HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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NetBSD 9.0 (netbsd.org)

174 points by zdw on Feb 15, 2020 | 61 comments

662.

The Need for Data Engineers (thenewstack.io)

174 points by eaguyhn on Feb 21, 2020 | 59 comments

663.

Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died (nytimes.com)

174 points by pseudolus on Feb 12, 2020 | 45 comments

664.

How to write the perfect pull request (2015) (github.blog)

174 points by xiaodai on Feb 19, 2020 | 39 comments

665.

Joe, a Postgres query optimization bot (postgres.ai)

174 points by samokhvalov on Feb 27, 2020 | 37 comments

666.

How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders (themarkup.org)

173 points by isiahl on Feb 25, 2020 | 159 comments

667.

Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds (sciencemag.org)

173 points by big_chungus on Feb 11, 2020 | 60 comments

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Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017) (paragonie.com)

173 points by xenocratus on Feb 19, 2020 | 55 comments

669.

BBC Micro Bot (8bitkick.cc)

173 points by fermigier on Feb 19, 2020 | 35 comments

670.

Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf] (assets.amazon.science)

173 points by aratno on Feb 14, 2020 | 10 comments

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Even with a $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance (phoronix.com)

172 points by kermatt on Feb 6, 2020 | 103 comments

672.

Wikimedia Cookbook (en.wikibooks.org)

172 points by nerdkid93 on Feb 7, 2020 | 57 comments

673.

Ant Design 4.0 (github.com)

172 points by zombiej on Feb 28, 2020 | 55 comments

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GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy (arstechnica.com)

171 points by Tomte on Feb 26, 2020 | 119 comments

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How important are 'economies of scale'? (mattstoller.substack.com)

171 points by simonpure on Feb 22, 2020 | 53 comments

676.

One Hundred Ideas for Computing (samsquire.github.io)

171 points by saadalem on Feb 7, 2020 | 35 comments

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Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging (padiracinnovation.org)

171 points by JPLeRouzic on Feb 29, 2020 | 21 comments

678.

Tools you’d miss if you left a company (rachelbythebay.com)

170 points by kogir on Feb 8, 2020 | 108 comments

679.

An Engineering Team Where Everyone Is a Leader (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

170 points by fagnerbrack on Feb 23, 2020 | 62 comments

680.

Universal, reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (2017) (nature.com)

170 points by KylarkJ on Feb 4, 2020 | 39 comments

681.

The general value of typed functional programming lies in leaving no edge cases (np.reddit.com)

169 points by jxub on Feb 24, 2020 | 165 comments

682.

Why we need a book about naming (namingthings.co)

169 points by signa11 on Feb 12, 2020 | 153 comments

683.

A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught? (technologyreview.com)

168 points by havella on Feb 10, 2020 | 145 comments

684.

Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case (oregon.gov)

167 points by rediguanayum on Feb 29, 2020 | 212 comments

685.

The BBC’s attempt to build a Netflix-style service was snuffed by regulation (wired.co.uk)

167 points by open-source-ux on Feb 23, 2020 | 192 comments

686.

Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch (fuse.wikichip.org)

167 points by rbanffy on Feb 4, 2020 | 140 comments

687.

Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it (rosalind.info)

167 points by mnemonicsloth on Feb 18, 2020 | 40 comments

688.

Trader Joe's founder Joe Coulombe has died (usatoday.com)

167 points by kaboro on Feb 29, 2020 | 31 comments

689.

Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic (eset.com)

167 points by oherrala on Feb 26, 2020 | 30 comments

690.

How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost (outsideonline.com)

166 points by wmeredith on Feb 7, 2020 | 128 comments