HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1441.

Bitcoin's energy consumption 'equals that of Switzerland' (bbc.com)

87 points by saravana85 on Jul 4, 2019 | 121 comments

1442.

Raising the American Weakling (2017) (nautil.us)

87 points by dnetesn on Jul 5, 2019 | 71 comments

1443.

China’s State Media Show Hong Kong Protest Images, Fanning Public Anger (wsj.com)

87 points by La-ang on Jul 22, 2019 | 64 comments

1444.

David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder (bbc.com)

87 points by barking on Jul 19, 2019 | 60 comments

1445.

The Lyttle Lytton Contest (adamcadre.ac)

87 points by plibither8 on Jul 15, 2019 | 53 comments

1446.

Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011) (rachelbythebay.com)

87 points by amzans on Jul 26, 2019 | 52 comments

1447.

Sarin Possibly Discovered in Package at Facebook Mailing Facility (nbcbayarea.com)

87 points by coloneltcb on Jul 1, 2019 | 51 comments

1448.

Nvidia's DG-Net: Dress up people with different clothes/use as training data (github.com)

87 points by zhedong on Jul 12, 2019 | 34 comments

1449.

Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday (startupandrew.com)

87 points by phlowbieuq on Jul 25, 2019 | 31 comments

1450.

The British Virgin Islands’ Struggle to Protect Its Dark Offshore Economy (bloomberg.com)

87 points by ucha on Jul 3, 2019 | 22 comments

1451.

Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island (newatlas.com)

87 points by sahin-boydas on Jul 8, 2019 | 13 comments

1452.

Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs (medium.com)

87 points by zhte415 on Jul 13, 2019 | 12 comments

1453.

'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed (theguardian.com)

86 points by _0o6v on Jul 1, 2019 | 125 comments

1454.

Vulnerabilities found in GE anesthesia machines (zdnet.com)

86 points by bookofjoe on Jul 10, 2019 | 105 comments

1455.

The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016) (nationalgeographic.com)

86 points by bpierre on Jul 5, 2019 | 85 comments

1456.

Readable Lisp S-expressions Project (2013) (readable.sourceforge.io)

86 points by singularity2001 on Jul 7, 2019 | 76 comments

1457.

Google’s Equiano Cable Will Extend to the Remote Island of Saint Helena (spectrum.ieee.org)

86 points by jonbaer on Jul 22, 2019 | 69 comments

1458.

A Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank (reuters.com)

86 points by SolaceQuantum on Jul 30, 2019 | 60 comments

1459.

Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013) (chrisdone.com)

86 points by signa11 on Jul 29, 2019 | 57 comments

1460.

The Fifth Generation Computing Project (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

86 points by o_nate on Jul 30, 2019 | 48 comments

1461.

Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP (virtuallyfun.com)

86 points by dotcomboom on Jul 18, 2019 | 36 comments

1462.

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf] (scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu)

86 points by rspivak on Jul 31, 2019 | 5 comments

1463.

Coreboot 4.10 (blogs.coreboot.org)

86 points by l2dy on Jul 27, 2019 | 4 comments

1464.

Ubisoft joins blender development fund (blender.org)

86 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Jul 22, 2019 | 2 comments

1465.

Elasticsearch for Offensive Security (2018) (marcolancini.it)

86 points by megahz on Jul 24, 2019 | 0 comments

1466.

Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup (reuters.com)

85 points by hhs on Jul 16, 2019 | 95 comments

1467.

How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012 (stackoverflow.blog)

85 points by nsoonhui on Jul 23, 2019 | 94 comments

1468.

2019 redefinition of the SI base units (en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by tony on Jul 1, 2019 | 92 comments

1469.

Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear (bloomberg.com)

85 points by jseliger on Jul 4, 2019 | 74 comments

1470.

Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile (arstechnica.com)

85 points by Ultramanoid on Jul 16, 2019 | 69 comments