HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004 (vtdigger.org)

229 points by Keverw on Jan 10, 2020 | 85 comments

542.

Towards a Rust Foundation (smallcultfollowing.com)

229 points by eitland on Jan 10, 2020 | 81 comments

543.

How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018) (hackernoon.com)

229 points by DyslexicAtheist on Jan 12, 2020 | 42 comments

544.

Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation (ieftimov.com)

229 points by signa11 on Jan 26, 2020 | 40 comments

545.

Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says (wsj.com)

227 points by eplanit on Jan 15, 2020 | 271 comments

546.

We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers (theguardian.com)

227 points by notinventedhear on Jan 11, 2020 | 255 comments

547.

Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed (umbra-db.com)

227 points by pbowyer on Jan 26, 2020 | 100 comments

548.

The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense (techdirt.com)

226 points by rahuldottech on Jan 27, 2020 | 144 comments

549.

Things that I think will be important in the next decade (facebook.com)

225 points by juniusfree on Jan 9, 2020 | 346 comments

550.

Haskell Problems for a New Decade (stephendiehl.com)

225 points by psibi on Jan 24, 2020 | 263 comments

551.

Comma Two Devkit (comma.ai)

225 points by ryanlowun on Jan 7, 2020 | 230 comments

552.

Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate (revealnews.org)

225 points by paulpauper on Jan 12, 2020 | 205 comments

553.

Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz (wi-fi.org)

225 points by dmmalam on Jan 6, 2020 | 202 comments

554.

The light is off. War is over (twitter.com)

225 points by ivanmaeder on Jan 20, 2020 | 77 comments

555.

SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase (sapphire-db.com)

225 points by morrisjdev on Jan 15, 2020 | 60 comments

556.

Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress' (bbc.com)

224 points by adrian_mrd on Jan 20, 2020 | 175 comments

557.

Ask HN: What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?

224 points by xupybd on Jan 19, 2020 | 112 comments

558.

Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API (github.com)

224 points by jeanloolz on Jan 1, 2020 | 28 comments

559.

Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 (bbc.co.uk)

223 points by goodcanadian on Jan 24, 2020 | 347 comments

560.

Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast (martinheinz.dev)

223 points by gilad on Jan 14, 2020 | 215 comments

561.

AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates (theverge.com)

223 points by Borlands on Jan 17, 2020 | 156 comments

562.

Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund (greenbiz.com)

223 points by frankdenbow on Jan 17, 2020 | 121 comments

563.

Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes (grafana.com)

223 points by robfig on Jan 10, 2020 | 119 comments

564.

Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy (troyhunt.com)

223 points by tomwas54 on Jan 4, 2020 | 78 comments

565.

Show HN: Postgresqlco.nf: PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans (ongres.com)

223 points by ahachete on Jan 24, 2020 | 71 comments

566.

RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python (github.com)

222 points by gilad on Jan 2, 2020 | 106 comments

567.

Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert (goodnewsnetwork.org)

222 points by ph0rque on Jan 11, 2020 | 84 comments

568.

Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React (proton-native.js.org)

222 points by kusti8 on Jan 19, 2020 | 34 comments

569.

A Sick Giant (waitbutwhy.com)

220 points by dsalzman on Jan 8, 2020 | 128 comments

570.

TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites (bloomberg.com)

220 points by b3n on Jan 23, 2020 | 128 comments