HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4501.

Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018) (bbc.com)

259 points by how-about-this on Dec 1, 2019 | 63 comments

4502.

The Mind of a Mathematician (paw.princeton.edu)

259 points by lordgrenville on Nov 14, 2019 | 61 comments

4503.

GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic (elconfidencial.com)

259 points by zoobab on Oct 30, 2019 | 56 comments

4504.

Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (store.hesperian.org)

259 points by homarp on Mar 19, 2019 | 52 comments

4505.

I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015) (sigbus.info)

259 points by rspivak on Sep 5, 2019 | 44 comments

4506.

US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs (justice.gov)

259 points by jonnybgood on Sep 17, 2019 | 2 comments

4507.

The Rise of the Electric Scooter (blog.codinghorror.com)

258 points by idoco on Sep 12, 2019 | 326 comments

4508.

US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max (bbc.com)

258 points by pierre-renaux on Mar 13, 2019 | 323 comments

4509.

Insect collapse (theguardian.com)

258 points by crispinb on Jan 15, 2019 | 255 comments

4510.

Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (businessroundtable.org)

258 points by neolander on Aug 19, 2019 | 199 comments

4511.

The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (narratively.com)

258 points by chha on Jul 23, 2019 | 197 comments

4512.

EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database (zdnet.com)

258 points by donohoe on Apr 22, 2019 | 190 comments

4513.

Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet (twitter.com)

258 points by theBashShell on Jan 22, 2019 | 188 comments

4514.

Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy (nytimes.com)

258 points by mykowebhn on Oct 16, 2019 | 163 comments

4515.

People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook (analysis.leadstories.com)

258 points by ericzawo on Dec 20, 2019 | 144 comments

4516.

Against Against Pseudoaddiction (slatestarcodex.com)

258 points by jerf on Sep 16, 2019 | 137 comments

4517.

Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA (nytimes.com)

258 points by awad on Oct 11, 2019 | 124 comments

4518.

US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe (theguardian.com)

258 points by gpresot on May 22, 2019 | 119 comments

4519.

Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions (theguardian.com)

258 points by hellllllllooo on Nov 12, 2019 | 115 comments

4520.

India to order taxi aggregators like Uber, Ola to go electric (in.reuters.com)

258 points by abhi3 on Jun 6, 2019 | 113 comments

4521.

BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver (borgbackup.org)

258 points by colinprince on Nov 26, 2019 | 103 comments

4522.

YC Interviews in India (blog.ycombinator.com)

258 points by katm on Mar 28, 2019 | 77 comments

4523.

Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019 (ifixit.org)

258 points by ahyattdev on Jan 24, 2019 | 62 comments

4524.

Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser (puffer.stanford.edu)

258 points by rowdyranga on Jul 21, 2019 | 51 comments

4525.

Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal (vox.com)

258 points by paulpauper on May 21, 2019 | 46 comments

4526.

Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018) (nullprogram.com)

258 points by lelf on Feb 3, 2019 | 32 comments

4527.

A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla (bostonglobe.com)

257 points by lelf on Mar 5, 2019 | 242 comments

4528.

Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware (phys.org)

257 points by lelf on Jul 11, 2019 | 203 comments

4529.

Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again (bleepingcomputer.com)

257 points by heyyyouu on Aug 6, 2019 | 188 comments

4530.

A fork() in the road (microsoft.com)

257 points by ralish on Apr 10, 2019 | 178 comments