HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20041.

Measuring Long-Term Causal Impact of Ads on LinkedIn Users (arxiv.org)

68 points by gwern on Jul 14, 2019 | 30 comments

20042.

China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (2017) (washingtonpost.com)

68 points by unnawut on Aug 11, 2019 | 30 comments

20043.

Wife of Norwegian billionare kidnapped, €9M crypto ransom (telegraph.co.uk)

68 points by xlance on Jan 9, 2019 | 29 comments

20044.

2,400 MOOCs Starting in April (openculture.com)

68 points by rodneyrdx on Apr 7, 2019 | 29 comments

20045.

Not even the Hong Kong protests can get past Chinese censors [video] (qz.com)

68 points by avocado4 on Jun 19, 2019 | 29 comments

20046.

Ask HN: Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?

68 points by firekvz on Sep 1, 2019 | 29 comments

20047.

Why Are Mountains So High? Mysterious Anomaly Exposes Limits of Theory (scitechdaily.com)

68 points by hhs on Oct 4, 2019 | 29 comments

20048.

PAIP: Run Common Lisp in Browser? (github.com)

68 points by register on Nov 14, 2019 | 29 comments

20049.

Robert Boyle’s to-do list (2010) (blogs.royalsociety.org)

68 points by tosh on Dec 4, 2019 | 29 comments

20050.

The Red and The Black (blog.12security.com)

68 points by Andrex on Dec 30, 2019 | 29 comments

20051.

Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes (vice.com)

68 points by saravana85 on May 17, 2019 | 28 comments

20052.

GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta) (lists.gnu.org)

68 points by lelf on Sep 6, 2019 | 27 comments

20053.

The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995) (fermatslibrary.com)

68 points by denzil_correa on Sep 25, 2019 | 27 comments

20054.

Czech Trail Marking System (2006) (blog.myczechrepublic.com)

68 points by PopeDotNinja on Oct 16, 2019 | 27 comments

20055.

Security audit finds vulnerabilities across Bitcoin forks (bitcoinsv.io)

68 points by galapago on Mar 2, 2019 | 26 comments

20056.

Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space (nasa.gov)

68 points by zeristor on May 24, 2019 | 26 comments

20057.

The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway (jalopnik.com)

68 points by samclemens on Oct 14, 2019 | 26 comments

20058.

Removing WebSQL Support (lists.webkit.org)

68 points by bzbarsky on Nov 22, 2019 | 26 comments

20059.

Bruce Schneier: It's time for technologists to become lawmakers (venturebeat.com)

68 points by kiyanwang on Mar 10, 2019 | 25 comments

20060.

The Decline of College Newspapers (theatlantic.com)

68 points by pseudolus on Aug 23, 2019 | 25 comments

20061.

Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency

68 points by tsahaghian on Oct 17, 2019 | 25 comments

20062.

Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2 (developer.apple.com)

68 points by jaynagpaul on Mar 25, 2019 | 24 comments

20063.

The “sewing machine” for minimally invasive neural recording (biorxiv.org)

68 points by ArtWomb on Apr 11, 2019 | 24 comments

20064.

Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, it more than pays for itself (thehill.com)

68 points by rmason on May 19, 2019 | 24 comments

20065.

Lego Braille bricks (newelementary.com)

68 points by app4soft on May 23, 2019 | 24 comments

20066.

Am I the only one seeing the '90s retro theme, with the unicorns and sparkles? (meta.stackoverflow.com)

68 points by mauricioc on Mar 31, 2019 | 23 comments

20067.

Valve Announce Valve Index VR Kit (valvesoftware.com)

68 points by truxs on Apr 30, 2019 | 23 comments

20068.

Perl 5.30.0 documentation site (perldoc.perl.org)

68 points by kamaal on Jun 10, 2019 | 23 comments

20069.

The ideal DevOps team structure (about.gitlab.com)

68 points by torvald on Jun 12, 2019 | 23 comments

20070.

Ring lacks basic security features, making it easy for hackers (vice.com)

68 points by dsr12 on Dec 17, 2019 | 23 comments