 21, 2018 | 172 comments

522.

CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer (csunplugged.org)

191 points by ArtWomb on Aug 1, 2018 | 43 comments

523.

Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not (nytimes.com)

190 points by tysone on Aug 22, 2018 | 257 comments

524.

Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out (cnet.com)

190 points by ForHackernews on Aug 22, 2018 | 216 comments

525.

What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition (blog.janestreet.com)

190 points by yminsky on Aug 10, 2018 | 132 comments

526.

US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks (theguardian.com)

190 points by pmoriarty on Aug 13, 2018 | 127 comments

527.

Fusion.js: A Plugin-Based Universal Web Framework (eng.uber.com)

190 points by Chris911 on Aug 1, 2018 | 74 comments

528.

Advocates say paper ballots are safest (bloomberg.com)

189 points by marchenko on Aug 11, 2018 | 270 comments

529.

Privatizing Poverty (thebaffler.com)

189 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 23, 2018 | 192 comments

530.

Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?

189 points by yasp on Aug 26, 2018 | 162 comments

531.

Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media (cjr.org)

189 points by walterbell on Aug 7, 2018 | 152 comments

532.

Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN (github.com)

189 points by uoflcards22 on Aug 22, 2018 | 86 comments

533.

Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language (github.com)

189 points by akavel on Aug 7, 2018 | 64 comments

534.

Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations? (theconversation.com)

188 points by cpeterso on Aug 12, 2018 | 175 comments

535.

Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s (smashcompany.com)

188 points by jxub on Aug 17, 2018 | 136 comments

536.

The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores (anandtech.com)

188 points by srinikoganti on Aug 6, 2018 | 118 comments

537.

Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device (blog.rainway.io)

188 points by andrewmd5 on Aug 6, 2018 | 114 comments

538.

UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps (reuters.com)

188 points by adventured on Aug 10, 2018 | 55 comments

539.

VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation (forestry.io)

188 points by dwalkr on Aug 10, 2018 | 37 comments

540.

Build a VM step by step with Rust (blog.subnetzero.io)

188 points by ngaut on Aug 4, 2018 | 9 comments