HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2491.

The Last Pirate of New York (commentarymagazine.com)

33 points by sillybilly on Aug 28, 2019 | 9 comments

2492.

Organoids Are Not Brains. How Are They Making Brain Waves? (nytimes.com)

33 points by benwen on Aug 29, 2019 | 8 comments

2493.

Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols (atlasobscura.com)

33 points by tintinnabula on Aug 10, 2019 | 6 comments

2494.

In Praise of Pretty Books (washingtonpost.com)

33 points by prismatic on Aug 15, 2019 | 6 comments

2495.

The Incremental Machine (acko.net)

33 points by zbentley on Aug 13, 2019 | 5 comments

2496.

440 year-old maps filled with footprints (npr.org)

33 points by pseudolus on Aug 24, 2019 | 5 comments

2497.

The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion (towardsdatascience.com)

33 points by AllenDowney on Aug 10, 2019 | 4 comments

2498.

The Streets of New York (nybooks.com)

33 points by prismatic on Aug 21, 2019 | 4 comments

2499.

Facebook’s Ad Network Keeps Crashing, and Clients Are Fuming (bloomberg.com)

33 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 8, 2019 | 3 comments

2500.

Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black U.S. men (latimes.com)

33 points by xenocyon on Aug 24, 2019 | 3 comments

2501.

Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii (atlasobscura.com)

33 points by diodorus on Aug 15, 2019 | 2 comments

2502.

Applegate’s Aproximada (2017) (kevinlightphoto.com)

33 points by rmason on Aug 6, 2019 | 1 comments

2503.

Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents (wsj.com)

33 points by uptown on Aug 14, 2019 | 1 comments

2504.

How do calculators do trigonometry? (chalkdustmagazine.com)

33 points by JNRowe on Aug 16, 2019 | 1 comments

2505.

Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy (eff.org)

33 points by e271828 on Aug 23, 2019 | 1 comments

2506.

Some Tools for Google Chrome?

33 points by Kachurmtb on Aug 13, 2019 | 0 comments

2507.

China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank (bloomberg.com)

32 points by eznoonze on Aug 19, 2019 | 63 comments

2508.

Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?

32 points by nikisweeting on Aug 22, 2019 | 61 comments

2509.

In plain sight: California illegal pot market booming (apnews.com)

32 points by prostoalex on Aug 25, 2019 | 50 comments

2510.

Is involuntary treatment for mental illness allowed under CRPD? (nationalelfservice.net)

32 points by DanBC on Aug 19, 2019 | 45 comments

2511.

Ask HN: Given that I am a Software Engineer, how could I help humanity the most?

32 points by beetsdev on Aug 7, 2019 | 38 comments

2512.

Characterizing the Performance Impact of AMP (blog.apnic.net)

32 points by jsnell on Aug 10, 2019 | 33 comments

2513.

Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? (nytimes.com)

32 points by jbegley on Aug 28, 2019 | 23 comments

2514.

Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994) (nytimes.com)

32 points by marban on Aug 11, 2019 | 20 comments

2515.

With Microsoft Dumping MS Office, Consider LibreOffice for Your PC Office Suite (zdnet.com)

32 points by CrankyBear on Aug 13, 2019 | 20 comments

2516.

From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's internal economy works (theguardian.com)

32 points by EliRivers on Aug 30, 2019 | 18 comments

2517.

Greenland Lost 12.5B Tons of Ice in a Single Day (smithsonianmag.com)

32 points by pseudolus on Aug 5, 2019 | 16 comments

2518.

Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU (danielpovey.com)

32 points by xucheng on Aug 9, 2019 | 16 comments

2519.

Google wants to make you feel like you're on a crowded train to up ad engagement (twitter.com)

32 points by FlowNote on Aug 17, 2019 | 16 comments

2520.

Tell HN: Somu is live. Tiny, FIDO2, open source security key

32 points by ecesena on Aug 8, 2019 | 14 comments