HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

421.

State of web browsers in 2018 (ferdychristant.com)

218 points by petethomas on Dec 6, 2018 | 213 comments

422.

Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?

218 points by miguelrochefort on Dec 26, 2018 | 183 comments

423.

Why Design Thinking Works (hbr.org)

218 points by helloworld on Dec 16, 2018 | 96 comments

424.

How Does setState Know What to Do? (overreacted.io)

218 points by danabramov on Dec 9, 2018 | 65 comments

425.

The 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo (doug-50.info)

218 points by mxfh on Dec 7, 2018 | 42 comments

426.

Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch (github.com)

218 points by williamtrask on Dec 4, 2018 | 5 comments

427.

China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls (nature.com)

217 points by Vinnl on Dec 6, 2018 | 68 comments

428.

Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg (politico.com)

216 points by evo_9 on Dec 20, 2018 | 157 comments

429.

New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors (spectrum.ieee.org)

216 points by joak on Dec 2, 2018 | 101 comments

430.

Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source (microsoft.com)

215 points by dsr12 on Dec 3, 2018 | 62 comments

431.

China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks (wsj.com)

214 points by jseliger on Dec 3, 2018 | 334 comments

432.

Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath (wsj.com)

214 points by laurex on Dec 11, 2018 | 113 comments

433.

Pointers in C (2010) (boredzo.org)

214 points by prabhupant on Dec 3, 2018 | 102 comments

434.

LLVM Relicensing Effort (llvm.org)

214 points by frutiger on Dec 17, 2018 | 99 comments

435.

AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report (cockroachlabs.com)

214 points by awoods187 on Dec 13, 2018 | 98 comments

436.

Firefox Profilemaker (ffprofile.com)

213 points by octosphere on Dec 3, 2018 | 87 comments

437.

It is fast or it is wrong (tonsky.me)

212 points by tosh on Dec 29, 2018 | 182 comments

438.

The True Cost of Rewrites (8thlight.com)

212 points by telotortium on Dec 13, 2018 | 164 comments

439.

Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (bloomberg.com)

211 points by koops on Dec 20, 2018 | 176 comments

440.

SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) (sqlite.org)

211 points by kjeetgill on Dec 24, 2018 | 161 comments

441.

Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One (github.com)

211 points by bobm_kite9 on Dec 30, 2018 | 82 comments

442.

Google Earth Studio (google.com)

211 points by duck on Dec 14, 2018 | 80 comments

443.

ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan (2ality.com)

210 points by ingve on Dec 26, 2018 | 125 comments

444.

Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photographer Bruno Barbey (imgur.com)

210 points by curtis on Dec 14, 2018 | 115 comments

445.

Linux: IO without entering the kernel (git.kernel.dk)

210 points by pplonski86 on Dec 16, 2018 | 75 comments

446.

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained (arogozhnikov.github.io)

210 points by adamnemecek on Dec 5, 2018 | 17 comments

447.

Leaving NYC for Nashville (wesmckinney.com)

209 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 4, 2018 | 380 comments

448.

NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015) (lucidchart.com)

209 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 3, 2018 | 368 comments

449.

Why don't I take military funding? (2004) (web.eecs.umich.edu)

209 points by LHopital on Dec 26, 2018 | 121 comments

450.

The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race (sloanreview.mit.edu)

208 points by prostoalex on Dec 22, 2018 | 78 comments