HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

451.

A Brief History of High Availability (cockroachlabs.com)

221 points by melqdusy on Oct 5, 2018 | 39 comments

452.

It’s better to be born rich than gifted (washingtonpost.com)

220 points by joeyespo on Oct 13, 2018 | 192 comments

453.

Unslacking Tideways Company (beberlei.de)

220 points by beberlei on Oct 28, 2018 | 160 comments

454.

An AWS Region is coming to South Africa (allthingsdistributed.com)

220 points by tnolet on Oct 25, 2018 | 73 comments

455.

The rise of the robot farmer (theguardian.com)

219 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 20, 2018 | 184 comments

456.

The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017) (theatlantic.com)

219 points by kimsk112 on Oct 16, 2018 | 116 comments

457.

New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription (twitter.com)

219 points by jamesknelson on Oct 14, 2018 | 77 comments

458.

Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts (motherboard.vice.com)

218 points by aceperry on Oct 7, 2018 | 203 comments

459.

Erlang/OTP by Example (erlangbyexample.org)

218 points by jxub on Oct 20, 2018 | 105 comments

460.

After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis (buzzfeednews.com)

218 points by djrobstep on Oct 11, 2018 | 73 comments

461.

A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled (wsj.com)

217 points by jseliger on Oct 21, 2018 | 291 comments

462.

Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs (anandtech.com)

217 points by Tomte on Oct 8, 2018 | 219 comments

463.

The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives (nytimes.com)

217 points by citywide-fondue on Oct 6, 2018 | 188 comments

464.

Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance (aviation24.be)

217 points by jsiepkes on Oct 14, 2018 | 125 comments

465.

Removing Old Versions of TLS (blog.mozilla.org)

217 points by edmorley on Oct 15, 2018 | 91 comments

466.

Raising of Chicago (en.wikipedia.org)

216 points by virmundi on Oct 25, 2018 | 134 comments

467.

Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy (bit-player.org)

216 points by greeneggs on Oct 20, 2018 | 123 comments

468.

The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array) Free (phoronix.com)

216 points by kbumsik on Oct 28, 2018 | 100 comments

469.

Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years (zdnet.com)

216 points by john37386 on Oct 20, 2018 | 68 comments

470.

Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio (github.com)

216 points by jlaine on Oct 8, 2018 | 51 comments

471.

Friendly Floatees (en.wikipedia.org)

216 points by Tomte on Oct 26, 2018 | 35 comments

472.

We can no longer leave online security to the market (nytimes.com)

215 points by jaredwiener on Oct 11, 2018 | 163 comments

473.

Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected (cnbc.com)

215 points by jeffpalmer on Oct 2, 2018 | 118 comments

474.

Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973 (nytimes.com)

214 points by nabla9 on Oct 10, 2018 | 198 comments

475.

The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement (newfoodeconomy.org)

214 points by ericdanielski on Oct 3, 2018 | 173 comments

476.

The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com)

213 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 22, 2018 | 167 comments

477.

Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta (bbc.com)

212 points by Gigacore on Oct 29, 2018 | 124 comments

478.

Soup – Alan Kay on Objects (blog.fogus.me)

212 points by grzm on Oct 29, 2018 | 78 comments

479.

Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 (haproxy.com)

212 points by phil21 on Oct 1, 2018 | 61 comments

480.

Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13 (forbes.com)

211 points by neverminder on Oct 25, 2018 | 230 comments