HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study (jotaen.net)

358 points by jotaen on Dec 6, 2019 | 96 comments

212.

Cyc (en.wikipedia.org)

357 points by mdszy on Dec 13, 2019 | 173 comments

213.

Doing a database join with CSV files (johndcook.com)

357 points by chmaynard on Dec 31, 2019 | 111 comments

214.

United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s (reuters.com)

355 points by nolok on Dec 4, 2019 | 288 comments

215.

Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages (nytimes.com)

355 points by i_am_not_elon on Dec 10, 2019 | 282 comments

216.

ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar (venturebeat.com)

355 points by vabmit on Dec 30, 2019 | 145 comments

217.

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold (engadget.com)

352 points by abbe98 on Dec 29, 2019 | 241 comments

218.

Scaling Etsy (twitter.com)

352 points by luu on Dec 21, 2019 | 110 comments

219.

We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) (danluu.com)

351 points by eaguyhn on Dec 12, 2019 | 404 comments

220.

Thinking in React Hooks (wattenberger.com)

351 points by mariuz on Dec 12, 2019 | 179 comments

221.

Speeding Up the Rust Compiler (blog.mozilla.org)

351 points by staktrace on Dec 11, 2019 | 129 comments

222.

France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax (reuters.com)

349 points by ComodoHacker on Dec 17, 2019 | 254 comments

223.

All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus (torrentfreak.com)

349 points by MikusR on Dec 31, 2019 | 65 comments

224.

Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes (bloomberg.com)

348 points by pseudolus on Dec 13, 2019 | 430 comments

225.

A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers (reddit.com)

348 points by slyall on Dec 15, 2019 | 122 comments

226.

Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey (bbc.com)

347 points by DarkContinent on Dec 19, 2019 | 161 comments

227.

I love coding in C (lord-left.github.io)

346 points by lordleft on Dec 26, 2019 | 424 comments

228.

Open-Source Spotify App (github.com)

345 points by thasian on Dec 23, 2019 | 110 comments

229.

‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace (krebsonsecurity.com)

345 points by panarky on Dec 16, 2019 | 79 comments

230.

Generating a Java program with 90% less code (unitily.com)

344 points by rowland_street on Dec 4, 2019 | 532 comments

231.

Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking (cs144.github.io)

344 points by charlysl on Dec 15, 2019 | 28 comments

232.

The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing (doi.org)

343 points by hckr_nj on Dec 31, 2019 | 188 comments

233.

C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) (queue.acm.org)

343 points by goranmoomin on Dec 27, 2019 | 167 comments

234.

Darktable 3.0 (darktable.org)

341 points by trop on Dec 24, 2019 | 120 comments

235.

Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M (wpri.com)

340 points by petee on Dec 25, 2019 | 243 comments

236.

Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage (twitter.com)

340 points by signor_bosco on Dec 1, 2019 | 235 comments

237.

Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? (jefftk.com)

339 points by luu on Dec 29, 2019 | 492 comments

238.

Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?

338 points by going_to_800 on Dec 29, 2019 | 182 comments

239.

Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy (mattstoller.substack.com)

336 points by DeusExMachina on Dec 18, 2019 | 152 comments

240.

Ruby 2.7 (ruby-lang.org)

336 points by sadiqmmm on Dec 25, 2019 | 64 comments