HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned (wsj.com)

311 points by sbuttgereit on Dec 7, 2018 | 292 comments

242.

A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown (randomascii.wordpress.com)

309 points by deafcalculus on Dec 4, 2018 | 125 comments

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Why I’m so “against” Ethereum (threadreaderapp.com)

308 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 28, 2018 | 256 comments

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With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals (techcrunch.com)

308 points by ihsoj on Dec 19, 2018 | 153 comments

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“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart” (twitter.com)

307 points by randomwalker on Dec 31, 2018 | 197 comments

246.

On Shutting Down (blog.ycombinator.com)

306 points by craigcannon on Dec 10, 2018 | 84 comments

247.

The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained (robertheaton.com)

304 points by janvdberg on Dec 23, 2018 | 44 comments

248.

What makes BeOS and Haiku unique (osvoyager.wordpress.com)

303 points by valeg on Dec 2, 2018 | 219 comments

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Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people' (nhs.uk)

303 points by open-source-ux on Dec 12, 2018 | 107 comments

250.

Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt (nytimes.com)

302 points by mancerayder on Dec 26, 2018 | 730 comments

251.

Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts (letstalkalgorithms.com)

301 points by vthallam on Dec 20, 2018 | 186 comments

252.

Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

300 points by wallace_f on Dec 30, 2018 | 234 comments

253.

Snowboarding for Geeks (xfive.co)

299 points by lubos76 on Dec 14, 2018 | 216 comments

254.

Ruby 2.6 (anamaria.martinezgomez.name)

299 points by merk_ on Dec 24, 2018 | 159 comments

255.

Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages (theverge.com)

297 points by staz on Dec 19, 2018 | 81 comments

256.

Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps (appcodelabs.com)

295 points by 3chelon on Dec 10, 2018 | 111 comments

257.

Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries (github.com)

294 points by GordonS on Dec 23, 2018 | 112 comments

258.

Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices (torrentfreak.com)

294 points by walterbell on Dec 23, 2018 | 64 comments

259.

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python (interactivepython.org)

294 points by samrohn on Dec 21, 2018 | 30 comments

260.

MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer (ephtracy.github.io)

293 points by Tideflat on Dec 20, 2018 | 64 comments

261.

Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick? (kjmagnetics.com)

292 points by mhb on Dec 16, 2018 | 142 comments

262.

The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands (conradbastable.com)

292 points by cjmb on Dec 31, 2018 | 140 comments

263.

Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content (magazine.artstation.com)

291 points by apersona on Dec 23, 2018 | 204 comments

264.

Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder (reuters.com)

291 points by r_singh on Dec 16, 2018 | 82 comments

265.

Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software (dust3d.org)

290 points by huxingyi on Dec 1, 2018 | 86 comments

266.

LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware (blog.apnic.net)

290 points by xuande on Dec 19, 2018 | 86 comments

267.

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) (250bpm.com)

289 points by sytelus on Dec 12, 2018 | 251 comments

268.

Learn Prolog Now (learnprolognow.org)

289 points by febin on Dec 24, 2018 | 70 comments

269.

Mail Loop From Hell (2012) (blog.dbrgn.ch)

288 points by dbrgn on Dec 13, 2018 | 87 comments

270.

Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches (erlang-solutions.com)

287 points by francescoc on Dec 11, 2018 | 66 comments