HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16681.

Bitcoin Miners on Track to Use More Electricity Than All of Argentina (fortune.com)

78 points by downvote_me on Jan 15, 2018 | 62 comments

16682.

Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s Time (e360.yale.edu)

78 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 18, 2018 | 62 comments

16683.

The Coders of Kentucky (nytimes.com)

78 points by dekayed on Sep 23, 2018 | 62 comments

16684.

Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom (newstatesman.com)

78 points by Petiver on Jan 11, 2018 | 61 comments

16685.

California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage (arstechnica.com)

78 points by LinuxBender on Aug 23, 2018 | 61 comments

16686.

Internet access is quietly changing Seattle’s tent cities (seattletimes.com)

78 points by DoreenMichele on Mar 31, 2018 | 60 comments

16687.

Is ‘culture fit’ merely a code word for unethical discrimination?

78 points by noaccount1256 on May 11, 2018 | 60 comments

16688.

“I'm surrounded by people - but I feel so lonely” (bbc.co.uk)

78 points by gadders on Oct 1, 2018 | 60 comments

16689.

Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence (foreignaffairs.com)

78 points by rumcajz on Oct 31, 2018 | 60 comments

16690.

The Humanity Star (thehumanitystar.com)

78 points by banku_brougham on Jan 25, 2018 | 59 comments

16691.

Tech conferences moving north as Trump policies turn off attendees (business.financialpost.com)

78 points by gasull on May 3, 2018 | 59 comments

16692.

Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings (blog.mozilla.org)

78 points by Ours90 on Aug 28, 2018 | 59 comments

16693.

Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major issues – The Verge (theverge.com)

78 points by aravindhsriram on Oct 6, 2018 | 58 comments

16694.

2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey [pdf] (www2.deloitte.com)

78 points by wallflower on Jul 28, 2018 | 57 comments

16695.

Decentralization Dilemma (molus.org)

78 points by molus on Apr 5, 2018 | 56 comments

16696.

The Scheme Machine (1994) [pdf] (burgerrg.github.io)

78 points by steven741 on Aug 6, 2018 | 55 comments

16697.

Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself (theguardian.com)

78 points by t23 on May 4, 2018 | 54 comments

16698.

Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017) (nautil.us)

78 points by dnetesn on Oct 20, 2018 | 54 comments

16699.

The ‘suprasecular’ stagnation (voxeu.org)

78 points by lkrubner on May 27, 2018 | 52 comments

16700.

An introduction to the Julia language, part 1 (lwn.net)

78 points by leephillips on Aug 28, 2018 | 52 comments

16701.

Learning to Code as a Woman Changed My Life (glamour.com)

78 points by apianoplaya on Jan 4, 2018 | 51 comments

16702.

Ask HN: How did you find your first hire?

78 points by nomadigital on Mar 19, 2018 | 48 comments

16703.

Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

78 points by sukhadatkeereo on Feb 11, 2018 | 47 comments

16704.

Speed improvements in Python 3.7 (hackernoon.com)

78 points by orf on Feb 13, 2018 | 47 comments

16705.

Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder? (nytimes.com)

78 points by fmihaila on May 18, 2018 | 47 comments

16706.

The sunk cost fallacy (bbc.com)

78 points by happy-go-lucky on Sep 22, 2018 | 46 comments

16707.

F5Bot: Email Keyword Alerts from Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters (f5bot.com)

78 points by dustingetz on Oct 11, 2018 | 45 comments

16708.

USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists (nbcnews.com)

78 points by kevmo on Dec 21, 2018 | 43 comments

16709.

Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law (iapp.org)

78 points by searchencrypt on Mar 7, 2018 | 42 comments

16710.

Publish everything you write (pretty much) (facebook.com)

78 points by KentBeck on May 25, 2018 | 42 comments