HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors (schneier.com)

201 points by hsnewman on Dec 12, 2019 | 63 comments

542.

India builds detention camps for up to 1.9M people not on citizens register (independent.co.uk)

200 points by 0xmohit on Dec 18, 2019 | 307 comments

543.

Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?

200 points by vcool07 on Dec 7, 2019 | 175 comments

544.

I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) (mtlynch.io)

200 points by luu on Dec 26, 2019 | 168 comments

545.

Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?

200 points by PascLeRasc on Dec 21, 2019 | 143 comments

546.

Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement (daringfireball.net)

199 points by andygcook on Dec 10, 2019 | 142 comments

547.

Meet Dash O’Pepper (filipeherculano.dev)

199 points by tayllanb on Dec 30, 2019 | 20 comments

548.

Why Child Care Is So Expensive (theatlantic.com)

198 points by jseliger on Dec 9, 2019 | 496 comments

549.

Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

198 points by barry-cotter on Dec 24, 2019 | 209 comments

550.

Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video] (youtube.com)

198 points by zainamro on Dec 7, 2019 | 163 comments

551.

The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming (torrentfreak.com)

198 points by elorant on Dec 15, 2019 | 161 comments

552.

Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy (beepb00p.xyz)

198 points by Agathos on Dec 8, 2019 | 126 comments

553.

Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015) (gmunk.com)

198 points by iudqnolq on Dec 22, 2019 | 105 comments

554.

Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night (xd.adobe.com)

197 points by wallflower on Dec 27, 2019 | 188 comments

555.

Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped (bbc.co.uk)

197 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2019 | 110 comments

556.

How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games (arstechnica.com)

197 points by Tomte on Dec 4, 2019 | 78 comments

557.

A Tesla Valve (en.wikipedia.org)

197 points by stazz1 on Dec 18, 2019 | 42 comments

558.

The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999) (bofh.bjash.com)

196 points by iudqnolq on Dec 29, 2019 | 94 comments

559.

How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire (medium.com)

196 points by endsofinvention on Dec 9, 2019 | 58 comments

560.

“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers (nwn.blogs.com)

195 points by Kroeler on Dec 16, 2019 | 119 comments

561.

Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009) (lwn.net)

195 points by pcr910303 on Dec 1, 2019 | 110 comments

562.

Taking ML to production with Rust (lpalmieri.com)

195 points by LukeMathWalker on Dec 2, 2019 | 99 comments

563.

Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages (elementsofai.com)

195 points by Anchor on Dec 10, 2019 | 91 comments

564.

Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP (breakoutstartups.substack.com)

195 points by ankitkumar98 on Dec 23, 2019 | 74 comments

565.

Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service (aws.amazon.com)

195 points by garysieling on Dec 3, 2019 | 55 comments

566.

Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End (github.com)

195 points by pcr910303 on Dec 21, 2019 | 38 comments

567.

Git from the Inside Out (2015) (codewords.recurse.com)

195 points by dpeck on Dec 10, 2019 | 34 comments

568.

Layout 101 (docs.google.com)

195 points by kick on Dec 13, 2019 | 23 comments

569.

Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster (features.propublica.org)

194 points by thomasjudge on Dec 20, 2019 | 144 comments

570.

Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS (theverge.com)

194 points by paxys on Dec 16, 2019 | 118 comments