HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18% (cnbc.com)

45 points by jmsflknr on Jan 15, 2019 | 110 comments

2012.

Disturbing Rise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) (guerrilla-capitalism.com)

45 points by StuntPope on Jan 21, 2019 | 98 comments

2013.

ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op (washingtonpost.com)

45 points by malshe on Jan 31, 2019 | 98 comments

2014.

Protein mania: the rich world’s new diet obsession (theguardian.com)

45 points by camtarn on Jan 4, 2019 | 86 comments

2015.

Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype (wsj.com)

45 points by mudil on Jan 20, 2019 | 68 comments

2016.

75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week (lite.cnn.io)

45 points by LinuxBender on Jan 28, 2019 | 62 comments

2017.

Two-Factor Authentication Might Not Keep You Safe (nytimes.com)

45 points by pseudolus on Jan 28, 2019 | 49 comments

2018.

Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials (news.mit.edu)

45 points by beautifulfreak on Jan 30, 2019 | 33 comments

2019.

Study tracks dramatic retreat of Canadian glaciers (dailycamera.com)

45 points by yawz on Jan 28, 2019 | 32 comments

2020.

How Oregon ensnares mentally ill people charged with low-level crimes (oregonlive.com)

45 points by joveian on Jan 27, 2019 | 28 comments

2021.

Your new smart TV is so cheap because it's collecting and selling your data (businessinsider.com)

45 points by elorant on Jan 14, 2019 | 26 comments

2022.

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006) (smithsonianmag.com)

45 points by gyre007 on Jan 13, 2019 | 20 comments

2023.

It Appears China Is Building a Massive Espionage Database on America (danielmiessler.com)

45 points by danielrm26 on Jan 3, 2019 | 14 comments

2024.

What bioRxiv’s first 30,000 preprints reveal about biologists (nature.com)

45 points by digital55 on Jan 23, 2019 | 11 comments

2025.

Community-based, human-centered design (jnd.org)

45 points by icc97 on Jan 1, 2019 | 9 comments

2026.

VLC media player has been downloaded 3 billion times (venturebeat.com)

45 points by jmsflknr on Jan 11, 2019 | 7 comments

2027.

Rats 'wrongly blamed' for 1900 Glasgow plague outbreak (bbc.com)

45 points by sohkamyung on Jan 4, 2019 | 5 comments

2028.

MegaProcessor (2017) [video] (youtube.com)

45 points by pseudolus on Jan 7, 2019 | 5 comments

2029.

Game in which you build your own CPU (store.steampowered.com)

45 points by huntermeyer on Jan 6, 2019 | 4 comments

2030.

Notes from Michael Feathers’ “Brutal Refactoring” (2011) (thekua.com)

45 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 5, 2019 | 2 comments

2031.

Docker tutorial for beginners (hashnode.com)

45 points by lironavon on Jan 30, 2019 | 0 comments

2032.

Ethereum is Doomed (2016) (nakamotoinstitute.org)

44 points by petethomas on Jan 15, 2019 | 121 comments

2033.

A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long (bbc.com)

44 points by fraqed on Jan 20, 2019 | 70 comments

2034.

Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs (theverge.com)

44 points by bkmn on Jan 6, 2019 | 60 comments

2035.

I Am Not a Real Programmer (dev.to)

44 points by evo_9 on Jan 28, 2019 | 48 comments

2036.

Blood transfusion startup Ambrosia is now up and running (businessinsider.com)

44 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 17, 2019 | 45 comments

2037.

Ask HN: What are the most fun areas of programming?

44 points by that_thing on Jan 30, 2019 | 42 comments

2038.

Immigration in American Economic History (2017) [pdf] (pubs.aeaweb.org)

44 points by hownottowrite on Jan 5, 2019 | 22 comments

2039.

Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago (news.uci.edu)

44 points by mturmon on Jan 14, 2019 | 22 comments

2040.

Screens might be as bad for mental health as potatoes (wired.com)

44 points by dhh2106 on Jan 15, 2019 | 21 comments