HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property? (newyorker.com)

176 points by Fricken on Oct 15, 2018 | 96 comments

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James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine (theguardian.com)

176 points by okket on Oct 1, 2018 | 32 comments

633.

How I made my own RFID tag [video] (youtube.com)

176 points by vchuravy on Oct 27, 2018 | 17 comments

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Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data (arstechnica.com)

175 points by ivank on Oct 10, 2018 | 319 comments

635.

How I Lent My Camera Kit and Had It ‘Legally Stolen’ (petapixel.com)

175 points by FireBeyond on Oct 30, 2018 | 87 comments

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Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Failure Rates (backblaze.com)

175 points by LaSombra on Oct 16, 2018 | 49 comments

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SEC tightens the noose on ICO-funded startups (decryptmedia.com)

174 points by ilanhz on Oct 10, 2018 | 150 comments

638.

Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video] (microsoft.com)

174 points by espeed on Oct 19, 2018 | 147 comments

639.

On Cash (tbray.org)

174 points by mpweiher on Oct 13, 2018 | 140 comments

640.

Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

174 points by pierlooqup on Oct 21, 2018 | 124 comments

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‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails (centauri-dreams.org)

174 points by Osiris30 on Oct 30, 2018 | 104 comments

642.

The Surprising Power of the Long Game (fs.blog)

174 points by feross on Oct 29, 2018 | 100 comments

643.

The 555 and How It Got That Way (hackaday.com)

174 points by sohkamyung on Oct 11, 2018 | 48 comments

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Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash function (mollyrocket.com)

173 points by spatulon on Oct 20, 2018 | 68 comments

645.

Computing sin and cos in hardware with synthesisable Verilog (kierdavis.com)

173 points by Cieplak on Oct 27, 2018 | 35 comments

646.

The End: I can not finish Limit Theory (kickstarter.com)

172 points by CharlesW on Oct 1, 2018 | 63 comments

647.

Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast? (quora.com)

172 points by Cieplak on Oct 16, 2018 | 29 comments

648.

Acquiring absolute pitch in adulthood is difficult but possible (biorxiv.org)

171 points by monort on Oct 16, 2018 | 146 comments

649.

How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017) (fastcompany.com)

171 points by jpelecanos on Oct 22, 2018 | 139 comments

650.

Uber’s Restaurant Empire (bloomberg.com)

171 points by PretzelFisch on Oct 28, 2018 | 120 comments

651.

Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol (fauna.com)

171 points by evanweaver on Oct 19, 2018 | 101 comments

652.

Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish (bbc.com)

171 points by MiriamWeiner on Oct 18, 2018 | 79 comments

653.

Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer (forum.odroid.com)

171 points by ekr on Oct 19, 2018 | 72 comments

654.

Full Hacker News: single page with top 30 articles inlined (fullhn.com)

171 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 3, 2018 | 64 comments

655.

How not to say the wrong thing (2013) (articles.latimes.com)

171 points by lcuff on Oct 6, 2018 | 47 comments

656.

Founders need to get radically better at sales (buzzways.at)

171 points by stanleyhtml on Oct 23, 2018 | 32 comments

657.

Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed (theguardian.com)