HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1891.

‘Father is Surgeon,’ ‘1 mil pledge’: The Role of Money in USC Admissions (wsj.com)

51 points by tempsy on Sep 3, 2019 | 137 comments

1892.

Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health (cnbc.com)

51 points by Xixi on Sep 3, 2019 | 100 comments

1893.

How the Media Can Help Prevent Mass Shootings (greatergood.berkeley.edu)

51 points by Reedx on Sep 3, 2019 | 75 comments

1894.

Supermicro server BMCs left exposed to remote attack by any USB device (secalerts.co)

51 points by GiulioS on Sep 3, 2019 | 39 comments

1895.

Ask HN: How do you work with the fear of your own incompetence?

51 points by DollarGuru on Sep 29, 2019 | 39 comments

1896.

Anti-vax movement effectively reversing decades of progress internationally (qz.com)

51 points by rahuldottech on Sep 12, 2019 | 31 comments

1897.

Sauropod Neck Posture (en.wikipedia.org)

51 points by foxes on Sep 13, 2019 | 30 comments

1898.

Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims as 'Entirely Willing' (vice.com)

51 points by jchallis on Sep 13, 2019 | 30 comments

1899.

Bill Gates: I met with Epstein because “he knows a lot of rich people” (cnbc.com)

51 points by AndrewBissell on Sep 10, 2019 | 29 comments

1900.

A Hologram Suggests How Space Could Pop into Existence (nautil.us)

51 points by dnetesn on Sep 9, 2019 | 22 comments

1901.

The New York Times shutters NYT en Español after three years (niemanlab.org)

51 points by hhs on Sep 18, 2019 | 22 comments

1902.

How do you hide a war from your loved one? (thestar.com)

51 points by breitling on Sep 12, 2019 | 21 comments

1903.

Ask HN: Open-source voice assistants like Siri? Or can I build one on my own?

51 points by mettamage on Sep 12, 2019 | 17 comments

1904.

Release Keras 2.3.0 · Keras-team/Keras (github.com)

51 points by Anon84 on Sep 17, 2019 | 15 comments

1905.

Amazon Signs Climate Pledge to Advance Paris Climate Accords Goals by 10 Years (venturebeat.com)

51 points by CitizenTekk on Sep 19, 2019 | 7 comments

1906.

Buffon's Needle Problem (en.wikipedia.org)

51 points by peterapps on Sep 28, 2019 | 7 comments

1907.

The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008) (digitalhumanities.org)

51 points by benbreen on Sep 6, 2019 | 4 comments

1908.

Replay in biological and artificial neural networks (deepmind.com)

51 points by Melchizedek on Sep 6, 2019 | 2 comments

1909.

Ten Years of Turning Documents into Data: A Q&A with DocumentCloud (knightfoundation.org)

51 points by danso on Sep 23, 2019 | 1 comments

1910.

What College Admissions Want (nytimes.com)

50 points by bryanrasmussen on Sep 10, 2019 | 81 comments

1911.

Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking? (theatlantic.com)

50 points by prostoalex on Sep 10, 2019 | 75 comments

1912.

Why has the hearing aid industry gone completely digital? (slate.com)

50 points by daddylonglegs on Sep 12, 2019 | 72 comments

1913.

I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman (newyorker.com)

50 points by jseliger on Sep 15, 2019 | 72 comments

1914.

Analyzing DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS Privacy and Security Claims (blog.technitium.com)

50 points by shreyasonline on Sep 28, 2019 | 66 comments

1915.

Millennials Continue to Leave Big Cities (wsj.com)

50 points by jseliger on Sep 26, 2019 | 56 comments

1916.

Stalin's Poetry (en.wikipedia.org)

50 points by imwm on Sep 29, 2019 | 47 comments

1917.

Betting the Farm on the Drought (2015) (longreads.com)

50 points by axiomdata316 on Sep 3, 2019 | 41 comments

1918.

Suicide rates climbing, especially in rural America (news.osu.edu)

50 points by EndXA on Sep 7, 2019 | 38 comments

1919.

The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal (edition.cnn.com)

50 points by hellofunk on Sep 18, 2019 | 36 comments

1920.

Myths in Cycling (1): Wider Tires Are Slower (2018) (janheine.wordpress.com)

50 points by tokai on Sep 14, 2019 | 32 comments