HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20191.

Is “Ass” the Most Complicated Word in English? (pudding.cool)

67 points by feross on Oct 2, 2019 | 61 comments

20192.

It's all Greek to me: Thoughts on code readability and aesthetics (avraam.dev)

67 points by avrmav on Jul 20, 2019 | 60 comments

20193.

Judge claims mobile phone is not a computer (theguardian.com)

67 points by injidup on Aug 19, 2019 | 58 comments

20194.

Ask HN: What are your rules-of-thumb for personal finance and saving?

67 points by elamje on Jan 30, 2019 | 57 comments

20195.

Ford's designers are learning to create 3D cars in VR (cnet.com)

67 points by mstats on Feb 2, 2019 | 57 comments

20196.

Show HN: Turn any WiFi into a persistent group chat

67 points by melvinmt on Apr 30, 2019 | 56 comments

20197.

Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda (qz.com)

67 points by kushti on May 30, 2019 | 56 comments

20198.

Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped (tedium.co)

67 points by dredmorbius on Dec 9, 2019 | 56 comments

20199.

Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (blog.unicode.org)

67 points by lelf on Mar 6, 2019 | 55 comments

20200.

Natural Magick (1584) (faculty.umb.edu)

67 points by brudgers on Oct 7, 2019 | 54 comments

20201.

Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015) (npr.org)

67 points by Tomte on Feb 25, 2019 | 52 comments

20202.

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

67 points by yasp on Mar 14, 2019 | 52 comments

20203.

Show HN: libcodr7 – fundamental collections in the spirit of C (github.com)

67 points by codr7 on Dec 30, 2019 | 51 comments

20204.

Inheriting the Trauma of Genocide (wsj.com)

67 points by niyikiza on Feb 22, 2019 | 48 comments

20205.

Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t using a basic email security (techcrunch.com)

67 points by sahin-boydas on Apr 30, 2019 | 48 comments

20206.

Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes (openfaas.com)

67 points by alexellisuk on Aug 20, 2019 | 48 comments

20207.

Ask HN: I am addicted to Porn. Help me quit

67 points by throwaway196 on Sep 26, 2019 | 48 comments

20208.

The Linux Edge (1999) (blog.corememory.io)

67 points by chmaynard on Apr 18, 2019 | 47 comments

20209.

“Affordances,” a science-fiction story by Cory Doctorow (slate.com)

67 points by jrepinc on Nov 23, 2019 | 46 comments

20210.

Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City (wsj.com)

67 points by bretpiatt on Feb 8, 2019 | 45 comments

20211.

Missouri Police Search for Marijuana in a Stage 4 Cancer Patient's Hospital Room (time.com)

67 points by kyleblarson on Mar 10, 2019 | 45 comments

20212.

An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind (economist.com)

67 points by prostoalex on Sep 6, 2019 | 45 comments

20213.

Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos (davidbisset.com)

67 points by dimensionmedia on Sep 20, 2019 | 45 comments

20214.

Show HN: Two Kilo – A curses-based text editor in 2kb of code (0x0.st)

67 points by earenndil on Mar 7, 2019 | 44 comments

20215.

The Real Dark Web (sonniesedge.net)

67 points by skilled on Aug 2, 2019 | 44 comments

20216.

Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardian's Permission (time.com)

67 points by Alyan on Aug 2, 2019 | 44 comments

20217.

Best apps for writers (writersdigest.com)

67 points by hhs on Mar 23, 2019 | 43 comments

20218.

Show HN: Assembly: A Pythonic Object-Oriented Web Framework Built on Flask (mardix.github.io)

67 points by mardix on Nov 29, 2019 | 43 comments

20219.

Dietary Supplement Use During Chemotherapy and Survival Outcomes of Patients (ascopubs.org)

67 points by DanBC on Dec 22, 2019 | 42 comments

20220.

ShadowFox – Dark Theme for Firefox (overdodactyl.github.io)

67 points by jhabdas on Jul 9, 2019 | 41 comments