HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15031.

Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems? (economist.com)

89 points by hvo on May 31, 2018 | 251 comments

15032.

Apple Watch Adoption (david-smith.org)

89 points by shawndumas on Mar 14, 2018 | 185 comments

15033.

Why I’m quitting GMO research (massivesci.com)

89 points by sampo on Mar 28, 2018 | 172 comments

15034.

The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006) (philosophynow.org)

89 points by gtirloni on Jun 20, 2018 | 166 comments

15035.

The neglected benefits of the commute (bbc.com)

89 points by dsr12 on Aug 21, 2018 | 133 comments

15036.

Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them (theoutline.com)

89 points by whatami on Jul 31, 2018 | 129 comments

15037.

Millions of educated, experienced workers are tossed aside by a strong economy (washingtonpost.com)

89 points by notlob on Jul 23, 2018 | 123 comments

15038.

The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in 30 years (vox.com)

89 points by pm24601 on May 31, 2018 | 121 comments

15039.

How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes (cambridge.org)

89 points by jeffreyrogers on Nov 30, 2018 | 121 comments

15040.

There Are No Laws of Physics, There’s Only the Landscape (quantamagazine.org)

89 points by digital55 on Jun 4, 2018 | 120 comments

15041.

Ask HN: How's the Paris startup scene?

89 points by bandrami on Aug 10, 2018 | 114 comments

15042.

Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors (electrek.co)

89 points by dsr12 on May 3, 2018 | 109 comments

15043.

Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (2012) (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

89 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 21, 2018 | 109 comments

15044.

Retrospective: Looking Glass (blog.mozilla.org)

89 points by Vinnl on Jan 31, 2018 | 106 comments

15045.

A New Era of Batteries Spells Trouble for Gas in America (bloomberg.com)

89 points by toomuchtodo on Mar 10, 2018 | 103 comments

15046.

Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's Plan to Fly You Across the Globe in 30 Minutes [video] (ted.com)

89 points by logancg on Apr 23, 2018 | 101 comments

15047.

Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes (wired.com)

89 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 8, 2018 | 99 comments

15048.

Theranos and Zenefits are a feature, not a bug, of Silicon Valley (qz.com)

89 points by krausejj on Mar 26, 2018 | 94 comments

15049.

Texas Woman with Cerebral Palsy: Uber Denied Her Service Over Two Dozen Times (gizmodo.com)

89 points by uptown on Mar 20, 2018 | 93 comments

15050.

Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline (eurekalert.org)

89 points by jostmey on Feb 18, 2018 | 87 comments

15051.

Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Cuts the Multiverse Down to Size (livescience.com)

89 points by jonbaer on May 3, 2018 | 80 comments

15052.

Reddit bans 'deepfakes' AI porn communities (theverge.com)

89 points by internetxplorer on Feb 7, 2018 | 79 comments

15053.

The World, Built by China (nytimes.com)

89 points by cromulent on Nov 26, 2018 | 78 comments

15054.

Old coal mines can be underground food farms (bbc.co.uk)

89 points by zeristor on Dec 2, 2018 | 78 comments

15055.

More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen (reuters.com)

89 points by rbanffy on Jan 22, 2018 | 77 comments

15056.

Launch HN: Pathrise (YC W18) – Career accelerator for students, free until hired

89 points by kevintxwu on Mar 14, 2018 | 74 comments

15057.

U.S. nationals born in American Samoa sue for citizenship (nbcnews.com)

89 points by kimsk112 on Mar 28, 2018 | 72 comments

15058.

British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas’ seminal study on Stonehenge was wrong (livescience.com)