HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1261.

What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? (perell.com)

90 points by ojarow on Feb 2, 2020 | 228 comments

1262.

Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya (pri.org)

90 points by thereare5lights on Feb 4, 2020 | 80 comments

1263.

DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger (thedrive.com)

90 points by ycnews on Feb 18, 2020 | 78 comments

1264.

Trunk Road Gritter Tracker (scotgov.maps.arcgis.com)

90 points by hjkm on Feb 24, 2020 | 68 comments

1265.

I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices (ma.ttias.be)

90 points by Mojah on Feb 27, 2020 | 59 comments

1266.

Ask HN: My web app was hacked today – Bad experiences and how to prevent them?

90 points by ngranja19 on Feb 27, 2020 | 49 comments

1267.

Hacked from a lightbulb (blog.checkpoint.com)

90 points by bjoko on Feb 7, 2020 | 39 comments

1268.

Thinking About Recursion (solipsys.co.uk)

90 points by ColinWright on Feb 9, 2020 | 38 comments

1269.

The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017) (bbc.com)

90 points by sndean on Feb 3, 2020 | 37 comments

1270.

Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search (bbc.co.uk)

89 points by aluket on Feb 15, 2020 | 100 comments

1271.

The comfortable life is killing us (medium.com)

89 points by arbhassan on Feb 8, 2020 | 97 comments

1272.

Singapore Airlines is using aeroponics to upgrade in-flight meals (qz.com)

89 points by prostoalex on Feb 24, 2020 | 85 comments

1273.

Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) (hraf.yale.edu)

89 points by cdepman on Feb 14, 2020 | 68 comments

1274.

Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster (easydns.com)

89 points by StuntPope on Feb 24, 2020 | 64 comments

1275.

Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

89 points by cloudking on Feb 12, 2020 | 49 comments

1276.

What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera (eff.org)

89 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 4, 2020 | 48 comments

1277.

Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World (theatlantic.com)

89 points by sxp on Feb 1, 2020 | 45 comments

1278.

“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)

89 points by AuthorizedCust on Feb 26, 2020 | 34 comments

1279.

StorePreviewer – See what your app will look like on the App Store (storepreviewer.com)

89 points by afrcnc on Feb 26, 2020 | 31 comments

1280.

Soviet Calculators History (1998) (xnumber.com)

89 points by erikbye on Feb 17, 2020 | 29 comments

1281.

A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption (theverge.com)

89 points by elorant on Feb 1, 2020 | 10 comments

1282.

AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing (ai.googleblog.com)

89 points by jonbaer on Feb 14, 2020 | 10 comments

1283.

The Economics of Maps [pdf] (pubs.aeaweb.org)

89 points by benbreen on Feb 12, 2020 | 7 comments

1284.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

88 points by whoishiring on Feb 3, 2020 | 223 comments

1285.

LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic (economist.com)

88 points by edward on Feb 7, 2020 | 196 comments

1286.

Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism (beachgrit.com)

88 points by tangue on Feb 7, 2020 | 146 comments

1287.

New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery (techradar.com)

88 points by jonbaer on Feb 29, 2020 | 129 comments

1288.

Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals (wsj.com)

88 points by prostoalex on Feb 25, 2020 | 121 comments

1289.

Fedora Muscian's Guide (docs.fedoraproject.org)

88 points by brudgers on Feb 13, 2020 | 81 comments

1290.

South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011) (content.time.com)

88 points by apsec112 on Feb 21, 2020 | 68 comments