HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

Monte Carlo methods – Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino (easylang.online)

431 points by whereistimbo on Jul 5, 2019 | 161 comments

1712.

Chromecast Support for Firefox (hensm.github.io)

431 points by Benjamin_Dobell on Jan 23, 2019 | 114 comments

1713.

An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect (developer.okta.com)

431 points by jbigelow76 on Oct 25, 2019 | 74 comments

1714.

US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages (bbc.com)

430 points by pbhowmic on Jan 25, 2019 | 575 comments

1715.

Stomach of Dead Whale Contained 'Nothing but Nonstop Plastic' (npr.org)

430 points by Ultramanoid on Mar 19, 2019 | 346 comments

1716.

If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot (skyclerk.com)

430 points by cloudmanic on Sep 25, 2019 | 338 comments

1717.

SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't help (zdnet.com)

430 points by kaboro on Jun 17, 2019 | 290 comments

1718.

Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac (support.apple.com)

430 points by jhack on Jun 3, 2019 | 245 comments

1719.

Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs (onezero.medium.com)

430 points by howard941 on Apr 25, 2019 | 215 comments

1720.

A Python Interpreter Written in Rust (github.com)

430 points by rch on Feb 2, 2019 | 194 comments

1721.

Rust 1.32 released (blog.rust-lang.org)

430 points by steveklabnik on Jan 17, 2019 | 161 comments

1722.

SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks (undeadly.org)

430 points by throw0101a on Jun 21, 2019 | 158 comments

1723.

Rust 1.40 (blog.rust-lang.org)

430 points by mark-simulacrum on Dec 19, 2019 | 150 comments

1724.

Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies (find.xyz)

430 points by itsrishabh on Jan 31, 2019 | 101 comments

1725.

Forget monoliths vs. microservices: cognitive load is what matters (techbeacon.com)

430 points by fancyfish on Jun 20, 2019 | 91 comments

1726.

Down the Rabbit-Hole (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

430 points by janvdberg on Aug 13, 2019 | 84 comments

1727.

Amazon CodeGuru – Preview (aws.amazon.com)

429 points by Sheepzez on Dec 3, 2019 | 203 comments

1728.

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables (evanjones.ca)

429 points by matt_d on Dec 8, 2019 | 197 comments

1729.

Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018) (tannerchristensen.com)

429 points by wallflower on Sep 19, 2019 | 182 comments

1730.

B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens (b612-font.com)

429 points by bobowzki on Jan 19, 2019 | 154 comments

1731.

More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

429 points by sohkamyung on Oct 14, 2019 | 97 comments

1732.

Apple Has Removed a Mapping App That Let Protesters in Hong Kong Track Police (buzzfeednews.com)

429 points by srameshc on Oct 10, 2019 | 4 comments

1733.

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)

428 points by maple3142 on Dec 9, 2019 | 311 comments

1734.

Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia (bbc.co.uk)

428 points by mzs on Nov 27, 2019 | 295 comments

1735.

MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14 (cnbc.com)

428 points by jameslk on Sep 13, 2019 | 237 comments

1736.

Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste (latimes.com)

428 points by ilamont on Jun 17, 2019 | 220 comments

1737.

This Cat Does Not Exist (thiscatdoesnotexist.com)

428 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 20, 2019 | 180 comments

1738.

Coconut: Pythonic functional programming (coconut-lang.org)

428 points by andybak on Jan 3, 2019 | 169 comments

1739.

I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet (getpolarized.io)

428 points by burtonator on Apr 23, 2019 | 157 comments

1740.

How Not to Die (2007) (paulgraham.com)

428 points by sellingwebsite on Nov 11, 2019 | 130 comments