HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12481.

Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks? (twitter.com)

122 points by ninetax on Oct 8, 2019 | 56 comments

12482.

Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator (github.com)

122 points by zwegner on Nov 15, 2019 | 55 comments

12483.

High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017) (devblogs.nvidia.com)

122 points by open-source-ux on Oct 27, 2019 | 54 comments

12484.

Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading (bloomberg.com)

122 points by pseudolus on Feb 13, 2019 | 52 comments

12485.

In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag (twitter.com)

122 points by miles on Mar 29, 2019 | 52 comments

12486.

Blood platelets activated during exercise increase neurogensis: mouse study (the-scientist.com)

122 points by prostoalex on Apr 26, 2019 | 52 comments

12487.

Fab in India: India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry (economist.com)

122 points by yarapavan on Oct 5, 2019 | 51 comments

12488.

Floating point oddity (johndcook.com)

122 points by furcyd on Nov 12, 2019 | 50 comments

12489.

Rust 2019: Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools (internals.rust-lang.org)

122 points by lwhsiao on Jan 1, 2019 | 47 comments

12490.

Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt (spectrum.ieee.org)

122 points by Bilters on Mar 27, 2019 | 47 comments

12491.

“Amazon’s Choice” is determined by an algorithm and not always reliable (buzzfeednews.com)

122 points by minimaxir on Jun 14, 2019 | 47 comments

12492.

How the Great Truth Dawned (newcriterion.com)

122 points by portobello on Aug 25, 2019 | 47 comments

12493.

A mentalist’s guide to being happy (bbc.com)

122 points by jcroll on Jun 10, 2019 | 46 comments

12494.

Tensorflow User Experience (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

122 points by luu on Dec 5, 2019 | 46 comments

12495.

The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool (pvk.ca)

122 points by dmit on Feb 26, 2019 | 45 comments

12496.

Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017) (hackaday.com)

122 points by lordgrenville on Sep 3, 2019 | 45 comments

12497.

A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think (quantamagazine.org)

122 points by laurex on Jan 28, 2019 | 43 comments

12498.

Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf] (stephane.ducasse.free.fr)

122 points by tosh on Jan 2, 2019 | 42 comments

12499.

Why the fuck was I breached? (whythefuckwasibreached.com)

122 points by skinkestek on Nov 7, 2019 | 42 comments

12500.

Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily (github.com)

122 points by peaceiris on May 9, 2019 | 41 comments

12501.

Bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats (scientificamerican.com)

122 points by emptybits on Sep 19, 2019 | 41 comments

12502.

Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013) (idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com)

122 points by adamnemecek on Mar 18, 2019 | 40 comments

12503.

Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (matloff.wordpress.com)

122 points by ibobev on Aug 30, 2019 | 40 comments

12504.

Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON (github.com)

122 points by vyuh on Oct 8, 2019 | 40 comments

12505.

Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US (nsenergybusiness.com)

122 points by tosh on Dec 11, 2019 | 39 comments

12506.

Pandas dropping Python 2 support (twitter.com)

122 points by ptype on Jan 3, 2019 | 37 comments

12507.

Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game (linjat.snellman.net)

122 points by jsnell on Feb 4, 2019 | 37 comments

12508.

Scopes – Retargetable programming language and infrastructure (bitbucket.org)

122 points by homarp on May 5, 2019 | 37 comments

12509.

Hurricane Electric 3D network map (he.net)

122 points by throwaway2048 on Jan 3, 2019 | 35 comments

12510.

Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

122 points by Symmetry on Sep 13, 2019 | 35 comments