HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium (0x65.dev)

483 points by nikbackm on Dec 18, 2019 | 122 comments

122.

Building a Search Engine from Scratch (0x65.dev)

481 points by jpschm on Dec 6, 2019 | 142 comments

123.

Show HN: Space Invaders in C (blog.loadzero.com)

478 points by loadzero on Dec 6, 2019 | 105 comments

124.

The Amazon Builders' Library (aws.amazon.com)

469 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2019 | 48 comments

125.

Why are my Go executable files so large? (cockroachlabs.com)

468 points by caiobegotti on Dec 29, 2019 | 330 comments

126.

Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool (github.com)

466 points by nahikoa on Dec 27, 2019 | 197 comments

127.

I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted (idiallo.com)

464 points by firefoxd on Dec 11, 2019 | 217 comments

128.

Calm Technology (calmtech.com)

463 points by _bxg1 on Dec 15, 2019 | 155 comments

129.

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) (twitter.com)

461 points by fao_ on Dec 19, 2019 | 405 comments

130.

Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters (lemire.me)

457 points by matt_d on Dec 20, 2019 | 81 comments

131.

Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing (aws.amazon.com)

451 points by aloknnikhil on Dec 2, 2019 | 137 comments

132.

S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US (thesoundingline.com)

449 points by baronmunchausen on Dec 11, 2019 | 381 comments

133.

23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M (tomsguide.com)

449 points by Taurenking on Dec 17, 2019 | 299 comments

134.

State of JavaScript 2019 (2019.stateofjs.com)

448 points by jashmenn on Dec 19, 2019 | 355 comments

135.

OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey (onlykey.io)

448 points by mcone on Dec 26, 2019 | 211 comments

136.

Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation (citylab.com)

444 points by jonbaer on Dec 16, 2019 | 380 comments

137.

Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

441 points by rorocoeur on Dec 17, 2019 | 94 comments

138.

The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago (todos.tickgit.com)

436 points by patrickdevivo on Dec 30, 2019 | 295 comments

139.

WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation (w3.org)

434 points by galaxyLogic on Dec 16, 2019 | 242 comments

140.

Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died (nytimes.com)

433 points by gumby on Dec 14, 2019 | 77 comments

141.

Rust 1.40 (blog.rust-lang.org)

430 points by mark-simulacrum on Dec 19, 2019 | 150 comments

142.

Amazon CodeGuru – Preview (aws.amazon.com)

429 points by Sheepzez on Dec 3, 2019 | 203 comments

143.

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables (evanjones.ca)

429 points by matt_d on Dec 8, 2019 | 197 comments

144.

The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) (vitavonni.de)

428 points by maple3142 on Dec 9, 2019 | 311 comments

145.

Music for Programming (2011) (musicforprogramming.net)

427 points by notkaiho on Dec 12, 2019 | 261 comments

146.

Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network (vice.com)

424 points by jrepinc on Dec 4, 2019 | 285 comments

147.

New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity (tuwien.at)

424 points by ragerino on Dec 31, 2019 | 152 comments

148.

Unbearable news (zainamro.com)

423 points by zuhayeer on Dec 15, 2019 | 157 comments

149.

Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?

423 points by jamesxv7 on Dec 31, 2019 | 118 comments

150.

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) (joshworth.com)

422 points by brycehalley on Dec 8, 2019 | 82 comments