HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4021.

We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong (nytimes.com)

253 points by chollida1 on Sep 14, 2018 | 239 comments

4022.

A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior (reuters.com)

253 points by kawera on Nov 14, 2018 | 211 comments

4023.

How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database (blog.memsql.com)

253 points by rickn on Jul 13, 2018 | 207 comments

4024.

Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges (bloomberg.com)

253 points by samspenc on Mar 20, 2018 | 202 comments

4025.

It’s time for a digital protection agency (bloomberg.com)

253 points by adrian_mrd on Mar 25, 2018 | 195 comments

4026.

Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods: Report (ipwatchdog.com)

253 points by vezycash on Jun 16, 2018 | 195 comments

4027.

Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video (vox.com)

253 points by anarbadalov on Apr 23, 2018 | 192 comments

4028.

Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 (sciencemag.org)

253 points by nonbel on Aug 6, 2018 | 191 comments

4029.

South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork (weforum.org)

253 points by dsr12 on Jul 7, 2018 | 189 comments

4030.

The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS (twobithistory.org)

253 points by ttepasse on Sep 17, 2018 | 186 comments

4031.

Identifying QUIC deliverables (mailarchive.ietf.org)

253 points by arusahni on Oct 29, 2018 | 182 comments

4032.

Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it (independent.co.uk)

253 points by phrygian on Apr 18, 2018 | 156 comments

4033.

GitLab is now running on GCP (twitter.com)

253 points by sahin on Aug 11, 2018 | 152 comments

4034.

Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox (androidpolice.com)

253 points by rexbee on Mar 13, 2018 | 144 comments

4035.

Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?

253 points by jmeiha on Sep 16, 2018 | 141 comments

4036.

Nim 0.19 (nim-lang.org)

253 points by bpierre on Sep 27, 2018 | 141 comments

4037.

You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)

253 points by jlgaddis on Mar 23, 2018 | 139 comments

4038.

Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed (media.uzh.ch)

253 points by bellinom on Jun 5, 2018 | 139 comments

4039.

Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected (techdirt.com)

253 points by sqdbps on Jul 3, 2018 | 130 comments

4040.

Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years (boingboing.net)

253 points by stablemap on May 18, 2018 | 124 comments

4041.

Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video] (youtube.com)

253 points by henning on Dec 25, 2018 | 124 comments

4042.

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (smithsonianmag.com)

253 points by myinnerbanjo on Dec 17, 2018 | 101 comments

4043.

Librem 5 dev kits are shipping (puri.sm)

253 points by arctux on Dec 18, 2018 | 94 comments

4044.

A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016) (highscalability.com)

253 points by febin on Dec 26, 2018 | 91 comments

4045.

Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months (medium.com)

253 points by CiPHPerCoder on Apr 3, 2018 | 89 comments

4046.

The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia (eff.org)

253 points by Mononokay on Jun 7, 2018 | 79 comments

4047.

Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm (github.com)

253 points by atum47 on Oct 30, 2018 | 69 comments

4048.

Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12 (shortcutroulette.com)

253 points by shrtctroulette on Nov 20, 2018 | 61 comments

4049.

Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X (blog.metaobject.com)

253 points by mpweiher on Jan 13, 2018 | 57 comments

4050.

A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies (towardsdatascience.com)

253 points by xTWOz on Oct 30, 2018 | 49 comments