HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test (nbcnews.com)

115 points by vikingo9 on Oct 4, 2018 | 223 comments

1052.

A Massive Battery that Can Store Solar and Wind Energy (bloomberg.com)

115 points by antr on Oct 7, 2018 | 88 comments

1053.

Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out (axios.com)

115 points by jpm_sd on Oct 31, 2018 | 82 comments

1054.

Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda (euvsdisinfo.eu)

115 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 8, 2018 | 79 comments

1055.

How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition (atlasobscura.com)

115 points by extraterra on Oct 25, 2018 | 62 comments

1056.

OpenBSD's unveil() (lwn.net)

115 points by messe on Oct 11, 2018 | 51 comments

1057.

A man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants (scmp.com)

115 points by rustcharm on Oct 22, 2018 | 29 comments

1058.

MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video] (youtube.com)

115 points by AlanTuring on Oct 20, 2018 | 18 comments

1059.

Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org)

114 points by crunchiebones on Oct 24, 2018 | 193 comments

1060.

Spent – Poverty Simulator (2011) (playspent.org)

114 points by smpetrey on Oct 23, 2018 | 190 comments

1061.

Square Terminal (squareup.com)

114 points by sentiental on Oct 18, 2018 | 108 comments

1062.

The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again (9to5mac.com)

114 points by nothinggoesaway on Oct 31, 2018 | 103 comments

1063.

Ask HN: I'm just a programmer worried about climate change, how can I help?

114 points by y3k on Oct 29, 2018 | 94 comments

1064.

Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling (portal.facebook.com)

114 points by uptown on Oct 8, 2018 | 71 comments

1065.

FDA approves new drug to treat influenza (fda.gov)

114 points by skolos on Oct 25, 2018 | 66 comments

1066.

RAM Doubler 2 (1996) (tidbits.com)

114 points by aleyan on Oct 1, 2018 | 50 comments

1067.

Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-Up (zdnet.com)

114 points by nopacience on Oct 15, 2018 | 50 comments

1068.

Where Oil Rigs Go to Die (2017) (theguardian.com)

114 points by fredley on Oct 14, 2018 | 30 comments

1069.

Tell HN: I went and saw CSIRAC, the only first-generation computer still intact

114 points by ObsoleteNerd on Oct 17, 2018 | 26 comments

1070.

Show HN: Firebase2graphql – Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres (github.com)

114 points by wawhal on Oct 8, 2018 | 11 comments

1071.

GoDaddy to suspend domain name Gab.com tomorrow (twitter.com)

113 points by daenz on Oct 29, 2018 | 184 comments

1072.

C++ Programming Questions to Ask on Interview (2017) (tests4geeks.com)

113 points by sytelus on Oct 19, 2018 | 109 comments

1073.

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat (airspacemag.com)

113 points by gadders on Oct 17, 2018 | 50 comments

1074.

Does being bored make us more creative? (2014) (fermatslibrary.com)

113 points by mgdo on Oct 16, 2018 | 44 comments

1075.

Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube (candyjapan.com)

113 points by testimoni on Oct 27, 2018 | 23 comments

1076.

US military grounds entire fleet of F-35 jets (bbc.com)

112 points by joering2 on Oct 11, 2018 | 168 comments

1077.

Windows Defender detects malware in DMD (issues.dlang.org)

112 points by vintagedave on Oct 31, 2018 | 68 comments

1078.

Thefuck – Corrects your previous console command (github.com)

112 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 18, 2018 | 61 comments

1079.

Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories (servethehome.com)

112 points by vanburen on Oct 22, 2018 | 61 comments

1080.

Cloudera and Hortonworks merge (cnbc.com)

112 points by moritzplassnig on Oct 3, 2018 | 56 comments