HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills (theguardian.com)

342 points by srameshc on Jul 28, 2019 | 282 comments

212.

Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems (arstechnica.com)

342 points by hbgb on Jul 19, 2019 | 257 comments

213.

The rise of remote working will continue (fastcompany.com)

342 points by keiferski on Jul 1, 2019 | 206 comments

214.

Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?

341 points by chha on Jul 2, 2019 | 296 comments

215.

Why am I interested in Elixir? (underjord.io)

341 points by muhic on Jul 4, 2019 | 178 comments

216.

After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles were stolen in one day (bloomberg.com)

339 points by throwaway3627 on Jul 14, 2019 | 226 comments

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Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf] (bppe.ca.gov)

338 points by lanrh1836 on Jul 29, 2019 | 337 comments

218.

I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy (wired.com)

338 points by lnguyen on Jul 3, 2019 | 183 comments

219.

Why plants don’t die from cancer (pbs.org)

338 points by tysone on Jul 1, 2019 | 120 comments

220.

Use plaintext email (useplaintext.email)

337 points by ddevault on Jul 24, 2019 | 334 comments

221.

Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars (theverge.com)

337 points by jonbaer on Jul 3, 2019 | 284 comments

222.

Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox (github.com)

335 points by amjd on Jul 23, 2019 | 127 comments

223.

Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen (thefutureoftheweb.com)

334 points by bhalp1 on Jul 2, 2019 | 202 comments

224.

DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net (starcraft2.com)

333 points by modeless on Jul 10, 2019 | 261 comments

225.

Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee (bloomberg.com)

333 points by samsonradu on Jul 20, 2019 | 239 comments

226.

What Stress Does to the Brain (neurosciencenews.com)

331 points by laurex on Jul 26, 2019 | 125 comments

227.

The Coming Boeing Bailout? (mattstoller.substack.com)

330 points by fanf2 on Jul 4, 2019 | 182 comments

228.

Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

329 points by president on Jul 16, 2019 | 298 comments

229.

What If Consciousness Comes First? (psychologytoday.com)

328 points by devilcius on Jul 24, 2019 | 548 comments

230.

Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies (wsj.com)

327 points by mudil on Jul 23, 2019 | 311 comments

231.

Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding (itsfoss.com)

327 points by wheresvic1 on Jul 8, 2019 | 110 comments

232.

Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch (theverge.com)

326 points by azernik on Jul 9, 2019 | 146 comments

233.

France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by US (bbc.com)

324 points by adzicg on Jul 11, 2019 | 478 comments

234.

Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning (sciencedaily.com)

324 points by lxm on Jul 27, 2019 | 196 comments

235.

The Rust compiler is still getting faster (blog.mozilla.org)

324 points by nnethercote on Jul 25, 2019 | 96 comments

236.

A History of Visa (minesafetydisclosures.com)

324 points by joosters on Jul 25, 2019 | 88 comments

237.

How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow (medium.com)

324 points by daddy_drank on Jul 5, 2019 | 87 comments

238.

Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust (github.com)

322 points by zhs on Jul 2, 2019 | 63 comments

239.

Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet (nytimes.com)

321 points by mitchbob on Jul 10, 2019 | 147 comments

240.

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (geoffreylitt.com)

320 points by gklitt on Jul 29, 2019 | 186 comments