HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

No Pay Stub? No Problem. Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback (wsj.com)

73 points by onetimemanytime on Jan 23, 2019 | 90 comments

1502.

Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine? (wired.com)

73 points by georgecmu on Jan 15, 2019 | 73 comments

1503.

Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right? (wired.com)

73 points by ColinWright on Jan 20, 2019 | 71 comments

1504.

Bring back the 40-hour work week (2012) (salon.com)

73 points by BossingAround on Jan 27, 2019 | 66 comments

1505.

Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor (livoxtech.com)

73 points by slimsag on Jan 20, 2019 | 59 comments

1506.

Train ferry (en.wikipedia.org)

73 points by keeganjw on Jan 11, 2019 | 54 comments

1507.

Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies (itnext.io)

73 points by kiyanwang on Jan 21, 2019 | 52 comments

1508.

IBM Q System One (research.ibm.com)

73 points by lainon on Jan 8, 2019 | 50 comments

1509.

FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts (aclu.org)

73 points by deegles on Jan 17, 2019 | 43 comments

1510.

GNU Bison 3.3 released (savannah.gnu.org)

73 points by jrepinc on Jan 26, 2019 | 43 comments

1511.

Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers (github.com)

73 points by kenshaw on Jan 18, 2019 | 39 comments

1512.

Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns (righto.com)

73 points by mmastrac on Jan 22, 2019 | 29 comments

1513.

When to Buy Your Own ISBNs (mwl.io)

73 points by janvdberg on Jan 24, 2019 | 29 comments

1514.

Hacking with private APIs on iPad (rambo.codes)

73 points by ingve on Jan 12, 2019 | 20 comments

1515.

TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool (github.com)

73 points by ceohockey60 on Jan 21, 2019 | 20 comments

1516.

Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX (blogs.perl.org)

73 points by leejo on Jan 14, 2019 | 14 comments

1517.

Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse (altinity.com)

73 points by hodgesrm on Jan 28, 2019 | 13 comments

1518.

Venture Capitalists are much less ambitious than their private equity siblings (summation.net)

73 points by telotortium on Jan 28, 2019 | 5 comments

1519.

The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

72 points by monort on Jan 1, 2019 | 100 comments

1520.

San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data (spectrum.ieee.org)

72 points by teklaperry on Jan 16, 2019 | 76 comments

1521.

Another Reason U.S. Fears Huawei: Its Gear Works and It's Cheap (bloomberg.com)

72 points by pseudolus on Jan 25, 2019 | 51 comments

1522.

iRobot (Roomba) shares customer data with Google and other affiliates (webapi.irobot.com)

72 points by lettergram on Jan 12, 2019 | 38 comments

1523.

Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined (medium.com)

72 points by borjamoya on Jan 5, 2019 | 36 comments

1524.

12.1T Digits of Pi (numberworld.org)

72 points by rocky1138 on Jan 13, 2019 | 25 comments

1525.

Tumblr Opensources Kubernetes Utilities (engineering.tumblr.com)

72 points by byxorna on Jan 14, 2019 | 17 comments

1526.

Venus – RISC-V Simulator (thaumicmekanism.github.io)

72 points by steven741 on Jan 4, 2019 | 14 comments

1527.

Work on using AI to brain activity into speech (sciencemag.org)

72 points by Osiris30 on Jan 4, 2019 | 12 comments

1528.

Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations (github.com)

72 points by sahin-boydas on Jan 24, 2019 | 11 comments

1529.

How “At the Gates” took 7 years of my life – and nearly the rest (jonshaferondesign.com)

72 points by smacktoward on Jan 9, 2019 | 8 comments

1530.

Scans of early RFCs (write.as)

72 points by sohkamyung on Jan 24, 2019 | 5 comments