HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9811.

Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? (danielsjourney.com)

151 points by ptr on Apr 4, 2019 | 308 comments

9812.

Why Captchas have gotten so difficult (theverge.com)

151 points by thmslee on Feb 3, 2019 | 203 comments

9813.

Vanishing Violence (projects.sfchronicle.com)

151 points by sctb on Mar 21, 2019 | 189 comments

9814.

Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says (vice.com)

151 points by elorant on Oct 5, 2019 | 188 comments

9815.

NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps (twitter.com)

151 points by danso on Sep 6, 2019 | 172 comments

9816.

Software projects written in Haskell (serokell.io)

151 points by lelf on Oct 20, 2019 | 165 comments

9817.

Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (slatestarcodex.com)

151 points by ve55 on Apr 16, 2019 | 164 comments

9818.

Car campers in beach parking lots (bakersfield.com)

151 points by onetimemanytime on Mar 22, 2019 | 155 comments

9819.

Microsoft Is Winning the Techlash (axios.com)

151 points by kristianc on Apr 26, 2019 | 153 comments

9820.

Kill Instant Messaging (dpc.pw)

151 points by sewfr on Jun 10, 2019 | 151 comments

9821.

Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming (2018) (energy.stanford.edu)

151 points by acidburnNSA on Mar 1, 2019 | 146 comments

9822.

Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python (tobydriscoll.net)

151 points by mbauman on Jul 3, 2019 | 146 comments

9823.

How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? (thehustle.co)

151 points by Steven-Clarke on Jul 14, 2019 | 141 comments

9824.

Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position (leerob.io)

151 points by leerob on Feb 17, 2019 | 136 comments

9825.

Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B (carbonite.com)

151 points by srhngpr on Dec 4, 2019 | 136 comments

9826.

How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp expert's perspective? (reddit.com)

151 points by myth_drannon on Jan 5, 2019 | 134 comments

9827.

The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers (reuters.com)

151 points by metaphysics on Jun 26, 2019 | 131 comments

9828.

History Will Not Be Kind to Jony Ive (vice.com)

151 points by jb1991 on Jun 28, 2019 | 129 comments

9829.

I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (meta.stackoverflow.com)

151 points by trothamel on Oct 18, 2019 | 129 comments

9830.

What is a coder's worst nightmare? (quora.com)

151 points by spiffytech on Jun 9, 2019 | 128 comments

9831.

Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3 (iihs.org)

151 points by crazy_eye on Sep 19, 2019 | 127 comments

9832.

China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland (bloomberg.com)

151 points by virtualwhys on Feb 19, 2019 | 119 comments

9833.

Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf] (gwern.net)

151 points by andreev_io on Nov 2, 2019 | 115 comments

9834.

Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products (wsj.com)

151 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 5, 2019 | 115 comments

9835.

Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city (carbonbrief.org)

151 points by blue_devil on Aug 13, 2019 | 113 comments

9836.

“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski (openculture.com)

151 points by vo2maxer on Dec 17, 2019 | 111 comments

9837.

What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week (spin.atomicobject.com)

151 points by ingve on Jan 6, 2019 | 107 comments

9838.

Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language (kparc.com)

151 points by chrispsn on Mar 25, 2019 | 107 comments

9839.

Why do we need modules at all? (2011) (erlang.org)

151 points by tosh on Aug 27, 2019 | 102 comments

9840.

How I encrypt my data in the cloud (robertclarke.com)

151 points by robertjfclarke on Jul 6, 2019 | 99 comments