HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15181.

The impact of homelessness and the opioid crisis on San Francisco streets (cnn.com)

88 points by daegloe on Dec 27, 2018 | 113 comments

15182.

Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K (theguardian.com)

88 points by Mononokay on May 10, 2018 | 111 comments

15183.

Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth (techcrunch.com)

88 points by stingrae on Feb 22, 2018 | 110 comments

15184.

Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters (motherboard.vice.com)

88 points by aaronbrethorst on Jul 30, 2018 | 105 comments

15185.

The web apps that will eat mobile (kruschecompany.com)

88 points by ausjke on Jun 5, 2018 | 103 comments

15186.

How Premium Mediocre Conquered Fashion (businessoffashion.com)

88 points by technobabble on Dec 9, 2018 | 101 comments

15187.

Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup (bloomberg.com)

88 points by petethomas on Jun 16, 2018 | 100 comments

15188.

Ask HN: Developers, how do you keep SSH and web URLs organized at work?

88 points by nsxwolf on Jun 15, 2018 | 98 comments

15189.

First analysis of how Uber and Lyft have affected roadway congestion in SF (sfcta.org)

88 points by doener on Oct 16, 2018 | 98 comments

15190.

SpaceX says its rocket performed exactly as intended in Zuma launch (techcrunch.com)

88 points by artsandsci on Jan 9, 2018 | 97 comments

15191.

Everyone Wants to Go Home During Extra Innings, Maybe Even the Umps (fivethirtyeight.com)

88 points by wglb on Apr 22, 2018 | 97 comments

15192.

Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf] (cc.gatech.edu)

88 points by smartmic on Jun 12, 2018 | 97 comments

15193.

Critical vulnerability of NPM package macaddress (nodesecurity.io)

88 points by tekkk on Jun 11, 2018 | 92 comments

15194.

Ask HN: What do you think of performance appraisal at your workplace?

88 points by amirathi on Mar 1, 2018 | 90 comments

15195.

Getting close to 40, mid life crisis, depression, and finding release

88 points by u2dr on May 17, 2018 | 87 comments

15196.

Turkey’s Lira Crisis Tests Erdogan’s Authoritarian Approach (nytimes.com)

88 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 14, 2018 | 87 comments

15197.

Why Did Facebook Fire Palmer Luckey? It Had Something to Do With Trump (wsj.com)

88 points by kyleblarson on Nov 11, 2018 | 87 comments

15198.

ITER is a showcase for the drawbacks of fusion energy (thebulletin.org)

88 points by okket on Feb 14, 2018 | 85 comments

15199.

Tech’s Military Dilemma (newrepublic.com)

88 points by LinuxBender on Aug 8, 2018 | 85 comments

15200.

What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012) (cacm.acm.org)

88 points by mxschumacher on Aug 15, 2018 | 84 comments

15201.

Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent original by 2018 (theverge.com)

88 points by artsandsci on Jan 22, 2018 | 80 comments

15202.

Is the Bitcoin network an oligarchy? (epj.org)

88 points by rapnie on Jul 6, 2018 | 79 comments

15203.

Drone Pilots’ Pay is Dropping (bloomberg.com)

88 points by joeyespo on May 25, 2018 | 78 comments

15204.

Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (herbsutter.com)

88 points by matt_d on Nov 13, 2018 | 76 comments

15205.

The Role of Personality, Authoritarianism and Cognition in Brexit (onlineprivacyfoundation.org)

88 points by bryanrasmussen on Jul 10, 2018 | 75 comments

15206.

How to Lose $3B of Bitcoin in India (bloomberg.com)

88 points by walterbell on Aug 12, 2018 | 75 comments

15207.

‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics (ep.bmj.com)

88 points by DanBC on Aug 27, 2018 | 72 comments

15208.

Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract (bloomberg.com)

88 points by twerkmonsta on Nov 28, 2018 | 72 comments

15209.

Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling (nytimes.com)

88 points by tenkabuto on Jan 18, 2018 | 71 comments

15210.

The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back (theguardian.com)

88 points by okket on Mar 25, 2018 | 70 comments