HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18421.

The Rise of the “Liberaltarian” (gsb.stanford.edu)

80 points by zackhsi on Jul 11, 2020 | 153 comments

18422.

The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19 (public.flourish.studio)

80 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Apr 8, 2020 | 136 comments

18423.

Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird? (sapiens.org)

80 points by anthrocurious on Oct 24, 2020 | 129 comments

18424.

Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019) (cbc.ca)

80 points by luu on Aug 18, 2020 | 122 comments

18425.

Are pixie fairies behind Bitcoin's latest bubble? (amycastor.com)

80 points by amycastor on Nov 22, 2020 | 112 comments

18426.

Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged? (philip.greenspun.com)

80 points by pragmatic on May 23, 2020 | 109 comments

18427.

Young people are funneled into fields that don’t reward risk-taking (bloomberg.com)

80 points by mooreds on Jan 30, 2020 | 107 comments

18428.

Getting Users Is Hard

80 points by ryansam on Sep 5, 2020 | 104 comments

18429.

Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps (reuters.com)

80 points by ckcheng on Apr 25, 2020 | 98 comments

18430.

Techcrunch SSL Cert Expired (techcrunch.com)

80 points by twistedpair on Feb 26, 2020 | 95 comments

18431.

Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More (cnx-software.com)

80 points by abawany on Apr 22, 2020 | 90 comments

18432.

Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues? (news.flinders.edu.au)

80 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 10, 2020 | 90 comments

18433.

Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference (bbc.co.uk)

80 points by rb2e on Nov 21, 2020 | 90 comments

18434.

Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310 (phoronix.com)

80 points by rbanffy on Oct 17, 2020 | 84 comments

18435.

Mon Valley communities test “time credits”, a new form of currency (wesa.fm)

80 points by tantalor on Aug 11, 2020 | 83 comments

18436.

The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018) [pdf] (digitalcommons.law.yale.edu)

80 points by skanderbm on Sep 15, 2020 | 82 comments

18437.

When a cleaner finds 5 euros at a Finnish office (finland.fi)

80 points by villevhtr on Feb 4, 2020 | 81 comments

18438.

PepsiCo cuts out grocery stores and sells directly to consumers (forbes.com)

80 points by hhs on May 30, 2020 | 80 comments

18439.

Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? (nber.org)

80 points by cracker_jacks on Sep 28, 2020 | 78 comments

18440.

Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’ (nature.com)

80 points by pseudolus on Jan 8, 2020 | 77 comments

18441.

Governors take heat for violating their own coronavirus restrictions (thehill.com)

80 points by mrfusion on Nov 25, 2020 | 73 comments

18442.

Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium (sciencedirect.com)

80 points by ogcricket on Oct 15, 2020 | 71 comments

18443.

Ask HN: Is it worth switching from web development to native iOS dev?

80 points by supernov_a on Feb 10, 2020 | 66 comments

18444.

For reliable excess returns, VC funds need 500 investments (institutionalinvestor.com)

80 points by dzink on Oct 2, 2020 | 66 comments

18445.

Coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data (statnews.com)

80 points by cyrksoft on Mar 18, 2020 | 65 comments

18446.

Candy Land was invented for polio wards (2019) (theatlantic.com)

80 points by EndXA on Jul 12, 2020 | 64 comments

18447.

The rise and fall of Adobe Flash (arstechnica.com)

80 points by bpierre on Jul 7, 2020 | 62 comments

18448.

Availability of cookies affects evaluation of teaching (2018) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

80 points by polm23 on Oct 25, 2020 | 62 comments

18449.

Show HN: Rentify – Create an online rental store (rentify.store)

80 points by chris140957 on Sep 26, 2020 | 61 comments

18450.

Mozilla VPN exits beta, launches on Android and Windows for $5 a month (venturebeat.com)

80 points by input_sh on Jul 16, 2020 | 60 comments