HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))} (wolframalpha.com)

121 points by susam on Feb 13, 2020 | 31 comments

992.

McClatchy files bankruptcy (mcclatchydc.com)

120 points by Jerry2 on Feb 13, 2020 | 151 comments

993.

NASA images show China pollution clear amid slowdown (bbc.com)

120 points by rusty__ on Feb 29, 2020 | 68 comments

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Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004) (iconia.com)

120 points by fanf2 on Feb 6, 2020 | 40 comments

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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) (dougseven.com)

120 points by redredhathat on Feb 5, 2020 | 33 comments

996.

Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators (dirk.rave.org)

120 points by kondor on Feb 7, 2020 | 14 comments

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Jeff Bezos pledges $10b to launch Earth Fund for combating climate change (cnbc.com)

120 points by adventured on Feb 17, 2020 | 1 comments

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Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions (pspdfkit.com)

119 points by ingve on Feb 11, 2020 | 190 comments

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Tesla X parts that had to be replaced after 400k miles (jalopnik.com)

119 points by ranit on Feb 23, 2020 | 125 comments

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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

119 points by turrini on Feb 9, 2020 | 117 comments

1001.

Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015) (joearms.github.io)

119 points by gloftus on Feb 28, 2020 | 81 comments

1002.

Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux (github.com)

119 points by SomeSnail on Feb 8, 2020 | 64 comments

1003.

Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative

119 points by malisper on Feb 21, 2020 | 55 comments

1004.

Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5 (pythonspeed.com)

119 points by itamarst on Feb 26, 2020 | 52 comments

1005.

Redneck Bank (redneck.bank)

119 points by _salmon on Feb 11, 2020 | 45 comments

1006.

Show HN: VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot (vrworkout.at)

119 points by blensor on Feb 2, 2020 | 34 comments

1007.

Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment (phys.org)

119 points by magoghm on Feb 29, 2020 | 26 comments

1008.

Diffing Coronaviruses (jameshfisher.com)

119 points by jamesfisher on Feb 9, 2020 | 17 comments

1009.

Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech (latimes.com)

118 points by velmu on Feb 25, 2020 | 250 comments

1010.

WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56 (npr.org)

118 points by bookofjoe on Feb 28, 2020 | 94 comments

1011.

McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France (twitter.com)

118 points by rorocoeur on Feb 8, 2020 | 84 comments

1012.

OpenSSH 8.2 (lists.mindrot.org)

118 points by beefhash on Feb 14, 2020 | 57 comments

1013.

Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech (bloomberg.com)

118 points by haroldkicks on Feb 27, 2020 | 48 comments

1014.

A quick primer on type traits in modern C++ (internalpointers.com)

118 points by tblr on Feb 28, 2020 | 34 comments

1015.

Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser (swift.org)

118 points by zdw on Feb 28, 2020 | 26 comments

1016.

Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains (zmescience.com)

118 points by laurex on Feb 27, 2020 | 23 comments

1017.

Show HN: Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs (github.com)

118 points by siddharthbhatia on Feb 7, 2020 | 22 comments

1018.

Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice (200ok.ch)

118 points by preek on Feb 9, 2020 | 13 comments

1019.

How to Escape from Immoral Mazes (thezvi.wordpress.com)

117 points by apsec112 on Feb 6, 2020 | 96 comments

1020.

Move, simply (herbsutter.com)

117 points by davidmckenna on Feb 17, 2020 | 92 comments