HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

H-1B Visa Most Used for 'Software Engineer,' 'Software Developer' Roles (insights.dice.com)

63 points by SunTzu9087 on Aug 19, 2019 | 85 comments

1802.

Marshal Zhukov's Pocket Knife (blogs.harvard.edu)

63 points by pepys on Aug 21, 2019 | 76 comments

1803.

Why is strlen so complex in C? (stackoverflow.com)

63 points by azhenley on Aug 26, 2019 | 73 comments

1804.

Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?

63 points by factorialboy on Aug 13, 2019 | 60 comments

1805.

Drink Poison and Smile: How I Arrived at My Position of Pro-Democracy (improve.hk)

63 points by improvehk on Aug 30, 2019 | 53 comments

1806.

Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games (gamasutra.com)

63 points by svenfaw on Aug 30, 2019 | 49 comments

1807.

Corporate America's 'Elite Charade' (fortune.com)

63 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 24, 2019 | 31 comments

1808.

An underground Facebook market for rare meat (melmagazine.com)

63 points by empath75 on Aug 25, 2019 | 28 comments

1809.

ReadMe (YC W15) Raises 9M Series A from Accel and Y Combinator (techcrunch.com)

63 points by iMuzz on Aug 28, 2019 | 27 comments

1810.

No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health (desmogblog.com)

63 points by darkwater on Aug 6, 2019 | 21 comments

1811.

Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge (businessinsider.com)

63 points by rasengan on Aug 8, 2019 | 19 comments

1812.

Viewing Cute Images Narrows Attentional Focus (2012) (journals.plos.org)

63 points by laurex on Aug 5, 2019 | 17 comments

1813.

Princeton theoretical physicist Steven Gubser has died (princeton.edu)

63 points by tlb on Aug 8, 2019 | 13 comments

1814.

Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch (golden.com)

63 points by judegomila on Aug 18, 2019 | 12 comments

1815.

Packrat Parsing (2002) (pdos.csail.mit.edu)

63 points by tosh on Aug 12, 2019 | 8 comments

1816.

Launch HN: Lazy Lantern (YC S19) – Detect Meaningful Patterns in Your Analytics

63 points by GuiloLa on Aug 12, 2019 | 6 comments

1817.

Python Oberon v0.1.0 (pythonoberon.readthedocs.io)

63 points by kristianp on Aug 5, 2019 | 5 comments

1818.

Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (2017) (scattered-thoughts.net)

63 points by luu on Aug 18, 2019 | 4 comments

1819.

Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs (reuters.com)

62 points by SolaceQuantum on Aug 23, 2019 | 111 comments

1820.

Flying with Miniature Horses (nytimes.com)

62 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 17, 2019 | 104 comments

1821.

China’s options for retaliating against tariffs are limited by its own economy (nytimes.com)

62 points by ycombonator on Aug 2, 2019 | 57 comments

1822.

Are Saskatraz bees an answer to colony collapse? (whathappensonthehomestead.com)

62 points by vezycash on Aug 27, 2019 | 51 comments

1823.

NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions (weforum.org)

62 points by seanwilson on Aug 7, 2019 | 46 comments

1824.

Native lazy loading has landed in Chrome (dev.to)

62 points by yeasayer on Aug 26, 2019 | 45 comments

1825.

The Strange Blissfulness of Storms (earth.nautil.us)

62 points by dustfinger on Aug 29, 2019 | 34 comments

1826.

The Oral History of the Super Soaker (melmagazine.com)

62 points by ohjeez on Aug 23, 2019 | 28 comments

1827.

A mosque rebuilt once a year (bbc.com)

62 points by MiriamWeiner on Aug 2, 2019 | 27 comments

1828.

Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (2012) [pdf] (cs.utexas.edu)