HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2041.

In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better (nytimes.com)

362 points by Dangeranger on Feb 25, 2018 | 331 comments

2042.

India has a hole where its middle class should be (economist.com)

362 points by pbhowmic on Jan 13, 2018 | 330 comments

2043.

The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? (theatlantic.com)

362 points by katiey on Jun 3, 2018 | 269 comments

2044.

Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material (fastcompany.com)

362 points by ingve on Apr 12, 2018 | 266 comments

2045.

Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S. Power (bloomberg.com)

362 points by adventured on Jun 12, 2018 | 264 comments

2046.

Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds (businesswire.com)

362 points by lxm on Aug 3, 2018 | 215 comments

2047.

WhatsApp Encryption Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide into Group Chats (wired.com)

362 points by uptown on Jan 10, 2018 | 166 comments

2048.

Be Nice and Write Stable Code (technosophos.com)

362 points by jaytaylor on Jul 23, 2018 | 158 comments

2049.

What do Unix command names stand for? (unixguide.net)

362 points by Pete_D on Jun 15, 2018 | 153 comments

2050.

Firefox about:config privacy settings (gist.github.com)

362 points by krn on Sep 7, 2018 | 147 comments

2051.

Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT (github.com)

362 points by CiPHPerCoder on Jan 4, 2018 | 138 comments

2052.

The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging (lesspenguiny.com)

362 points by less_penguiny on Oct 5, 2018 | 124 comments

2053.

Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules (github.com)

362 points by Couto on Sep 13, 2018 | 99 comments

2054.

Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf] (apple.com)

362 points by chillaxtian on Oct 30, 2018 | 95 comments

2055.

How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf] (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

362 points by boricensis on Oct 15, 2018 | 25 comments

2056.

GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules (bbc.com)

361 points by vincvinc on May 25, 2018 | 657 comments

2057.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid (bloomberg.com)

361 points by uptown on Jun 14, 2018 | 416 comments

2058.

Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week (cnbc.com)

361 points by melling on Jul 1, 2018 | 361 comments

2059.

New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers (nytimes.com)

361 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 9, 2018 | 329 comments

2060.

SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round (bloomberg.com)

361 points by rising-sky on Apr 13, 2018 | 264 comments

2061.

The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day (twitter.com)

361 points by slbenfica on May 16, 2018 | 189 comments

2062.

Key Git Concepts Explained the Hard Way (zwischenzugs.com)

361 points by ingve on Mar 14, 2018 | 182 comments

2063.

Gell-Mann amnesia effect (en.wikipedia.org)

361 points by glastra on Sep 17, 2018 | 162 comments

2064.

WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages (arstechnica.com)

361 points by yepthatsreality on Aug 26, 2018 | 154 comments

2065.

Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018 (medium.freecodecamp.org)

361 points by node-bayarea on Apr 3, 2018 | 121 comments

2066.

Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript (charts.com)

361 points by pallavn on Oct 11, 2018 | 114 comments

2067.

Beginner's guide to longevity research (ldeming.com)

361 points by sajid on Jan 8, 2018 | 84 comments

2068.

PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements (pgdash.io)

361 points by craigkerstiens on May 21, 2018 | 55 comments

2069.

Draw This: a polaroid camera that draws cartoons (danmacnish.com)

361 points by neuhaus on Jul 5, 2018 | 55 comments

2070.

The State of JavaScript 2018 (2018.stateofjs.com)

360 points by WA on Nov 19, 2018 | 275 comments