HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12391.

The dangerous myth still believed about the Lehman Brothers bust (washingtonpost.com)

111 points by rfreytag on Sep 27, 2018 | 67 comments

12392.

For AI to thrive, it must explain itself (economist.com)

111 points by jkuria on Feb 18, 2018 | 65 comments

12393.

The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC (apollosaturncom.blogspot.com)

111 points by yanowitz on Jun 5, 2018 | 64 comments

12394.

Fears grow over Tether ‘printing press’ as auditors part ways (news.com.au)

111 points by vanburen on Jan 29, 2018 | 61 comments

12395.

Better Clojure formatting (tonsky.me)

111 points by harperlee on Dec 6, 2018 | 61 comments

12396.

I've just learned Rust and I think I'm in love (rskupnik.github.io)

111 points by JoshTriplett on Mar 30, 2018 | 60 comments

12397.

“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot (newcriterion.com)

111 points by lermontov on May 10, 2018 | 58 comments

12398.

Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust (blog.mozilla.org)

111 points by lainon on Oct 10, 2018 | 56 comments

12399.

What is Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 dual port controller’s total bandwidth? (communities.intel.com)

111 points by roger- on Aug 13, 2018 | 55 comments

12400.

Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons (news.mit.edu)

111 points by charlysl on Feb 18, 2018 | 54 comments

12401.

Your Kickstarter idea on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it (2016) (qz.com)

111 points by thekhatribharat on Oct 14, 2018 | 54 comments

12402.

2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers (atlasobscura.com)

111 points by Pharmakon on Nov 6, 2018 | 54 comments

12403.

Walmart patents surveillance tool that can eavesdrop on workers (engadget.com)

111 points by jrwan on Jul 12, 2018 | 53 comments

12404.

The Frightening Power of Ransomware Done Right (nautil.us)

111 points by elorant on Nov 29, 2018 | 53 comments

12405.

Massive Martian dust storm endangers NASA rover (nature.com)

111 points by kevindeasis on Jun 14, 2018 | 51 comments

12406.

Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past (npr.org)

111 points by ascertain on Jul 25, 2018 | 51 comments

12407.

SoftBank CEO says Khashoggi killing may have impact on Saudi-backed Vision Fund (cnbc.com)

111 points by brownbat on Nov 5, 2018 | 51 comments

12408.

2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners (quantamagazine.org)

111 points by heinrichf on Aug 1, 2018 | 48 comments

12409.

Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles

111 points by adrianbg on May 1, 2018 | 47 comments

12410.

OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents (bleepingcomputer.com)

111 points by wglb on Aug 28, 2018 | 47 comments

12411.

A one-size-fits-all database doesn't fit anyone (allthingsdistributed.com)

111 points by rbanffy on Jun 26, 2018 | 46 comments

12412.

How a Chinese businessman became the largest supplier of pyrotechnics in the US (washingtonpost.com)

111 points by acdanger on Jun 29, 2018 | 46 comments

12413.

“Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice (cats.club)

111 points by DoreenMichele on Sep 23, 2018 | 46 comments

12414.

Tracing stolen Bitcoin, using a precedent from 1816 (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

111 points by seagullz on Mar 28, 2018 | 45 comments

12415.

Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf] (usenix.org)

111 points by dhx on Aug 22, 2018 | 45 comments

12416.

Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go (github.com)

111 points by twokei on Aug 2, 2018 | 44 comments

12417.

First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift (gist.github.com)

111 points by bmc7505 on Oct 22, 2018 | 43 comments

12418.

Consumption of ‘Longevity’ Vitamins Could Prolong Healthy Aging, Scientist Says (ucsf.edu)

111 points by vimota on Oct 18, 2018 | 42 comments

12419.

Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service (gizmodo.com)

111 points by ourmandave on Feb 13, 2018 | 40 comments

12420.

Notes on Resonance (worrydream.com)

111 points by AriaMinaei on Apr 14, 2018 | 40 comments