HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com)

1562 points by philliphaydon on Dec 19, 2018 | 417 comments

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Please do not attempt to simplify this code (github.com)

1552 points by whalesalad on Dec 27, 2018 | 627 comments

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Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL (sandspiel.club)

1323 points by 15DCFA8F on Dec 17, 2018 | 185 comments

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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

1322 points by simonswords82 on Dec 3, 2018 | 366 comments

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Quora User Data Compromised (blog.quora.com)

1254 points by joebeetee on Dec 4, 2018 | 505 comments

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Goodbye, EdgeHTML (blog.mozilla.org)

1178 points by __michaelg on Dec 6, 2018 | 657 comments

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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States (e-pluribusunum.org)

1130 points by danso on Dec 23, 2018 | 154 comments

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Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (theglobeandmail.com)

1081 points by ericzawo on Dec 5, 2018 | 586 comments

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Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo (namepros.com)

1065 points by rahiel on Dec 12, 2018 | 410 comments

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Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 (windowscentral.com)

1061 points by rattt on Dec 4, 2018 | 733 comments

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JIRA is an antipattern (techcrunch.com)

1012 points by panarky on Dec 9, 2018 | 367 comments

12.

The Yoda of Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

976 points by sohkamyung on Dec 17, 2018 | 331 comments

13.

Robinhood launches 3% checking account (techcrunch.com)

972 points by ccwilson10 on Dec 13, 2018 | 661 comments

14.

Firefox 64 Released (hacks.mozilla.org)

954 points by feross on Dec 11, 2018 | 513 comments

15.

Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves (bbc.com)

952 points by tartoran on Dec 18, 2018 | 886 comments

16.

Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares (vmls-book.stanford.edu)

938 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2018 | 123 comments

17.

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics (jeremykun.com)

937 points by chocolateboy on Dec 1, 2018 | 214 comments

18.

Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada (twitter.com)

902 points by jwildeboer on Dec 20, 2018 | 608 comments

19.

Facial recognition: It’s time for action (blogs.microsoft.com)

877 points by benryon on Dec 7, 2018 | 270 comments

20.

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI (blogs.windows.com)

874 points by TiredOfLife on Dec 4, 2018 | 375 comments

21.

Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

842 points by jestinjoy1 on Dec 23, 2018 | 332 comments

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CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to (richsnapp.com)

830 points by snapwich on Dec 14, 2018 | 283 comments

23.

Firefox desktop market share now below 9% (netmarketshare.com)

824 points by ngokevin on Dec 4, 2018 | 740 comments

24.

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain (smithsonianmag.com)

814 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2018 | 264 comments

25.

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth (twitter.com)

790 points by waffle_ss on Dec 12, 2018 | 337 comments

26.

Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says (electrek.co)

781 points by touristtam on Dec 6, 2018 | 323 comments

27.

DigitalOcean launches its container service (techcrunch.com)

765 points by neom on Dec 11, 2018 | 251 comments

28.

Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 (overreacted.io)

753 points by nhebb on Dec 28, 2018 | 211 comments

29.

A well-known URL for changing passwords (github.com)

749 points by fanf2 on Dec 6, 2018 | 172 comments

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Facebook's seized files published by MPs (bbc.co.uk)

738 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 5, 2018 | 477 comments