HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

What It’s Like to Be Part of Bird’s Scooter-Charging Workforce in Atlanta (moguldom.com)

40 points by nicpottier on Jun 11, 2018 | 42 comments

1982.

Chinese stocks enter bear market as trade war heats up (money.cnn.com)

40 points by john58 on Jun 26, 2018 | 42 comments

1983.

Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks (cbc.ca)

40 points by cpncrunch on Jun 22, 2018 | 37 comments

1984.

Ur-Fascism (1995) (nybooks.com)

40 points by aaronbrethorst on Jun 28, 2018 | 37 comments

1985.

Redesigning the Economy Airline Seat (fastcodesign.com)

40 points by ohjeez on Jun 1, 2018 | 36 comments

1986.

Ask HN: Why does the Eastern Bloc produce so many good programmers?

40 points by whitepoplar on Jun 2, 2018 | 28 comments

1987.

Ask HN: Locked out of Google services with no recourse or explanation

40 points by nikkwong on Jun 29, 2018 | 24 comments

1988.

66-way merge: “Christ, that's not an octopus, that's a Cthulhu merge” (lkml.org)

40 points by jjuhl on Jun 16, 2018 | 19 comments

1989.

Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0 (medium.com)

40 points by jmmease on Jun 28, 2018 | 18 comments

1990.

What is this thing, called swing? (2016) (thehomeofhappyfeet.com)

40 points by Tomte on Jun 30, 2018 | 16 comments

1991.

He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn’t Crushed by a Block (nytimes.com)

40 points by sohkamyung on Jun 29, 2018 | 13 comments

1992.

Apple declined an invitation by EU committee to answer tax avoidance questions (twitter.com)

40 points by okket on Jun 3, 2018 | 11 comments

1993.

Show HN: Flute – my attempt at a better email API (flutemail.com)

40 points by igammarays on Jun 5, 2018 | 11 comments

1994.

Composing with Tape Recorders: Musique Concrète for Beginners [pdf] (monoskop.org)

40 points by aturley on Jun 18, 2018 | 8 comments

1995.

Porting Sweet 16 (2004) (6502.org)

40 points by potomak on Jun 10, 2018 | 7 comments

1996.

Quasimusic: music from quasiperiodic tilings (2012) (gregegan.net)

40 points by goodmachine on Jun 27, 2018 | 7 comments

1997.

New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise suggests it didn’t come from the SW US (arstechnica.com)

40 points by curtis on Jun 20, 2018 | 5 comments

1998.

A New Massive Helen Keller Archive Gets Launched (openculture.com)

40 points by samclemens on Jun 24, 2018 | 4 comments

1999.

A new form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table (m.phys.org)

40 points by fanf2 on Jun 16, 2018 | 2 comments

2000.

Facebook confirms four Chinese device makers had broad access to customer data (axios.com)

40 points by bad_ramen_soup on Jun 6, 2018 | 1 comments

2001.

Cloud TPU now offers preemptible pricing, global availability (ResNet-50: $7.50) (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

40 points by saeta on Jun 19, 2018 | 1 comments

2002.

Flight MH370 search solves 140-year-old mystery of vanishing ships (independent.co.uk)

40 points by axiomdata316 on Jun 16, 2018 | 0 comments

2003.

Scooters littering US city streets alarm: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police' (theguardian.com)

39 points by wallflower on Jun 8, 2018 | 90 comments

2004.

Seattle officials repeal tax on large companies (nytimes.com)

39 points by danso on Jun 13, 2018 | 72 comments

2005.

Ask HN: Tabletop RPGs for 7-8 Year-Olds

39 points by yawz on Jun 14, 2018 | 56 comments

2006.

Reddit partial outage (reddit.statuspage.io)

39 points by danielcorin on Jun 11, 2018 | 43 comments

2007.

Facebook made an AI that convincingly turns one style of music into another (thenextweb.com)

39 points by rinze on Jun 4, 2018 | 27 comments

2008.

Can we talk about GitHub's recent censorship instead of flagging it here on HN?

39 points by aarongray on Jun 7, 2018 | 25 comments

2009.

Harvard Begs to Discriminate (powerlineblog.com)

39 points by doppp on Jun 13, 2018 | 22 comments

2010.

We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate (fivethirtyeight.com)

39 points by pmcpinto on Jun 29, 2018 | 19 comments