HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers (nytimes.com)

89 points by danso on Apr 27, 2019 | 21 comments

1412.

HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (1991) (archive.org)

89 points by dcminter on Apr 29, 2019 | 19 comments

1413.

“Let's bring a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx.” (nytimes.com)

88 points by typographer on Apr 26, 2019 | 118 comments

1414.

‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’ (nytimes.com)

88 points by pseudolus on Apr 17, 2019 | 63 comments

1415.

What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf] (complang.tuwien.ac.at)

88 points by mpweiher on Apr 14, 2019 | 62 comments

1416.

TSMC and OIP Deliver Industry’s First Complete Design Infrastructure 5nm Process (tsmc.com)

88 points by ytch on Apr 4, 2019 | 45 comments

1417.

The Physical Sacrifice of Thinking (2015) (journals.sagepub.com)

88 points by laurex on Apr 8, 2019 | 32 comments

1418.

A philosophy-quoting homeless man in China has fled internet fame (washingtonpost.com)

88 points by flippyhead on Apr 2, 2019 | 28 comments

1419.

Domain-Oriented Observability (martinfowler.com)

88 points by arunc on Apr 2, 2019 | 18 comments

1420.

Tea: High-Level Language and Runtime System for Automating Statistical Analysis (arxiv.org)

88 points by furcyd on Apr 12, 2019 | 14 comments

1421.

The Singular Power of Writing (lareviewofbooks.org)

88 points by acsillag on Apr 22, 2019 | 14 comments

1422.

IPFS Camp 2019 (camp.ipfs.io)

88 points by lalamaguire on Apr 24, 2019 | 12 comments

1423.

Two Winning Pwn2Own JIT Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox (zerodayinitiative.com)

88 points by RedmondSecGnome on Apr 18, 2019 | 5 comments

1424.

Geo: Geospatial Primitives and Algorithms for Rust (github.com)

88 points by adamnemecek on Apr 5, 2019 | 0 comments

1425.

Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics? (thenewatlantis.com)

87 points by bradstreet on Apr 19, 2019 | 128 comments

1426.

Chromium-based Edge preview builds (blogs.windows.com)

87 points by cmsimike on Apr 8, 2019 | 103 comments

1427.

Social media is spreading 'toxic positivity' (glamourmagazine.co.uk)

87 points by pradpk on Apr 18, 2019 | 77 comments

1428.

It is your moral obligation to use Firefox (0x46.net)

87 points by boreq on Apr 9, 2019 | 67 comments

1429.

Advances in Weather Prediction (science.sciencemag.org)

87 points by ALee on Apr 27, 2019 | 46 comments

1430.

How to Train Your OpenAI Five (openai.com)

87 points by dsr12 on Apr 16, 2019 | 44 comments

1431.

Dangerous Web Security Features (tunetheweb.com)

87 points by based2 on Apr 20, 2019 | 40 comments

1432.

The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (2017) (spectrum.ieee.org)

87 points by Darmody on Apr 9, 2019 | 39 comments

1433.

Show HN: JavaScript plugin to build 360-degree images (github.com)

87 points by itchfer on Apr 15, 2019 | 28 comments

1434.

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM (spectrum.ieee.org)

87 points by headalgorithm on Apr 9, 2019 | 27 comments

1435.

The Museum of Soviet Space Travel (designyoutrust.com)

87 points by rayascott on Apr 19, 2019 | 24 comments

1436.

Sensei's Library (senseis.xmp.net)

87 points by Tomte on Apr 18, 2019 | 15 comments

1437.

Obfuscated Erlang (2012) (ferd.ca)

87 points by QuinnWilton on Apr 17, 2019 | 14 comments

1438.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (April 2019)

86 points by whoishiring on Apr 1, 2019 | 118 comments

1439.

Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018) (digest.bps.org.uk)

86 points by matrix on Apr 17, 2019 | 73 comments

1440.

Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently (theverge.com)

86 points by nolawi89 on Apr 2, 2019 | 68 comments