HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2971.

How not to hire a software engineer (tonsky.me)

329 points by kiyanwang on Apr 1, 2019 | 230 comments

2972.

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? (outsideonline.com)

329 points by cribbles on Jan 12, 2019 | 176 comments

2973.

I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me (fastcompany.com)

329 points by laurex on Mar 20, 2019 | 170 comments

2974.

Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version (techcrunch.com)

329 points by bookofjoe on Mar 18, 2019 | 169 comments

2975.

Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps (bbc.co.uk)

329 points by asplake on Nov 24, 2019 | 148 comments

2976.

Space Colony Art from the 1970s (publicdomainreview.org)

329 points by tintinnabula on Feb 10, 2019 | 131 comments

2977.

How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software (puri.sm)

329 points by aquabeagle on Jan 10, 2019 | 119 comments

2978.

Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite (theguardian.com)

329 points by elorant on Sep 11, 2019 | 113 comments

2979.

Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies (nytimes.com)

329 points by tysone on Sep 20, 2019 | 106 comments

2980.

Gall's Law (en.wikipedia.org)

329 points by mpweiher on Mar 19, 2019 | 101 comments

2981.

Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers (atlasobscura.com)

329 points by bookofjoe on Mar 17, 2019 | 79 comments

2982.

The Nintendo Switch Switch (blog.cynthia.re)

329 points by bitcynth on Dec 9, 2019 | 78 comments

2983.

A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017) (ge.com)

329 points by ycombonator on Mar 21, 2019 | 72 comments

2984.

Explain shell (explainshell.com)

329 points by royalharsh95 on Feb 9, 2019 | 52 comments

2985.

What If Consciousness Comes First? (psychologytoday.com)

328 points by devilcius on Jul 24, 2019 | 548 comments

2986.

It's time to ban cars from Manhattan? (ny.curbed.com)

328 points by undefined1 on Oct 4, 2019 | 315 comments

2987.

Attorney General Barr and Encryption (schneier.com)

328 points by hsnewman on Aug 14, 2019 | 220 comments

2988.

Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill (lowtechmagazine.com)

328 points by nyc111 on Feb 27, 2019 | 172 comments

2989.

Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread (washingtonpost.com)

328 points by howard941 on Mar 30, 2019 | 167 comments

2990.

Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System (signal.org)

328 points by stablemap on Dec 9, 2019 | 152 comments

2991.

Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water (physics-astronomy.org)

328 points by rchaudhary on Sep 15, 2019 | 135 comments

2992.

Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982 (twitter.com)

328 points by eric_khun on Oct 27, 2019 | 133 comments

2993.

No more XS4ALL is unthinkable (lgms.nl)

328 points by lucgommans on Jan 16, 2019 | 125 comments

2994.

Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application (github.com)

328 points by The_Colonel on Jan 6, 2019 | 124 comments

2995.

Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets (microsoft.com)

328 points by pjmlp on Jan 19, 2019 | 124 comments

2996.

Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months (techcrunch.com)

328 points by marcc on May 1, 2019 | 118 comments

2997.

Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup (postgresql.org)

328 points by boshomi on Jan 10, 2019 | 111 comments

2998.

An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound (bu.edu)

328 points by njaremko on Mar 9, 2019 | 93 comments

2999.

Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

328 points by 8589934591 on Dec 31, 2019 | 89 comments

3000.

The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award (lamport.azurewebsites.net)

328 points by pron on Aug 30, 2019 | 83 comments