HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018) (hackernoon.com)

181 points by abdullahkhalids on Aug 31, 2019 | 142 comments

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Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS (tailwind.run)

181 points by utkarshkukreti on Aug 9, 2019 | 95 comments

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Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data (techcrunch.com)

181 points by ewood on Aug 9, 2019 | 61 comments

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Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics? (old.reddit.com)

180 points by curtis on Aug 25, 2019 | 191 comments

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Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything (therevelator.org)

180 points by howard941 on Aug 13, 2019 | 96 comments

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Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP (taiwannews.com.tw)

180 points by GordonS on Aug 20, 2019 | 44 comments

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Nonplanar Printing (tams.informatik.uni-hamburg.de)

180 points by mlyle on Aug 22, 2019 | 35 comments

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)

179 points by mlthoughts2018 on Aug 28, 2019 | 237 comments

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Bulk Data Structures C++ (gamasutra.com)

179 points by kouh on Aug 20, 2019 | 105 comments

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A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet (onezero.medium.com)

179 points by cpeterso on Aug 21, 2019 | 90 comments

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CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study (bloomberg.com)

179 points by kgwgk on Aug 9, 2019 | 85 comments

642.

Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks (ai.googleblog.com)

179 points by lamchob on Aug 28, 2019 | 64 comments

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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder (wsj.com)

178 points by DanBC on Aug 18, 2019 | 242 comments

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How shrinkflation is playing havoc with economists’ models (economist.com)

178 points by pseudolus on Aug 9, 2019 | 162 comments

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China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade (reuters.com)

178 points by situational87 on Aug 5, 2019 | 149 comments

646.

Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency (interviewcake.com)

178 points by rspivak on Aug 1, 2019 | 95 comments

647.

Cisco is making it more difficult to use used hardware (ifixit.com)

178 points by turtlegrids on Aug 10, 2019 | 92 comments

648.

Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls (vice.com)

178 points by djug on Aug 8, 2019 | 75 comments

649.

The Principia Discordia (1963) (principiadiscordia.com)

178 points by empath75 on Aug 10, 2019 | 52 comments

650.

Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders (thenation.com)

177 points by daddy_drank on Aug 8, 2019 | 253 comments

651.

DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M (prnewswire.com)

177 points by bharris315 on Aug 1, 2019 | 166 comments

652.

Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup (nakedcapitalism.com)

177 points by Cbasedlifeform on Aug 12, 2019 | 162 comments

653.

Tumblr (avc.com)

177 points by rmason on Aug 14, 2019 | 103 comments

654.

Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018) (newyorker.com)

177 points by Tomte on Aug 10, 2019 | 12 comments

655.

How I finally won my name from domain resellers after nine years of waiting (jerryalex.com)

176 points by jerryalex on Aug 5, 2019 | 123 comments

656.

YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition (youtube.com)

176 points by imiller on Aug 26, 2019 | 101 comments

657.

Dyson Tree (en.wikipedia.org)

176 points by Petiver on Aug 23, 2019 | 42 comments

658.

FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone (thehill.com)

175 points by miles on Aug 10, 2019 | 395 comments

659.

Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016) (bbc.com)

175 points by Stratoscope on Aug 29, 2019 | 67 comments

660.

Franky Zapata: Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel (bbc.co.uk)

175 points by bauc on Aug 4, 2019 | 57 comments