HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1171.

The market figured out Gitlab’s secret (about.gitlab.com)

107 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2019 | 68 comments

1172.

It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains (theguardian.com)

107 points by elorant on Aug 14, 2019 | 52 comments

1173.

Building a vacuum tube computer (ludd.ltu.se)

107 points by ChickeNES on Aug 14, 2019 | 46 comments

1174.

Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (2017) (blog.filippo.io)

107 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2019 | 37 comments

1175.

DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees (arxiv.org)

107 points by jbarciauskas on Aug 29, 2019 | 22 comments

1176.

Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases (theverge.com)

106 points by lelf on Aug 3, 2019 | 128 comments

1177.

Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse? (edition.cnn.com)

106 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2019 | 102 comments

1178.

Homomorphic encryption (en.wikipedia.org)

106 points by azujus on Aug 2, 2019 | 83 comments

1179.

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015) (medium.com)

106 points by dustinmoris on Aug 30, 2019 | 76 comments

1180.

Stun Belts in Court (themarshallproject.org)

106 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 1, 2019 | 74 comments

1181.

Real world location virtually recreated to scale in minutes [video] (nwn.blogs.com)

106 points by Kroeler on Aug 20, 2019 | 58 comments

1182.

Pakistan to ban single-use plastic bags (washingtonpost.com)

106 points by pseudolus on Aug 13, 2019 | 57 comments

1183.

Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921 (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

106 points by bookofjoe on Aug 24, 2019 | 49 comments

1184.

Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?

106 points by x0054 on Aug 9, 2019 | 41 comments

1185.

New Species May Evolve from Cancers (quantamagazine.org)

106 points by jessaustin on Aug 20, 2019 | 34 comments

1186.

The Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)

106 points by rahimiali on Aug 18, 2019 | 32 comments

1187.

Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol (github.com)

106 points by tdjsnelling on Aug 27, 2019 | 30 comments

1188.

Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors (color.clss.hk)

106 points by longsangstan on Aug 19, 2019 | 26 comments

1189.

SpaCy PyTorch Transformers (explosion.ai)

106 points by syllogism on Aug 2, 2019 | 11 comments

1190.

July Matched, and Maybe Broke, Record for the Hottest Month Since Analysis Began (public.wmo.int)

105 points by infodocket on Aug 8, 2019 | 119 comments

1191.

Bad Customer Service Is Profitable (hbr.org)

105 points by EndXA on Aug 31, 2019 | 109 comments

1192.

Gardens with a 12,000-person waiting list (bbc.com)

105 points by gpresot on Aug 30, 2019 | 107 comments

1193.

The Web We Want (webwewant.fyi)

105 points by feross on Aug 2, 2019 | 95 comments

1194.

Scala Native (scala-native.org)

105 points by big_chungus on Aug 19, 2019 | 74 comments

1195.

Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go (github.com)

105 points by guessmyname on Aug 11, 2019 | 62 comments

1196.

Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water to mark for arrest (insider.com)

105 points by tosh on Aug 31, 2019 | 45 comments

1197.

A profile of Geoffrey Hinton (2018) (torontolife.com)

105 points by tosh on Aug 24, 2019 | 36 comments

1198.

Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts (mymodernmet.com)

105 points by diodorus on Aug 13, 2019 | 25 comments

1199.

You Are Not Your Code (2012) (sstephenson.us)

105 points by Tomte on Aug 31, 2019 | 25 comments

1200.

GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer (goaccess.io)

105 points by polm23 on Aug 26, 2019 | 19 comments