HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs (theguardian.com)

85 points by ihatethem on Sep 10, 2018 | 77 comments

1232.

'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here (theguardian.com)

85 points by mjfern on Sep 24, 2018 | 75 comments

1233.

A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem (strongtowns.org)

85 points by oftenwrong on Sep 28, 2018 | 69 comments

1234.

UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine (unqlite.org)

85 points by rayascott on Sep 29, 2018 | 56 comments

1235.

Divisiveness is efficient for watch time, and watch time leads to ads (twitter.com)

85 points by davidgerard on Sep 2, 2018 | 47 comments

1236.

Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go (github.com)

85 points by felixangell on Sep 29, 2018 | 46 comments

1237.

How We Found a Missing Scala Class (heapanalytics.com)

85 points by drob on Sep 12, 2018 | 43 comments

1238.

The Case of the Broken Lambda (veekaybee.github.io)

85 points by josep2 on Sep 24, 2018 | 21 comments

1239.

PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266 (github.com)

85 points by type0 on Sep 4, 2018 | 12 comments

1240.

Data visualisation, from 1987 to today (medium.economist.com)

85 points by prismatic on Sep 4, 2018 | 9 comments

1241.

Atari 7800 Source Code (atarimuseum.com)

85 points by elwell on Sep 16, 2018 | 9 comments

1242.

How to write a parser in Go (about.sourcegraph.com)

85 points by beyang on Sep 6, 2018 | 8 comments

1243.

Study confirms massive scale of lowland Maya civilization (phys.org)

85 points by bryanrasmussen on Sep 28, 2018 | 1 comments

1244.

Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up (bbc.co.uk)

84 points by bauc on Sep 7, 2018 | 67 comments

1245.

Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade (theguardian.com)

84 points by sanqui on Sep 5, 2018 | 61 comments

1246.

Short Selling Is Tough Business (bloomberg.com)

84 points by hyperpape on Sep 18, 2018 | 61 comments

1247.

Checked C: Making C Safer by Extension (microsoft.com)

84 points by matt_d on Sep 8, 2018 | 55 comments

1248.

It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things (nytimes.com)

84 points by dredmorbius on Sep 14, 2018 | 46 comments

1249.

Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines

84 points by crubier on Sep 11, 2018 | 45 comments

1250.

UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440 (theguardian.com)

84 points by f_allwein on Sep 9, 2018 | 33 comments

1251.

The origin of circuits (2007) (damninteresting.com)

84 points by sajid on Sep 29, 2018 | 25 comments

1252.

CrimsonDB: A Self-Designing Key-Value Store (daslab.seas.harvard.edu)

84 points by ngaut on Sep 19, 2018 | 19 comments

1253.

Defeating Modern Secure Boot Using Second-Order Pulsed EM Fault Injection [pdf] (usenix.org)

84 points by godelmachine on Sep 2, 2018 | 8 comments

1254.

The game industry of Iran (2016) (polygon.com)

84 points by 1_player on Sep 21, 2018 | 8 comments

1255.

How leaves talk to roots (phys.org)

84 points by dnetesn on Sep 26, 2018 | 1 comments

1256.

Probiotics labelled 'quite useless' (bbc.co.uk)

83 points by pmoriarty on Sep 6, 2018 | 127 comments

1257.

Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor (electrek.co)

83 points by prostoalex on Sep 13, 2018 | 122 comments

1258.

Ask HN: Why isn't Japan's asteroid rover landing the top story in the US?

83 points by mojomark on Sep 28, 2018 | 48 comments

1259.

High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (1998) [pdf] (www3.nd.edu)

83 points by collapse on Sep 23, 2018 | 34 comments

1260.

How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf] (gwern.net)

83 points by elcapitan on Sep 23, 2018 | 33 comments