HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells (fox5vegas.com)

244 points by finphil on Jan 28, 2020 | 151 comments

482.

A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties (github.com)

244 points by taariqlewis on Jan 15, 2020 | 55 comments

483.

Alone in a Crowded Milky Way (scientificamerican.com)

243 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 1, 2020 | 260 comments

484.

Libc++'s Implementation of std::string (joellaity.com)

243 points by stuffypages on Jan 31, 2020 | 128 comments

485.

The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history (blog.zamzar.com)

243 points by whyleyc on Jan 27, 2020 | 34 comments

486.

Google App Maker Shutting Down (support.google.com)

242 points by dataminded on Jan 27, 2020 | 226 comments

487.

Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US (asia.nikkei.com)

242 points by baybal2 on Jan 16, 2020 | 157 comments

488.

Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch (openai.com)

242 points by pesenti on Jan 30, 2020 | 116 comments

489.

Clojure for the Erlang VM (clojerl.org)

242 points by lsh on Jan 6, 2020 | 49 comments

490.

How I automate my home (japaniot.github.io)

241 points by zcbenz on Jan 1, 2020 | 175 comments

491.

Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App (omgubuntu.co.uk)

241 points by ashitlerferad on Jan 27, 2020 | 99 comments

492.

Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project (bluemaxima.org)

241 points by aresant on Jan 31, 2020 | 70 comments

493.

Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) (fossil-scm.org)

240 points by cnst on Jan 6, 2020 | 550 comments

494.

The Light Phone (thelightphone.com)

240 points by lelf on Jan 3, 2020 | 277 comments

495.

What to do if you’re stopped by the police (cassandraxia.com)

240 points by cassbot on Jan 14, 2020 | 184 comments

496.

The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019) (gwern.net)

240 points by Hooke on Jan 4, 2020 | 113 comments

497.

ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs (twitter.com)

240 points by luu on Jan 21, 2020 | 104 comments

498.

Fancy Clojure REPL (asciinema.org)

240 points by tosh on Jan 30, 2020 | 52 comments

499.

Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) (matthiasott.com)

239 points by rohmanhakim on Jan 27, 2020 | 203 comments

500.

Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 (axios.com)

238 points by _ps6d on Jan 9, 2020 | 337 comments

501.

Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says (cnbc.com)

238 points by jbredeche on Jan 8, 2020 | 253 comments

502.

Boltzmann Brain (en.wikipedia.org)

238 points by 6581 on Jan 17, 2020 | 149 comments

503.

Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years (nbcnews.com)

238 points by neom on Jan 28, 2020 | 145 comments

504.

Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019) (nest.pijul.com)

238 points by tosh on Jan 11, 2020 | 122 comments

505.

Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

237 points by toron123 on Jan 26, 2020 | 159 comments

506.

Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop (jeremymorgan.com)

237 points by JeremyMorgan on Jan 17, 2020 | 142 comments

507.

How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance (seattletimes.com)

237 points by wallflower on Jan 12, 2020 | 141 comments

508.

Pharo 8.0 (pharo.org)

237 points by estebanlor on Jan 20, 2020 | 95 comments

509.

A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage (washingtonpost.com)

236 points by wallflower on Jan 21, 2020 | 228 comments

510.

Ask HN: What change in your programming technique has been most transformative?

236 points by dmux on Jan 23, 2020 | 208 comments