HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18001.

A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have (nytimes.com)

70 points by js2 on Aug 28, 2018 | 48 comments

18002.

The French Language and Why We Learn It (lareviewofbooks.org)

70 points by ohaikbai on Aug 3, 2018 | 46 comments

18003.

Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government network (bbc.com)

70 points by denzil_correa on Oct 30, 2018 | 46 comments

18004.

O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage (bbc.co.uk)

70 points by bauc on Dec 9, 2018 | 46 comments

18005.

Greenlet – Move an async function into its own thread in the browser (github.com)

70 points by rbanffy on Jan 29, 2018 | 45 comments

18006.

Cold Boot Attacks (blog.f-secure.com)

70 points by ankka on Sep 13, 2018 | 45 comments

18007.

Real-time updates without JavaScript (harmless.herokuapp.com)

70 points by wybiral on Feb 6, 2018 | 44 comments

18008.

Show HN: AtomicWrite: cross platform library for atomically writing data to disk (gitlab.com)

70 points by jeffreyrogers on Mar 13, 2018 | 44 comments

18009.

A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack (blog.cotten.io)

70 points by cottenio on Dec 2, 2018 | 43 comments

18010.

SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language (soul-lang.org)

70 points by ArtWomb on Dec 7, 2018 | 43 comments

18011.

The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014) (motherboard.vice.com)

70 points by tosh on Mar 23, 2018 | 42 comments

18012.

Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago (paleofuture.gizmodo.com)

70 points by oldgradstudent on Dec 4, 2018 | 42 comments

18013.

Show HN: Devpen – Markdown Editor with GitHub Style (devpen.io)

70 points by kukuhsain on Jun 9, 2018 | 41 comments

18014.

Clear defensive programming with Go using Verifier library (itnext.io)

70 points by kiyanwang on Aug 9, 2018 | 41 comments

18015.

Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data (igorkromin.net)

70 points by ikromin on Oct 15, 2018 | 41 comments

18016.

The Lounge – Modern cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client (github.com)

70 points by LinuxBender on Nov 8, 2018 | 39 comments

18017.

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (2008) (h2g2.com)

70 points by zeristor on Dec 15, 2018 | 39 comments

18018.

Job Ads You Can’t See on Facebook If You’re Older (2017) (projects.propublica.org)

70 points by kawera on May 31, 2018 | 38 comments

18019.

Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News (github.com)

70 points by eat_veggies on Aug 8, 2018 | 38 comments

18020.

Breaking Into an Information Security Career (bitrot.sh)

70 points by mastadumpa on Jan 25, 2018 | 37 comments

18021.

How Bolt does fraud detection better (blog.bolt.com)

70 points by rbres on Apr 18, 2018 | 37 comments

18022.

Why plastic items in a dishwasher take longer to dry than metal,glass or ceramic (nytimes.com)

70 points by bookofjoe on Mar 3, 2018 | 36 comments

18023.

Comma2k19 – A dataset of over 33 hours of commute in California's 280 highway (github.com)

70 points by pd0wm on Dec 20, 2018 | 35 comments

18024.

Bigelow Space Operations – B330 Space Station (bigelowspaceops.com)

70 points by ChuckMcM on Feb 21, 2018 | 34 comments

18025.

Apple made more profit in three months than Amazon has generated in its lifetime (cnbc.com)

70 points by gscott on May 12, 2018 | 34 comments

18026.

Bomb Sight – Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census (bombsight.org)

70 points by dmmalam on Jan 13, 2018 | 32 comments

18027.

There’s a new version of Firefox for VR (theverge.com)

70 points by cctt23 on Apr 3, 2018 | 32 comments

18028.

Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14 (twitter.com)

70 points by rakic on Jun 2, 2018 | 32 comments

18029.

JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator (bbc.godbolt.org)

70 points by robeerob on Jul 24, 2018 | 32 comments

18030.

ML-powered newspaper for showing news from many political perspectives (knowherenews.com)

70 points by jadk157 on Sep 8, 2018 | 31 comments