HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4831.

Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Finalists (illusionoftheyear.com)

248 points by lisper on Dec 15, 2019 | 38 comments

4832.

The Common Lisp Cookbook (lispcookbook.github.io)

248 points by ghosthamlet on May 23, 2019 | 27 comments

4833.

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf] (stlouisfed.org)

247 points by SQL2219 on Dec 27, 2019 | 351 comments

4834.

UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told (newsweek.com)

247 points by emptybits on May 2, 2019 | 320 comments

4835.

When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved (hbr.org)

247 points by r0n0j0y on Jun 12, 2019 | 318 comments

4836.

The Fasting Cure Is No Fad (wsj.com)

247 points by paulsutter on Aug 2, 2019 | 235 comments

4837.

Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered (neh.gov)

247 points by everbody on Oct 24, 2019 | 231 comments

4838.

GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece of modern techno-insanity (theregister.co.uk)

247 points by gitgud on Aug 15, 2019 | 230 comments

4839.

How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers (startupandrew.com)

247 points by vikrum on Sep 26, 2019 | 222 comments

4840.

How much free time do you have? (erikrood.com)

247 points by deegles on Jul 5, 2019 | 220 comments

4841.

Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming (sciencemag.org)

247 points by aazaa on Dec 4, 2019 | 219 comments

4842.

What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game? (reddit.com)

247 points by danso on Mar 5, 2019 | 207 comments

4843.

The next generation of wall chargers (theverge.com)

247 points by rutenspitz on Dec 1, 2019 | 195 comments

4844.

Technical Vision for Qt 6 (blog.qt.io)

247 points by pjmlp on Aug 7, 2019 | 181 comments

4845.

How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results (msn.com)

247 points by tysone on Nov 15, 2019 | 177 comments

4846.

I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain (nytimes.com)

247 points by imartin2k on Feb 24, 2019 | 169 comments

4847.

Cloud Run beta pricing (cloud.google.com)

247 points by rahimnathwani on Apr 9, 2019 | 162 comments

4848.

The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds (theguardian.com)

247 points by bo0tzz on Nov 1, 2019 | 142 comments

4849.

Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed' (bbc.com)

247 points by headalgorithm on Oct 14, 2019 | 135 comments

4850.

Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018) (two-wrongs.com)

247 points by unhammer on Jun 10, 2019 | 133 comments

4851.

Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage (cloud.google.com)

247 points by ingve on May 21, 2019 | 116 comments

4852.

Scheduling in React (philippspiess.com)

247 points by tosh on Mar 7, 2019 | 104 comments

4853.

Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass (charmindustrial.com)

247 points by grantlmiller on Mar 19, 2019 | 102 comments

4854.

Uncomfortable AWS Truths (twitter.com)

247 points by mooreds on Sep 15, 2019 | 86 comments

4855.

New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness (nytimes.com)

247 points by ColinWright on Oct 9, 2019 | 83 comments

4856.

Land of Lisp (2010) (landoflisp.com)

247 points by tosh on Apr 16, 2019 | 80 comments

4857.

Burnout (johnnyrodgers.is)

247 points by markchristian on Jul 28, 2019 | 69 comments

4858.

ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter (domainnamewire.com)

247 points by pierreneter on Nov 17, 2019 | 50 comments

4859.

Open-source firmware (mullvad.net)

247 points by ericdanielski on Aug 9, 2019 | 47 comments

4860.

U.S. blocks Amazon efforts to stop shareholder votes on facial recognition (reuters.com)

247 points by pseudolus on Apr 5, 2019 | 45 comments