HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission (nature.com)

99 points by bristleworm on Jul 12, 2019 | 34 comments

1292.

An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild (psuter.net)

99 points by H2NCH2COOH on Jul 8, 2019 | 28 comments

1293.

The Art of Metaprogramming (2005) (ibm.com)

99 points by pcr910303 on Jul 8, 2019 | 16 comments

1294.

Google Sheets Formula Clock (benlcollins.com)

99 points by benlcollins on Jul 17, 2019 | 14 comments

1295.

Animals living alongside humans produce amylase, enzyme that breaks down starch (elifesciences.org)

98 points by 100c1p43r on Jul 21, 2019 | 57 comments

1296.

Where we see shapes, AI sees textures (quantamagazine.org)

98 points by gdubs on Jul 8, 2019 | 48 comments

1297.

How Banksy Authenticates His Work (reprage.com)

98 points by pmatos on Jul 24, 2019 | 29 comments

1298.

U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State (theintercept.com)

98 points by gambler on Jul 15, 2019 | 25 comments

1299.

Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL (percona.com)

98 points by davidquilty on Jul 2, 2019 | 23 comments

1300.

Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report [pdf] (cs.utah.edu)

98 points by hencq on Jul 15, 2019 | 21 comments

1301.

Meta-learning neural Bloom filters (blog.acolyer.org)

98 points by feross on Jul 19, 2019 | 6 comments

1302.

Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes (lundbeckfonden.com)

98 points by dpflan on Jul 9, 2019 | 3 comments

1303.

Dark emerges with ‘deployless’ software model (techcrunch.com)

97 points by yagurastation on Jul 30, 2019 | 161 comments

1304.

When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo (latimes.com)

97 points by howard941 on Jul 9, 2019 | 147 comments

1305.

If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds (sciencemag.org)

97 points by gilad on Jul 21, 2019 | 58 comments

1306.

Mistakes we make using JavaScript Promises (betamark.com)

97 points by betamark on Jul 5, 2019 | 57 comments

1307.

Engineers Don't Solve Problems (2018) (logicmag.io)

97 points by danielnixon on Jul 28, 2019 | 51 comments

1308.

Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment (cyberscoop.com)

97 points by ga-vu on Jul 24, 2019 | 49 comments

1309.

Docker 19.03: Rootless Mode (Experimental) (github.com)

97 points by UberIsAnnoying on Jul 27, 2019 | 43 comments

1310.

Cat Colors (catster.com)

97 points by evo_9 on Jul 9, 2019 | 34 comments

1311.

How to Debug (2010) (blog.regehr.org)

97 points by wheresvic1 on Jul 10, 2019 | 28 comments

1312.

The Great Stink (en.wikipedia.org)

97 points by antonios on Jul 22, 2019 | 27 comments

1313.

The Legion Parallel Programming System (legion.stanford.edu)

97 points by espeed on Jul 21, 2019 | 24 comments

1314.

Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme (kennethfriedman.org)

97 points by kennethfriedman on Jul 26, 2019 | 17 comments

1315.

Two drugs that block cell division synergize to kill tumor cells (news.mit.edu)

97 points by 2_listerine_pls on Jul 12, 2019 | 11 comments

1316.

Teaching Tech Together (teachtogether.tech)

97 points by walterbell on Jul 21, 2019 | 8 comments

1317.

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations (windowsreport.com)

96 points by reallydontask on Jul 19, 2019 | 212 comments

1318.

How Much Water Do You Need to Drink? (elemental.medium.com)

96 points by shubhamjain on Jul 25, 2019 | 159 comments

1319.

Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review (bloomberg.com)

96 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 12, 2019 | 117 comments

1320.

28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday (ec.europa.eu)

96 points by infodocket on Jul 31, 2019 | 115 comments