HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms (theguardian.com)

146 points by Hard_Space on Aug 14, 2019 | 54 comments

842.

The Gig Economy (2018) (zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com)

146 points by ZhuanXia on Aug 25, 2019 | 20 comments

843.

Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV (nytimes.com)

145 points by jmsflknr on Aug 22, 2019 | 212 comments

844.

How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch (xorro-p2p.github.io)

145 points by grailed on Aug 6, 2019 | 19 comments

845.

Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events (vector.dev)

145 points by weitzj on Aug 31, 2019 | 17 comments

846.

Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World (quantamagazine.org)

145 points by Osiris30 on Aug 4, 2019 | 8 comments

847.

Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 (techcrunch.com)

145 points by samaysharma on Aug 28, 2019 | 2 comments

848.

US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In (twitter.com)

144 points by seapunk on Aug 16, 2019 | 242 comments

849.

Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College (vice.com)

144 points by HillaryBriss on Aug 28, 2019 | 241 comments

850.

Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components (retool.com)

144 points by syogi on Aug 8, 2019 | 27 comments

851.

JuliaCon 2019 Videos (youtube.com)

144 points by FranzFerdiNaN on Aug 1, 2019 | 25 comments

852.

Airframe – Open-Source Dashboard Template (github.com)

144 points by metamet on Aug 20, 2019 | 18 comments

853.

America’s social-media addiction is getting worse (economist.com)

143 points by seagullz on Aug 9, 2019 | 179 comments

854.

Mosquitoes Changed Everything (newyorker.com)

143 points by sasvari on Aug 4, 2019 | 140 comments

855.

FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring (wthr.com)

143 points by georgecmu on Aug 3, 2019 | 114 comments

856.

Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number (nytimes.com)

143 points by sneeze-slayer on Aug 15, 2019 | 111 comments

857.

Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera (kaspars.net)

143 points by ingve on Aug 9, 2019 | 68 comments

858.

Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles (theinformation.com)

142 points by ballmers_peak on Aug 26, 2019 | 194 comments

859.

What Germans Are Reading (the-american-interest.com)

142 points by objections on Aug 14, 2019 | 126 comments

860.

A Commercial Path to Fusion (physicsworld.com)

142 points by theothermkn on Aug 6, 2019 | 105 comments

861.

StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data (techcrunch.com)

142 points by rmason on Aug 4, 2019 | 102 comments

862.

“Bicycle of the Mind” (medium.learningbyshipping.com)

142 points by jensgk on Aug 16, 2019 | 45 comments

863.

Tiny Toy TOTP Generator in 18 Lines of Python (github.com)

142 points by susam on Aug 11, 2019 | 44 comments

864.

MoviePass reportedly changed passwords to prevent users from seeing films (theverge.com)

142 points by nwrk on Aug 11, 2019 | 41 comments

865.

Documentation – Your Secret Weapon (anup.io)

142 points by anupj on Aug 6, 2019 | 37 comments

866.

A Molecular Near Miss (isohedral.ca)

142 points by adenadel on Aug 29, 2019 | 11 comments

867.

Dwindling CPAN Releases (perlancar.wordpress.com)

141 points by perlancar3 on Aug 1, 2019 | 170 comments

868.

What Companies Are For (economist.com)

141 points by prostoalex on Aug 24, 2019 | 168 comments

869.

Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB (hutter1.net)

141 points by tosh on Aug 11, 2019 | 101 comments

870.

AdoptOpenJDK: Open-source, prebuilt OpenJDK binaries (adoptopenjdk.net)

141 points by nnnmnten on Aug 21, 2019 | 86 comments