HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

Roaring glacial melt under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland (twitter.com)

89 points by DoreenMichele on Aug 2, 2019 | 46 comments

1412.

The foodoo economics of meal delivery (economist.com)

89 points by sien on Aug 1, 2019 | 43 comments

1413.

America’s DIY Phone Farmers (vice.com)

89 points by vit05 on Aug 2, 2019 | 39 comments

1414.

A chemical clue to how life started on Earth (phys.org)

89 points by dnetesn on Aug 1, 2019 | 19 comments

1415.

The New Treasures of Pompeii (smithsonianmag.com)

89 points by dangerman on Aug 22, 2019 | 18 comments

1416.

SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp (krebsonsecurity.com)

89 points by feross on Aug 12, 2019 | 14 comments

1417.

Diagnostics with Tracing, a Unified Instrumentation System for Rust (tokio.rs)

89 points by thramp on Aug 14, 2019 | 11 comments

1418.

A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins (latimes.com)

89 points by wglb on Aug 9, 2019 | 7 comments

1419.

It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too (reddit.com)

88 points by majikarp on Aug 17, 2019 | 88 comments

1420.

Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons (sciencemag.org)

88 points by tshannon on Aug 19, 2019 | 77 comments

1421.

Don't Say “Homoiconic” (2018) (expressionsofchange.org)

88 points by dmux on Aug 9, 2019 | 68 comments

1422.

The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it? (bbc.com)

88 points by allanberger on Aug 24, 2019 | 68 comments

1423.

Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via Helicopter Catching (rocketlabusa.com)

88 points by kevinsundar on Aug 6, 2019 | 51 comments

1424.

Q-Learning (en.wikipedia.org)

88 points by tosh on Aug 13, 2019 | 33 comments

1425.

India Develops the World's First Iron-Ion Battery (energytrend.com)

88 points by doener on Aug 26, 2019 | 27 comments

1426.

The OpenBSD Ada Library (verisimilitudes.net)

88 points by verisimilitudes on Aug 4, 2019 | 19 comments

1427.

How Life Sciences Actually Work (guzey.com)

88 points by DarkContinent on Aug 18, 2019 | 18 comments

1428.

US Air Force pauses flights for over a hundred C-130s over ‘atypical’ cracking (defensenews.com)

88 points by Jerry2 on Aug 9, 2019 | 16 comments

1429.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)

87 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2019 | 172 comments

1430.

British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures (bbc.co.uk)

87 points by chris_overseas on Aug 7, 2019 | 110 comments

1431.

I am a horse in the land of booleans (iloveponies.github.io)

87 points by tosh on Aug 10, 2019 | 85 comments

1432.

Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?

87 points by bedros on Aug 29, 2019 | 82 comments

1433.

We may not be running out of helium after all (2015) (newatlas.com)

87 points by welder on Aug 7, 2019 | 78 comments

1434.

What If Silicon Valley’s ‘Brilliant Jerks’ Are Just Jerks? (bloomberg.com)

87 points by jpm_sd on Aug 31, 2019 | 53 comments

1435.

Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years in UK (theguardian.com)

87 points by sohkamyung on Aug 30, 2019 | 46 comments

1436.

Apple’s US job footprint grows to 2.4M (apple.com)

87 points by feross on Aug 15, 2019 | 35 comments

1437.

Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (2013) (theatlantic.com)

87 points by areoform on Aug 4, 2019 | 34 comments

1438.

Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English (viorel.me)

87 points by kioleanu on Aug 29, 2019 | 29 comments

1439.

What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them (sciencealert.com)

87 points by shawndumas on Aug 16, 2019 | 27 comments

1440.

Etcd 3.4 (kubernetes.io)

87 points by jinqueeny on Aug 31, 2019 | 16 comments