HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

The Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater into Drinking Water (earther.gizmodo.com)

98 points by aceperry on Jan 16, 2019 | 127 comments

1202.

Living and working in Sweden as engineers (hongchao.me)

98 points by hongchao on Jan 1, 2019 | 107 comments

1203.

Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’ (nytimes.com)

98 points by SQL2219 on Jan 24, 2019 | 58 comments

1204.

Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (2017) (twitter.com)

98 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 16, 2019 | 54 comments

1205.

GitLab’s CEO reflects on GitHub’s move to offer free private repos (about.gitlab.com)

98 points by whoisnnamdi on Jan 8, 2019 | 47 comments

1206.

Learning a new skill by putting in 45 minutes a day for a month (ideas.ted.com)

98 points by sesellis on Jan 4, 2019 | 41 comments

1207.

Jason Fried: “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps” (recode.net)

98 points by yarapavan on Jan 23, 2019 | 32 comments

1208.

Fever effect (embraceasd.com)

98 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2019 | 31 comments

1209.

MDT9100 (trmm.net)

98 points by zdw on Jan 24, 2019 | 20 comments

1210.

Zorp – Open source proxy firewall with deep protocol analysis (balasys.github.io)

98 points by dedalus on Jan 20, 2019 | 16 comments

1211.

U.S. Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money (nytimes.com)

97 points by petethomas on Jan 25, 2019 | 112 comments

1212.

How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China (bmj.com)

97 points by laurex on Jan 10, 2019 | 108 comments

1213.

Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps (reuters.com)

97 points by rayvy on Jan 28, 2019 | 105 comments

1214.

Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed (m.youtube.com)

97 points by tosh on Jan 7, 2019 | 86 comments

1215.

iOS 12.2 Beta: Progressive Web App Capabilities (twitter.com)

97 points by tosh on Jan 27, 2019 | 80 comments

1216.

Xi Jinping says Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with China (bbc.com)

97 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 2, 2019 | 65 comments

1217.

Canada's Toughest Border Crossing (thewalrus.ca)

97 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2019 | 60 comments

1218.

Python with a Cocoa GUI on MacOS (dawes.wordpress.com)

97 points by sacheendra on Jan 12, 2019 | 30 comments

1219.

Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps (2016) (maxplanck.nautil.us)

97 points by dnetesn on Jan 8, 2019 | 23 comments

1220.

uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers (ulisp.com)

97 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2019 | 16 comments

1221.

Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life (nytimes.com)

97 points by pseudolus on Jan 22, 2019 | 15 comments

1222.

Tor's Open Research Topics (2018) (blog.torproject.org)

97 points by schoen on Jan 30, 2019 | 10 comments

1223.

Smoothsort Demystified (2011) (keithschwarz.com)

97 points by csdrane on Jan 27, 2019 | 3 comments

1224.

Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport (nytimes.com)

96 points by donohoe on Jan 8, 2019 | 140 comments

1225.

The Fleecing of Millennials (nytimes.com)

96 points by SolaceQuantum on Jan 28, 2019 | 119 comments

1226.

TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home (washingtonpost.com)

96 points by laurex on Jan 17, 2019 | 109 comments

1227.

Chromebook accessibility: Changing the order of mouse buttons is unsupported (shkspr.mobi)

96 points by edent on Jan 3, 2019 | 94 comments

1228.

True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America (businessinsider.com)