HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3871.

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

284 points by imran3740 on Mar 17, 2019 | 157 comments

3872.

Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface (myfonts.com)

284 points by FabianBeiner on Jul 26, 2019 | 137 comments

3873.

Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing (pixelfed.org)

284 points by octosphere on Jul 7, 2019 | 130 comments

3874.

Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health (scientificamerican.com)

284 points by prostoalex on Dec 23, 2019 | 123 comments

3875.

Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along (asahi.com)

284 points by turrini on Jul 30, 2019 | 109 comments

3876.

Roll Your Own Analytics (pcmaffey.com)

284 points by pcmaffey on Mar 14, 2019 | 104 comments

3877.

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) (reprints.longform.org)

284 points by gscott on Oct 28, 2019 | 99 comments

3878.

Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May (monzo.com)

284 points by robinson-wall on Jun 20, 2019 | 94 comments

3879.

Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf] (cse.buffalo.edu)

284 points by quazar on Sep 8, 2019 | 81 comments

3880.

Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half (guix.gnu.org)

284 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | 76 comments

3881.

Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz (phiresky.github.io)

284 points by phiresky on Jun 16, 2019 | 65 comments

3882.

Don Valentine has died (sequoiacap.com)

284 points by gatsby on Oct 25, 2019 | 26 comments

3883.

Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf] (web.ma.utexas.edu)

284 points by m4rtyr on Dec 15, 2019 | 12 comments

3884.

The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms (technologyreview.com)

283 points by yarapavan on Oct 21, 2019 | 341 comments

3885.

SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident (twitter.com)

283 points by _Microft on Nov 20, 2019 | 248 comments

3886.

The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought (lithub.com)

283 points by kjaleshire on Apr 24, 2019 | 241 comments

3887.

Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind and lessons worth learning (blog.quuu.co)

283 points by danielkempe on Jun 3, 2019 | 192 comments

3888.

Police fine pedestrian for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face (dailymail.co.uk)

283 points by mlmartin on May 16, 2019 | 180 comments

3889.

The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers (theverge.com)

283 points by lelf on Dec 7, 2019 | 169 comments

3890.

Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017) (reuters.com)

283 points by 88840-8855 on May 26, 2019 | 162 comments

3891.

Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns (blog.mozilla.org)

283 points by jgrahamc on Sep 10, 2019 | 161 comments

3892.

Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA (cloud.google.com)

283 points by markoa on Jan 31, 2019 | 154 comments

3893.

AMP for email is bad (tutanota.com)

283 points by zach43 on Jun 23, 2019 | 154 comments

3894.

Giving up on wlroots-rs (way-cooler.org)

283 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Apr 29, 2019 | 124 comments

3895.

Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency (polyarch.co)

283 points by shry4ns on Aug 9, 2019 | 120 comments

3896.

Ownership and Borrowing in D (dlang.org)

283 points by systems on Jul 15, 2019 | 112 comments

3897.

What Is a Manifold? (bastian.rieck.me)

283 points by Pseudomanifold on Apr 14, 2019 | 110 comments

3898.

Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go (creekorful.me)

283 points by aadlani on Sep 23, 2019 | 107 comments

3899.

Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust (github.com)

283 points by jinqueeny on Nov 1, 2019 | 107 comments

3900.

A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health (salon.com)

283 points by smashcash on Jan 31, 2019 | 104 comments