HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1261.

At Doomed Flight’s Helm, Pilots May Have Been Overwhelmed in Seconds (nytimes.com)

86 points by danso on Nov 9, 2018 | 78 comments

1262.

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook (news.vice.com)

86 points by privateprofile on Nov 22, 2018 | 78 comments

1263.

Chess Is the Killer App (bloomberg.com)

86 points by acheron on Nov 13, 2018 | 62 comments

1264.

MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack (bbc.com)

86 points by wil_I_am_27 on Nov 16, 2018 | 43 comments

1265.

Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I (laphamsquarterly.org)

86 points by lermontov on Nov 7, 2018 | 39 comments

1266.

Ace – an embeddable code editor (ace.c9.io)

86 points by ____Sash---701_ on Nov 2, 2018 | 30 comments

1267.

Cross shard transactions at 10M requests per second (blogs.dropbox.com)

86 points by makmanalp on Nov 9, 2018 | 25 comments

1268.

Band faked a fanbase, got booked for a European tour that nobody attended (metalinjection.net)

86 points by camtarn on Nov 10, 2018 | 22 comments

1269.

Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music (mitpress.mit.edu)

86 points by unicornporn on Nov 18, 2018 | 15 comments

1270.

Varying Speaking Styles with Neural Text-to-Speech (developer.amazon.com)

86 points by georgecarlyle76 on Nov 19, 2018 | 12 comments

1271.

Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees (github.com)

86 points by setra on Nov 21, 2018 | 4 comments

1272.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2018)

85 points by whoishiring on Nov 1, 2018 | 147 comments

1273.

Users complain that Apple is 'nickel and diming' them (businessinsider.com)

85 points by onetimemanytime on Nov 10, 2018 | 102 comments

1274.

US asks allies to avoid Huawei (cnet.com)

85 points by LinuxBender on Nov 26, 2018 | 71 comments

1275.

Ask HN: What's your routine/ways to keep being productive day by day?

85 points by aryamaan on Nov 28, 2018 | 41 comments

1276.

How one Indian city cracked the problem of urban spread (economist.com)

85 points by godelmachine on Nov 23, 2018 | 37 comments

1277.

Linux compatibility in IncludeOS (includeos.org)

85 points by ingve on Nov 6, 2018 | 34 comments

1278.

A state variable for crumpled thin sheets (nature.com)

85 points by bookofjoe on Nov 27, 2018 | 11 comments

1279.

A time capsule in an Austrian salt mine (gq.com)

85 points by ForHackernews on Nov 6, 2018 | 5 comments

1280.

Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness (arstechnica.com)

84 points by okket on Nov 23, 2018 | 97 comments

1281.

Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (2004) (svn.torproject.org)

84 points by jarvl on Nov 30, 2018 | 71 comments

1282.

Show HN: Predict how well people will react to your writing (isittoasted.com)

84 points by kawin on Nov 5, 2018 | 50 comments

1283.

Standard Cognition Raises $40M Series A to Deliver Autonomous Checkout (techcrunch.com)

84 points by TheEzEzz on Nov 15, 2018 | 30 comments

1284.

AWS Outposts: Run AWS infrastructure on-premises (aws.amazon.com)

84 points by techprotocol on Nov 28, 2018 | 21 comments

1285.

Egypt's newly discovered tombs hold mummies, animal statues (phys.org)

84 points by dnetesn on Nov 11, 2018 | 18 comments

1286.

Some notes on running new software in production (jvns.ca)

84 points by eurg on Nov 11, 2018 | 11 comments

1287.

Twitter ‘gave Saudi Arabia information about journalist who ended up dead’ (metro.co.uk)