HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

991.

The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session (ma.ttias.be)

136 points by Mojah on Jan 31, 2020 | 128 comments

992.

A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI (cnn.com)

136 points by TuringNYC on Jan 17, 2020 | 120 comments

993.

Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs' (zdnet.com)

136 points by gitgud on Jan 28, 2020 | 119 comments

994.

Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says (nytimes.com)

136 points by doener on Jan 14, 2020 | 77 comments

995.

Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs (twitter.com)

136 points by sunils34 on Jan 4, 2020 | 60 comments

996.

PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax (outsideonline.com)

136 points by dtagames on Jan 26, 2020 | 59 comments

997.

Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount (buzzfeednews.com)

136 points by pulisse on Jan 28, 2020 | 55 comments

998.

Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API (interline.io)

136 points by wuster on Jan 9, 2020 | 49 comments

999.

Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers (quantamagazine.org)

136 points by theafh on Jan 27, 2020 | 22 comments

1000.

AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery (deepmind.com)

136 points by panabee on Jan 18, 2020 | 20 comments

1001.

Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language (unisonweb.org)

136 points by sillysaurusx on Jan 27, 2020 | 12 comments

1002.

'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was official's son (2019) (cbc.ca)

136 points by ilamont on Jan 30, 2020 | 11 comments

1003.

A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change (medium.com)

135 points by apsec112 on Jan 15, 2020 | 172 comments

1004.

Novel coronavirus complete genome from the Wuhan outbreak available in GenBank (ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

135 points by mikhailfranco on Jan 28, 2020 | 89 comments

1005.

Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? (paulmck.livejournal.com)

135 points by matt_d on Jan 13, 2020 | 85 comments

1006.

Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf] (inf.ethz.ch)

135 points by vector_spaces on Jan 30, 2020 | 59 comments

1007.

Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995) (paulgraham.com)

135 points by chuhnk on Jan 1, 2020 | 54 comments

1008.

Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation (learnjapanese.best)

135 points by sova on Jan 5, 2020 | 54 comments

1009.

Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?

135 points by labarilem on Jan 31, 2020 | 34 comments

1010.

Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot (github.com)

135 points by nicrusso7 on Jan 27, 2020 | 26 comments

1011.

Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform (eng.lyft.com)

135 points by mgrover on Jan 7, 2020 | 19 comments

1012.

Let People Move to Jobs (jefftk.com)

134 points by luu on Jan 19, 2020 | 302 comments

1013.

Autistic futures trader who triggered flash crash spared prison (abcnews.go.com)

134 points by lxm on Jan 29, 2020 | 104 comments

1014.

Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as glaciers turn black (independent.co.uk)

134 points by dsr12 on Jan 3, 2020 | 75 comments

1015.

Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing (medium.com)

134 points by tomkubik on Jan 3, 2020 | 72 comments

1016.

Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics (rootsofprogress.org)

134 points by jasoncrawford on Jan 28, 2020 | 71 comments

1017.

Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy (mort.coffee)

134 points by mort96 on Jan 27, 2020 | 26 comments

1018.

New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase (keybase.io)

134 points by tosh on Jan 31, 2020 | 19 comments

1019.

Casper Sleep S-1 (sec.gov)

133 points by jonknee on Jan 10, 2020 | 158 comments

1020.

Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018) (brookings.edu)

133 points by mpweiher on Jan 20, 2020 | 84 comments