HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com)

6015 points by Cogito on Mar 14, 2018 | 436 comments

2.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com)

2968 points by mpweiher on Feb 6, 2018 | 871 comments

3.

Paul Allen has died (cnbc.com)

2901 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 | 277 comments

4.

Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub (bloomberg.com)

2873 points by miguelrochefort on Jun 3, 2018 | 1436 comments

5.

IBM acquires Red Hat (redhat.com)

2611 points by nopriorarrests on Oct 28, 2018 | 1052 comments

6.

Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off (lore.kernel.org)

2585 points by fejkp on Sep 16, 2018 | 998 comments

7.

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple (bloomberg.com)

2493 points by Osiris30 on Oct 4, 2018 | 770 comments

8.

Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies (twitter.com)

2364 points by jwildeboer on Sep 25, 2018 | 810 comments

9.

Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street (reuters.com)

2361 points by kgwgk on Mar 19, 2018 | 1766 comments

10.

Why I’m done with Chrome (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

2357 points by user982 on Sep 23, 2018 | 838 comments

11.

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

2334 points by brandon on Jan 3, 2018 | 593 comments

12.

Apple open-sources FoundationDB (foundationdb.org)

2136 points by spullara on Apr 19, 2018 | 441 comments

13.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)

2074 points by weatherlight on May 7, 2018 | 310 comments

14.

“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org)

2024 points by randlet on Jul 12, 2018 | 721 comments

15.

Machine Learning Crash Course (developers.google.com)

1926 points by matant on Mar 1, 2018 | 222 comments

16.

1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service (blog.cloudflare.com)

1895 points by _l4jh on Apr 1, 2018 | 657 comments

17.

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (ai.googleblog.com)

1875 points by ivank on May 8, 2018 | 750 comments

18.

Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” (lkml.iu.edu)

1854 points by Valmar on Jan 22, 2018 | 656 comments

19.

EU copyright law proposal rejected (twitter.com)

1847 points by iMerNibor on Jul 5, 2018 | 314 comments

20.

Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview (patentpandas.org)

1798 points by jerryX on Nov 30, 2018 | 487 comments

21.

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io)

1767 points by mtlynch on Feb 28, 2018 | 751 comments

22.

Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)

1753 points by wilsonfiifi on Oct 18, 2018 | 206 comments

23.

Farewell, Google Maps (inderapotheke.de)

1747 points by ScottWRobinson on Jul 19, 2018 | 527 comments

24.

EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ (theverge.com)

1737 points by daninet on Sep 12, 2018 | 1009 comments

25.

GitLab sees huge spike in project imports (monitor.gitlab.net)

1736 points by AgentK20 on Jun 3, 2018 | 455 comments

26.

Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

1681 points by sidyapa on Apr 6, 2018 | 302 comments

27.

Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users (nytimes.com)

1677 points by coloneltcb on Sep 28, 2018 | 609 comments

28.

Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

1665 points by csdrane on Apr 3, 2018 | 315 comments

29.

We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly (medium.com)

1652 points by daveowei on Nov 27, 2018 | 840 comments

30.

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team (getweeklyupdate.com)

1631 points by voska on Jun 5, 2018 | 224 comments