HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5101.

Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown (techcrunch.com)

240 points by jmsflknr on Jan 17, 2019 | 213 comments

5102.

China’s assault on Cathay Pacific (economist.com)

240 points by hker on Aug 23, 2019 | 191 comments

5103.

Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that (nytimes.com)

240 points by tysone on Apr 17, 2019 | 190 comments

5104.

My favorite Rust function (blog.jabid.in)

240 points by jaseemabid on Oct 12, 2019 | 183 comments

5105.

Data scientists shouldn't use Upwork (racketracer.com)

240 points by data4lyfe on Jul 11, 2019 | 149 comments

5106.

How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings (espn.com)

240 points by clairity on Nov 19, 2019 | 144 comments

5107.

24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible (insideclimatenews.org)

240 points by pmoriarty on Oct 14, 2019 | 121 comments

5108.

Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration (bristol.ac.uk)

240 points by ArtWomb on Oct 1, 2019 | 120 comments

5109.

Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15 (arstechnica.com)

240 points by joeyh on Jun 27, 2019 | 118 comments

5110.

NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7 (github.com)

240 points by htfy96 on Jan 21, 2019 | 109 comments

5111.

Homebrew 2.0.0 released (brew.sh)

240 points by mikemcquaid on Feb 2, 2019 | 107 comments

5112.

If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK (simplelogin.io)

240 points by emmaglossy on Nov 25, 2019 | 100 comments

5113.

CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (seclists.org)

240 points by afshinmeh on Feb 11, 2019 | 95 comments

5114.

Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999) (web.math.princeton.edu)

240 points by breck on Jun 28, 2019 | 89 comments

5115.

Files Are Fraught with Peril (danluu.com)

240 points by tambourine_man on Jul 23, 2019 | 78 comments

5116.

I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018) (labs.detectify.com)

240 points by yread on Jan 28, 2019 | 77 comments

5117.

Which Planet Is Closest? (cgpgrey.com)

240 points by vl on Oct 31, 2019 | 71 comments

5118.

Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years (apnews.com)

240 points by antigizmo on Jun 8, 2019 | 61 comments

5119.

A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments (learnk8s.io)

240 points by Cantaro86 on Dec 5, 2019 | 53 comments

5120.

CSS Grid Generator (cssgrid-generator.netlify.com)

240 points by raju on May 28, 2019 | 52 comments

5121.

FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf] (ftc.gov)

240 points by anigbrowl on Dec 6, 2019 | 42 comments

5122.

Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud (arstechnica.com)

240 points by howard941 on Jun 25, 2019 | 22 comments

5123.

Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration (hacks.mozilla.org)

240 points by weinzierl on Sep 11, 2019 | 10 comments

5124.

Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts (gizmodo.com)

240 points by alistairSH on Apr 18, 2019 | 2 comments

5125.

Decoded: GNU coreutils (2018) (maizure.org)

240 points by mariuz on Jul 2, 2019 | 2 comments

5126.

Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’ (vice.com)

239 points by lladnar on Aug 16, 2019 | 490 comments

5127.

Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews? (researchgate.net)

239 points by azhenley on Aug 15, 2019 | 460 comments

5128.

The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving (espn.com)

239 points by chris_overseas on Sep 13, 2019 | 347 comments

5129.

The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018) (popsci.com)

239 points by paulpauper on Oct 24, 2019 | 335 comments

5130.

Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? (bbc.com)

239 points by notlukesky on Jun 9, 2019 | 237 comments