HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Paul Allen has died (cnbc.com)

2901 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 | 277 comments

2.

IBM acquires Red Hat (redhat.com)

2611 points by nopriorarrests on Oct 28, 2018 | 1052 comments

3.

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple (bloomberg.com)

2493 points by Osiris30 on Oct 4, 2018 | 770 comments

4.

Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)

1753 points by wilsonfiifi on Oct 18, 2018 | 206 comments

5.

Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers (blog.google)

1613 points by Nemant on Oct 8, 2018 | 699 comments

6.

iPhones are allergic to helium (ifixit.org)

1289 points by kwiens on Oct 30, 2018 | 340 comments

7.

Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app (cnbc.com)

1213 points by octosphere on Oct 29, 2018 | 567 comments

8.

Carbon Removal Technologies (carbon.ycombinator.com)

1187 points by sama on Oct 23, 2018 | 660 comments

9.

Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced (tls.ulfheim.net)

1185 points by aberoham on Oct 12, 2018 | 103 comments

10.

How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It (queue.acm.org)

1165 points by tchalla on Oct 9, 2018 | 183 comments

11.

Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms (ifixit.org)

1064 points by sinak on Oct 25, 2018 | 343 comments

12.

Coders Automating Their Own Job (theatlantic.com)

991 points by benryon on Oct 2, 2018 | 485 comments

13.

iPhones are hard to use (blog.fawny.org)

976 points by mrzool on Oct 22, 2018 | 636 comments

14.

We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (news.vice.com)

970 points by pulisse on Oct 30, 2018 | 332 comments

15.

What I loved about Paul Allen (gatesnotes.com)

964 points by uknownuser on Oct 16, 2018 | 114 comments

16.

Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public (wsj.com)

953 points by tysone on Oct 8, 2018 | 258 comments

17.

With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux (protondb.com)

932 points by bdefore on Oct 29, 2018 | 311 comments

18.

How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS (blog.inkdrop.info)

925 points by spiffytech on Oct 15, 2018 | 135 comments

19.

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal (motherboard.vice.com)

924 points by jbegley on Oct 25, 2018 | 2 comments

20.

Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

911 points by throwawaygoaway on Oct 8, 2018 | 1088 comments

21.

Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast (hacks.mozilla.org)

907 points by lainon on Oct 8, 2018 | 143 comments

22.

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom (bloomberg.com)

875 points by gorbachev on Oct 9, 2018 | 366 comments

23.

Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour (techcrunch.com)

853 points by doppp on Oct 2, 2018 | 4 comments

24.

Japan's Hometown Tax (kalzumeus.com)

847 points by gwern on Oct 19, 2018 | 249 comments

25.

Helm: Personal Email Server (thehelm.com)

846 points by keehun on Oct 17, 2018 | 575 comments

26.

Compare career levels across companies (levels.fyi)

832 points by kposehn on Oct 31, 2018 | 411 comments

27.

Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket (bbc.com)

830 points by farseer on Oct 11, 2018 | 370 comments

28.

Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim (nytimes.com)

819 points by untog on Oct 25, 2018 | 535 comments

29.

Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network (globenewswire.com)

809 points by MikusR on Oct 10, 2018 | 371 comments

30.

Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees (cnbc.com)

768 points by deegles on Oct 2, 2018 | 1006 comments