HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

301.

Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good (twitter.com)

276 points by Bootvis on Oct 8, 2018 | 124 comments

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PipelineDB 1.0 – High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation for PostgreSQL (pipelinedb.com)

276 points by Fergi on Oct 24, 2018 | 61 comments

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The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores (nymag.com)

275 points by NN88 on Oct 22, 2018 | 162 comments

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GitHub: October 21 Incident Report (blog.github.com)

275 points by pietroalbini on Oct 22, 2018 | 110 comments

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Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID (arstechnica.com)

274 points by evo_9 on Oct 30, 2018 | 377 comments

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Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free (vice.com)

274 points by LeoPanthera on Oct 28, 2018 | 199 comments

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DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand (arstechnica.com)

274 points by extraterra on Oct 23, 2018 | 175 comments

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Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure (nasawatch.com)

274 points by waserwill on Oct 8, 2018 | 132 comments

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Alarming study shows massive insect loss (washingtonpost.com)

273 points by dschuetz on Oct 16, 2018 | 83 comments

310.

310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved (bitcoinchallenge.codes)

272 points by kwikiel on Oct 11, 2018 | 119 comments

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WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70 (developers.google.com)

272 points by feross on Oct 30, 2018 | 89 comments

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The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (eff.org)

271 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 29, 2018 | 180 comments

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Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016) (arjunsreedharan.org)

271 points by DonbunEf7 on Oct 10, 2018 | 51 comments

314.

Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts (thespeakernewsjournal.com)

269 points by sprechen on Oct 11, 2018 | 170 comments

315.

The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9 (phoronix.com)

269 points by Ace17 on Oct 29, 2018 | 90 comments

316.

Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues (pastebin.com)

269 points by throwawaydev00 on Oct 7, 2018 | 88 comments

317.

RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’ (weeklystandard.com)

269 points by okfine on Oct 23, 2018 | 33 comments

318.

An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (arxiv.org)

269 points by lainon on Oct 1, 2018 | 14 comments

319.

How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions (buzzfeednews.com)

268 points by minimaxir on Oct 23, 2018 | 103 comments

320.

Bpftrace for Linux 2018 (brendangregg.com)

268 points by deirdres on Oct 8, 2018 | 21 comments

321.

What Businessweek got wrong about Apple (apple.com)

267 points by rakkhi on Oct 5, 2018 | 175 comments

322.

Intuitive Understanding of Euler’s Formula (betterexplained.com)

267 points by sdeepak on Oct 29, 2018 | 57 comments

323.

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem (quantamagazine.org)

267 points by digital55 on Oct 8, 2018 | 24 comments

324.

Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices (apnews.com)

266 points by threatofrain on Oct 26, 2018 | 237 comments

325.

World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016) (gdatasoftware.com)

266 points by bdz on Oct 30, 2018 | 116 comments

326.

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video] (youtube.com)

265 points by espeed on Oct 23, 2018 | 124 comments

327.

How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database (brandur.org)

265 points by bgentry on Oct 15, 2018 | 32 comments

328.

How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team (stripe.com)

265 points by petethomas on Oct 18, 2018 | 21 comments

329.

Teaching C (2016) (blog.regehr.org)

263 points by ingve on Oct 30, 2018 | 211 comments

330.

Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work (github.com)

263 points by skidding on Oct 30, 2018 | 56 comments