HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Why Is the Stock Market Booming? (nytimes.com)

83 points by martinlaz on Apr 10, 2020 | 93 comments

1502.

Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) (johndcook.com)

83 points by rfreytag on Apr 1, 2020 | 73 comments

1503.

The pope just proposed a universal basic income (americamagazine.org)

83 points by sdegutis on Apr 12, 2020 | 72 comments

1504.

Software Is Polluting the World (kentdebruin.com)

83 points by meagher on Apr 28, 2020 | 66 comments

1505.

How to Win a Currency War (lynalden.com)

83 points by niklasbuschmann on Apr 10, 2020 | 60 comments

1506.

Towards Sequoia OpenPGP v1.0 (sequoia-pgp.org)

83 points by nwalfield on Apr 27, 2020 | 59 comments

1507.

Lambda Store: Serverless Redis (medium.com)

83 points by iampims on Apr 23, 2020 | 52 comments

1508.

Mental models around Ok-Wrapping (vorner.github.io)

83 points by ansible on Apr 10, 2020 | 48 comments

1509.

The Man Who Got No Whammies (2015) (priceonomics.com)

83 points by CrocodileStreet on Apr 7, 2020 | 46 comments

1510.

What Is a Game? (2018) (magic.wizards.com)

83 points by Smaug123 on Apr 24, 2020 | 41 comments

1511.

Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions (filecoin.io)

83 points by containerds on Apr 25, 2020 | 37 comments

1512.

Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt sues Atari for failure to pay for VCS console design (venturebeat.com)

83 points by danso on Apr 5, 2020 | 31 comments

1513.

A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal (github.com)

83 points by pjmlp on Apr 8, 2020 | 20 comments

1514.

Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981) (books.google.nl)

83 points by bryanrasmussen on Apr 10, 2020 | 18 comments

1515.

How to build a darkroom for £100 or less (35mmc.com)

83 points by lelf on Apr 22, 2020 | 17 comments

1516.

SwimOS: Distributed platform for building stateful, real-time streaming apps (github.com)

83 points by yoquan on Apr 20, 2020 | 15 comments

1517.

‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem (quantamagazine.org)

83 points by pseudolus on Apr 8, 2020 | 11 comments

1518.

The messy secret reality behind OpenAI (technologyreview.com)

83 points by stillsut on Apr 12, 2020 | 11 comments

1519.

Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year (nationalgeographic.com)

82 points by pseudolus on Apr 10, 2020 | 94 comments

1520.

Nearly a third of blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus (bostonglobe.com)

82 points by rpiguy on Apr 19, 2020 | 74 comments

1521.

Some landlords say only 25% of retail tenants paid April rent (wsj.com)

82 points by fortran77 on Apr 7, 2020 | 56 comments

1522.

What Are Spomeniks? (spomenikdatabase.org)

82 points by dr_dshiv on Apr 6, 2020 | 51 comments

1523.

The internet’s fifth man (2013) (economist.com)

82 points by davidwtbuxton on Apr 12, 2020 | 45 comments

1524.

Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world (en.wikipedia.org)

82 points by ag8 on Apr 18, 2020 | 40 comments

1525.

Crystal 0.34 (crystal-lang.org)

82 points by fells on Apr 7, 2020 | 31 comments

1526.

Show HN: KCP: a new low-latency, secure network stack (improbable.io)

82 points by skywind3000 on Apr 3, 2020 | 29 comments

1527.

Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem? (planetscale.com)

82 points by atopia on Apr 10, 2020 | 27 comments

1528.

Show HN: Glass Dome — an Alfred workflow to fight link rot in markdown notes (github.com)

82 points by macedotavares on Apr 16, 2020 | 23 comments

1529.

Show HN: Live Program Notes for Schubert Sonata in B-Flat (liveprogramnotes.com)

82 points by zweinz on Apr 4, 2020 | 19 comments

1530.

Taiwan’s government bars its agencies from using Zoom over security concerns (techcrunch.com)

82 points by NoB4Mouth on Apr 7, 2020 | 17 comments