HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition (blog.mozilla.org)

204 points by markdog12 on Nov 6, 2018 | 86 comments

482.

An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU (gizmodo.com)

203 points by atlasunshrugged on Nov 1, 2018 | 202 comments

483.

An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue (washingtonpost.com)

203 points by danso on Nov 22, 2018 | 144 comments

484.

Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?

202 points by ioquatix on Nov 18, 2018 | 43 comments

485.

Instant runoff voting is the system we need (chuckgreenman.posthaven.com)

201 points by chuckgreenman on Nov 6, 2018 | 328 comments

486.

Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started (medium.com)

201 points by agoldis on Nov 5, 2018 | 145 comments

487.

The LM383 Story (idea2ic.com)

201 points by ksikka on Nov 5, 2018 | 62 comments

488.

States should ban contracts barring employees from seeking higher pay at a rival (bloomberg.com)

200 points by doener on Nov 11, 2018 | 123 comments

489.

Notorious patent enforcement entity values its entire portfolio at $2, folds (arstechnica.com)

200 points by bovermyer on Nov 1, 2018 | 66 comments

490.

Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20 (motherboard.vice.com)

200 points by mises on Nov 16, 2018 | 62 comments

491.

U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7M People, Grew 3.7M Since 2014 (upwork.com)

199 points by prostoalex on Nov 2, 2018 | 157 comments

492.

Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them (medium.com)

199 points by fabiospampinato on Nov 5, 2018 | 92 comments

493.

How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies (abc.net.au)

199 points by humanetech on Nov 24, 2018 | 90 comments

494.

Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038 (blog.robertelder.org)

199 points by robertelder on Nov 4, 2018 | 65 comments

495.

De-facto closed source: the case for understandable software (13brane.net)

198 points by zdw on Nov 29, 2018 | 169 comments

496.

Data Structure and Algorithms Interview Questions for Programmers (hackernoon.com)

198 points by javinpaul on Nov 14, 2018 | 102 comments

497.

How We Built a Cost-Based SQL Optimizer (cockroachlabs.com)

198 points by andydb on Nov 8, 2018 | 52 comments

498.

I Used to Be Homeless (yahoo.com)

197 points by evo_9 on Nov 14, 2018 | 314 comments

499.

$200 retail whole genome sequencing now available (us.dantelabs.com)

197 points by apsec112 on Nov 20, 2018 | 166 comments

500.

Advent of Nim (nim-lang.org)

197 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 29, 2018 | 128 comments

501.

What is the highest point on Earth as measured from Earth's center? (oceanservice.noaa.gov)

197 points by DoreenMichele on Nov 15, 2018 | 59 comments

502.

Ask HN: Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?

197 points by PakG1 on Nov 24, 2018 | 44 comments

503.

Concurrency Glossary (slikts.github.io)

197 points by slikts on Nov 21, 2018 | 28 comments

504.

Helsinki to Begin Anonymous Recruiting (finlandtoday.fi)

196 points by rendall on Nov 27, 2018 | 261 comments

505.

China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk (techcrunch.com)

196 points by tzury on Nov 7, 2018 | 169 comments

506.

U.S. Federal Railroad Administration Legalizes Lightweight Train Cars (usa.streetsblog.org)

196 points by ceejayoz on Nov 23, 2018 | 123 comments

507.

Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet – report (timesofisrael.com)

196 points by chablent on Nov 1, 2018 | 80 comments

508.

Maximizing password manager attack surface (palant.de)

196 points by robin_reala on Nov 30, 2018 | 56 comments

509.

FSF marks commons clause as non-free, recommends users fork software using it (fsf.org)

196 points by DannyBee on Nov 10, 2018 | 50 comments

510.

WWF Report Reveals Staggering Extent of Human Impact on Planet (worldwildlife.org)

196 points by pierreneter on Nov 27, 2018 | 42 comments