HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5011.

How to Eliminate the Dreaded “Blind Spot” (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

242 points by harshulpandav on Jan 3, 2019 | 308 comments

5012.

Future JavaScript: what is still missing? (2ality.com)

242 points by scottfr on Jan 27, 2019 | 277 comments

5013.

Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’ (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)

242 points by bookofjoe on Nov 15, 2019 | 260 comments

5014.

Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS (pelotonmagazine.com)

242 points by Alex3917 on Aug 29, 2019 | 213 comments

5015.

Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger (bloomberg.com)

242 points by pseudolus on Feb 14, 2019 | 212 comments

5016.

Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic (github.com)

242 points by yakshaving_jgt on Jun 5, 2019 | 209 comments

5017.

Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood (variety.com)

242 points by lnguyen on Sep 24, 2019 | 200 comments

5018.

Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing (modernretail.co)

242 points by ilamont on Aug 14, 2019 | 186 comments

5019.

Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way (thehill.com)

242 points by grellas on Jun 15, 2019 | 180 comments

5020.

Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity (axios.com)

242 points by swedtrue on Nov 10, 2019 | 161 comments

5021.

SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters? (sfchronicle.com)

242 points by in3d on Dec 15, 2019 | 158 comments

5022.

The SaaS Opportunity of Unbundling Excel (foundationinc.co)

242 points by taylorwc on Jun 3, 2019 | 155 comments

5023.

IPFS Project Roadmap (github.com)

242 points by robto on Apr 12, 2019 | 149 comments

5024.

Logical fallacies in software engineering (artur-martsinkovskyi.github.io)

242 points by gentleterror on May 26, 2019 | 145 comments

5025.

Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees (foxla.com)

242 points by Crafty_Gurl on Oct 24, 2019 | 119 comments

5026.

The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

242 points by headalgorithm on Aug 8, 2019 | 114 comments

5027.

Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy (blog.malwarebytes.com)

242 points by johnisgood on Mar 16, 2019 | 113 comments

5028.

Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs (wired.com)

242 points by lelf on Feb 16, 2019 | 112 comments

5029.

Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP (jrsinclair.com)

242 points by jrsinclair on Nov 19, 2019 | 112 comments

5030.

Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’ (techcrunch.com)

242 points by samaysharma on Feb 21, 2019 | 107 comments

5031.

Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts (twitter.com)

242 points by dskrvk on Jul 20, 2019 | 103 comments

5032.

Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England (fwi.co.uk)

242 points by kibwen on Feb 24, 2019 | 100 comments

5033.

Man Stole $122M from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta (boingboing.net)

242 points by paulgerhardt on Mar 24, 2019 | 93 comments

5034.

Why 50 Ohms? (microwaves101.com)

242 points by segfaultbuserr on Nov 17, 2019 | 89 comments

5035.

Party is over for dirt-cheap solar panels, says China executive (reuters.com)

242 points by howard941 on Jan 25, 2019 | 83 comments

5036.

One week of empathy training (shkspr.mobi)

242 points by edent on Jul 30, 2019 | 83 comments

5037.

Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter (cbc.ca)

242 points by asaegyn on Oct 23, 2019 | 80 comments

5038.

Firefox Preview 3.0 (support.mozilla.org)

242 points by vidyesh on Nov 28, 2019 | 80 comments

5039.

IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku (discuss.haiku-os.org)

242 points by return_0e on Jan 12, 2019 | 77 comments

5040.

There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings (nate-crowley.com)

242 points by fanf2 on Feb 6, 2019 | 75 comments