HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

301.

“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video] (c-span.org)

285 points by mgraczyk on Jul 17, 2019 | 77 comments

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GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea (techcrunch.com)

284 points by jmsflknr on Jul 29, 2019 | 300 comments

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Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm (phys.org)

284 points by TakakiTohno on Jul 4, 2019 | 196 comments

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Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface (myfonts.com)

284 points by FabianBeiner on Jul 26, 2019 | 137 comments

305.

Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing (pixelfed.org)

284 points by octosphere on Jul 7, 2019 | 130 comments

306.

Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along (asahi.com)

284 points by turrini on Jul 30, 2019 | 109 comments

307.

Ownership and Borrowing in D (dlang.org)

283 points by systems on Jul 15, 2019 | 112 comments

308.

Who Pays Writers? (whopayswriters.com)

283 points by jawns on Jul 22, 2019 | 81 comments

309.

Tips for reviewing code you don’t like (developers.redhat.com)

282 points by kesor on Jul 8, 2019 | 144 comments

310.

How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account (thezerohack.com)

282 points by Garbage on Jul 18, 2019 | 134 comments

311.

An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks (victorzhou.com)

281 points by bibyte on Jul 25, 2019 | 23 comments

312.

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) (smithsonianmag.com)

280 points by EL_Loco on Jul 3, 2019 | 399 comments

313.

Racket Is an Acceptable Python (dustycloud.org)

280 points by paroneayea on Jul 9, 2019 | 168 comments

314.

New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data (nytimes.com)

279 points by johnny313 on Jul 23, 2019 | 118 comments

315.

It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy (invincible.substack.com)

277 points by doppp on Jul 9, 2019 | 111 comments

316.

Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network (blog.sia.tech)

276 points by Geee on Jul 16, 2019 | 192 comments

317.

Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

275 points by lovelearning on Jul 19, 2019 | 219 comments

318.

Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth (seattletimes.com)

275 points by swamp40 on Jul 26, 2019 | 152 comments

319.

How iOS 13 redraws your eyes so you're looking at the camera (twitter.com)

275 points by bobsil1 on Jul 3, 2019 | 116 comments

320.

Elements of Programming (elementsofprogramming.com)

274 points by signa11 on Jul 15, 2019 | 24 comments

321.

Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted (smithsonianmag.com)

272 points by pseudolus on Jul 29, 2019 | 190 comments

322.

Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux (linuxuprising.com)

272 points by logix on Jul 22, 2019 | 156 comments

323.

Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time (edition.cnn.com)

270 points by rchaudhary on Jul 26, 2019 | 141 comments

324.

Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors (nextplatform.com)

270 points by rbanffy on Jul 20, 2019 | 131 comments

325.

AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters (vice.com)

270 points by howard941 on Jul 18, 2019 | 29 comments

326.

How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox (zdnet.com)

269 points by smacktoward on Jul 6, 2019 | 197 comments

327.

Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up (spectrum.ieee.org)