HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

24451.

What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too? (lithub.com)

47 points by tejohnso on Aug 3, 2019 | 71 comments

24452.

I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is torturing me (cnn.com)

47 points by Osiris on Jan 4, 2019 | 69 comments

24453.

Elon Musk’s Surprise Pick for Tesla CFO Is a Relative Unknown (wsj.com)

47 points by theBashShell on Jan 31, 2019 | 68 comments

24454.

Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer?

47 points by franca on Oct 11, 2019 | 68 comments

24455.

A new book argues that violence laid the foundation for virtue (newyorker.com)

47 points by Hooke on Feb 14, 2019 | 67 comments

24456.

Is sugar really bad for you? (2018) (bbc.com)

47 points by Udik on Nov 10, 2019 | 67 comments

24457.

Extinction Rebellion Blockade Google HQ (independent.co.uk)

47 points by willemmerson on Oct 16, 2019 | 66 comments

24458.

Sears says it has secured a $250M lifeline, will close 96 stores (reuters.com)

47 points by hhs on Nov 7, 2019 | 66 comments

24459.

Python exceptions considered an anti-pattern (sobolevn.me)

47 points by sobolevn on Feb 11, 2019 | 65 comments

24460.

Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning (academic.oup.com)

47 points by joker3 on Dec 9, 2019 | 65 comments

24461.

Don't Let Robots Pull the Trigger (scientificamerican.com)

47 points by ohjeez on Feb 22, 2019 | 63 comments

24462.

Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drives (nature.com)

47 points by sohkamyung on Jul 10, 2019 | 63 comments

24463.

Master–Slave Morality (en.wikipedia.org)

47 points by 0db532a0 on Nov 26, 2019 | 62 comments

24464.

‘Silicon Valley,’ Darker Than Ever, Captures the Bleak Mood of Tech (nytimes.com)

47 points by fortran77 on Oct 28, 2019 | 61 comments

24465.

An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration (vancouversun.com)

47 points by swsieber on Sep 11, 2019 | 59 comments

24466.

Facebook is testing hiding like counts to see if that makes people feel better (theverge.com)

47 points by AlphaWeaver on Sep 27, 2019 | 58 comments

24467.

For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison (nationalpost.com)

47 points by ductionist on Nov 21, 2019 | 58 comments

24468.

Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform (nytimes.com)

47 points by pseudolus on Dec 3, 2019 | 58 comments

24469.

NTSB sending investigators to fatal Tesla-semitrailer crash (woodtv.com)

47 points by newnewpdro on Mar 2, 2019 | 57 comments

24470.

How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork (jamesclift.ca)

47 points by rookhack on Oct 30, 2019 | 56 comments

24471.

Linux VS open source UNIX (adminbyaccident.com)

47 points by rodrigo975 on Nov 4, 2019 | 56 comments

24472.

What Happened to the Guys Who Invested Their Life Savings in Cryptocurrency? (melmagazine.com)

47 points by kaboro on Sep 8, 2019 | 55 comments

24473.

Why we can't have privacy on the internet (2018) (chrisstucchio.com)

47 points by tikhonj on Jun 15, 2019 | 54 comments

24474.

Airbnb host ordered to pay £100k of unlawful profits after letting council flat (bbc.co.uk)

47 points by dustinmoris on Jul 29, 2019 | 53 comments

24475.

What would happen if Facebook were turned off? (economist.com)

47 points by jkuria on Feb 16, 2019 | 52 comments

24476.

Measuring open DNS resolver use (blog.apnic.net)

47 points by xuande on Sep 23, 2019 | 52 comments

24477.

Ask HN: Any good alternatives to pen and paper?

47 points by martin_a on Nov 19, 2019 | 52 comments

24478.

We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report (theguardian.com)

47 points by perfunctory on Aug 5, 2019 | 51 comments

24479.

Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order (edition.cnn.com)

47 points by andrewstuart on Feb 17, 2019 | 49 comments

24480.

Effects of a diet based on inulin-rich vegetables on gut health and nutrition (academic.oup.com)

47 points by msapaydin on May 27, 2019 | 49 comments