HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1111.

Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max (nytimes.com)

123 points by cmurf on Mar 23, 2019 | 92 comments

1112.

Pika: Making it easier to find, publish, install, and use modern packages on npm (pikapkg.com)

123 points by robin_reala on Mar 3, 2019 | 59 comments

1113.

The Intercept cuts back (cjr.org)

123 points by sodosopa on Mar 17, 2019 | 59 comments

1114.

Google's Page Allegedly Gave Rubin $150M Stock Award (bloomberg.com)

123 points by smacktoward on Mar 11, 2019 | 48 comments

1115.

Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (2012) (hodinkee.com)

123 points by wglb on Mar 20, 2019 | 37 comments

1116.

Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds (zdnet.com)

123 points by mpweiher on Mar 16, 2019 | 35 comments

1117.

Re2c: A free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++ (re2c.org)

123 points by fanf2 on Mar 1, 2019 | 25 comments

1118.

Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor (makingcomputerdothings.com)

123 points by pplonski86 on Mar 28, 2019 | 10 comments

1119.

German Wikipedia blacked out in protest against EU copyright reform (de.wikipedia.org)

123 points by m-s on Mar 20, 2019 | 2 comments

1120.

Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) (bbc.com)

122 points by gscott on Mar 20, 2019 | 108 comments

1121.

Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (2014) (qz.com)

122 points by tosh on Mar 17, 2019 | 102 comments

1122.

In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag (twitter.com)

122 points by miles on Mar 29, 2019 | 52 comments

1123.

Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter Runs on Less Than 1 Milliwatt (spectrum.ieee.org)

122 points by Bilters on Mar 27, 2019 | 47 comments

1124.

Backpropogation Is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation (2013) (idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com)

122 points by adamnemecek on Mar 18, 2019 | 40 comments

1125.

The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587 (resobscura.blogspot.com)

122 points by benbreen on Mar 29, 2019 | 24 comments

1126.

PGHoard – PostgreSQL backup and restore service for cloud object storages (github.com)

122 points by bjoko on Mar 1, 2019 | 15 comments

1127.

Homosexuality in giraffes and other non-human animals (queerty.com)

121 points by okket on Mar 23, 2019 | 148 comments

1128.

4chan has been blocked in NZ “for security reasons” (reddit.com)

121 points by EE84M3i on Mar 15, 2019 | 145 comments

1129.

Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash (cnbc.com)

121 points by leemailll on Mar 29, 2019 | 138 comments

1130.

Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for $166M (techcrunch.com)

121 points by zhuxuefeng1994 on Mar 18, 2019 | 78 comments

1131.

Why the Amazon River Can't Be Crossed by Bridge (2018) (cntraveler.com)

121 points by apsec112 on Mar 13, 2019 | 50 comments

1132.

Ton Roosendaal and Blender receives ASIFA-Hollywood Ub Iwerks Award (blender.org)

121 points by based2 on Mar 30, 2019 | 7 comments

1133.

Interpreter for a simple Lisp, Written in Prolog (github.com)

120 points by martinlaz on Mar 1, 2019 | 69 comments

1134.

UC Browser for Android, Desktop Exposes 500M Users to MiTM Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

120 points by cpeterso on Mar 26, 2019 | 60 comments

1135.

New fastest portable hash: wyhash (github.com)

120 points by rurban on Mar 11, 2019 | 49 comments

1136.

Read color hex codes (dotconferences.com)

120 points by cpeterso on Mar 15, 2019 | 33 comments

1137.

A Journey to the Disappointment Islands (bbc.com)

120 points by tin7in on Mar 20, 2019 | 31 comments

1138.

Show HN: H2 Forth CPU (github.com)

120 points by howerj on Mar 19, 2019 | 26 comments

1139.

Facebook’s Privacy Cake (stratechery.com)

120 points by gmishuris on Mar 8, 2019 | 15 comments

1140.

A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018) (arstechnica.com)

120 points by rbanffy on Mar 7, 2019 | 14 comments