HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

Google rescinds offers to thousands of contract workers (nytimes.com)

142 points by ericzawo on May 29, 2020 | 137 comments

1052.

Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay (businessinsider.com)

142 points by doener on May 16, 2020 | 125 comments

1053.

The links between mental disorders (nature.com)

142 points by BerislavLopac on May 9, 2020 | 124 comments

1054.

We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline (taloflow.ai)

142 points by cloudfalcon on May 28, 2020 | 83 comments

1055.

GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper? (greaterwrong.com)

142 points by reedwolf on May 30, 2020 | 80 comments

1056.

Stop trying to make hard work easy (superorganizers.substack.com)

142 points by feross on May 12, 2020 | 50 comments

1057.

Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text (manchester.ac.uk)

142 points by Hooke on May 20, 2020 | 50 comments

1058.

Stoke – A stochastic superoptimizer and program synthesizer (stoke.stanford.edu)

142 points by lelf on May 27, 2020 | 44 comments

1059.

A beginner-friendly introduction to Prometheus (github.com)

142 points by yolossn on May 12, 2020 | 24 comments

1060.

GitHub Satellite Livestream (githubsatellite.com)

142 points by agoell on May 6, 2020 | 17 comments

1061.

Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts (pewtrusts.org)

141 points by burritofanatic on May 7, 2020 | 174 comments

1062.

Pinebook Pro, First Impressions (bentsukun.ch)

141 points by TekMol on May 31, 2020 | 126 comments

1063.

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US (theverge.com)

141 points by MDWolinski on May 31, 2020 | 114 comments

1064.

AI-Powered JavaScript Completions (kite.com)

141 points by csmajorfive on May 12, 2020 | 94 comments

1065.

Intel to buy smart urban transit startup Moovit for $1B for its car division (techcrunch.com)

141 points by 1cvmask on May 3, 2020 | 86 comments

1066.

How Palantir embedded itself in the NHS (telegraph.co.uk)

141 points by AndrewBissell on May 18, 2020 | 57 comments

1067.

Picture Hanging Knot (2017) (blog.ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk)

141 points by polm23 on May 22, 2020 | 51 comments

1068.

Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market (insignificantbits.com)

141 points by kho on May 2, 2020 | 49 comments

1069.

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Critical Thinking (brainpickings.org)

141 points by skuthus on May 7, 2020 | 46 comments

1070.

Goals and Priorities for C++ (open-std.org)

140 points by cyber1 on May 21, 2020 | 197 comments

1071.

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes (quantamagazine.org)

140 points by theafh on May 26, 2020 | 88 comments

1072.

US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor (theverge.com)

140 points by daniel_assan on May 1, 2020 | 71 comments

1073.

Scientists find life in dead brain cells (forgetoday.com)

140 points by laurex on May 4, 2020 | 69 comments

1074.

Tell HN: Google bans my game for referencing Covid-19, which I designed in 2017

140 points by LukaszO on May 18, 2020 | 27 comments

1075.

Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] (iro.umontreal.ca)

140 points by signa11 on May 5, 2020 | 15 comments

1076.

Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident' (soc.me)

139 points by goranmoomin on May 1, 2020 | 188 comments

1077.

Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard? (jessimekirk.com)

139 points by LifeIsBio on May 7, 2020 | 188 comments

1078.

San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate (movebuddha.com)

139 points by rcarrigan87 on May 5, 2020 | 120 comments

1079.

Running Lisp in Production (2015) (grammarly.com)

139 points by lisper on May 24, 2020 | 96 comments

1080.

Shibuya Pixel Art 2020 (lexaloffle.com)

139 points by polm23 on May 16, 2020 | 40 comments