HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1351.

What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding? (lemire.me)

85 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2019 | 42 comments

1352.

Projecting Unicode to ASCII (johndcook.com)

85 points by chmaynard on Jan 9, 2019 | 41 comments

1353.

Grundig Satellit 650 Radio (spectrum.ieee.org)

85 points by sohkamyung on Jan 4, 2019 | 33 comments

1354.

Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing (openimagedenoise.github.io)

85 points by ingve on Jan 30, 2019 | 31 comments

1355.

Radiation-hardened quine (2014) (github.com)

85 points by warent on Jan 6, 2019 | 22 comments

1356.

Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster–this time in Canada (arstechnica.com)

85 points by theBashShell on Jan 26, 2019 | 17 comments

1357.

South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable (2014) (zdnet.com)

85 points by vezycash on Jan 27, 2019 | 16 comments

1358.

Skipper – An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition (github.com)

85 points by kiyanwang on Jan 6, 2019 | 13 comments

1359.

Creating Languages in Racket (2012) (cacm.acm.org)

85 points by headalgorithm on Jan 13, 2019 | 9 comments

1360.

Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup (medium.com)

85 points by elsewhen on Jan 17, 2019 | 9 comments

1361.

RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages (math.bas.bg)

85 points by nkurz on Jan 1, 2019 | 8 comments

1362.

Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight (workplace.stackexchange.com)

85 points by tapoxi on Jan 16, 2019 | 2 comments

1363.

Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions (cockroachlabs.com)

85 points by nvanbenschoten on Jan 10, 2019 | 1 comments

1364.

Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

84 points by 321yawaworht on Jan 5, 2019 | 74 comments

1365.

Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013) (shanetully.com)

84 points by Cieplak on Jan 11, 2019 | 55 comments

1366.

Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings (nwn.blogs.com)

84 points by Kroeler on Jan 16, 2019 | 24 comments

1367.

DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer (usebox.net)

84 points by bjoko on Jan 6, 2019 | 20 comments

1368.

Be Moore Like Chuck (sigusr2.net)

84 points by signa11 on Jan 1, 2019 | 18 comments

1369.

How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video] (youtube.com)

84 points by skilled on Jan 20, 2019 | 10 comments

1370.

How does the brain learn by talking to itself? (medicalxpress.com)

84 points by dnetesn on Jan 2, 2019 | 1 comments

1371.

NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed (wsj.com)

83 points by TuringNYC on Jan 30, 2019 | 88 comments

1372.

European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs (slate.com)

83 points by lisper on Jan 20, 2019 | 82 comments

1373.

HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say (edition.cnn.com)

83 points by doppp on Jan 29, 2019 | 75 comments

1374.

You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better (inc.com)

83 points by theBashShell on Jan 21, 2019 | 69 comments

1375.

Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition (abcnews.go.com)

83 points by kyleblarson on Jan 24, 2019 | 61 comments

1376.

Show HN: Chaoslist – A self-prioritizing todo-list (chaoslist.io)

83 points by ArdentZeal on Jan 27, 2019 | 60 comments

1377.

Disable Flash support by default in Firefox 69 (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

83 points by doener on Jan 14, 2019 | 58 comments

1378.

A new free-software forge: sr.ht (lwn.net)

83 points by l2dy on Jan 17, 2019 | 35 comments

1379.

Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee (nytimes.com)

83 points by jseliger on Jan 11, 2019 | 30 comments

1380.

Software ideas are born: step-by-step guide on generating one for 2019 (mindk.com)

83 points by maxchurilov on Jan 27, 2019 | 30 comments