HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change (cognitivemedium.com)

152 points by _Microft on Nov 21, 2019 | 140 comments

812.

For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity (wsj.com)

152 points by andygcook on Nov 6, 2019 | 105 comments

813.

Tearing apart printf() (2018) (maizure.org)

152 points by dreampeppers99 on Nov 12, 2019 | 24 comments

814.

Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter (dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com)

152 points by ggerganov on Nov 30, 2019 | 23 comments

815.

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (blog.stuffedcow.net)

152 points by rrampage on Nov 9, 2019 | 18 comments

816.

Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf] (gwern.net)

151 points by andreev_io on Nov 2, 2019 | 115 comments

817.

A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems (witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com)

151 points by DoreenMichele on Nov 14, 2019 | 91 comments

818.

Why cement emissions matter for climate change (2018) (carbonbrief.org)

151 points by Reedx on Nov 3, 2019 | 76 comments

819.

Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet (github.com)

151 points by jonstaab on Nov 8, 2019 | 74 comments

820.

Show HN: Hide Likes Everywhere (hidelikeseverywhere.com)

151 points by dkthehuman on Nov 21, 2019 | 62 comments

821.

What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

151 points by _Microft on Nov 15, 2019 | 43 comments

822.

In Defense of Latin (lithub.com)

150 points by portobello on Nov 19, 2019 | 198 comments

823.

Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers (zdnet.com)

150 points by CrankyBear on Nov 4, 2019 | 171 comments

824.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) (kalzumeus.com)

150 points by rahuldottech on Nov 9, 2019 | 142 comments

825.

Scapegoating free software’s failures (writing.kemitchell.com)

150 points by _frkl on Nov 17, 2019 | 118 comments

826.

Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster (servethehome.com)

150 points by whalesalad on Nov 21, 2019 | 110 comments

827.

Show HN: GPG on macOS and YubiKey (github.com)

150 points by trishankdatadog on Nov 12, 2019 | 57 comments

828.

Robotics Development Environment with ROS in C++ and Python (github.com)

150 points by protontypes on Nov 3, 2019 | 54 comments

829.

PlantUML in a nutshell (plantuml.com)

150 points by dilawar on Nov 2, 2019 | 48 comments

830.

Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality (euractiv.com)

149 points by reddotX on Nov 7, 2019 | 94 comments

831.

Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the web (theguardian.com)

149 points by edward on Nov 24, 2019 | 90 comments

832.

Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds (arstechnica.com)

149 points by howard941 on Nov 18, 2019 | 89 comments

833.

Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention Hits Google the Hardest (zdnet.com)

149 points by mandliya on Nov 24, 2019 | 77 comments

834.

Ask HN: Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?

149 points by crtlaltdel on Nov 13, 2019 | 74 comments

835.

Godot 3.2 beta 1 (godotengine.org)

149 points by bbmario on Nov 6, 2019 | 39 comments

836.

Never mind the 1 percent Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (2017) (review.chicagobooth.edu)

148 points by nabla9 on Nov 30, 2019 | 188 comments

837.

Haskell and Rust (fpcomplete.com)

148 points by pmoriarty on Nov 9, 2019 | 129 comments

838.

Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap (blog.twitch.tv)