HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous (nymag.com)

76 points by prostoalex on May 17, 2019 | 110 comments

1622.

Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching (japantimes.co.jp)

76 points by Ultramanoid on May 15, 2019 | 103 comments

1623.

New Taxes and Higher Density Aren't Fixing Vancouver's Housing Problem (citylab.com)

76 points by pseudolus on May 8, 2019 | 100 comments

1624.

Why Workers Without College Degrees Are Fleeing Big Cities (nytimes.com)

76 points by pseudolus on May 21, 2019 | 94 comments

1625.

A class-action suit imperils California freelancers (cjr.org)

76 points by gok on May 31, 2019 | 82 comments

1626.

EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants (reuters.com)

76 points by kerng on May 3, 2019 | 67 comments

1627.

Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York? (nymag.com)

76 points by tptacek on May 30, 2019 | 59 comments

1628.

One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland (wweek.com)

76 points by unquote on May 13, 2019 | 44 comments

1629.

How to slice your code into continuations (dpiponi.github.io)

76 points by praveenscience on May 5, 2019 | 30 comments

1630.

Boeing Admits It Knew of a Faulty Safety Alert in 737 Max (digit.fyi)

76 points by digighoul on May 9, 2019 | 30 comments

1631.

Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features (arxiv.org)

76 points by selimonder on May 8, 2019 | 28 comments

1632.

Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014) (gizmodo.com)

76 points by jxub on May 19, 2019 | 21 comments

1633.

Price Fixing: The Legal Argument That Could Destroy Uber (jalopnik.com)

76 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 21, 2019 | 19 comments

1634.

Multi-threaded SQLite without the OperationalErrors (2017) (charlesleifer.com)

76 points by throwaway1492 on May 30, 2019 | 19 comments

1635.

Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010) (cocoasamurai.blogspot.com)

76 points by beefhash on May 26, 2019 | 11 comments

1636.

Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf] (openbsd.org)

76 points by Jonhoo on May 17, 2019 | 6 comments

1637.

Microamp: Asymmetric Multi-Processing on Microcontrollers (blog.japaric.io)

76 points by zdw on May 11, 2019 | 3 comments

1638.

Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear Danger to Journalism, Speech (eff.org)

76 points by DiabloD3 on May 25, 2019 | 0 comments

1639.

Tim Cook: Four-Year Degree Not Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding' (macrumors.com)

75 points by ttflee on May 10, 2019 | 102 comments

1640.

White House launches tool to report censorship on social media (theverge.com)

75 points by mooseburger on May 16, 2019 | 100 comments

1641.

After suggesting a developer drop Linux support, Vivox have released a statement (gamingonlinux.com)

75 points by dejaime on May 1, 2019 | 97 comments

1642.

Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug (cleantechnica.com)

75 points by JeffL on May 28, 2019 | 91 comments

1643.

Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking (zdnet.com)

75 points by PatrolX on May 28, 2019 | 85 comments

1644.

The Fusion Reactor Next Door (nytimes.com)

75 points by pinewurst on May 15, 2019 | 73 comments

1645.

Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android (venturebeat.com)

75 points by jmsflknr on May 9, 2019 | 70 comments

1646.

U.S. records 75 new measles cases, 9.8% increase, as outbreak grows (reuters.com)

75 points by SolaceQuantum on May 13, 2019 | 65 comments

1647.

Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple (theverge.com)

75 points by jmsflknr on May 29, 2019 | 56 comments

1648.

Prospecting for gold by looking in leaves has proven itself in Australia (economist.com)

75 points by pseudolus on May 23, 2019 | 45 comments

1649.

Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large.” (vox.com)

75 points by howard941 on May 22, 2019 | 44 comments

1650.

The Tyranny of Ideas (nadiaeghbal.com)

75 points by jger15 on May 12, 2019 | 43 comments