HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

77 points by rfreytag on Jul 11, 2019 | 13 comments

1592.

Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf] (github.com)

77 points by tosh on Jul 20, 2019 | 12 comments

1593.

Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made (petapixel.com)

77 points by throw0101a on Jul 17, 2019 | 11 comments

1594.

The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (2012) [pdf] (dreamsongs.com)

77 points by pcr910303 on Jul 7, 2019 | 10 comments

1595.

Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf] (github.com)

77 points by robomaster12 on Jul 21, 2019 | 10 comments

1596.

Where the Bodies Are Buried (texasobserver.org)

77 points by laurex on Jul 20, 2019 | 9 comments

1597.

Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet (technicshistory.wordpress.com)

77 points by cfmcdonald on Jul 11, 2019 | 7 comments

1598.

Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?

76 points by arikr on Jul 31, 2019 | 137 comments

1599.

The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes (newyorker.com)

76 points by tintinnabula on Jul 13, 2019 | 57 comments

1600.

Why I No Longer Want to Write Software for Companies That I Don't Own

76 points by externalreality on Jul 12, 2019 | 47 comments

1601.

Show HN: Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library (github.com)

76 points by luwes on Jul 22, 2019 | 44 comments

1602.

Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever (arstechnica.com)

76 points by gilad on Jul 4, 2019 | 28 comments

1603.

Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator (twitter.com)

76 points by Tomte on Jul 11, 2019 | 20 comments

1604.

Coroutines: A Million Stacks (2017) (mikemarcin.com)

76 points by srean on Jul 18, 2019 | 14 comments

1605.

Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014) (arstechnica.com)

76 points by smacktoward on Jul 14, 2019 | 9 comments

1606.

Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B (arxiv.org)

76 points by bookofjoe on Jul 22, 2019 | 7 comments

1607.

China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas (wsj.com)

75 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 18, 2019 | 98 comments

1608.

Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails (nytimes.com)

75 points by pseudolus on Jul 16, 2019 | 71 comments

1609.

Delivery apps like DoorDash are using tips to pay workers’ wages (theverge.com)

75 points by oblib on Jul 22, 2019 | 57 comments

1610.

Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data

75 points by fhackenberger on Jul 22, 2019 | 53 comments

1611.

Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers (trackthis.link)

75 points by doener on Jul 3, 2019 | 42 comments

1612.

My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 5: Commercial Development (strongtowns.org)

75 points by oftenwrong on Jul 17, 2019 | 36 comments

1613.

Too Unique to Hide (cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk)

75 points by zoobab on Jul 24, 2019 | 32 comments

1614.

Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget (canny.io)

75 points by a13n on Jul 24, 2019 | 31 comments

1615.

The Fascinating Bromance Between Steve Jobs and Ross Perot (2018) (cake.co)

75 points by rfreytag on Jul 10, 2019 | 21 comments

1616.

China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families (bbc.co.uk)

75 points by metaphysics on Jul 5, 2019 | 16 comments

1617.

In Order to Become More Competitive We've Decided To Make Your Job Worse (mcsweeneys.net)

75 points by smacktoward on Jul 25, 2019 | 3 comments

1618.

India's oldest yogini: V Nanammal, 98 (qz.com)

74 points by happy-go-lucky on Jul 3, 2019 | 67 comments

1619.

As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers (npr.org)

74 points by pseudolus on Jul 24, 2019 | 63 comments

1620.

Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014) (susam.in)

74 points by grepgeek on Jul 21, 2019 | 55 comments