HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8551.

California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors (nytimes.com)

169 points by avocado4 on Sep 27, 2019 | 234 comments

8552.

YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes (nytimes.com)

169 points by Bhilai on Mar 29, 2019 | 232 comments

8553.

Amazon Ruined Online Shopping (theatlantic.com)

169 points by seagullz on Jan 20, 2019 | 216 comments

8554.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment (harpers.org)

169 points by jeffreyrogers on Jan 31, 2019 | 211 comments

8555.

Please don’t theme our apps (stopthemingmy.app)

169 points by forlorn on May 25, 2019 | 194 comments

8556.

In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes (arstechnica.com)

169 points by jseliger on Jul 25, 2019 | 179 comments

8557.

Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning (psyarxiv.com)

169 points by undefined1 on Jan 14, 2019 | 177 comments

8558.

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox (quantamagazine.org)

169 points by Errorcod3 on Mar 8, 2019 | 177 comments

8559.

Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts (nytimes.com)

169 points by vincentmarle on Aug 28, 2019 | 175 comments

8560.

Interview with the creators of levels.fyi (cnbc.com)

169 points by zalzal on Jun 17, 2019 | 173 comments

8561.

Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail (crosscut.com)

169 points by curtis on Aug 23, 2019 | 173 comments

8562.

Efficient string copying and concatenation in C (developers.redhat.com)

169 points by beefhash on Sep 12, 2019 | 170 comments

8563.

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting (blogs.microsoft.com)

169 points by zachguo on May 6, 2019 | 169 comments

8564.

A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers (physicstoday.scitation.org)

169 points by digital55 on Apr 18, 2019 | 162 comments

8565.

Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists (economist.com)

169 points by pionerkotik on Nov 9, 2019 | 149 comments

8566.

Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor (fastcompany.com)

169 points by johnshades on Mar 18, 2019 | 148 comments

8567.

Slack will never replace email (medium.com)

169 points by thereyougo on Jun 16, 2019 | 142 comments

8568.

Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring (sec.gov)

169 points by chmaynard on Dec 17, 2019 | 141 comments

8569.

Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)

169 points by bruceb on Aug 20, 2019 | 140 comments

8570.

Goodbye Big Five: Google (gizmodo.com)

169 points by kaboro on Jan 29, 2019 | 133 comments

8571.

Basic Electron Framework Exploitation (contextis.com)

169 points by adambb on Aug 7, 2019 | 128 comments

8572.

Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (bbc.co.uk)

169 points by bauc on May 13, 2019 | 126 comments

8573.

Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist (econfaculty.gmu.edu)

169 points by crunchiebones on Jan 8, 2019 | 123 comments

8574.

Superhuman: Read Statuses (blog.superhuman.com)

169 points by DVassallo on Jul 3, 2019 | 119 comments

8575.

Personal Website for Programmers (github.com)

169 points by naresh1318 on Aug 9, 2019 | 109 comments

8576.

Unofficial Windows XP SP4 (ryanvm.net)

169 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Nov 5, 2019 | 107 comments

8577.

Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped (nbcnews.com)