HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5101.

Intel 9th Gen Review (anandtech.com)

221 points by endorphone on Oct 19, 2018 | 174 comments

5102.

Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

221 points by tshannon on Oct 4, 2018 | 166 comments

5103.

An argument that companies should pay users for their data (nytimes.com)

221 points by phront on Mar 8, 2018 | 162 comments

5104.

Facebook ordered to explain deleted profile (bbc.com)

221 points by mikece on Jun 19, 2018 | 144 comments

5105.

When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy (motherboard.vice.com)

221 points by Thorondor on Oct 26, 2018 | 118 comments

5106.

Go’s hidden pragmas (dave.cheney.net)

221 points by spacey on Jan 8, 2018 | 115 comments

5107.

Show HN: FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks (freepizza.io)

221 points by andrewstuart on Nov 12, 2018 | 112 comments

5108.

Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors (github.com)

221 points by maxlam on Mar 20, 2018 | 110 comments

5109.

The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt (spectrum.ieee.org)

221 points by amynordrum on Jul 12, 2018 | 104 comments

5110.

Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury (bbc.com)

221 points by clouddrover on Jan 17, 2018 | 102 comments

5111.

MySQL 8.0 is now generally available (mysqlserverteam.com)

221 points by theodorejb on Apr 19, 2018 | 100 comments

5112.

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (antipolygraph.org)

221 points by giles_corey on Nov 12, 2018 | 96 comments

5113.

UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? (theregister.co.uk)

221 points by wglb on Dec 8, 2018 | 95 comments

5114.

How people die vs. media coverage of death (owenshen24.github.io)

221 points by rkaplan on Apr 14, 2018 | 89 comments

5115.

Administrative Purgatory (daniel.haxx.se)

221 points by robin_reala on Jul 28, 2018 | 87 comments

5116.

Show HN: Hacking a Mercedes GLA Class Ride-on kids car (ihackshit.com)

221 points by AnnoyingSwede on Mar 5, 2018 | 83 comments

5117.

World first as wind turbine upgraded with high temperature superconductor (chemistryworld.com)

221 points by _Microft on Nov 22, 2018 | 75 comments

5118.

Haskell's kind system: a primer (diogocastro.com)

221 points by ristem on Oct 18, 2018 | 51 comments

5119.

The Hardest Woods (wood-database.com)

221 points by shawndumas on Oct 21, 2018 | 51 comments

5120.

A Brief History of High Availability (cockroachlabs.com)

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

5121.

Chernoff face (en.wikipedia.org)

221 points by Pete_D on Mar 23, 2018 | 36 comments

5122.

Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges (theguardian.com)

221 points by Malarkey73 on May 24, 2018 | 26 comments

5123.

Reinforcement Learning from scratch (blog.insightdatascience.com)

221 points by e_ameisen on Jun 7, 2018 | 25 comments

5124.

How to build a brain – An introduction to neurophysiology for engineers (juliuskunze.com)

221 points by juliuskunze on Mar 15, 2018 | 24 comments

5125.

Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer (fabiensanglard.net)

221 points by Impossible on Dec 25, 2018 | 24 comments

5126.

Learn Go by writing tests – Hello, world (github.com)

221 points by quii on Mar 11, 2018 | 18 comments

5127.

Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? (nytimes.com)

220 points by caprorso on Dec 7, 2018 | 276 comments

5128.

Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry (theatlantic.com)

220 points by craigjb on Jul 1, 2018 | 241 comments

5129.

Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it (arstechnica.com)

220 points by drabiega on Mar 23, 2018 | 204 comments

5130.

After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning (techcrunch.com)

220 points by mmq on Dec 12, 2018 | 194 comments