HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com)

2968 points by mpweiher on Feb 6, 2018 | 871 comments

2.

Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io)

1767 points by mtlynch on Feb 28, 2018 | 751 comments

3.

John Perry Barlow has died (eff.org)

1485 points by schoen on Feb 7, 2018 | 126 comments

4.

Signal Foundation (signal.org)

1314 points by conroy on Feb 21, 2018 | 284 comments

5.

Email is your electronic memory (blog.fastmail.com)

1248 points by brongondwana on Feb 14, 2018 | 282 comments

6.

Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia (sixdegreesofwikipedia.com)

1176 points by jwngr on Feb 26, 2018 | 324 comments

7.

AMP for email is a terrible idea (techcrunch.com)

1151 points by coloneltcb on Feb 14, 2018 | 465 comments

8.

Ask HN: What has HN given you?

1095 points by jxub on Feb 19, 2018 | 570 comments

9.

OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble (blog.emacsen.net)

1062 points by emacsen on Feb 16, 2018 | 284 comments

10.

Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website (kapwing.com)

1016 points by bemmu on Feb 16, 2018 | 612 comments

11.

Let's Learn About Waveforms (waveforms.surge.sh)

989 points by tomduncalf on Feb 14, 2018 | 128 comments

12.

JupyterLab is ready for users (blog.jupyter.org)

958 points by thenipper on Feb 20, 2018 | 248 comments

13.

Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice (med.stanford.edu)

942 points by jv22222 on Feb 1, 2018 | 173 comments

14.

Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud (cnbc.com)

912 points by uptown on Feb 26, 2018 | 222 comments

15.

Let’s talk about usernames (b-list.org)

900 points by acjohnson55 on Feb 12, 2018 | 429 comments

16.

Show HN: Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)

864 points by jsomers on Feb 23, 2018 | 107 comments

17.

The Business of SaaS (stripe.com)

845 points by geordilaforge on Feb 20, 2018 | 248 comments

18.

"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords (troyhunt.com)

842 points by explodingcamera on Feb 21, 2018 | 355 comments

19.

VLC 3.0 release (videolan.org)

827 points by jbk on Feb 9, 2018 | 294 comments

20.

Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” (security.googleblog.com)

806 points by el_duderino on Feb 8, 2018 | 812 comments

21.

Who Killed the Junior Developer? (medium.com)

803 points by gregorymichael on Feb 13, 2018 | 777 comments

22.

Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (github.com)

803 points by minimaxir on Feb 22, 2018 | 391 comments

23.

How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? (tnhh.net)

803 points by calcifer on Feb 10, 2018 | 376 comments

24.

Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?

802 points by throwawayqdhd on Feb 19, 2018 | 369 comments

25.

Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties (blog.mozilla.org)

778 points by jhatax on Feb 1, 2018 | 226 comments

26.

How poverty changes your mindset (review.chicagobooth.edu)

777 points by bryanwbh on Feb 25, 2018 | 522 comments

27.

Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012) (nytimes.com)

763 points by ValentineC on Feb 20, 2018 | 720 comments

28.

Modern CSS Explained (medium.com)

762 points by MikusR on Feb 5, 2018 | 137 comments

29.

Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month (starterstory.com)

740 points by patwalls on Feb 21, 2018 | 275 comments

30.

U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice (reuters.com)

739 points by chatmasta on Feb 5, 2018 | 375 comments