HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Why advertising always works, using science, not bullshit (positech.co.uk)

45 points by doppp on Mar 2, 2018 | 49 comments

2012.

Demand for American Sperm Is Skyrocketing in Brazil (wsj.com)

45 points by jkuria on Mar 24, 2018 | 42 comments

2013.

Random computer simulation produces wealth distribution similar to reality (technologyreview.com)

45 points by sprucely on Mar 1, 2018 | 33 comments

2014.

Experts dissect FIU bridge collapse, but can't identify cause (miamiherald.com)

45 points by wglb on Mar 30, 2018 | 30 comments

2015.

Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art? (nytimes.com)

45 points by prismatic on Mar 24, 2018 | 28 comments

2016.

Amazon, Google, Others Are Developing Private Air-Traffic Control for Drones (wsj.com)

45 points by eplanit on Mar 10, 2018 | 27 comments

2017.

Open tabs are cognitive spaces (rybakov.com)

45 points by spython on Mar 25, 2018 | 27 comments

2018.

Show HN: Code on Hacker News (code.hn)

45 points by anonfunction on Mar 30, 2018 | 24 comments

2019.

Open Speech Recording (aiyprojects.withgoogle.com)

45 points by jonbaer on Mar 23, 2018 | 18 comments

2020.

Want to freak yourself out? (twitter.com)

45 points by sverige on Mar 28, 2018 | 18 comments

2021.

Facebook says it’s hired a forensics team to investigate Cambridge Analytica (theverge.com)

45 points by aylmao on Mar 19, 2018 | 13 comments

2022.

Paste: Making slides simple (fiftythree.com)

45 points by joelg on Mar 10, 2018 | 8 comments

2023.

GDPR in Plain English (blog.varonis.com)

45 points by michaelbuckbee on Mar 23, 2018 | 7 comments

2024.

Show HN: Building a “Babel Fish”, realtime translation of voice calls (nexmo.com)

45 points by aaronbasssett on Mar 14, 2018 | 4 comments

2025.

Dynamic Hash Tables (1988) [pdf] (csd.uoc.gr)

45 points by tosh on Mar 17, 2018 | 4 comments

2026.

Creating a WebAssembly-powered library for the modern web (hackernoon.com)

45 points by markdog12 on Mar 4, 2018 | 3 comments

2027.

Caught between two seas: India’s resilient ‘ghost town’ (bbc.com)

45 points by MiriamWeiner on Mar 26, 2018 | 3 comments

2028.

Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election (2012) (theguardian.com)

45 points by jnordwick on Mar 28, 2018 | 3 comments

2029.

Railroad Diagram Generator (bottlecaps.de)

45 points by tzury on Mar 7, 2018 | 2 comments

2030.

The Connections Between Coffee and Biodiversity (daily.jstor.org)

45 points by Petiver on Mar 8, 2018 | 2 comments

2031.

Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics (nature.com)

45 points by Hooke on Mar 31, 2018 | 2 comments

2032.

Law firm made famous by Panama Papers document leak announces it's closing (cbc.ca)

45 points by salad77 on Mar 16, 2018 | 1 comments

2033.

We need a nationalised alternative to Facebook (independent.co.uk)

44 points by vincvinc on Mar 30, 2018 | 85 comments

2034.

Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists (theguardian.com)

44 points by lnguyen on Mar 9, 2018 | 78 comments

2035.

U.S. Has Been Watching Russia's Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missiles Crash and Burn (thedrive.com)

44 points by IntronExon on Mar 3, 2018 | 76 comments

2036.

Everybody’s Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide (medium.com)

44 points by iBelieve on Mar 24, 2018 | 36 comments

2037.

Saying Goodbye to Slack’s IRC and XMPP Gateways

44 points by alexandernst on Mar 7, 2018 | 23 comments

2038.

The man who bottled evolution (msutoday.msu.edu)

44 points by ramgorur on Mar 2, 2018 | 20 comments

2039.

Be a pioneer – delete Facebook (theguardian.com)

44 points by f_allwein on Mar 27, 2018 | 14 comments

2040.

Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users (2015) (bloomberg.com)

44 points by DyslexicAtheist on Mar 21, 2018 | 11 comments