HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

The Church of Interruption (sambleckley.com)

399 points by scribu on Sep 22, 2019 | 141 comments

2012.

Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete (medium.com)

399 points by 0xdada on Jul 15, 2019 | 120 comments

2013.

Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure (secjuice.com)

399 points by wglb on Feb 5, 2019 | 110 comments

2014.

Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017) (github.com)

399 points by 1nvalid on Mar 11, 2019 | 79 comments

2015.

Unraveling the JPEG (parametric.press)

399 points by coldsnap427 on May 1, 2019 | 41 comments

2016.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

398 points by whoishiring on Mar 1, 2019 | 867 comments

2017.

A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server (twitter.com)

398 points by Impossible on Dec 29, 2019 | 362 comments

2018.

After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes (nytimes.com)

398 points by frenchman_in_ny on Oct 28, 2019 | 311 comments

2019.

Learning to code vs. learning to automate (daedtech.com)

398 points by sharacane on Dec 8, 2019 | 181 comments

2020.

Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership (thetoolsweneed.com)

398 points by kaxline on Apr 3, 2019 | 151 comments

2021.

Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?

398 points by sreeramvenkat on Jan 7, 2019 | 96 comments

2022.

Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits (anvaka.github.io)

398 points by anvaka on Jan 9, 2019 | 81 comments

2023.

Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector (hacks.mozilla.org)

398 points by feross on Oct 15, 2019 | 54 comments

2024.

Uber opens at $42 per share (techcrunch.com)

397 points by kgwgk on May 10, 2019 | 437 comments

2025.

Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest (bloomberg.com)

397 points by phissk on Nov 26, 2019 | 353 comments

2026.

A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles (twitter.com)

397 points by mr_tyzic on Jul 9, 2019 | 301 comments

2027.

Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy (bloomberg.com)

397 points by pseudolus on Jul 3, 2019 | 293 comments

2028.

Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently (tudelft.nl)

397 points by jcfrei on Jun 4, 2019 | 277 comments

2029.

Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone (moxie.org)

397 points by BCM43 on May 28, 2019 | 258 comments

2030.

WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy (webkit.org)

397 points by feross on Aug 14, 2019 | 245 comments

2031.

Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data (bbc.co.uk)

397 points by jfk13 on Aug 8, 2019 | 232 comments

2032.

Why we're ending support for MySQL (about.gitlab.com)

397 points by bjoko on Jul 3, 2019 | 218 comments

2033.

Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified (med.stanford.edu)

397 points by lichtenberger on May 5, 2019 | 215 comments

2034.

MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced (midi.org)

397 points by kristiandupont on Jan 19, 2019 | 195 comments

2035.

33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured (mainichi.jp)

397 points by xbmcuser on Jul 18, 2019 | 179 comments

2036.

Golden: Mapping human knowledge (golden.com)

397 points by yarapavan on Apr 30, 2019 | 167 comments

2037.

California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low (nytimes.com)

397 points by cs702 on Jan 15, 2019 | 159 comments

2038.

Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager (firefly-iii.org)

397 points by dddddaviddddd on Sep 9, 2019 | 152 comments

2039.

It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

397 points by evanweaver on Jan 25, 2019 | 143 comments

2040.

Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016) (fs.blog)

397 points by arunc on Apr 4, 2019 | 139 comments