HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

The Decline of Historical Thinking (newyorker.com)

153 points by eplanit on Feb 5, 2019 | 104 comments

692.

Python Developer Survey 2018 Results (jetbrains.com)

153 points by mherrmann on Feb 7, 2019 | 80 comments

693.

The Over-Engaged Knowledge Worker (ianbicking.org)

153 points by joeyespo on Feb 3, 2019 | 66 comments

694.

Seattle Surveillance Technologies Up for Public Review (seattle.gov)

153 points by markovbot on Feb 6, 2019 | 55 comments

695.

Previous: NeXT computer hardware emulator (previous.alternative-system.com)

153 points by ingve on Feb 5, 2019 | 25 comments

696.

How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers (7pace.com)

152 points by encorekt on Feb 19, 2019 | 130 comments

697.

SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017) (sigarch.org)

152 points by nuclx on Feb 19, 2019 | 118 comments

698.

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues (approximatelycorrect.com)

152 points by zackchase on Feb 17, 2019 | 114 comments

699.

Huawei Sting Offers Rare Glimpse of the U.S. Targeting a Chinese Giant (bloomberg.com)

152 points by moh_maya on Feb 4, 2019 | 61 comments

700.

Janet – A dynamic language and bytecode VM (github.com)

152 points by traderjane on Feb 16, 2019 | 50 comments

701.

Why Captchas have gotten so difficult (theverge.com)

151 points by thmslee on Feb 3, 2019 | 203 comments

702.

Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position (leerob.io)

151 points by leerob on Feb 17, 2019 | 136 comments

703.

China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland (bloomberg.com)

151 points by virtualwhys on Feb 19, 2019 | 119 comments

704.

Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)

151 points by vladd on Feb 23, 2019 | 97 comments

705.

Forecasting in Python with Prophet (mode.com)

151 points by pplonski86 on Feb 22, 2019 | 23 comments

706.

What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness (2016) (pnas.org)

150 points by headalgorithm on Feb 8, 2019 | 107 comments

707.

Show HN: Nevod is easier and faster than RegExp (nevod.nezaboodka.com)

150 points by ychetyrko on Feb 8, 2019 | 80 comments

708.

How to fight the surveillance economy (medium.com)

150 points by burnaway on Feb 8, 2019 | 67 comments

709.

The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research (arxiv.org)

150 points by iron0013 on Feb 5, 2019 | 66 comments

710.

I stopped using Intercom (blog.gingerlime.com)

150 points by gingerlime on Feb 8, 2019 | 62 comments

711.

PostgreSQL 11 Reestablishes Window Functions Leadership (modern-sql.com)

150 points by boshomi on Feb 14, 2019 | 15 comments

712.

Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017) (stackoverflow.blog)

149 points by ktr on Feb 3, 2019 | 134 comments

713.

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city (reuters.com)

149 points by pseudolus on Feb 15, 2019 | 128 comments

714.

Auditing Rust Crypto: The First Hours (research.kudelskisecurity.com)

149 points by lwhsiao on Feb 7, 2019 | 86 comments

715.

Advent of Code 2018, in Coq (github.com)

149 points by szemet on Feb 18, 2019 | 43 comments

716.

Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure (blogs.dropbox.com)

148 points by redm on Feb 1, 2019 | 61 comments

717.

DVC – Open Source Machine Learning Version Control System (dvc.org)

148 points by jonbaer on Feb 10, 2019 | 36 comments

718.

Hyperscan: A Fast Multi-Pattern Regex Matcher for Modern CPUs (branchfree.org)

148 points by glangdale on Feb 28, 2019 | 36 comments

719.

Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy (deepmind.com)

148 points by andreamichi on Feb 26, 2019 | 32 comments

720.

Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a human? (washingtonpost.com)

147 points by jamessun on Feb 18, 2019 | 161 comments