HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules (arstechnica.com)

57 points by AdmiralAsshat on Jan 10, 2019 | 24 comments

1772.

Rules for Writing Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine (1928) (thrillingdetective.com)

57 points by networked on Jan 7, 2019 | 21 comments

1773.

Google is discontinuing their free weather API (research.eligrey.com)

57 points by Sephr on Jan 30, 2019 | 17 comments

1774.

Business Programming Languages and the Legibility of Programming (computer.org)

57 points by rbanffy on Jan 2, 2019 | 12 comments

1775.

Why Are All Apple Products Photographed at 9:41 A.m.? (inc.com)

57 points by bookofjoe on Jan 8, 2019 | 9 comments

1776.

An elementary introduction to the geometry of quantum states with a picture book (arxiv.org)

57 points by blopeur on Jan 27, 2019 | 9 comments

1777.

Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's Core Memory (righto.com)

57 points by NelsonMinar on Jan 29, 2019 | 6 comments

1778.

Developers Are Not Idiots (cryptologie.net)

56 points by eric_khun on Jan 18, 2019 | 76 comments

1779.

Tales of an Aging Gamer: We keep getting older, the games stay the same (arstechnica.com)

56 points by cyanbane on Jan 3, 2019 | 67 comments

1780.

Another Study Blames Uber and Lyft for Public Transit’s Decline (citylab.com)

56 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2019 | 63 comments

1781.

Gatwick airport trial for valet-parking robots (standard.co.uk)

56 points by based2 on Jan 26, 2019 | 53 comments

1782.

Elite Soccer’s Culture of Graft (newrepublic.com)

56 points by evilsimon on Jan 28, 2019 | 48 comments

1783.

A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader (nautil.us)

56 points by dnetesn on Jan 28, 2019 | 44 comments

1784.

Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

56 points by andrewstuart on Jan 20, 2019 | 43 comments

1785.

Updated Debian 9: 9.7 released (debian.org)

56 points by TimWolla on Jan 23, 2019 | 30 comments

1786.

Hey Google When did I ask you to read my purchase details (kanoki.org)

56 points by min2bro on Jan 18, 2019 | 27 comments

1787.

A Review of Tiny Languages (2016) (sustburbia.blogspot.com)

56 points by azhenley on Jan 3, 2019 | 24 comments

1788.

Getting Answers (mikeash.com)

56 points by tpaschalis on Jan 18, 2019 | 21 comments

1789.

It is time to leave the Facebook universe (journal.lighthouse16.com)

56 points by deca6cda37d0 on Jan 23, 2019 | 18 comments

1790.

The Antisocial Laptop (scattered-thoughts.net)

56 points by siromoney on Jan 16, 2019 | 16 comments

1791.

Show HN: A Image Editor in JavaScript Canvas (github.com)

56 points by atum47 on Jan 30, 2019 | 7 comments

1792.

Signal v Noise exits Medium (m.signalvnoise.com)

56 points by ingve on Jan 15, 2019 | 6 comments

1793.

Notes on 4 years of starting up (medium.com)

56 points by madmax108 on Jan 25, 2019 | 6 comments

1794.

SageDB: a learned database system (blog.acolyer.org)

56 points by ketralnis on Jan 17, 2019 | 4 comments

1795.

Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome (theregister.co.uk)

56 points by naniwaduni on Jan 23, 2019 | 3 comments

1796.

Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com)

55 points by jseliger on Jan 12, 2019 | 84 comments

1797.

Empathy and Failures of Democracies (mebassett.info)

55 points by mebassett on Jan 6, 2019 | 67 comments

1798.

Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to War, Refugees (bloomberg.com)

55 points by gregcrv on Jan 28, 2019 | 61 comments

1799.

Blowing the Dust Off of an IBM AS/400 Server (hackaday.com)

55 points by _JamesA_ on Jan 13, 2019 | 50 comments

1800.

Scientists are transplanting faeces into obese people with type 2 diabetes (walesonline.co.uk)

55 points by prostoalex on Jan 25, 2019 | 50 comments