HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7081.

FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com)

178 points by creaghpatr on Sep 13, 2018 | 121 comments

7082.

A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst (sciencealert.com)

178 points by hardlianotion on Nov 20, 2018 | 109 comments

7083.

Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise? (250bpm.com)

178 points by rumcajz on Oct 23, 2018 | 108 comments

7084.

PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation (forbes.com)

178 points by romanhn on Sep 6, 2018 | 106 comments

7085.

C-Sky: A $6 Linux dev board with HDMI and USB (c-sky.github.io)

178 points by zoobab on Nov 11, 2018 | 104 comments

7086.

We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)

178 points by leeny on Feb 13, 2018 | 96 comments

7087.

Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down (heapanalytics.com)

178 points by drob on Sep 21, 2018 | 92 comments

7088.

Facebook lifts cryptocurrency ban amid rumours of Coinbase takeover (independent.co.uk)

178 points by dsco on Jun 28, 2018 | 90 comments

7089.

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows (cbc.ca)

178 points by napoleond on Mar 20, 2018 | 87 comments

7090.

Creating Windows XP Icons (2001) (msdn.microsoft.com)

178 points by richev on Dec 12, 2018 | 85 comments

7091.

WebAssembly is more than the web (words.steveklabnik.com)

178 points by steveklabnik on Jul 13, 2018 | 81 comments

7092.

Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data (forbes.com)

178 points by edejong on Oct 14, 2018 | 79 comments

7093.

How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript (sayazamurai.github.io)

178 points by chibicode on Sep 14, 2018 | 78 comments

7094.

Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona (arstechnica.com)

178 points by nopinsight on Feb 17, 2018 | 76 comments

7095.

Making Penicillin at Home (doomandbloom.net)

178 points by gscott on Dec 10, 2018 | 75 comments

7096.

Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments (gist.github.com)

178 points by ABS on Jan 5, 2018 | 73 comments

7097.

SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight (arstechnica.com)

178 points by Tomte on Aug 6, 2018 | 73 comments

7098.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research (daily.jstor.org)

178 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on May 18, 2018 | 67 comments

7099.

Shell Magic: Set Operations with uniq (blog.deadvax.net)

178 points by cpitman on May 29, 2018 | 65 comments

7100.

EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update (eff.org)

178 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 12, 2018 | 60 comments

7101.

How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017) (laphamsquarterly.org)

178 points by diodorus on Jan 12, 2018 | 57 comments

7102.

MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser (archive.org)

178 points by akeck on Aug 12, 2018 | 57 comments

7103.

Find and analyze any reachable server and device on the internet (censys.io)

178 points by rmason on Jan 26, 2018 | 51 comments

7104.

How early 8-bit arcade machines differed in design from 8-bit home computers (floooh.github.io)

178 points by pmarin on Oct 9, 2018 | 51 comments

7105.

“Good Luck with That” Public License (github.com)

178 points by ihuman on Jun 6, 2018 | 50 comments

7106.

How Does an Intel Processor Boot? (binarydebt.wordpress.com)

178 points by bytefire on Oct 7, 2018 | 47 comments

7107.

TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data (blog.timescale.com)