HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

661.

Can staying awake beat depression? (bbc.com)

175 points by IndrekR on Jan 23, 2018 | 73 comments

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The Transistor, Part 1: Groping in the Dark (technicshistory.wordpress.com)

175 points by cfmcdonald on Jan 23, 2018 | 28 comments

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AirBnB units drop by 74% due to SF regulations (m.sfgate.com)

174 points by refurb on Jan 14, 2018 | 100 comments

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Fourier transforms of images (2017) (plus.maths.org)

174 points by sytelus on Jan 22, 2018 | 36 comments

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High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013) (qz.com)

173 points by nabla9 on Jan 21, 2018 | 146 comments

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How to Fix Facebook Before It Fixes Us (washingtonmonthly.com)

173 points by jf on Jan 7, 2018 | 114 comments

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Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister (trustnodes.com)

173 points by svaja on Jan 20, 2018 | 90 comments

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PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser (github.com)

173 points by rayalez on Jan 24, 2018 | 50 comments

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Create mixed reality models in PowerShell (cosmosdarwin.com)

173 points by cosmosdarwin on Jan 12, 2018 | 36 comments

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Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family (ibm.com)

173 points by newman314 on Jan 5, 2018 | 33 comments

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Modern network load balancing and proxying (blog.envoyproxy.io)

173 points by manigandham on Jan 15, 2018 | 12 comments

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Google ditches Ubuntu for Debian for internal engineering environment (theinquirer.net)

172 points by adamnemecek on Jan 17, 2018 | 127 comments

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Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance (washingtonpost.com)

172 points by apta on Jan 8, 2018 | 125 comments

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How do plutonium-powered pacemakers work? (blog.plover.com)

172 points by luu on Jan 15, 2018 | 81 comments

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Vitamins for convicts could save taxpayers' money (orthomolecular.org)

172 points by friendly_chap on Jan 13, 2018 | 75 comments

676.

Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee (planetbanatt.net)

172 points by panic on Jan 29, 2018 | 62 comments

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Black Death 'spread by humans not rats' (bbc.com)

172 points by curtis on Jan 16, 2018 | 50 comments

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OverTheWire: Wargames to learn and practice security concepts (overthewire.org)

172 points by p4bl0 on Jan 28, 2018 | 23 comments

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Bolt: An End-To-End Payments Stack with Zero Fraud (bolt.com)

171 points by kpaddie10 on Jan 23, 2018 | 152 comments

680.

How Neglecting Minorities in Medical Research Has Led to Deadly Outcomes (hdphealth.com)

171 points by blaurenceclark on Jan 11, 2018 | 141 comments

681.

Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting (nytimes.com)

171 points by _dps on Jan 14, 2018 | 117 comments

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Boring Flamethrower (boringcompany.com)

171 points by avianlyric on Jan 28, 2018 | 96 comments

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WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser (webgraphviz.com)

171 points by sillysaurus3 on Jan 5, 2018 | 21 comments

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Calling for a new approach to depression (theguardian.com)

170 points by MrBuddyCasino on Jan 7, 2018 | 143 comments

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Poverty-Fighting Startups (fastcompany.com)

170 points by rmason on Jan 14, 2018 | 133 comments

686.

The Case for the Subway (nytimes.com)

170 points by pdog on Jan 3, 2018 | 126 comments

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A deadly gut infection may come down to a sugar in ice cream (arstechnica.com)

170 points by ALee on Jan 14, 2018 | 61 comments

688.

Show HN: Interactive Ansible Tutorial (github.com)

170 points by erkanerol on Jan 26, 2018 | 50 comments

689.

Linear logic and deep learning [pdf] (therisingsea.org)

170 points by adamnemecek on Jan 29, 2018 | 47 comments

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Alibaba neural network defeats human in global reading test (zdnet.com)

170 points by ClintEhrlich on Jan 15, 2018 | 46 comments