HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20221.

What to do with mentally ill homeless people who refuse help? (latimes.com)

56 points by JumpCrisscross on Mar 29, 2017 | 117 comments

20222.

Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? (theatlantic.com)

56 points by prostoalex on Mar 14, 2017 | 114 comments

20223.

Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? (stackoverflow.blog)

56 points by tannhaeuser on Aug 3, 2017 | 103 comments

20224.

Where does the Ubuntu Linux desktop go from here? (zdnet.com)

56 points by rbanffy on Apr 12, 2017 | 102 comments

20225.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2017)

56 points by whoishiring on Sep 1, 2017 | 97 comments

20226.

Kalashnikov’s new autonomous weapons and the “Terminator conundrum” (newatlas.com)

56 points by edward on Jul 28, 2017 | 91 comments

20227.

Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government (wired.com)

56 points by stevekemp on Nov 13, 2017 | 89 comments

20228.

Study: A universal basic income would grow the economy (vox.com)

56 points by rbanffy on Aug 31, 2017 | 87 comments

20229.

Show HN: Shortern URIs using Huffman Coding, not a database (urizip-dot-populace-soho.appspot.com)

56 points by 19eightyfour on May 2, 2017 | 86 comments

20230.

In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile? (brianknapp.me)

56 points by programminggeek on Aug 5, 2017 | 85 comments

20231.

Ask HN: What “new” programming languages will you be using in 2017

56 points by ramxtr on Jan 3, 2017 | 83 comments

20232.

PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

56 points by xook on Mar 15, 2017 | 82 comments

20233.

With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week (washingtonpost.com)

56 points by baxtr on May 28, 2017 | 82 comments

20234.

A community on the front lines of the opioid epidemic (statnews.com)

56 points by iamjeff on Mar 25, 2017 | 80 comments

20235.

How I wish Sundar Pichai had responded to James Damore's memo about diversity (curtisb.posthaven.com)

56 points by curtis on Aug 11, 2017 | 80 comments

20236.

Are cryptocurrencies about to go mainstream? (theguardian.com)

56 points by MurdocTannen on Jul 3, 2017 | 79 comments

20237.

Supreme Court Errors Aren’t Hard to Find (propublica.org)

56 points by lnguyen on Oct 20, 2017 | 79 comments

20238.

Samsung TV buyers furious after software update leaves sets unusable (theguardian.com)

56 points by artsandsci on Aug 24, 2017 | 76 comments

20239.

iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development (codingepiphany.com)

56 points by rvbd on Jul 19, 2017 | 74 comments

20240.

Venezuela’s Behind on Its Debt and Facing Two Huge Bond Payments (bloomberg.com)

56 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 23, 2017 | 72 comments

20241.

3-year-olds consuming alternative milks were 1.5 cm shorter on average (cbc.ca)

56 points by LiweiZ on Jun 7, 2017 | 71 comments

20242.

Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats (bbc.co.uk)

56 points by DanBC on Mar 16, 2017 | 70 comments

20243.

<input type=“country” /> (shkspr.mobi)

56 points by jacobr on Nov 7, 2017 | 70 comments

20244.

Things to Know About China in the Paris Climate Agreemen (americanprogress.org)

56 points by devy on Mar 3, 2017 | 67 comments

20245.

BigchainDB – A scalable blockchain database (github.com)

56 points by jashmenn on Nov 2, 2017 | 66 comments

20246.

Fast software is a discipline, not a purpose (lemire.me)

56 points by frostmatthew on Nov 16, 2017 | 64 comments

20247.

Which Airline Kicks Off the Most Passengers? (motherjones.com)

56 points by curtis on Apr 12, 2017 | 62 comments

20248.

Ask HN: What tech stack is in demand, and why?

56 points by pydox on Nov 13, 2017 | 62 comments

20249.

Building affordable housing (urbankchoze.blogspot.com)

56 points by JSoet on Jan 25, 2017 | 61 comments

20250.

Tesla employee writes of low wages, poor morale; company denies claims (arstechnica.com)

56 points by sosuke on Feb 10, 2017 | 61 comments