HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1261.

The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918 (lrb.co.uk)

96 points by Vigier on Jan 19, 2018 | 105 comments

1262.

A man accused of cheating at video games may lose his Guinness World Record (washingtonpost.com)

96 points by danso on Jan 30, 2018 | 92 comments

1263.

The Lost Art of Staying Put (thebaffler.com)

96 points by kawera on Jan 24, 2018 | 77 comments

1264.

Fix All Conflicts: Easy-To-use CUI for Fixing Git Conflicts (github.com)

96 points by ingve on Jan 2, 2018 | 59 comments

1265.

Quantifying the Effect of Tether (tetherreport.com)

96 points by hendzen on Jan 24, 2018 | 46 comments

1266.

Tarsnap Support for Bitcoin Ending April First (mail.tarsnap.com)

96 points by dsr12 on Jan 28, 2018 | 45 comments

1267.

Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks (techcrunch.com)

96 points by lainon on Jan 3, 2018 | 43 comments

1268.

Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf] (dtc.umn.edu)

96 points by jpelecanos on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments

1269.

Design of a low-level C++ template SIMD library [pdf] (ti.uni-bielefeld.de)

96 points by lainon on Jan 2, 2018 | 29 comments

1270.

The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants (theatlantic.com)

96 points by curtis on Jan 19, 2018 | 27 comments

1271.

Backdoor Found in Lenovo RackSwitch and BladeCenter (bleepingcomputer.com)

96 points by linsomniac on Jan 15, 2018 | 25 comments

1272.

Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization (github.com)

96 points by chroem- on Jan 26, 2018 | 22 comments

1273.

How Birds of Paradise Produce Super-Black Feathers (theatlantic.com)

96 points by curtis on Jan 9, 2018 | 19 comments

1274.

Visual tour of classical electromagnetism (web.mit.edu)

96 points by adamnemecek on Jan 15, 2018 | 13 comments

1275.

Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL (nasseri.io)

96 points by nasseri on Jan 23, 2018 | 12 comments

1276.

Is abstraction overrated in programming? Chess, interviews and OOP (quora.com)

95 points by toAnswerIt on Jan 1, 2018 | 146 comments

1277.

Apple: Chinese firm to operate China iCloud accounts (bbc.com)

95 points by chrystianv on Jan 10, 2018 | 118 comments

1278.

Building a Website with C++ (blog.sourcerer.io)

95 points by daftpanda on Jan 20, 2018 | 109 comments

1279.

More than 94% of net new electricity capacity in the USA from renewables in 2017 (electrek.co)

95 points by jasoncartwright on Jan 13, 2018 | 66 comments

1280.

Inside Moscow's Metro (washingtonpost.com)

95 points by ilyagr on Jan 21, 2018 | 47 comments

1281.

Linear types can change the world (1990) [pdf] (cs.ioc.ee)

95 points by adamnemecek on Jan 8, 2018 | 45 comments

1282.

The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 (theguardian.com)

95 points by pepys on Jan 22, 2018 | 42 comments

1283.

Predicting Death for Better End-Of-Life Care (spectrum.ieee.org)

95 points by jonbaer on Jan 17, 2018 | 40 comments

1284.

From 200K lines of CoffeeScript to zero: making decaffeinate super-stable (benchling.engineering)

95 points by alangpierce on Jan 7, 2018 | 29 comments

1285.

Show HN: Bistro – A light-weight column-oriented data processing engine (github.com)

95 points by asavinov on Jan 16, 2018 | 29 comments

1286.

Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles (maxwellito.github.io)

95 points by rabyss on Jan 19, 2018 | 28 comments

1287.

CSS Gridish (github.com)

95 points by endergame on Jan 24, 2018 | 27 comments

1288.

Intel AMT flaw allows credential bypass (press.f-secure.com)

95 points by vermilingua on Jan 15, 2018 | 26 comments

1289.

WebAssembly and Rust: performance analysis (polaris64.net)

95 points by fulafel on Jan 20, 2018 | 20 comments

1290.

Google Announces Plan to Improve URLs for AMP Pages, but AMP Will Still Suck (daringfireball.net)

95 points by tambourine_man on Jan 10, 2018 | 17 comments