HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16051.

What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011) (smithsonianmag.com)

82 points by pera on Aug 1, 2018 | 50 comments

16052.

Department of Homeland Security moves to rescind International Entrepreneur Rule (techcrunch.com)

82 points by mark-ruwt on May 29, 2018 | 48 comments

16053.

On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders (theguardian.com)

82 points by prawn on Oct 4, 2018 | 48 comments

16054.

The Dickensian Conditions of Life in a For-Profit Lockup (nytimes.com)

82 points by andrewl on Oct 7, 2018 | 48 comments

16055.

MongoDB 4.0 will add support for multi-document transactions (mongodb.com)

82 points by cyberfart on Jun 25, 2018 | 47 comments

16056.

Scientists find 'friendliness' genes that distinguish dogs from wolves (latimes.com)

82 points by startupflix on May 31, 2018 | 46 comments

16057.

Why small tweaks and split testing don't work, and what to do instead (cortes.design)

82 points by pedrocortes on Nov 29, 2018 | 46 comments

16058.

The Year on the Net (1996) (wsj.com)

82 points by bookofjoe on May 21, 2018 | 45 comments

16059.

Go-benchmark: Golang benchmarks used for optimizing code (github.com)

82 points by pjf on Jun 20, 2018 | 45 comments

16060.

Mailing lists vs Github (begriffs.com)

82 points by samber on Jun 5, 2018 | 44 comments

16061.

Ask HN: Is Google is broken for discovery?

82 points by xfour on Oct 25, 2018 | 44 comments

16062.

Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen (filfre.net)

82 points by doppp on Nov 23, 2018 | 44 comments

16063.

NCSA Mosaic for X 1.0 available (1993) (groups.google.com)

82 points by myth_drannon on Apr 26, 2018 | 41 comments

16064.

How Posture Makes Us Human (nautil.us)

82 points by dnetesn on May 12, 2018 | 41 comments

16065.

Radio Hacker Can Hijack Emergency Sirens to Play Any Sound (wired.com)

82 points by rbanffy on Apr 11, 2018 | 40 comments

16066.

SIM Card Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor (motherboard.vice.com)

82 points by walterbell on Nov 18, 2018 | 40 comments

16067.

Electronics-Recycling Innovator Going to Prison for Extending Computers’ Lives (returntonow.net)

82 points by Paul_S on Dec 29, 2018 | 40 comments

16068.

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability (frontiersin.org)

82 points by pjf on Feb 21, 2018 | 38 comments

16069.

Post-traumatic stress disorder may mimic autism in some children (spectrumnews.org)

82 points by anotherevan on Dec 15, 2018 | 38 comments

16070.

Ivory investigator killed in Kenya (bbc.com)

82 points by adamnemecek on Feb 5, 2018 | 37 comments

16071.

Show HN: “Is this loss?”: A TensorFlow Lite app to detect Loss.jpg

82 points by _wzsf on Apr 23, 2018 | 37 comments

16072.

Simulating identification by zip code, sex, and birthdate (johndcook.com)

82 points by throwawaymath on Dec 9, 2018 | 36 comments

16073.

The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase (usv.com)

82 points by BerislavLopac on Oct 4, 2018 | 35 comments

16074.

How to run a calm workplace: review of Basecamp's book (economist.com)

82 points by martincmartin on Oct 29, 2018 | 35 comments

16075.

Best book/paper you read in 2018?

82 points by yesenadam on Nov 17, 2018 | 35 comments

16076.

Secret green shelters that feed London’s cabbies (bbc.com)

82 points by MiriamWeiner on May 1, 2018 | 34 comments

16077.

Ask HN: Anyone else using Hacker News as a `dopamine hit`?

82 points by ryeguy_24 on Jun 27, 2018 | 34 comments

16078.

Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps (blog.hasura.io)

82 points by praveenweb on Feb 8, 2018 | 33 comments

16079.

CI/CD Is Not a Progression (hackernoon.com)

82 points by kiyanwang on Feb 11, 2018 | 32 comments

16080.

A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016) (economist.com)

82 points by magoghm on Oct 24, 2018 | 32 comments