HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

Solution to Harvard’s admissions problem is simple: run a lottery (qz.com)

48 points by harekaze on Feb 12, 2019 | 108 comments

1772.

Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide (newyorker.com)

48 points by gringoDan on Feb 14, 2019 | 64 comments

1773.

Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page (google.com)

48 points by CapricornNoble on Feb 27, 2019 | 49 comments

1774.

Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equipment (bloomberg.com)

48 points by eznoonze on Feb 11, 2019 | 38 comments

1775.

Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs (arstechnica.com)

48 points by metaphysics on Feb 24, 2019 | 34 comments

1776.

PeerTube. What It Is, and What I Think It's Problems Are (mrfunkedude.com)

48 points by valeg on Feb 21, 2019 | 29 comments

1777.

From Sudoku Solver to Program Synthesis (synthetic-minds.com)

48 points by saurabh20n on Feb 21, 2019 | 22 comments

1778.

Client did not pay? (github.com)

48 points by arsalanb on Feb 5, 2019 | 18 comments

1779.

The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds (nytimes.com)

48 points by iron0013 on Feb 28, 2019 | 16 comments

1780.

Phishing Attacks via Google translate (blogs.akamai.com)

48 points by wglb on Feb 8, 2019 | 15 comments

1781.

House Opens Inquiry into Proposed U.S. Nuclear Venture in Saudi Arabia (nytimes.com)

48 points by noobermin on Feb 19, 2019 | 15 comments

1782.

Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music (newyorker.com)

48 points by seventyhorses on Feb 4, 2019 | 10 comments

1783.

A small (and objective) taste of Objective-Smalltalk (blog.metaobject.com)

48 points by mpweiher on Feb 8, 2019 | 10 comments

1784.

See China’s Chang’e 4 on moon’s far side (earthsky.org)

48 points by longdefeat on Feb 16, 2019 | 10 comments

1785.

Uyghur musician tortured to death in China’s concentration camp (bbc.com)

48 points by abc-xyz on Feb 10, 2019 | 9 comments

1786.

The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage (nautil.us)

48 points by dnetesn on Feb 24, 2019 | 9 comments

1787.

Google.com Ranks Slow Using New Google PSI Speed Rank (stackoverflow.com)

48 points by adamrights on Feb 16, 2019 | 8 comments

1788.

A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming (quantamagazine.org)

48 points by headalgorithm on Feb 25, 2019 | 7 comments

1789.

Possible cooked S-boxes in Kuznyechik & Streebog..Russian cipher & hash (mailarchive.ietf.org)

48 points by utefan001 on Feb 11, 2019 | 3 comments

1790.

Facebook Ups Surveillance of Users to Keep Tabs on People Who Don't Like It (techdirt.com)

48 points by jrepinc on Feb 21, 2019 | 2 comments

1791.

Reading in an Age of Catastrophe (nybooks.com)

48 points by longdefeat on Feb 27, 2019 | 2 comments

1792.

Surveillance and Internet Disruption in Baku (codastory.com)

48 points by skilled on Feb 21, 2019 | 0 comments

1793.

A new book argues that violence laid the foundation for virtue (newyorker.com)

47 points by Hooke on Feb 14, 2019 | 67 comments

1794.

Python exceptions considered an anti-pattern (sobolevn.me)

47 points by sobolevn on Feb 11, 2019 | 65 comments

1795.

Don't Let Robots Pull the Trigger (scientificamerican.com)

47 points by ohjeez on Feb 22, 2019 | 63 comments

1796.

What would happen if Facebook were turned off? (economist.com)

47 points by jkuria on Feb 16, 2019 | 52 comments

1797.

Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order (edition.cnn.com)