HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018) (yuzeh.com)

214 points by hamsterbooster on Jun 11, 2020 | 175 comments

602.

Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies (wsj.com)

214 points by Reedx on Jun 3, 2020 | 114 comments

603.

DeepFaceDrawing Generates Photorealistic Portraits from Freehand Sketches (syncedreview.com)

214 points by Yuqing7 on Jun 4, 2020 | 75 comments

604.

Taking Up Animation as a Hobby (yosefk.com)

214 points by luu on Jun 28, 2020 | 40 comments

605.

Transcribed police scanners in real-time (murph.live)

213 points by illuminated on Jun 8, 2020 | 105 comments

606.

Cryengine Source Code (github.com)

212 points by TiccyRobby on Jun 27, 2020 | 143 comments

607.

Shopify goes after Amazon with new Walmart deal (axios.com)

212 points by elsewhen on Jun 17, 2020 | 90 comments

608.

We ditched Google Analytics (missiveapp.com)

212 points by AdriaanvRossum on Jun 1, 2020 | 74 comments

609.

NimConf 2020 Videos (conf.nim-lang.org)

212 points by dom96 on Jun 20, 2020 | 73 comments

610.

'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts (theguardian.com)

211 points by DanBC on Jun 29, 2020 | 280 comments

611.

Mapping Police Violence (mappingpoliceviolence.org)

211 points by deathgrips on Jun 1, 2020 | 185 comments

612.

The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box (blog.plover.com)

211 points by fanf2 on Jun 25, 2020 | 158 comments

613.

Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds (phys.org)

211 points by dmitriy_ko on Jun 14, 2020 | 117 comments

614.

Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure” released (grumpygamer.com)

211 points by Audiophilip on Jun 21, 2020 | 84 comments

615.

Overview of Python dependency management tools (modelpredict.com)

210 points by autograd on Jun 1, 2020 | 178 comments

616.

Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare (dw.com)

210 points by tchalla on Jun 25, 2020 | 159 comments

617.

Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws (e360.yale.edu)

210 points by chmaynard on Jun 4, 2020 | 129 comments

618.

The 5.7 kernel is out (lwn.net)

210 points by thuva4 on Jun 1, 2020 | 108 comments

619.

Prisma 2.0 – Type-safe and auto-generated database client (prisma.io)

210 points by janpio on Jun 9, 2020 | 107 comments

620.

Peer-to-Peer Communications with WebRTC (developer.mozilla.org)

210 points by memexy on Jun 6, 2020 | 74 comments

621.

DNS Push Notifications (rfc-editor.org)

210 points by fauria on Jun 24, 2020 | 52 comments

622.

The Mathematics of Music [pdf] (imaginary.org)

210 points by kondor on Jun 11, 2020 | 32 comments

623.

Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns (axisofeasy.com)

209 points by StuntPope on Jun 5, 2020 | 325 comments

624.

Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why (blog.lipsurf.com)

209 points by mikob on Jun 23, 2020 | 69 comments

625.

Things to know before starting a Patreon page (pencerw.com)

209 points by colebowl on Jun 29, 2020 | 65 comments

626.

Exploration of Generative Art (generativeartistry.com)

209 points by qrv3w on Jun 23, 2020 | 43 comments

627.

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) (nautil.us)

208 points by rcshubhadeep on Jun 5, 2020 | 166 comments

628.

Hash: A free, online platform for modeling (joelonsoftware.com)

208 points by tobr on Jun 18, 2020 | 59 comments

629.

Show HN: Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq (github.com)

208 points by fiatjaf on Jun 5, 2020 | 56 comments

630.

Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year (wsj.com)

207 points by realbarack on Jun 16, 2020 | 526 comments