HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced (standardebooks.org)

820 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 2, 2019 | 129 comments

32.

Why is modern web development so complicated? (vrk.dev)

819 points by bibyte on Aug 7, 2019 | 711 comments

33.

A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018) (thehustle.co)

816 points by dragontamer on Aug 28, 2019 | 478 comments

34.

OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation (github.com)

813 points by vsurabhi on Aug 19, 2019 | 222 comments

35.

A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

804 points by troydavis on Aug 30, 2019 | 182 comments

36.

Software Architecture Guide (martinfowler.com)

803 points by rspivak on Aug 24, 2019 | 288 comments

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Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules (euractiv.com)

802 points by abbe98 on Aug 4, 2019 | 264 comments

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Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study (nationalgeographic.com)

797 points by whatami on Aug 11, 2019 | 323 comments

39.

Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone (forbes.com)

773 points by tareqak on Aug 8, 2019 | 282 comments

40.

Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

762 points by Fr0styMatt88 on Aug 22, 2019 | 540 comments

41.

Tech Interview Handbook (yangshun.github.io)

760 points by yangshun on Aug 17, 2019 | 325 comments

42.

Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (sparktoro.com)

755 points by adamcarson on Aug 13, 2019 | 513 comments

43.

Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? (examine.com)

750 points by cyrusshepard on Aug 12, 2019 | 353 comments

44.

Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts (uglygerry.com)

750 points by rgardaphe on Aug 1, 2019 | 190 comments

45.

A Walk in Hong Kong (idlewords.com)

748 points by haasted on Aug 16, 2019 | 371 comments

46.

John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] (youtube.com)

741 points by sexy_seedbox on Aug 29, 2019 | 275 comments

47.

The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70 (hacks.mozilla.org)

735 points by edmorley on Aug 30, 2019 | 267 comments

48.

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore (bloomberg.com)

731 points by mancerayder on Aug 23, 2019 | 1040 comments

49.

Build Your Own Text Editor (viewsourcecode.org)

711 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2019 | 103 comments

50.

I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market” (reddit.com)

701 points by starpilot on Aug 16, 2019 | 204 comments

51.

Ask HN: How Do You Read?

686 points by vilvadot on Aug 31, 2019 | 247 comments

52.

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night (figma.com)

685 points by rudi-c on Aug 22, 2019 | 86 comments

53.

Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality (economist.com)

684 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2019 | 605 comments

54.

New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web (wsj.com)

683 points by psim1 on Aug 6, 2019 | 202 comments

55.

GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (github.blog)

680 points by dstaheli on Aug 8, 2019 | 231 comments

56.

Consume less, create more (tjcx.me)

668 points by tomjcleveland on Aug 23, 2019 | 182 comments

57.

Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing (citylab.com)

664 points by Osiris30 on Aug 2, 2019 | 202 comments

58.

Kerbal Space Program 2 (kerbalspaceprogram.com)

661 points by xucheng on Aug 19, 2019 | 228 comments

59.

MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy (ryanbigg.com)

655 points by ryanbigg on Aug 28, 2019 | 575 comments

60.

Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer (lastweekinaws.com)

651 points by mjulian on Aug 5, 2019 | 349 comments