HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

Blockchain takes us back to medieval times (ftalphaville.ft.com)

74 points by hhs on Jul 1, 2019 | 35 comments

1622.

Under pressure from regulators, Facebook is rethinking Libra's design (arstechnica.com)

74 points by jackalo on Jul 18, 2019 | 30 comments

1623.

Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript (sweetjs.org)

74 points by pcr910303 on Jul 16, 2019 | 28 comments

1624.

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018) (scientificamerican.com)

74 points by curtis on Jul 20, 2019 | 27 comments

1625.

Noam Chomsky: Life Expectancy in the US Is Declining for a Reason (truthout.org)

74 points by tomerbd on Jul 29, 2019 | 25 comments

1626.

Visualizing and exploring sorting algorithms in two dimensions (dotink.co)

74 points by thesephist on Jul 26, 2019 | 19 comments

1627.

The Psychology of Prediction (collaborativefund.com)

74 points by yarapavan on Jul 22, 2019 | 13 comments

1628.

MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls (github.com)

74 points by pcr910303 on Jul 27, 2019 | 8 comments

1629.

Why Rust for safe systems programming (msrc-blog.microsoft.com)

74 points by steveklabnik on Jul 22, 2019 | 6 comments

1630.

Kernel analysis with bpftrace (lwn.net)

74 points by Twirrim on Jul 21, 2019 | 5 comments

1631.

Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat (citylab.com)

73 points by pseudolus on Jul 25, 2019 | 112 comments

1632.

What it’s like to own an electric car (robertjacksonbennett.com)

73 points by kaboro on Jul 23, 2019 | 108 comments

1633.

Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort (bmj.com)

73 points by bookofjoe on Jul 11, 2019 | 98 comments

1634.

Boeing's software fix for the 737 Max overwhelms the plane's computer (moonofalabama.org)

73 points by sra77 on Jul 8, 2019 | 70 comments

1635.

Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force (nytimes.com)

73 points by artsandsci on Jul 11, 2019 | 70 comments

1636.

New NASA Images Show Location of the Lunar Library (medium.com)

73 points by abbe98 on Jul 20, 2019 | 48 comments

1637.

Leaving irc.perl.org (sungo.wtf)

73 points by mdom on Jul 8, 2019 | 42 comments

1638.

Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater (en.wikipedia.org)

73 points by vezycash on Jul 25, 2019 | 41 comments

1639.

Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad blocking (github.com)

73 points by ric3rcar on Jul 14, 2019 | 39 comments

1640.

Tree of Forty Fruit (treeof40fruit.com)

73 points by chris1993 on Jul 5, 2019 | 33 comments

1641.

Interstellar Probe, a Mission Concept for NASA (washingtonpost.com)

73 points by CrankyBear on Jul 14, 2019 | 33 comments

1642.

How Tunnel Boring Works (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

73 points by rkagerer on Jul 5, 2019 | 30 comments

1643.

CSS Houdini Interactive Introduction (houdini.glitch.me)

73 points by dimtion on Jul 28, 2019 | 28 comments

1644.

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing (theregister.co.uk)

73 points by benologist on Jul 6, 2019 | 24 comments

1645.

Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call (netflixhangouts.com)

73 points by nwrk on Jul 8, 2019 | 23 comments

1646.

The Story McKinsey Didn’t Want Written (institutionalinvestor.com)

73 points by hhs on Jul 8, 2019 | 21 comments

1647.

The Black Market for Social Media Manipulation (stratcomcoe.org)

73 points by manigandham on Jul 23, 2019 | 12 comments

1648.

Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west (1843magazine.com)

73 points by 80mph on Jul 25, 2019 | 10 comments

1649.

Mozilla blocks UAE bid to become an internet security guardian (reuters.com)

73 points by coloneltcb on Jul 9, 2019 | 3 comments

1650.

Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2 (puri.sm)

72 points by yepthatsreality on Jul 12, 2019 | 74 comments