HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12421.

Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated (hindenburgresearch.com)

111 points by ilamont on Dec 9, 2018 | 40 comments

12422.

Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web (krebsonsecurity.com)

111 points by dsr12 on Jul 12, 2018 | 38 comments

12423.

How a New York Times Software Engineer Ended Up Covering Miss America (nytimes.com)

111 points by catacombs on Sep 12, 2018 | 38 comments

12424.

Dbxfs – A Dropbox-backed file system (github.com)

111 points by lowe on Oct 3, 2018 | 37 comments

12425.

Aerospike Engines: Why aren't we using them now? [video] (youtube.com)

111 points by hinkley on Jun 9, 2018 | 36 comments

12426.

Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment (junglecoder.com)

111 points by yumaikas on Aug 9, 2018 | 34 comments

12427.

How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners (atlasobscura.com)

111 points by samclemens on Jun 17, 2018 | 32 comments

12428.

An iOS App in Assembly (2014) (github.com)

111 points by benguild on Mar 3, 2018 | 31 comments

12429.

Facebook’s retreat from the news business (slate.com)

111 points by blatherard on Jun 27, 2018 | 28 comments

12430.

Eelo: A Google-less Android alternative emerges (zdnet.com)

111 points by indidea on Jan 3, 2018 | 27 comments

12431.

Iterative methods done right (life's too short to write for-loops) (lostella.github.io)

111 points by stellalo on Aug 5, 2018 | 27 comments

12432.

Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation (just-taking-a-ride.com)

111 points by eatitraw on Dec 24, 2018 | 27 comments

12433.

Ways the world improved in 2018 (qz.com)

111 points by bushido on Dec 31, 2018 | 27 comments

12434.

Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (motherboard.vice.com)

111 points by uptown on Apr 2, 2018 | 25 comments

12435.

Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python (github.com)

111 points by jinqueeny on Sep 5, 2018 | 25 comments

12436.

The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner (heavybit.com)

111 points by icey on Oct 19, 2018 | 25 comments

12437.

Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK (smithsonianmag.com)

111 points by diodorus on Feb 8, 2018 | 24 comments

12438.

New deep learning technique solves Rubik's Cube without assistance (technologyreview.com)

111 points by rbanffy on Jun 16, 2018 | 23 comments

12439.

Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) (robertovitillo.com)

111 points by Tomte on Feb 25, 2018 | 21 comments

12440.

SiFive to release source code to initialize HiFive Unleashed RISC-V board (forums.sifive.com)

111 points by rwmj on Jul 1, 2018 | 20 comments

12441.

AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7 (aws.amazon.com)

111 points by pplonski86 on Nov 30, 2018 | 20 comments

12442.

Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017) (nautil.us)

111 points by dnetesn on Jan 28, 2018 | 19 comments

12443.

Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice (theatlantic.com)

111 points by diodorus on May 22, 2018 | 19 comments

12444.

Sononym: Machine Learning Sample Organizer for Musicians (sononym.net)

111 points by conner_bw on May 11, 2018 | 18 comments

12445.

The Neuroscience of Pain (newyorker.com)

111 points by devy on Jun 26, 2018 | 18 comments

12446.

Web Typography Resources (betterwebtype.com)

111 points by matejlatin on Jul 31, 2018 | 15 comments

12447.

Let's Encrypt at Scale (engineering.autotrader.co.uk)

111 points by yarapavan on Sep 10, 2018 | 15 comments

12448.

Six Principles for Making New Things (2008) (paulgraham.com)

111 points by dayve on Oct 12, 2018 | 15 comments

12449.

Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking (arxiv.org)

111 points by matt_d on Apr 21, 2018 | 13 comments

12450.

Debugging across pipes and sockets with strace [pdf] (github.com)

111 points by nh2 on Mar 29, 2018 | 11 comments