HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4921.

How the Soviet Union Led and Lost 'The Space Race' (forbes.com)

5 points by georgecmu on Jul 13, 2019 | 3 comments

4922.

Running with your arms bent does not make you go faster, Harvard study finds (telegraph.co.uk)

5 points by RickJWagner on Jul 14, 2019 | 3 comments

4923.

World's Worst Video Card? (youtube.com)

5 points by janpot on Jul 14, 2019 | 3 comments

4924.

Tesla Roadster’s SpaceX thruster will be hidden behind the license plate (electrek.co)

5 points by hsnewman on Jul 14, 2019 | 3 comments

4925.

Technical Interviews aren't merely technical (nicolodavis.com)

5 points by nicolodavis on Jul 18, 2019 | 3 comments

4926.

Docker and Minecraft = Dockercraft (github.com)

5 points by based2 on Jul 20, 2019 | 3 comments

4927.

Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded (theatlantic.com)

5 points by IAmEveryone on Jul 22, 2019 | 3 comments

4928.

Travellar – The Social Travel App (travellar.app)

5 points by gbresciano on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

4929.

Ask HN: Is it worth reading through a book even if you don't understand it?

5 points by tictoc on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

4930.

Ask HN: Why should I enforce code style?

5 points by dmtroyer on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

4931.

Ask HN: Remote Embedded Software Developer

5 points by maezup on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

4932.

Microsoft Doesn’t Want You to Use a Local Windows Account (extremetech.com)

5 points by gnicholas on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

4933.

Ask HN: It's 2019, what are the new challenges in your industry?

5 points by northfoxz on Jul 25, 2019 | 3 comments

4934.

“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site (theguardian.com)

5 points by bookofjoe on Jul 28, 2019 | 3 comments

4935.

RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable (blackhole12.com)

5 points by kristianp on Jul 28, 2019 | 3 comments

4936.

Show HN: DETA – Code and share small web programs without thinking about servers (deta.sh)

5 points by abdelhai on Jul 30, 2019 | 3 comments

4937.

150k SMB Website Teardown Part Two: Website Builders, Speed and Google Rank (freshchalk.com)

5 points by gurgeous on Jul 30, 2019 | 3 comments

4938.

Tesla, other EVs required to have 'traditional engine' sound to meet new EU rule (teslarati.com)

5 points by ryan_j_naughton on Jul 1, 2019 | 2 comments

4939.

Jony Ive ‘dispirited’ by Tim Cook’s lack of interest in product design (theverge.com)

5 points by woodgrainz on Jul 1, 2019 | 2 comments

4940.

The day the e-books stopped working (bbc.co.uk)

5 points by SenHeng on Jul 2, 2019 | 2 comments

4941.

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube (github.com)

5 points by LinuxBender on Jul 3, 2019 | 2 comments

4942.

The Haunting Beauty of Germany's WWII Bomb Craters (citylab.com)

5 points by curtis on Jul 7, 2019 | 2 comments

4943.

WeWork to Raise Billions Selling Debt Ahead of IPO (wsj.com)

5 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 7, 2019 | 2 comments

4944.

Clojure to Rust rewrite yields 17x speedup (reddit.com)

5 points by tosh on Jul 9, 2019 | 2 comments

4945.

Why Discord Is Wrong (entrepreneursjourney.blog)

5 points by whuffman on Jul 9, 2019 | 2 comments

4946.

Any tips for someone who's quitting full-time tech job to start a venture?

5 points by tnsn on Jul 11, 2019 | 2 comments

4947.

Grails 4 GA Released (objectcomputing.com)

5 points by joemccall86 on Jul 11, 2019 | 2 comments

4948.

Twitter Is Down

5 points by samiur1204 on Jul 11, 2019 | 2 comments

4949.

Call Me ‘They’ (nytimes.com)

5 points by occamschainsaw on Jul 11, 2019 | 2 comments

4950.

Mithril vs. Hyperdom (featurist.co.uk)

5 points by artemave on Jul 12, 2019 | 2 comments