HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

23551.

Why you can’t cash out pt 3: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi! It just works like one (davidgerard.co.uk)

44 points by davidgerard on Jan 4, 2018 | 35 comments

23552.

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable? (2016) (nautil.us)

44 points by dnetesn on Aug 27, 2018 | 35 comments

23553.

Nassim Taleb on IQ (threadreaderapp.com)

44 points by ptbello on Dec 25, 2018 | 35 comments

23554.

New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017) (theatlantic.com)

44 points by kposehn on Apr 21, 2018 | 34 comments

23555.

Show HN: Online C/C++ obfuscator (picheta.me)

44 points by dom96 on Jul 7, 2018 | 34 comments

23556.

Santa Monica Measured Residents’ Well-Being for Four Years (huffingtonpost.com)

44 points by lnguyen on Jan 18, 2018 | 33 comments

23557.

Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ (nytimes.com)

44 points by coloneltcb on Sep 19, 2018 | 32 comments

23558.

Researchers study the genetics and behavior of elephants born without tusks (nationalgeographic.com)

44 points by new_guy on Nov 11, 2018 | 32 comments

23559.

Hand dryers spray human waste particles all over you, study finds (independent.co.uk)

44 points by pmoriarty on Apr 13, 2018 | 30 comments

23560.

Ecuador says it has granted nationality to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (abcnews.go.com)

44 points by orjan on Jan 11, 2018 | 29 comments

23561.

The Science Behind the World’s Longest Flights (wsj.com)

44 points by kyleblarson on Aug 15, 2018 | 29 comments

23562.

What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years? (chronicle.com)

44 points by samclemens on Oct 31, 2018 | 29 comments

23563.

The OCB2 authenticated encryption scheme (ISO standard) has been broken (eprint.iacr.org)

44 points by erwan on Nov 1, 2018 | 29 comments

23564.

Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

44 points by minikites on Jun 28, 2018 | 28 comments

23565.

PEP 572: Write vs. Read, Understand and Control Flow (mail.python.org)

44 points by edward on Apr 28, 2018 | 27 comments

23566.

Ask HN: How can Microsoft improve/evolve electron, now that they own GitHub?

44 points by tumblen on Jun 4, 2018 | 27 comments

23567.

Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M (techcrunch.com)

44 points by antonmamonov on Sep 20, 2018 | 27 comments

23568.

Fake Physics (2017) (math.columbia.edu)

44 points by dschuetz on Nov 24, 2018 | 27 comments

23569.

Ask HN: Kibana like data explorer UI for PostgreSQL?

44 points by reacharavindh on Dec 12, 2018 | 27 comments

23570.

Crypto’s 80% Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash (bloomberg.com)

44 points by prlambert on Sep 14, 2018 | 26 comments

23571.

My Life Isn't Your Porn: Why South Korean Women Protest (koreaexpose.com)

44 points by dsr12 on Jun 10, 2018 | 25 comments

23572.

Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance (github.com)

44 points by martinfjohansen on Sep 4, 2018 | 25 comments

23573.

AI Will Not Be Taking Away Code Jobs Anytime Soon (nextplatform.com)

44 points by Katydid on Feb 10, 2018 | 24 comments

23574.

Bfloat16 – Hardware Numerics Definition [pdf] (software.intel.com)

44 points by anonymfus on Nov 17, 2018 | 24 comments

23575.

Netflix using fake Twitter accounts to promote new movie (twitter.com)

44 points by holic on Dec 28, 2018 | 24 comments

23576.

Show HN: Making good Steam games discoverable again (steam250.com)

44 points by Bilge- on Feb 15, 2018 | 23 comments

23577.

Saying Goodbye to Slack’s IRC and XMPP Gateways

44 points by alexandernst on Mar 7, 2018 | 23 comments

23578.

The Telltale Chart (2002) (vanguard.com)

44 points by whitepoplar on Jun 21, 2018 | 23 comments

23579.

Who Will Fix Facebook? (rollingstone.com)

44 points by howard941 on Nov 27, 2018 | 23 comments

23580.

Winnipeg ‘chocolategate’: Does a box of treats come with strings attached? (theglobeandmail.com)

44 points by pseudolus on Dec 26, 2018 | 23 comments