HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

451.

A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ (nytimes.com)

238 points by mhb on Sep 1, 2019 | 162 comments

452.

Too Much Dark Money in Almonds (slatestarcodex.com)

238 points by gbear605 on Sep 19, 2019 | 157 comments

453.

Building a Better Go Linker (golang.org)

238 points by rjammala on Sep 12, 2019 | 99 comments

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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)

237 points by dmit on Sep 27, 2019 | 45 comments

455.

American Phrase Book (alumni.media.mit.edu)

236 points by troydavis on Sep 10, 2019 | 167 comments

456.

Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game (phoboslab.org)

236 points by ash on Sep 24, 2019 | 15 comments

457.

Open offices are a dead end (nytimes.com)

235 points by zeveb on Sep 26, 2019 | 295 comments

458.

Have Online Reviews Lost All Value? (wsj.com)

235 points by ytNumbers on Sep 30, 2019 | 202 comments

459.

China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low (reuters.com)

235 points by paulpauper on Sep 17, 2019 | 150 comments

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Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died (nytimes.com)

235 points by NaOH on Sep 4, 2019 | 10 comments

461.

Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety (washingtonpost.com)

234 points by laurex on Sep 5, 2019 | 188 comments

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Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures (techcrunch.com)

234 points by jblz on Sep 19, 2019 | 120 comments

463.

Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?

234 points by qyirius on Sep 8, 2019 | 75 comments

464.

Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media (wsj.com)

233 points by bookofjoe on Sep 24, 2019 | 186 comments

465.

Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom (github.com)

233 points by ozkl on Sep 7, 2019 | 42 comments

466.

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers (irishtimes.com)

233 points by drocer88 on Sep 4, 2019 | 20 comments

467.

IBM introduces z15 mainframe (fuse.wikichip.org)

232 points by rbanffy on Sep 15, 2019 | 293 comments

468.

Reddit was down for over two hours (reddit.statuspage.io)

232 points by bluedino on Sep 18, 2019 | 268 comments

469.

Great products do less, but better (uxdesign.cc)

232 points by breadandcrumbel on Sep 8, 2019 | 166 comments

470.

The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills (sciencedirect.com)

231 points by newsreview1 on Sep 4, 2019 | 143 comments

471.

Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide (nature.com)

231 points by bookofjoe on Sep 26, 2019 | 123 comments

472.

Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?

231 points by lamchob on Sep 20, 2019 | 99 comments

473.

Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte (techradar.com)

230 points by jaytaylor on Sep 24, 2019 | 277 comments

474.

Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul (wsj.com)

230 points by mises on Sep 23, 2019 | 233 comments

475.

At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power (nytimes.com)

230 points by gumby on Sep 26, 2019 | 206 comments

476.

String Lengths in Unicode (hsivonen.fi)

230 points by panic on Sep 9, 2019 | 140 comments

477.

The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017) (hbr.org)

230 points by thtthings on Sep 4, 2019 | 81 comments

478.

Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning (nanonets.com)

230 points by ole_gooner on Sep 12, 2019 | 69 comments

479.

Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x (twitter.com)

230 points by sohkamyung on Sep 3, 2019 | 50 comments

480.

600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias (hyperallergic.com)

229 points by aaronbrethorst on Sep 23, 2019 | 289 comments