HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (bbc.co.uk)

344 points by lnguyen on Nov 24, 2019 | 157 comments

242.

Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy (arxiv.org)

344 points by beefhash on Nov 6, 2019 | 115 comments

243.

Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images (petapixel.com)

340 points by cgranier on Nov 15, 2019 | 74 comments

244.

The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated (nautil.us)

339 points by benryon on Nov 22, 2019 | 200 comments

245.

Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers (engineering.shopify.com)

339 points by rom16384 on Nov 20, 2019 | 103 comments

246.

Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API (iq.opengenus.org)

338 points by gootel on Nov 3, 2019 | 166 comments

247.

Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators (reuters.com)

337 points by pabs3 on Nov 18, 2019 | 288 comments

248.

Go Turns 10 (blog.golang.org)

337 points by kevinconaway on Nov 8, 2019 | 223 comments

249.

Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials (pcmag.com)

337 points by ceejayoz on Nov 23, 2019 | 76 comments

250.

U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year (hechingerreport.org)

336 points by undefined1 on Nov 4, 2019 | 543 comments

251.

Chicago book returns surge 240% after city eliminates fines (abc7chicago.com)

335 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 9, 2019 | 142 comments

252.

An Overview of Cryptography (garykessler.net)

335 points by miles on Nov 28, 2019 | 32 comments

253.

Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5M students in the US (buzzfeednews.com)

333 points by minimaxir on Nov 1, 2019 | 155 comments

254.

The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back (medium.com)

332 points by lukethomas on Nov 4, 2019 | 196 comments

255.

GitHub for Mobile (github.com)

332 points by smoser on Nov 13, 2019 | 123 comments

256.

Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono) (simplescraper.io)

332 points by welanes on Nov 1, 2019 | 74 comments

257.

Google Open-Sources Cardboard (github.com)

331 points by sahin on Nov 7, 2019 | 173 comments

258.

Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

330 points by NilsIRL on Nov 3, 2019 | 293 comments

259.

Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps (bbc.co.uk)

329 points by asplake on Nov 24, 2019 | 148 comments

260.

Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) (tylertringas.com)

328 points by blackdogie on Nov 20, 2019 | 74 comments

261.

Infectious Executable Stacks (nullprogram.com)

328 points by pantalaimon on Nov 16, 2019 | 53 comments

262.

Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits (reason.com)

327 points by Benlights on Nov 6, 2019 | 184 comments

263.

A foundation course in reading German (courses.dcs.wisc.edu)

327 points by romes on Nov 17, 2019 | 156 comments

264.

The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015) (cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by strikelaserclaw on Nov 11, 2019 | 139 comments

265.

Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court (towardsdatascience.com)

327 points by alok-g on Nov 15, 2019 | 46 comments

266.

Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium (securelist.com)

326 points by Arubis on Nov 2, 2019 | 146 comments

267.

When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014) (priceonomics.com)

325 points by JackFr on Nov 5, 2019 | 259 comments

268.

Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement (hechingerreport.org)