HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Why I Was Fired by Google (wsj.com)

293 points by dpflan on Aug 11, 2017 | 440 comments

242.

A Review of Perl 6 (evanmiller.org)

293 points by jparise on Aug 13, 2017 | 164 comments

243.

Making Visible Watermarks More Effective (research.googleblog.com)

292 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2017 | 96 comments

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Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases (citusdata.com)

292 points by tikhon on Aug 9, 2017 | 47 comments

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SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street (sfchronicle.com)

291 points by mudil on Aug 7, 2017 | 224 comments

246.

Amazon recalls eclipse glasses (kgw.com)

290 points by alister on Aug 13, 2017 | 246 comments

247.

We Fight for the Users (dreamhost.com)

290 points by mdesq on Aug 14, 2017 | 237 comments

248.

The 1980 Citroën Karin (citroenet.org.uk)

290 points by dayve on Aug 10, 2017 | 186 comments

249.

VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case (reuters.com)

288 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2017 | 217 comments

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Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour (financemagnates.com)

287 points by ianopolous on Aug 11, 2017 | 360 comments

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Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships (militarytimes.com)

287 points by smacktoward on Aug 28, 2017 | 342 comments

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A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M (nytimes.com)

287 points by el_benhameen on Aug 17, 2017 | 301 comments

253.

Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable (medium.com)

287 points by keehun on Aug 19, 2017 | 221 comments

254.

A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere (superchimney.org)

286 points by chr1 on Aug 4, 2017 | 190 comments

255.

JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced (blog.jetbrains.com)

286 points by uptown on Aug 4, 2017 | 90 comments

256.

Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching (explosion.ai)

286 points by Young_God on Aug 4, 2017 | 69 comments

257.

Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council (blogs.intel.com)

285 points by RandVal30142 on Aug 15, 2017 | 371 comments

258.

What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer (dopeboy.github.io)

285 points by dopeboy on Aug 20, 2017 | 113 comments

259.

Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437 (theatlantic.com)

285 points by curtis on Aug 31, 2017 | 60 comments

260.

Crafting Plausible Maps (2015) (m.mythcreants.com)

285 points by fanf2 on Aug 11, 2017 | 55 comments

261.

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

284 points by proberts on Aug 25, 2017 | 403 comments

262.

If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture? (nytimes.com)

283 points by mcone on Aug 1, 2017 | 207 comments

263.

If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013) (grumpygamer.com)

283 points by denisw on Aug 13, 2017 | 86 comments

264.

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

282 points by FiloSottile on Aug 15, 2017 | 68 comments

265.

The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com)

282 points by doppp on Aug 13, 2017 | 18 comments

266.

U.R. Rao has died (nytimes.com)

282 points by sohkamyung on Aug 12, 2017 | 7 comments

267.

To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software (nytimes.com)

281 points by evanb on Aug 3, 2017 | 242 comments

268.

Announcing .NET Core 2.0 (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

281 points by benaadams on Aug 14, 2017 | 141 comments

269.

Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is (troyhunt.com)

281 points by ohjeez on Aug 5, 2017 | 89 comments

270.

Dumbo: CIA system to take over webcams, microphones (wikileaks.org)

280 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 | 90 comments