HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

Unix Syscalls (john-millikin.com)

287 points by rspivak on Aug 7, 2018 | 13 comments

272.

Introducing the Dweb (hacks.mozilla.org)

285 points by twapi on Aug 1, 2018 | 167 comments

273.

Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? (blog.esciencecenter.nl)

284 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 14, 2018 | 125 comments

274.

Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study (theguardian.com)

283 points by neverminder on Aug 29, 2018 | 170 comments

275.

OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results (blog.openai.com)

281 points by runesoerensen on Aug 6, 2018 | 122 comments

276.

Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies (theconversation.com)

281 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 31, 2018 | 115 comments

277.

Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism (economist.com)

280 points by wyclif on Aug 22, 2018 | 244 comments

278.

Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science (livescience.com)

280 points by okket on Aug 24, 2018 | 111 comments

279.

Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year (nytimes.com)

278 points by tysone on Aug 17, 2018 | 361 comments

280.

What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists (hbr.org)

278 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2018 | 136 comments

281.

Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents (foreignpolicy.com)

277 points by mkeeter on Aug 16, 2018 | 199 comments

282.

Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable (twitter.com)

277 points by grey-area on Aug 7, 2018 | 154 comments

283.

U.S. states reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment (nytimes.com)

277 points by KirinDave on Aug 27, 2018 | 103 comments

284.

Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment (cloud.google.com)

277 points by stewart27 on Aug 8, 2018 | 79 comments

285.

Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies (backyourstack.com)

277 points by vvoyer on Aug 20, 2018 | 61 comments

286.

Elm 0.19 Broke Us (dev.to)

276 points by maxhallinan on Aug 25, 2018 | 226 comments

287.

x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (egr.unlv.edu)

276 points by lainon on Aug 31, 2018 | 91 comments

288.

Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction (fivecastfinancial.com)

276 points by lhh on Aug 29, 2018 | 33 comments

289.

Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses (highscalability.com)

275 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 25, 2018 | 150 comments

290.

Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found (quantamagazine.org)

275 points by digital55 on Aug 13, 2018 | 62 comments

291.

How to Hire (hbr.org)

274 points by devy on Aug 16, 2018 | 223 comments

292.

BYTE Magazine (archive.org)

274 points by edward on Aug 3, 2018 | 111 comments

293.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig (bbc.co.uk)

274 points by Teever on Aug 4, 2018 | 71 comments

294.

Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml (fun-mooc.fr)

272 points by melling on Aug 23, 2018 | 162 comments

295.

3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show (theintercept.com)

272 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 3, 2018 | 151 comments

296.

Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night (github.com)

272 points by guigg on Aug 27, 2018 | 109 comments

297.

Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer (ucdavis.edu)

272 points by selimthegrim on Aug 9, 2018 | 105 comments

298.

Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost (economist.com)