HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (quantamagazine.org)

115 points by digital55 on Jan 16, 2018 | 70 comments

1082.

The dawn of online piracy (2015) (newyorker.com)

115 points by bckygldstn on Jan 4, 2018 | 49 comments

1083.

Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic (directorsblog.nih.gov)

115 points by sciadvance on Jan 9, 2018 | 33 comments

1084.

Code Less, Think More… Incrementally (levelup.gitconnected.com)

115 points by treyhuffine on Jan 25, 2018 | 32 comments

1085.

AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure (aws.amazon.com)

115 points by bryanh on Jan 3, 2018 | 14 comments

1086.

High Sierra broke AFP searching on our server (idoru.be)

114 points by idorube on Jan 30, 2018 | 106 comments

1087.

Can Washington Be Automated? (politico.com)

114 points by danso on Jan 5, 2018 | 84 comments

1088.

Ask HN: Delay buying new devices due to Meltdown/Spectre CPU bug?

114 points by m3nu on Jan 7, 2018 | 59 comments

1089.

Chickens Prefer Attractive People (news.nationalgeographic.com)

114 points by lnguyen on Jan 14, 2018 | 34 comments

1090.

A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (atlasobscura.com)

114 points by samclemens on Jan 28, 2018 | 18 comments

1091.

Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?

113 points by BinaryIdiot on Jan 2, 2018 | 241 comments

1092.

If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man on the Moon? (wsj.com)

113 points by dbattaglia on Jan 1, 2018 | 240 comments

1093.

TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement (techcrunch.com)

113 points by gotenyama on Jan 17, 2018 | 90 comments

1094.

How to Beat Amazon (collaborativefund.com)

113 points by joeyespo on Jan 30, 2018 | 72 comments

1095.

Ask HN: How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?

113 points by creek567 on Jan 11, 2018 | 65 comments

1096.

The Spice of Life (slowfood.com)

113 points by Petiver on Jan 8, 2018 | 61 comments

1097.

Continuous low-power music recognition (research.google.com)

113 points by stablemap on Jan 10, 2018 | 54 comments

1098.

Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave (nytimes.com)

113 points by thewayfarer on Jan 25, 2018 | 37 comments

1099.

Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recognition (techcrunch.com)

113 points by zipwitch on Jan 8, 2018 | 36 comments

1100.

Idyll Language – Author interactive narratives for the web (idyll-lang.org)

113 points by iamwil on Jan 5, 2018 | 22 comments

1101.

Faster R-CNN: Down the rabbit hole of modern object detection (tryolabs.com)

113 points by vierja on Jan 22, 2018 | 10 comments

1102.

Microsoft’s PowerShell Core Offers Cross-Platform Automation (thenewstack.io)

112 points by el_duderino on Jan 22, 2018 | 117 comments

1103.

Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust (andrewkelley.me)

112 points by jfo on Jan 24, 2018 | 102 comments

1104.

Fork is not my favourite syscall (sircmpwn.github.io)

112 points by eadmund on Jan 4, 2018 | 89 comments

1105.

Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) (birdhouse.org)

112 points by eadmund on Jan 15, 2018 | 50 comments

1106.

NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2 (neopg.io)

112 points by sphinxc0re on Jan 17, 2018 | 43 comments

1107.

Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013) (mail-archive.com)