HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

How the Frightful Five Put Startups in a Lose-Lose Situation (nytimes.com)

170 points by pmcpinto on Oct 19, 2017 | 204 comments

632.

Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) (jakevdp.github.io)

170 points by s16h on Oct 25, 2017 | 178 comments

633.

Ask HN: Best hard scifi AI novels?

170 points by ghosthamlet on Oct 8, 2017 | 99 comments

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Airbus Corruption Scandal May Lead Straight to the Top (spiegel.de)

170 points by imartin2k on Oct 14, 2017 | 87 comments

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PopSQL – Modern, collaborative SQL editor for your team (popsql.io)

170 points by federicoponzi on Oct 1, 2017 | 49 comments

636.

Brain vs. Deep Learning (2015) (timdettmers.com)

170 points by akkishore on Oct 1, 2017 | 47 comments

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How to teach technical concepts with cartoons (jvns.ca)

170 points by Tomte on Oct 28, 2017 | 23 comments

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Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone (aol.com)

169 points by tony101 on Oct 26, 2017 | 216 comments

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How to Read the JFK Assassination Files (politico.com)

169 points by wslh on Oct 26, 2017 | 133 comments

640.

Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017 (backblaze.com)

169 points by LaSombra on Oct 26, 2017 | 47 comments

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Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation? (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

168 points by riboflavin on Oct 31, 2017 | 86 comments

642.

Faster Coding Interview Prep Using Interactive Visualizations (educative.io)

168 points by fahimulhaq on Oct 27, 2017 | 45 comments

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CryptoKitties: breedable cats on the blockchain – ETHWaterloo winner (alpha.cryptokitties.co)

168 points by rohamg on Oct 15, 2017 | 36 comments

644.

MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements (consumerist.com)

167 points by mikestew on Oct 20, 2017 | 140 comments

645.

Due Diligence Report on Otto and Anthony Levandowski (scribd.com)

167 points by troydavis on Oct 3, 2017 | 108 comments

646.

Algo trading digital assets (johnmathews.eu)

167 points by mthwsjc_ on Oct 30, 2017 | 53 comments

647.

Becoming Foolish (hmemcpy.com)

167 points by matthewwarren on Oct 20, 2017 | 31 comments

648.

Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976) (zoon.cc)

166 points by soldeace on Oct 10, 2017 | 88 comments

649.

Deep C (2011) (pvv.org)

166 points by Tomte on Oct 22, 2017 | 59 comments

650.

A curated directory of resources and tools to help you build your startup (startupstash.com)

166 points by TheVinous on Oct 30, 2017 | 24 comments

651.

How MDMA Went from Club Drug to ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ (wsj.com)

165 points by anythingnonidin on Oct 18, 2017 | 91 comments

652.

CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy (cockroachlabs.com)

165 points by nate_stewart on Oct 12, 2017 | 61 comments

653.

iMac Pro (apple.com)

164 points by brianhama on Oct 2, 2017 | 204 comments

654.

How Seattle Got More People to Ride the Bus (citylab.com)

164 points by colinprince on Oct 21, 2017 | 202 comments

655.

A convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor (cbsnews.com)

164 points by blegh on Oct 17, 2017 | 147 comments

656.

Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (2007) (fermatslibrary.com)

164 points by Goosee on Oct 24, 2017 | 113 comments

657.

Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials (ui-avatars.com)

164 points by lasserafn on Oct 7, 2017 | 96 comments

658.

Menuet – A pre-emptive, real-time and multiprocessor OS written in assembly (menuetos.net)

164 points by walterbell on Oct 8, 2017 | 71 comments

659.

Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’ (washingtonpost.com)

164 points by cryptoz on Oct 26, 2017 | 52 comments

660.

Why does one Nginx worker take all the load? (blog.cloudflare.com)

164 points by porker on Oct 24, 2017 | 49 comments