HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales (arstechnica.com)

279 points by fabian2k on Jul 31, 2018 | 183 comments

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Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster (nytimes.com)

278 points by sethbannon on Jul 20, 2018 | 294 comments

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Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native (blog.discordapp.com)

278 points by jhgg on Jul 26, 2018 | 154 comments

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Why restaurants became so loud (vox.com)

277 points by curtis on Jul 27, 2018 | 189 comments

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Google Unveils Titan Security Key, a Yubico-Like Phishing Resistant 2FA Device (cyberscoop.com)

277 points by chobo on Jul 25, 2018 | 142 comments

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Inside the Windows Console (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

276 points by pmarin on Jul 19, 2018 | 252 comments

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British divers make contact with missing Thai football team (theguardian.com)

276 points by curtis on Jul 3, 2018 | 153 comments

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The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work (theguardian.com)

276 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jul 7, 2018 | 137 comments

249.

Keep a Changelog (keepachangelog.com)

275 points by privong on Jul 28, 2018 | 71 comments

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The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers (slate.com)

274 points by wallflower on Jul 21, 2018 | 241 comments

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What travel insurance really means (medium.com)

274 points by rsbadger on Jul 17, 2018 | 176 comments

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Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails (medium.com)

274 points by mparramon on Jul 6, 2018 | 134 comments

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GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact (fiercebiotech.com)

273 points by adenadel on Jul 25, 2018 | 222 comments

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Is timeless UI design a thing? (imaginarycloud.com)

273 points by sandrobfc on Jul 6, 2018 | 168 comments

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Public.resource.org wins appeal on right to publish the law [pdf] (cadc.uscourts.gov)

273 points by DannyBee on Jul 20, 2018 | 104 comments

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The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion (espn.com)

273 points by cthulhujr on Jul 2, 2018 | 81 comments

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Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law (es.wikipedia.org)

272 points by sanbor on Jul 4, 2018 | 96 comments

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U.S. to make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Doctors Play (bloombergquint.com)

271 points by mudil on Jul 17, 2018 | 294 comments

259.

The rich world needs higher real wage growth (economist.com)

271 points by known on Jul 1, 2018 | 250 comments

260.

Georgia Has a Coast? (bittersoutherner.com)

271 points by samsolomon on Jul 24, 2018 | 133 comments

261.

Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper (narrative.ly)

270 points by mercutio2 on Jul 22, 2018 | 140 comments

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MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday (money.cnn.com)

269 points by gbear605 on Jul 27, 2018 | 270 comments

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Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C (stefansf.de)

269 points by ognyankulev on Jul 2, 2018 | 257 comments

264.

The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan (bloomberg.com)

269 points by jedwhite on Jul 26, 2018 | 225 comments

265.

Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics (usefathom.com)

269 points by jhabdas on Jul 10, 2018 | 120 comments

266.

Unix system programming in OCaml (2014) (ocaml.github.io)

269 points by jxub on Jul 11, 2018 | 48 comments

267.

Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface (feld.com)

268 points by rmason on Jul 24, 2018 | 85 comments

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The death of a TLD (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

267 points by janvdberg on Jul 27, 2018 | 165 comments

269.

How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it (medium.com)

266 points by villaaston1 on Jul 30, 2018 | 124 comments

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Lessons learned scraping 100B product pages (blog.scrapinghub.com)

265 points by Ian_Kerins on Jul 10, 2018 | 95 comments