HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

Cryptocurrency system using body activity data (patentscope.wipo.int)

62 points by borjamoya on Apr 20, 2020 | 47 comments

1802.

Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes (washingtonpost.com)

62 points by tartoran on Apr 25, 2020 | 45 comments

1803.

I Made a Chess Library in Java (jaeheonshim.com)

62 points by jaeheonshim on Apr 2, 2020 | 30 comments

1804.

Zoom still claims ability to “secure a meeting with end-to-end encryption” (zoom.us)

62 points by tonyztan on Apr 4, 2020 | 28 comments

1805.

The Postal Service Deserves a Permanent Bailout (nymag.com)

62 points by erentz on Apr 14, 2020 | 28 comments

1806.

Loss of power grid automatic control due to software update [pdf] (nerc.com)

62 points by eigenvector on Apr 16, 2020 | 27 comments

1807.

JACL: JavaScript Assisted Common Lisp (tailrecursion.com)

62 points by register on Apr 18, 2020 | 27 comments

1808.

The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist (theatlantic.com)

62 points by prostoalex on Apr 18, 2020 | 27 comments

1809.

Unbuilt London: The “railway arcade” above the streets (ianvisits.co.uk)

62 points by gullyfur on Apr 3, 2020 | 26 comments

1810.

HR tech companies laying people off: was it overdue? (joshbersin.com)

62 points by Farbodkhz on Apr 19, 2020 | 22 comments

1811.

Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems (2016) [pdf] (gao.gov)

62 points by wallflower on Apr 5, 2020 | 18 comments

1812.

Uber Moving Away from Microservices (twitter.com)

62 points by jswny on Apr 7, 2020 | 10 comments

1813.

Great Debate (astronomy) (en.wikipedia.org)

62 points by gilad on Apr 25, 2020 | 9 comments

1814.

Io_uring and EBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux (thenewstack.io)

62 points by rbanffy on Apr 25, 2020 | 3 comments

1815.

Show HN: Enviro.Work – Find and fill jobs that benefit the environment (enviro.work)

61 points by ericvanular on Apr 23, 2020 | 54 comments

1816.

Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI (sassbook.com)

61 points by saratv on Apr 1, 2020 | 50 comments

1817.

Customizing Your Shell (blog.balthazar-rouberol.com)

61 points by chmaynard on Apr 17, 2020 | 50 comments

1818.

The problem with being a top performer (2017) (scientificamerican.com)

61 points by derekp7 on Apr 16, 2020 | 43 comments

1819.

Reclassification of earlier U.S. coronavirus deaths causes record 24-hour number (wsj.com)

61 points by jdkee on Apr 17, 2020 | 39 comments

1820.

Palm Phone for Minimalists (palm.com)

61 points by gullyfur on Apr 4, 2020 | 32 comments

1821.

The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online (wired.com)

61 points by ajaviaad on Apr 2, 2020 | 31 comments

1822.

The Meaning of Null in Databases and Programming Languages (2016) (arxiv.org)

61 points by raaij on Apr 29, 2020 | 24 comments

1823.

Show HN: Play snake by moving your head (github.com)

61 points by ml_basics on Apr 26, 2020 | 19 comments

1824.

Causal Inference and Data-Fusion in Econometrics (2019) (arxiv.org)

61 points by viburnum on Apr 20, 2020 | 14 comments

1825.

Telehealth will be free, no copays, they said. But patients are getting billed (khn.org)

61 points by hhs on Apr 27, 2020 | 12 comments

1826.

Revengineered ancient PDP-11 CPUs, originals and clones (github.com)

61 points by lelf on Apr 30, 2020 | 8 comments

1827.

John Horton Conway (scottaaronson.com)

61 points by weinzierl on Apr 12, 2020 | 3 comments

1828.

Diving into Silicon for the First Time (medium.com)

61 points by kens on Apr 17, 2020 | 2 comments

1829.

Ask HN: How do you share passwords simply and securely?

60 points by okidogi on Apr 29, 2020 | 84 comments

1830.

Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid (bloomberg.com)

60 points by bognition on Apr 8, 2020 | 60 comments