HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20131.

Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups (medium.com)

68 points by GordonS on May 12, 2019 | 4 comments

20132.

The Moon made twice, at home (medium.com)

68 points by pplonski86 on Oct 13, 2019 | 4 comments

20133.

Human Rights at a Global Crossroads – Robert Tibbo and Edward Snowden [video] (media.ccc.de)

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

20134.

To Build a Better Teapot, Researchers Create Liquid Helix (physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com)

68 points by boulos on Jun 21, 2019 | 3 comments

20135.

Microsoft open-sources natural language processing tool for survey data (github.com)

68 points by cbuja on Jul 23, 2019 | 3 comments

20136.

Writing an OS in Rust: Heap Allocation (os.phil-opp.com)

68 points by phil-opp on Jun 26, 2019 | 2 comments

20137.

AlphaStar: Grandmaster Level in StarCraft II (deepmind.com)

68 points by Schiphol on Oct 31, 2019 | 2 comments

20138.

Teaching “The Smell” (learningfromincidents.io)

68 points by meanie on Dec 21, 2019 | 2 comments

20139.

A deep dive into macOS MDM and how it can be compromised (2018) [pdf] (i.blackhat.com)

68 points by jxub on Mar 7, 2019 | 1 comments

20140.

Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces (quantamagazine.org)

68 points by furcyd on Mar 12, 2019 | 1 comments

20141.

Anonymous web authentication with Stellar blockchain (evilmartians.com)

68 points by progapandist on Jan 29, 2019 | 0 comments

20142.

CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid (elpais.com)

68 points by onemoresoop on Mar 13, 2019 | 0 comments

20143.

‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass (nybooks.com)

68 points by tintinnabula on Aug 8, 2019 | 0 comments

20144.

What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? (nytimes.com)

67 points by mitchbob on Sep 30, 2019 | 165 comments

20145.

The Looming End of Payless ShoeSource (theoutline.com)

67 points by okfine on Apr 28, 2019 | 116 comments

20146.

The TypeScript Tax (medium.com)

67 points by bnchdrff on Jan 23, 2019 | 115 comments

20147.

Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls (reuters.com)

67 points by spking on Jan 3, 2019 | 111 comments

20148.

US Uber drivers plan 12-hour shutdown over pay and conditions (bbc.co.uk)

67 points by AndrewDucker on Apr 25, 2019 | 109 comments

20149.

Teachers Pay High Fees for Retirement Funds (wsj.com)

67 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 18, 2019 | 108 comments

20150.

European Commission President Juncker tweets that a Brexit deal has been done (twitter.com)

67 points by seapunk on Oct 17, 2019 | 103 comments

20151.

Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge (forbes.com)

67 points by spking on Apr 16, 2019 | 101 comments

20152.

Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms (thelancet.com)

67 points by bookofjoe on Mar 6, 2019 | 99 comments

20153.

The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, a Hired Desk and a Handful of Clothes (npr.org)

67 points by jameslk on Apr 23, 2019 | 97 comments

20154.

Millionaires Flee Their Homelands as Tensions Rise and Taxes Bite (bloomberg.com)

67 points by spking on May 2, 2019 | 94 comments

20155.

Gym Class Is So Bad, Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It (theatlantic.com)

67 points by dorkwood on Feb 3, 2019 | 93 comments

20156.

Saudi Arabia threatens to ditch dollar oil trades to stop 'NOPEC' (reuters.com)

67 points by jonbaer on Apr 5, 2019 | 91 comments

20157.

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows (nytimes.com)

67 points by uptown on Oct 30, 2019 | 89 comments

20158.

Ask HN: Before We Spend Millions, What Do You Think of This Blockchain Use Case?

67 points by kauffj on Feb 20, 2019 | 86 comments

20159.

Ask HN: Do you program in Basic?

67 points by vanilla-almond on Jun 14, 2019 | 85 comments

20160.

Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis (eandt.theiet.org)

67 points by alex_young on Aug 18, 2019 | 84 comments