HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2941.

A hiker in Canada was approached by a cougar. She blasted Metallica to scare it (cnn.com)

20 points by LinuxBender on Aug 2, 2019 | 35 comments

2942.

The Man Who Thinks the U.S. Is Better Off as a Bunch of Separate Countries (fivethirtyeight.com)

20 points by smacktoward on Aug 1, 2019 | 27 comments

2943.

Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers (techcrunch.com)

20 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2019 | 27 comments

2944.

The cost of next-day delivery (buzzfeednews.com)

20 points by jmsflknr on Aug 31, 2019 | 21 comments

2945.

Ask HN: What have you automated that saved you a ton of time?

20 points by deadcoder0904 on Aug 27, 2019 | 17 comments

2946.

Ask HN: Is there any guarantee that my phone's camera isn't spying on me?

20 points by mikaelsouza on Aug 13, 2019 | 16 comments

2947.

Is Britain Becoming a Failed State? (project-syndicate.org)

20 points by akbarnama on Aug 26, 2019 | 15 comments

2948.

Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland (wsj.com)

20 points by alokrai on Aug 15, 2019 | 14 comments

2949.

Blue teams, what has had the most impact protecting against cyber attacks?

20 points by alltakendamned on Aug 20, 2019 | 14 comments

2950.

We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail (vox.com)

20 points by razin on Aug 9, 2019 | 13 comments

2951.

Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless (inc.com)

20 points by raiyu on Aug 14, 2019 | 13 comments

2952.

Inequality driving 'deaths of despair' (bbc.com)

20 points by hhs on Aug 31, 2019 | 11 comments

2953.

“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson (vox.com)

20 points by respinal on Aug 19, 2019 | 10 comments

2954.

What do you look for when hiring a freelancer

20 points by newbierails on Aug 30, 2019 | 10 comments

2955.

Cloudflare ending DDoS protection for 8chan (twitter.com)

20 points by uptown on Aug 5, 2019 | 8 comments

2956.

Mummia (en.wikipedia.org)

20 points by trkaky on Aug 7, 2019 | 8 comments

2957.

The Nut CPU (HP Calculator CPU) [pdf] (hp41.deringenieur.net)

20 points by protomyth on Aug 14, 2019 | 8 comments

2958.

The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials (theatlantic.com)

20 points by t23 on Aug 27, 2019 | 8 comments

2959.

The Elder Scrolls: Skyblivion (skyblivion.com)

20 points by bane on Aug 18, 2019 | 7 comments

2960.

Taking History Personally (the-tls.co.uk)

20 points by benbreen on Aug 25, 2019 | 7 comments

2961.

Managing Developers: Understanding Work Styles and Individual Needs (7pace.com)

20 points by encorekt on Aug 12, 2019 | 5 comments

2962.

Fighting forest crime in Guatemala (nationalgeographic.com)

20 points by jctwinkle on Aug 21, 2019 | 5 comments

2963.

Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns (theguardian.com)

20 points by sexopolis on Aug 9, 2019 | 4 comments

2964.

Reports say White House has drafted an order for FCC to monitor social media (techcrunch.com)

20 points by fooey on Aug 9, 2019 | 4 comments

2965.

Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic (theguardian.com)

20 points by rumcajz on Aug 17, 2019 | 4 comments

2966.

The Internet Must Change – Start with the Data (shift.newco.co)

20 points by peter_d_sherman on Aug 18, 2019 | 4 comments

2967.

Next browser 1.3.0: your Lisp daily driver

20 points by jmercouris on Aug 5, 2019 | 3 comments

2968.

Anatomy of a Posit Number (johndcook.com)

20 points by hereiskkb on Aug 8, 2019 | 3 comments

2969.

Distributed tracing in the service mesh: four myths (linkerd.io)

20 points by williamallthing on Aug 9, 2019 | 3 comments

2970.

Fine-Tuned Constants (plato.stanford.edu)

20 points by ph4 on Aug 9, 2019 | 3 comments