HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4261.

Poll: What is your primary operating system?

6 points by tomglynch on Oct 4, 2018 | 15 comments

4262.

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of .doc as Word doc format?

6 points by bluecat22 on Oct 5, 2018 | 15 comments

4263.

Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts (motherboard.vice.com)

6 points by commoner on Oct 3, 2018 | 14 comments

4264.

FreeWater is the world's first free beverage company

6 points by FreeWater on Oct 21, 2018 | 13 comments

4265.

Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley (dailymail.co.uk)

6 points by onewhonknocks on Oct 6, 2018 | 12 comments

4266.

Ask HN: Why developers hate scraping?

6 points by dogreborn on Oct 4, 2018 | 11 comments

4267.

Darebux: earn money doing dares [beta]

6 points by darebux on Oct 9, 2018 | 11 comments

4268.

Nearly $13B wiped off of cryptocurrency market as major coins plunge (cnbc.com)

6 points by NicoJuicy on Oct 11, 2018 | 11 comments

4269.

Show HN: Office keeps freezing carrots so I built an app to warm CPU and thaw em (swizec.com)

6 points by Swizec on Oct 11, 2018 | 11 comments

4270.

Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?

6 points by s3f0 on Oct 28, 2018 | 11 comments

4271.

Ask HN: Are there good alternatives to ElasticSearch for storing logs?

6 points by gehel on Oct 11, 2018 | 10 comments

4272.

Ask HN: If HN added an AMA feature, who would you want as the first guest?

6 points by panabee on Oct 19, 2018 | 10 comments

4273.

Give a portion of your Amazon purchases to charity at no cost to you (smile.amazon.com)

6 points by whitepoplar on Oct 31, 2018 | 10 comments

4274.

Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?

6 points by sdan on Oct 9, 2018 | 8 comments

4275.

Goodbye Gab, a Haven for the Far Right (wired.com)

6 points by meris on Oct 29, 2018 | 7 comments

4276.

AWS is down (Oregon) (status.aws.amazon.com)

6 points by sddhrthrt on Oct 1, 2018 | 6 comments

4277.

Ask HN: Is this the beginning of the 'Greater Recession'?

6 points by patientplatypus on Oct 11, 2018 | 6 comments

4278.

Tesco ban on shoppers in pyjamas (2010) (news.bbc.co.uk)

6 points by wslh on Oct 15, 2018 | 6 comments

4279.

Ask HN: How to prepare laptop for 7 years old kid?

6 points by dawidw on Oct 26, 2018 | 6 comments

4280.

Ask HN: MacOS open source word processor-- what are you using in 2018?

6 points by indigodaddy on Oct 27, 2018 | 6 comments

4281.

Ask HN: I run my own business but I don't do sales calls. Should I hire?

6 points by anthrthrwawy on Oct 1, 2018 | 5 comments

4282.

Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 (washingtonpost.com)

6 points by throwaway5752 on Oct 9, 2018 | 5 comments

4283.

Ask HN: Found a way to teach Web Development to dummies. Should I write a book?

6 points by DonbunEf7 on Oct 14, 2018 | 5 comments

4284.

Ask HN: Do you like the country/city you're living in?

6 points by fabiospampinato on Oct 20, 2018 | 5 comments

4285.

Ask HN: Is StackOverflow down?

6 points by baristaGeek on Oct 30, 2018 | 5 comments

4286.

Apple Crushed the Dreams of Developer by Copying Their App and Launching in WWDC (medium.com)

6 points by Suresh_MacApp on Oct 3, 2018 | 4 comments

4287.

Announcing Firewall Rules (blog.cloudflare.com)

6 points by buro9 on Oct 4, 2018 | 4 comments

4288.

Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ on podium in auction prank – Financial Times (ft.com)

6 points by wickedOne on Oct 6, 2018 | 4 comments

4289.

Ask HN: How do I transition from full-stack web-dev to systems engineering?

6 points by vector_spaces on Oct 17, 2018 | 4 comments

4290.

Show HN: Countdownto.xyz – Make a minimalist countdown to any event (countdownto.xyz)

6 points by wimgz on Oct 19, 2018 | 4 comments