HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18751.

China Thwarts U.S. Effort to Promote American Culture on Campuses (nytimes.com)

66 points by learc83 on Dec 31, 2018 | 40 comments

18752.

A college professor gives her students extra credit for going on dates (washingtonpost.com)

66 points by Spellman on Apr 17, 2018 | 39 comments

18753.

Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero (bloomberg.com)

66 points by tzury on Jun 30, 2018 | 38 comments

18754.

Why people collect art (aeon.co)

66 points by pepys on Feb 11, 2018 | 37 comments

18755.

Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication (motherboard.vice.com)

66 points by pseudolus on Dec 29, 2018 | 37 comments

18756.

Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities (arxiv.org)

66 points by tim_sw on Jan 17, 2018 | 36 comments

18757.

Carbon Black S-1 (sec.gov)

66 points by pquerna on Apr 9, 2018 | 36 comments

18758.

A massive, 'semi-infinite' trove of rare-earth metals has been found in Japan (cnbc.com)

66 points by tosh on Apr 12, 2018 | 36 comments

18759.

The spread of true and false news online (science.sciencemag.org)

66 points by jaybaxter on Mar 8, 2018 | 35 comments

18760.

Japan's older hikikomori live in isolation, shunning society for years (japantimes.co.jp)

66 points by pmoriarty on Mar 21, 2018 | 34 comments

18761.

The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater when it fell to Earth (thevintagenews.com)

66 points by gus_massa on Nov 9, 2018 | 34 comments

18762.

Resilient Web Design (resilientwebdesign.com)

66 points by ingve on May 27, 2018 | 32 comments

18763.

BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service (github.com)

66 points by deedubaya on Jun 29, 2018 | 32 comments

18764.

A lost language encoded in Inca cords (newscientist.com)

66 points by mikemoka on Nov 26, 2018 | 32 comments

18765.

Show HN: LEAR – A simple and fast HTTP server to serve static resources (github.com)

66 points by mbien on Dec 17, 2018 | 32 comments

18766.

A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system (reddit.com)

66 points by chrisacky on Apr 12, 2018 | 31 comments

18767.

Get out of my building (2009) (steveblank.com)

66 points by mooreds on Jun 22, 2018 | 31 comments

18768.

Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting us (motherboard.vice.com)

66 points by jrepinc on Nov 18, 2018 | 31 comments

18769.

Show HN: Plash – Build and run containers (github.com)

66 points by ihucos on Sep 23, 2018 | 30 comments

18770.

Crypto mining giant Bitmain reveals heady growth as it files for IPO (techcrunch.com)

66 points by smaili on Sep 27, 2018 | 30 comments

18771.

How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics That Actually Matter (medium.com)

66 points by stickhandle on Feb 3, 2018 | 29 comments

18772.

Getting some air, Atlas? [video] (youtube.com)

66 points by tlb on May 11, 2018 | 29 comments

18773.

Bloomberg Reports China Infiltrated the Supermicro Supply Chain We Investigate (servethehome.com)

66 points by jjcc on Oct 4, 2018 | 29 comments

18774.

Get Smart with SmartOS (admin-magazine.com)

66 points by based2 on Dec 4, 2018 | 29 comments

18775.

What’s up with the mysterious inc bp in prologues of 16-bit code? (2011) (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

66 points by userbinator on Jul 11, 2018 | 28 comments

18776.

Noisy: Random DNS, HTTP/S traffic noise generator (github.com)

66 points by GordonS on Sep 6, 2018 | 28 comments

18777.

40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement, study concludes (cnbc.com)

66 points by foolrush on Oct 15, 2018 | 28 comments

18778.

Warming Ocean Temperatures Are Starving Reefs and Harming Marine Life (newsweek.com)

66 points by ShubhamBadal on Jan 5, 2018 | 27 comments

18779.

.NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

66 points by runesoerensen on May 7, 2018 | 27 comments

18780.

Dell announces security breach (zdnet.com)

66 points by frdmn on Nov 29, 2018 | 27 comments