HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2161.

Germs and ancient migrations help explain our world of 'haves' and 'have nots' (geneticliteracyproject.org)

39 points by anastalaz on Jan 30, 2019 | 31 comments

2162.

An audio message improved our conversion rate by more than 50% (genius.engineering)

39 points by ehmorris on Jan 29, 2019 | 21 comments

2163.

Death of the private self: how 15 years of Facebook changed the human condition (theguardian.com)

39 points by rapnie on Jan 31, 2019 | 16 comments

2164.

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf] (advances.sciencemag.org)

39 points by luu on Jan 13, 2019 | 13 comments

2165.

Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0 (github.com)

39 points by hashhar on Jan 30, 2019 | 13 comments

2166.

The Verified CakeML Compiler Back End [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu)

39 points by ghettoimp on Jan 6, 2019 | 11 comments

2167.

A teenager found Apple's FaceTime bug – and why it was so hard to report it (nbcnews.com)

39 points by minimaxir on Jan 29, 2019 | 11 comments

2168.

History of Teaching Machines (teachingmachin.es)

39 points by cardamomo on Jan 21, 2019 | 7 comments

2169.

Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book (arxiv.org)

39 points by ghosthamlet on Jan 13, 2019 | 5 comments

2170.

Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm (ctvnews.ca)

39 points by bdz on Jan 20, 2019 | 5 comments

2171.

Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node (medium.com)

39 points by adamesque on Jan 19, 2019 | 3 comments

2172.

China's population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years (straitstimes.com)

39 points by microdrum on Jan 4, 2019 | 2 comments

2173.

A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms (scmp.com)

39 points by SZJX on Jan 13, 2019 | 2 comments

2174.

Rails 6.0.0 beta1 is released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

39 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 18, 2019 | 2 comments

2175.

An Overview of Computer Science Concepts for Engineers (blog.robertelder.org)

39 points by manjana on Jan 29, 2019 | 2 comments

2176.

Show HN: A Course on Deep Learning Using Google's TensorFlow (github.com)

39 points by ultera3 on Jan 8, 2019 | 0 comments

2177.

The elite that failed (economist.com)

38 points by sajid on Jan 17, 2019 | 59 comments

2178.

HTTP/1 should die; HTTP/2 can do everything HTTP/1 could, only faster (medium.com)

38 points by pgjones on Jan 25, 2019 | 52 comments

2179.

Excercise in futility – Why exercise alone won't save us (theguardian.com)

38 points by pseudolus on Jan 3, 2019 | 44 comments

2180.

I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened (theascent.pub)

38 points by paulpauper on Jan 19, 2019 | 32 comments

2181.

‘Alarming’ burnout is making doctors want to kill themselves (nypost.com)

38 points by spking on Jan 16, 2019 | 24 comments

2182.

Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones (cnbc.com)

38 points by Varcht on Jan 18, 2019 | 23 comments

2183.

Cost breakdown for Solar PV with lithium-ion storage (pv-magazine-usa.com)

38 points by epistasis on Jan 2, 2019 | 22 comments

2184.

Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018) (ciphermysteries.com)

38 points by Petiver on Jan 22, 2019 | 15 comments

2185.

Risk of Discovery (2017) (paulgraham.com)

38 points by mgdo on Jan 22, 2019 | 15 comments

2186.

Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here's How You Could Actually Get It (time.com)

38 points by ArmandGrillet on Jan 17, 2019 | 8 comments

2187.

Capsule Networks- the New Deep Learning Network (towardsdatascience.com)

38 points by joeyespo on Jan 20, 2019 | 8 comments

2188.

The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera (nytimes.com)

38 points by secfirstmd on Jan 29, 2019 | 7 comments

2189.

IPv6 in China (potaroo.net)

38 points by liotier on Jan 30, 2019 | 7 comments

2190.

Public Domain Day: Works Enter Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years (openculture.com)

38 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2019 | 6 comments