HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

Anna Wiener on her book “Uncanny Valley” (theguardian.com)

190 points by andrewl on Jan 6, 2020 | 131 comments

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How can you be so certain? (2019) [pdf] (open-std.org)

190 points by gpderetta on Jan 22, 2020 | 23 comments

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Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data' (bbc.com)

190 points by pseudolus on Jan 28, 2020 | 21 comments

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Interpol issues 'red notice' for Carlos Ghosn's arrest (bbc.co.uk)

189 points by dynamite-ready on Jan 2, 2020 | 227 comments

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Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’ (theverge.com)

189 points by sndean on Jan 13, 2020 | 218 comments

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Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate (pygame-zero.readthedocs.io)

189 points by dvfjsdhgfv on Jan 26, 2020 | 58 comments

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Algorithm for Drawing Trees (rachel53461.wordpress.com)

189 points by mfbx9da4 on Jan 18, 2020 | 40 comments

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Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm (abstractions.nautil.us)

189 points by rudrarch on Jan 26, 2020 | 23 comments

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AWS Graviton2 (perspectives.mvdirona.com)

188 points by yarapavan on Jan 25, 2020 | 136 comments

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Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th, swarm of grasshoppers (avherald.com)

188 points by mhandley on Jan 17, 2020 | 85 comments

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Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013) (bmj.com)

188 points by stanislavb on Jan 11, 2020 | 83 comments

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Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC (github.com)

188 points by lelf on Jan 8, 2020 | 68 comments

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Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (slac.stanford.edu)

188 points by kristianp on Jan 6, 2020 | 67 comments

704.

See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016) (blog.heroku.com)

188 points by amzans on Jan 23, 2020 | 59 comments

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What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (nautil.us)

188 points by dnetesn on Jan 25, 2020 | 53 comments

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CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT (github.com)

188 points by codezero on Jan 15, 2020 | 49 comments

707.

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013) (github.com)

188 points by wojciem on Jan 12, 2020 | 17 comments

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Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble? (sfchronicle.com)

187 points by pcvarmint on Jan 3, 2020 | 372 comments

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Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries (ir.tesla.com)

187 points by reddotX on Jan 3, 2020 | 323 comments

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How the Digg team was acquihired (lethain.com)

187 points by stuartmemo on Jan 2, 2020 | 116 comments

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Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems (terrastruct.com)

187 points by alixanderwang on Jan 5, 2020 | 99 comments

712.

Ask HN: Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?

187 points by logcrater on Jan 20, 2020 | 96 comments

713.

Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012) (web.archive.org)

187 points by keiferski on Jan 7, 2020 | 74 comments

714.

What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming (whatismusic.info)

187 points by pjdorrell on Jan 13, 2020 | 68 comments

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Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (2014) (newyorker.com)

187 points by fortran77 on Jan 16, 2020 | 59 comments

716.

Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality (multithreaded.stitchfix.com)

187 points by yarapavan on Jan 8, 2020 | 25 comments

717.

3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video] (lexfridman.com)

187 points by oska on Jan 19, 2020 | 21 comments

718.

Scripting tmux (arp242.net)

187 points by mplanchard on Jan 4, 2020 | 19 comments

719.

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience (m.nautil.us)

186 points by seek3r00 on Jan 25, 2020 | 105 comments

720.

I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future (m.signalvnoise.com)

186 points by heshiebee on Jan 12, 2020 | 93 comments