HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker (medium.com)

2444 points by coloneltcb on Feb 7, 2019 | 730 comments

2.

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (medium.com)

2101 points by jamesjyu on Feb 7, 2019 | 353 comments

3.

Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

2009 points by apitman on Feb 5, 2019 | 1165 comments

4.

UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access (universityofcalifornia.edu)

1743 points by tingletech on Feb 28, 2019 | 233 comments

5.

Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account (blog.usejournal.com)

1668 points by jacquesm on Feb 9, 2019 | 498 comments

6.

U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property (nytimes.com)

1426 points by ComputerGuru on Feb 20, 2019 | 423 comments

7.

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)

1415 points by mfsch on Feb 4, 2019 | 368 comments

8.

Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

1308 points by perardi on Feb 21, 2019 | 393 comments

9.

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) (immersivemath.com)

1269 points by reverse on Feb 27, 2019 | 140 comments

10.

Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute (instant.page)

1214 points by dieulot on Feb 9, 2019 | 337 comments

11.

Dotfile madness (0x46.net)

1146 points by boreq on Feb 2, 2019 | 514 comments

12.

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source (linuxjournal.com)

1138 points by jrepinc on Feb 4, 2019 | 261 comments

13.

Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms (bradfrost.com)

1124 points by octosphere on Feb 15, 2019 | 506 comments

14.

Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com)

1066 points by uptown on Feb 14, 2019 | 964 comments

15.

MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools (hacker-tools.github.io)

1028 points by anishathalye on Feb 4, 2019 | 79 comments

16.

Leukemia Has Won (alex.blog)

1012 points by yagodragon on Feb 19, 2019 | 184 comments

17.

We Need Chrome No More (redalemeden.com)

1011 points by kaishin on Feb 27, 2019 | 518 comments

18.

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? (quora.com)

1002 points by grzm on Feb 13, 2019 | 618 comments

19.

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking (forbrukerradet.no)

953 points by thg on Feb 1, 2019 | 445 comments

20.

Public protest against Amazon

920 points by _zsm0 on Feb 19, 2019 | 495 comments

21.

On Being a Principal Engineer (blog.dbsmasher.com)

893 points by kiyanwang on Feb 10, 2019 | 331 comments

22.

Flightradar24 – how it works (habr.com)

874 points by crunchiebones on Feb 17, 2019 | 155 comments

23.

I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon (reddit.com)

873 points by sohkamyung on Feb 18, 2019 | 113 comments

24.

This person does not exist (thispersondoesnotexist.com)

872 points by bpierre on Feb 12, 2019 | 236 comments

25.

Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News (redislabs.com)

855 points by mrburton on Feb 27, 2019 | 215 comments

26.

SQL: One of the most valuable skills (craigkerstiens.com)

821 points by duck on Feb 13, 2019 | 382 comments

27.

You probably don't need a single-page app (journal.plausible.io)

816 points by ukutaht on Feb 17, 2019 | 499 comments

28.

My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 (mailarchive.ietf.org)

810 points by baptou12 on Feb 15, 2019 | 496 comments

29.

Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers (techcrunch.com)

799 points by sinstein on Feb 8, 2019 | 931 comments

30.

$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now (tesla.com)

785 points by felipemesquita on Feb 28, 2019 | 713 comments