HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

11821.

France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decline: study (qz.com)

128 points by pi314s on Dec 5, 2019 | 194 comments

11822.

Gun laws where guns take the most lives (latinamericareports.com)

128 points by egusa on Mar 3, 2019 | 190 comments

11823.

Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days (santacruzsentinel.com)

128 points by jelliclesfarm on Dec 12, 2019 | 167 comments

11824.

It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks (bloomberg.com)

128 points by paulpauper on Nov 26, 2019 | 166 comments

11825.

SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test (wsj.com)

128 points by dpflan on Sep 26, 2019 | 153 comments

11826.

Google's Civil War (fortune.com)

128 points by lxm on May 19, 2019 | 148 comments

11827.

The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops (theguardian.com)

128 points by axiomdata316 on Mar 8, 2019 | 143 comments

11828.

The Servant Economy (theatlantic.com)

128 points by webappsecperson on Mar 6, 2019 | 133 comments

11829.

Google to end 'Double Irish, Dutch' tax scheme: filing (reuters.com)

128 points by thefounder on Dec 31, 2019 | 130 comments

11830.

Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon? (space.com)

128 points by wglb on Jan 31, 2019 | 127 comments

11831.

We Never Paid for Journalism (idiallo.com)

128 points by foxfired on Oct 24, 2019 | 122 comments

11832.

Stalin's daughter on her life in Wisconsin (2010) (madison.com)

128 points by gruseom on Mar 10, 2019 | 121 comments

11833.

Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants (twitter.com)

128 points by Lio on Jan 21, 2019 | 120 comments

11834.

A 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet (latimes.com)

128 points by eplanit on Mar 17, 2019 | 118 comments

11835.

Sony to slash smartphone workforce (asia.nikkei.com)

128 points by ingve on Mar 30, 2019 | 116 comments

11836.

Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google (bloomberg.com)

128 points by pseudolus on Mar 20, 2019 | 115 comments

11837.

Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF (techcrunch.com)

128 points by rohanmahajan on Mar 11, 2019 | 114 comments

11838.

Could wooden building be a solution to climate change? (bbc.com)

128 points by oori on Jul 25, 2019 | 114 comments

11839.

U.S. Cities Strain to Fight Hackers (wsj.com)

128 points by Bostonian on Jun 7, 2019 | 113 comments

11840.

Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it? (npr.org)

128 points by hhs on Jun 24, 2019 | 108 comments

11841.

YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to remaster iconic music videos (youtube.googleblog.com)

128 points by janvdberg on Jun 19, 2019 | 99 comments

11842.

It’s not about how many countries you have been to (travelmap.net)

128 points by clementmas on Mar 8, 2019 | 98 comments

11843.

Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account (blog.jaredsinclair.com)

128 points by ingve on Mar 24, 2019 | 97 comments

11844.

SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package (wsj.com)

128 points by bgc on Oct 13, 2019 | 96 comments

11845.

A woman who doesn't feel pain (bbc.com)

128 points by ducaale on Mar 28, 2019 | 91 comments

11846.

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money (qz.com)

128 points by doener on Jul 27, 2019 | 91 comments

11847.

iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer (twitter.com)

128 points by tambourine_man on Sep 21, 2019 | 89 comments

11848.

OCaml 4.08 (inbox.ocaml.org)

128 points by mseri on Jun 14, 2019 | 88 comments

11849.

A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize (npr.org)

128 points by sohkamyung on Aug 14, 2019 | 88 comments

11850.

The Passion Economy and the Future of Work (a16z.com)

128 points by bentossell on Oct 9, 2019 | 88 comments