HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

571.

A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests (scientificamerican.com)

695 points by headalgorithm on May 21, 2019 | 481 comments

572.

EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others (theregister.co.uk)

694 points by snaky on Mar 18, 2019 | 309 comments

573.

Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (jacek.zlydach.pl)

692 points by TeMPOraL on Jul 31, 2019 | 640 comments

574.

No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers (nocsdegree.com)

692 points by Pete-Codes on Jul 23, 2019 | 462 comments

575.

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (rootsofprogress.org)

691 points by exolymph on Jul 15, 2019 | 492 comments

576.

Apple announces Apple Card credit card (theverge.com)

690 points by cdoxsey on Mar 25, 2019 | 750 comments

577.

Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care (wsj.com)

690 points by harshreality on Jun 25, 2019 | 548 comments

578.

Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates (bbc.com)

690 points by hhs on Dec 12, 2019 | 411 comments

579.

Employee happiness and business success are linked (economist.com)

690 points by benryon on Jul 30, 2019 | 221 comments

580.

Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance (github.com)

690 points by Cantaro86 on Nov 22, 2019 | 60 comments

581.

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (colinm.org)

689 points by thaumaturgy on Apr 4, 2019 | 132 comments

582.

Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs (dave.cheney.net)

688 points by ra7 on Feb 21, 2019 | 226 comments

583.

Bullshit.js (mourner.github.io)

688 points by sandebert on Oct 12, 2019 | 123 comments

584.

Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code (github.com)

687 points by BafS on Sep 1, 2019 | 74 comments

585.

NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies (reuters.com)

686 points by lladnar on Oct 31, 2019 | 301 comments

586.

Ask HN: How Do You Read?

686 points by vilvadot on Aug 31, 2019 | 247 comments

587.

Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG (zzz.dog)

686 points by tomek_zemla on May 29, 2019 | 94 comments

588.

Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook (ft.com)

685 points by hhs on Sep 18, 2019 | 500 comments

589.

Software Engineering at Google (2017) (arxiv.org)

685 points by weinzierl on Jan 3, 2019 | 309 comments

590.

Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code (feeding.cloud.geek.nz)

685 points by edward on Dec 29, 2019 | 227 comments

591.

What Working at Stripe Has Been Like (kalzumeus.com)

685 points by troydavis on Mar 18, 2019 | 178 comments

592.

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night (figma.com)

685 points by rudi-c on Aug 22, 2019 | 86 comments

593.

After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters (npr.org)

685 points by evo_9 on Oct 10, 2019 | 3 comments

594.

Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality (economist.com)

684 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2019 | 605 comments

595.

Write yourself a Git (2018) (wyag.thb.lt)

684 points by adamnemecek on Mar 14, 2019 | 108 comments

596.

Practical Linux Hardening Guide (github.com)

683 points by covertress on Jan 24, 2019 | 213 comments

597.

New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web (wsj.com)

683 points by psim1 on Aug 6, 2019 | 202 comments

598.

Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff (techcrunch.com)

682 points by sohkamyung on Jun 8, 2019 | 308 comments

599.

Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine (cbc.ca)

681 points by lxm on Jun 26, 2019 | 320 comments

600.

YouTube video has its own URL in it (youtube.com)

681 points by ignaloidas on Jul 16, 2019 | 147 comments