HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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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

242.

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness (phys.org)

851 points by maxwell on Aug 9, 2018 | 332 comments

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Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

850 points by lainon on Sep 30, 2018 | 272 comments

244.

YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course (blog.ycombinator.com)

850 points by adora on Jul 18, 2018 | 180 comments

245.

SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal (bloomberg.com)

849 points by tysone on Sep 27, 2018 | 825 comments

246.

Mmm, Pi-hole (troyhunt.com)

849 points by cryptography on Sep 26, 2018 | 408 comments

247.

Japan's Hometown Tax (kalzumeus.com)

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

248.

Helm: Personal Email Server (thehelm.com)

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

249.

The Business of SaaS (stripe.com)

845 points by geordilaforge on Feb 20, 2018 | 248 comments

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"Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords (troyhunt.com)

842 points by explodingcamera on Feb 21, 2018 | 355 comments

251.

Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?

842 points by jestinjoy1 on Dec 23, 2018 | 332 comments

252.

Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties (github.com)

840 points by tjwds on Apr 2, 2018 | 308 comments

253.

Bye bye BetterSlack (g3rv4.com)

839 points by g3rv4 on Aug 29, 2018 | 383 comments

254.

#deletefacebook (techcrunch.com)

836 points by middle1 on Mar 19, 2018 | 398 comments

255.

International System of Units overhauled in historic vote (npl.co.uk)

834 points by daegloe on Nov 16, 2018 | 576 comments

256.

GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home (inc.com)

833 points by janvdberg on Nov 13, 2018 | 418 comments

257.

Compare career levels across companies (levels.fyi)

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

258.

Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket (bbc.com)

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

259.

CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to (richsnapp.com)

830 points by snapwich on Dec 14, 2018 | 283 comments

260.

A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes (independent.co.uk)

829 points by pmoriarty on Sep 3, 2018 | 224 comments

261.

China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains (reuters.com)

827 points by samaysharma on Mar 16, 2018 | 562 comments

262.

VLC 3.0 release (videolan.org)

827 points by jbk on Feb 9, 2018 | 294 comments

263.

NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive (skyriddles.wordpress.com)

826 points by sohkamyung on Jan 26, 2018 | 91 comments

264.

Firefox desktop market share now below 9% (netmarketshare.com)

824 points by ngokevin on Dec 4, 2018 | 740 comments

265.

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg (washingtonpost.com)

824 points by sea6ear on Jan 3, 2018 | 514 comments

266.

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm (quantamagazine.org)

824 points by okket on Jul 31, 2018 | 216 comments

267.

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject (lesswrong.com)

823 points by Ibethewalrus on Jul 26, 2018 | 186 comments

268.

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use (bbc.co.uk)

822 points by pmoriarty on Jun 20, 2018 | 406 comments

269.

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

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

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Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux (phoronix.com)

819 points by kbumsik on Aug 22, 2018 | 322 comments