HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York’s Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception (nytimes.com)

43 points by UpshotKnothole on Sep 19, 2018 | 59 comments

1952.

UC Santa Cruz asks professors to house students (qz.com)

43 points by prostoalex on Sep 7, 2018 | 53 comments

1953.

Unintended Consequences: How the GDPR Can Undermine Privacy (techdirt.com)

43 points by someonelse17 on Sep 26, 2018 | 48 comments

1954.

What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails (theatlantic.com)

43 points by rfreytag on Sep 4, 2018 | 44 comments

1955.

“Commons Clause” was intended to stop AWS from selling open source as products (techcrunch.com)

43 points by gregwebs on Sep 10, 2018 | 40 comments

1956.

No Spice More Superior: Pepper (nyamcenterforhistory.org)

43 points by diodorus on Sep 25, 2018 | 35 comments

1957.

Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?

43 points by benicafe on Sep 26, 2018 | 30 comments

1958.

New York’s Elevators Define the City (2016) (fivethirtyeight.com)

43 points by Osiris30 on Sep 6, 2018 | 29 comments

1959.

Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener (phys.org)

43 points by dnetesn on Sep 26, 2018 | 28 comments

1960.

1K ZX Chess (en.wikipedia.org)

43 points by sjcsjc on Sep 4, 2018 | 22 comments

1961.

First Ring System Around Asteroid (2014) (eso.org)

43 points by rbanffy on Sep 3, 2018 | 11 comments

1962.

Five-Eyes nations to force encryption backdoors (itnews.com.au)

43 points by octosphere on Sep 3, 2018 | 11 comments

1963.

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (c82.net)

43 points by mrzool on Sep 10, 2018 | 11 comments

1964.

Dragonfly: an intelligent P2P based file distribution system (github.com)

43 points by jinqueeny on Sep 5, 2018 | 9 comments

1965.

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn network/app security on my own?

43 points by coutcin on Sep 18, 2018 | 9 comments

1966.

Uber drivers and other gig economy workers earnings fell 50% over past 5 years (recode.net)

43 points by georgecmu on Sep 24, 2018 | 8 comments

1967.

Echo Chamber Incites Online Mob to Attack Math Profs (andrewgelman.com)

43 points by luu on Sep 22, 2018 | 7 comments

1968.

Bayer's Monsanto faces 8,000 lawsuits on glyphosate (reuters.com)

43 points by walterbell on Sep 6, 2018 | 5 comments

1969.

Nim – A Few Interesting Language Features (totallywearingpants.com)

43 points by skellock on Sep 29, 2018 | 5 comments

1970.

A celebration of code – 6 pieces of code that had an impact (reaktor.com)

43 points by siruelise on Sep 7, 2018 | 4 comments

1971.

Reverse Engineering Firmware Primer (2012) (wiki.securityweekly.com)

43 points by tzhenghao on Sep 8, 2018 | 2 comments

1972.

Definition of Simple (2011) (rebol.com)

43 points by neonate on Sep 16, 2018 | 2 comments

1973.

Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks (pppl.gov)

43 points by quakeguy on Sep 12, 2018 | 0 comments

1974.

Apollo 11 missing tapes (en.wikipedia.org)

43 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Sep 15, 2018 | 0 comments

1975.

Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?

42 points by mjfern on Sep 24, 2018 | 70 comments

1976.

The secret life of teen scooter outlaws (theverge.com)

42 points by Tomte on Sep 23, 2018 | 58 comments

1977.

Can Naples reinvent itself as a tech capital? (bbc.com)

42 points by atomical on Sep 17, 2018 | 57 comments

1978.

Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards, Retailers Hate Them (wsj.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Sep 27, 2018 | 54 comments

1979.

Brexit is already damaging European science (nature.com)

42 points by okket on Sep 28, 2018 | 53 comments

1980.

The Warlike Origins of ‘Going Dutch’ (atlasobscura.com)

42 points by DoreenMichele on Sep 29, 2018 | 41 comments