HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

New physics needed to probe the origins of life (nature.com)

68 points by headalgorithm on May 1, 2019 | 18 comments

1772.

Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone (nature.com)

68 points by daddylonglegs on May 28, 2019 | 18 comments

1773.

Chalk of Champions [video] (vimeo.com)

68 points by collapse on May 3, 2019 | 17 comments

1774.

One Man's Modus Ponens (gwern.net)

68 points by Smaug123 on May 26, 2019 | 16 comments

1775.

Show HN: Open-Registry – Distributed Package Registry Owned by the Community (open-registry.dev)

68 points by diggan on May 11, 2019 | 11 comments

1776.

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups (medium.com)

68 points by GordonS on May 12, 2019 | 4 comments

1777.

Millionaires Flee Their Homelands as Tensions Rise and Taxes Bite (bloomberg.com)

67 points by spking on May 2, 2019 | 94 comments

1778.

IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist? (nytimes.com)

67 points by prostoalex on May 7, 2019 | 79 comments

1779.

In Australia, Coal Remains King (bloomberg.com)

67 points by pseudolus on May 8, 2019 | 74 comments

1780.

Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface (nngroup.com)

67 points by r0n0j0y on May 21, 2019 | 72 comments

1781.

Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?

67 points by envfriendly on May 26, 2019 | 72 comments

1782.

Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech (blog.glowforge.com)

67 points by tim_sw on May 11, 2019 | 67 comments

1783.

Breakfast is a relatively modern invention (medium.com)

67 points by dialoguediscou on May 20, 2019 | 66 comments

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Small retailers who sold through Amazon are facing a tax time bomb (latimes.com)

67 points by pseudolus on May 2, 2019 | 62 comments

1785.

Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda (qz.com)

67 points by kushti on May 30, 2019 | 56 comments

1786.

HiddenWasp Malware Stings Targeted Linux Systems (intezer.com)

67 points by botzombie on May 31, 2019 | 40 comments

1787.

A free XMPP server powered with green energy (trashserver.net)

67 points by Funes- on May 12, 2019 | 36 comments

1788.

Is reason the slave of the passions? (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

67 points by hhs on May 25, 2019 | 35 comments

1789.

Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language (obsidian-lang.com)

67 points by azhenley on May 31, 2019 | 31 comments

1790.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s To-Do List (mymodernmet.com)

67 points by pseudolus on May 17, 2019 | 28 comments

1791.

The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction (irenezhang.net)

67 points by matt_d on May 22, 2019 | 26 comments

1792.

The Shield of Achilles (1952) (poets.org)

67 points by hprotagonist on May 25, 2019 | 17 comments

1793.

AMD Ryzen V1000 Single Board Computer PROFIVE NUCV (eepd.de)

67 points by walterbell on May 18, 2019 | 16 comments

1794.

Exploring a massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo (nationalgeographic.com)

67 points by howard941 on May 1, 2019 | 12 comments

1795.

Spiel Des Jahres Nominations for 2019 (boardgamegeek.com)

67 points by rfreytag on May 23, 2019 | 6 comments

1796.

Interview with Barbara Liskov (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

67 points by lelf on May 17, 2019 | 3 comments

1797.

Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion? (advances.sciencemag.org)