HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

11911.

A lesson on thinking and acting long term (threader.app)

116 points by seapunk on Dec 16, 2018 | 28 comments

11912.

Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (1963) [pdf] (cl.cam.ac.uk)

116 points by eternalban on Jun 20, 2018 | 26 comments

11913.

Reverse Engineering the Soundcloud API (pythontips.com)

116 points by pmoriarty on Apr 15, 2018 | 25 comments

11914.

The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best (gq.com)

116 points by cyanbane on Dec 6, 2018 | 25 comments

11915.

Verilog 6502 (2016) (aholme.co.uk)

116 points by tomcam on Jun 26, 2018 | 23 comments

11916.

“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” (vanityfair.com)

116 points by ForFreedom on Aug 2, 2018 | 23 comments

11917.

Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use (aztecreports.com)

116 points by egusa on Nov 2, 2018 | 23 comments

11918.

Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C# (mellinoe.github.io)

116 points by mellinoe on May 19, 2018 | 22 comments

11919.

Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It (blog.cloudflare.com)

116 points by thedg on Jan 17, 2018 | 21 comments

11920.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf] (nanog.org)

116 points by walrus01 on Sep 29, 2018 | 18 comments

11921.

The terrorist inside my husband's brain (2016) (n.neurology.org)

116 points by dsr12 on Jul 22, 2018 | 17 comments

11922.

2018 Engineering Gift Guide (engineering.purdue.edu)

116 points by wallflower on Nov 20, 2018 | 17 comments

11923.

Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials (disneyresearch.com)

116 points by lainon on Aug 5, 2018 | 15 comments

11924.

Tiny Pascal (2017) (trs-80.org)

116 points by ingve on Jun 3, 2018 | 14 comments

11925.

Prospecting for Hash Functions (nullprogram.com)

116 points by abbeyj on Aug 1, 2018 | 14 comments

11926.

Geometric intuition for digital audio filters (karlhiner.com)

116 points by khiner on Aug 26, 2018 | 14 comments

11927.

Why some things are darker when wet (1988) (fermatslibrary.com)

116 points by luisb on Oct 30, 2018 | 14 comments

11928.

Programming Language Theory in Agda (wenkokke.github.io)

116 points by ingve on May 4, 2018 | 13 comments

11929.

Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB (simonwillison.net)

116 points by simonw on May 20, 2018 | 13 comments

11930.

How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China (newyorker.com)

116 points by johnny313 on Jul 22, 2018 | 13 comments

11931.

A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost (2017) (quantamagazine.org)

116 points by taytus on Apr 20, 2018 | 11 comments

11932.

Revisiting 'Monadic Parsing in Haskell' (vaibhavsagar.com)

116 points by signa11 on Feb 4, 2018 | 10 comments

11933.

Open source sabbatical = awesome (jvns.ca)

116 points by petercooper on Mar 28, 2018 | 9 comments

11934.

Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library (git.kernel.org)

116 points by ascorbic on Aug 1, 2018 | 9 comments

11935.

YouTube stars: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’ (theguardian.com)

116 points by molteanu on Sep 8, 2018 | 6 comments

11936.

The Logical Disaster of Null (rob.conery.io)

115 points by matthewwarren on May 9, 2018 | 287 comments

11937.

Is the Age-Old Quest for a Baldness Cure Reaching Its End? (newyorker.com)

115 points by ca98am79 on Jun 8, 2018 | 239 comments

11938.

Scientists are looking for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test (nbcnews.com)

115 points by vikingo9 on Oct 4, 2018 | 223 comments

11939.

Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Faces a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ Moment in 2020 (bloomberg.com)

115 points by simulate on Jun 8, 2018 | 220 comments

11940.

Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”? (science.sciencemag.org)

115 points by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Feb 20, 2018 | 217 comments