HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

The true story of the Amazon door desk (2011) (glog.glennf.com)

79 points by PascLeRasc on Oct 2, 2019 | 66 comments

1622.

Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force (tweedekamer.nl)

79 points by seelt on Oct 25, 2019 | 61 comments

1623.

The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

79 points by anarbadalov on Oct 11, 2019 | 43 comments

1624.

A Solar Power Plant designed to deliver 100% of the electricity after sunset (pv-magazine-usa.com)

79 points by Osiris30 on Oct 10, 2019 | 39 comments

1625.

The New World of Notebook Publishing (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

79 points by tosh on Oct 24, 2019 | 29 comments

1626.

Boeing Pilots Detected 737 Max Flight Control Glitch 2 Years Before Deadly Crash (npr.org)

79 points by elorant on Oct 20, 2019 | 22 comments

1627.

BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface (nature.com)

79 points by jxy on Oct 30, 2019 | 20 comments

1628.

Show HN: Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG (github.com)

79 points by bgahagan on Oct 11, 2019 | 16 comments

1629.

A Separate Kind of Intelligence (edge.org)

79 points by hos234 on Oct 5, 2019 | 7 comments

1630.

Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku (blog.heroku.com)

79 points by edmorley on Oct 22, 2019 | 5 comments

1631.

More on Postgres Performance (2013) (craigkerstiens.com)

79 points by spathak on Oct 10, 2019 | 2 comments

1632.

The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor (theguardian.com)

78 points by xigency on Oct 18, 2019 | 101 comments

1633.

Leaving Prison at 72 (nytimes.com)

78 points by danso on Oct 28, 2019 | 101 comments

1634.

New rules for contractors have unexpected consequences for strip clubs (sfexaminer.com)

78 points by dsr12 on Oct 14, 2019 | 70 comments

1635.

Survey: Average American Hasn’t Made a New Friend in 5 Years (studyfinds.org)

78 points by Vaslo on Oct 9, 2019 | 52 comments

1636.

Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020 (blog.mozilla.org)

78 points by exabrial on Oct 8, 2019 | 51 comments

1637.

Was it worth paying €41.7bn to bail out Irish banks? (irishtimes.com)

78 points by howard941 on Oct 2, 2019 | 42 comments

1638.

America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed (atlasobscura.com)

78 points by thedday on Oct 15, 2019 | 23 comments

1639.

Beneath the Replication Crisis (societyinmind.com)

78 points by danielam on Oct 14, 2019 | 22 comments

1640.

Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data [pdf] (taichi.graphics)

78 points by matt_d on Oct 2, 2019 | 9 comments

1641.

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets (theatlantic.com)

78 points by alistairSH on Oct 30, 2019 | 8 comments

1642.

Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models (nature.com)

78 points by antouank on Oct 7, 2019 | 7 comments

1643.

The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier (nytimes.com)

78 points by yarapavan on Oct 13, 2019 | 3 comments

1644.

“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades (righto.com)

78 points by robin_reala on Oct 23, 2019 | 2 comments

1645.

Disney: Bob Iger bets the company (and Hollywood's future) on streaming (hollywoodreporter.com)

77 points by spking on Oct 17, 2019 | 180 comments

1646.

Cameras Could Replace Car Mirrors? (bloomberg.com)

77 points by gscott on Oct 10, 2019 | 177 comments

1647.

A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’ (nytimes.com)

77 points by claudeganon on Oct 12, 2019 | 108 comments

1648.

Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success (nytimes.com)

77 points by Kaibeezy on Oct 28, 2019 | 61 comments

1649.

Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help (dmitripopov.com)

77 points by dmitripopov on Oct 28, 2019 | 40 comments

1650.

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991) (dreamsongs.com)

77 points by ropable on Oct 31, 2019 | 37 comments