HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

JavaScript Is C (v4.chriskrycho.com)

244 points by goranmoomin on Oct 29, 2019 | 263 comments

482.

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (features.propublica.org)

244 points by johnny313 on Oct 19, 2019 | 220 comments

483.

The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers (economist.com)

244 points by doener on Oct 14, 2019 | 208 comments

484.

Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?

244 points by newman8r on Oct 5, 2019 | 202 comments

485.

Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?

244 points by gcj on Oct 28, 2019 | 192 comments

486.

Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid (hacks.mozilla.org)

244 points by feross on Oct 18, 2019 | 84 comments

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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents (bipartisanalliance.com)

244 points by Fricken on Oct 5, 2019 | 69 comments

488.

X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it (spectrum.ieee.org)

244 points by headalgorithm on Oct 7, 2019 | 56 comments

489.

Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017) (shapeoperator.com)

244 points by sebg on Oct 22, 2019 | 39 comments

490.

Calculus for the Curious (thonyc.wordpress.com)

243 points by diodorus on Oct 24, 2019 | 38 comments

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Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees (foxla.com)

242 points by Crafty_Gurl on Oct 24, 2019 | 119 comments

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Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter (cbc.ca)

242 points by asaegyn on Oct 23, 2019 | 80 comments

493.

Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service (developer.squareup.com)

242 points by strzalek on Oct 16, 2019 | 65 comments

494.

What You Can't Say (2004) (paulgraham.com)

241 points by georgecmu on Oct 11, 2019 | 232 comments

495.

Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications (wsj.com)

241 points by drkimball on Oct 15, 2019 | 214 comments

496.

McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn (bloomberg.com)

241 points by anm89 on Oct 22, 2019 | 156 comments

497.

Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars (newscientist.com)

241 points by tosh on Oct 24, 2019 | 103 comments

498.

The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI (medium.com)

241 points by keyle on Oct 9, 2019 | 99 comments

499.

My favorite Rust function (blog.jabid.in)

240 points by jaseemabid on Oct 12, 2019 | 183 comments

500.

24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible (insideclimatenews.org)

240 points by pmoriarty on Oct 14, 2019 | 121 comments

501.

Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration (bristol.ac.uk)

240 points by ArtWomb on Oct 1, 2019 | 120 comments

502.

Which Planet Is Closest? (cgpgrey.com)

240 points by vl on Oct 31, 2019 | 71 comments

503.

The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018) (popsci.com)

239 points by paulpauper on Oct 24, 2019 | 335 comments

504.

Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field (twitter.com)

239 points by guessmyname on Oct 30, 2019 | 112 comments

505.

The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome? (ghacks.net)

239 points by _pgmf on Oct 12, 2019 | 107 comments

506.

Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon (docs.google.com)

239 points by partingshots on Oct 23, 2019 | 76 comments

507.

Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers (swissdevjobs.ch)

238 points by Varqu on Oct 15, 2019 | 330 comments

508.

Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight (reuters.com)