HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5? (theengineeringmanager.com)

81 points by jstanier on Apr 5, 2019 | 98 comments

1502.

UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms” (bbc.co.uk)

81 points by pmlnr on Apr 8, 2019 | 82 comments

1503.

3M to cut 2K jobs globally, lowers 2019 profit outlook (reuters.com)

81 points by oldjokes on Apr 25, 2019 | 82 comments

1504.

IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In (forrestbrazeal.com)

81 points by forrestbrazeal on Apr 24, 2019 | 56 comments

1505.

US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password for Manning (motherboard.vice.com)

81 points by OrgNet on Apr 16, 2019 | 52 comments

1506.

What an Aging Population Means for the Future of the Internet (buzzfeednews.com)

81 points by smb111 on Apr 4, 2019 | 48 comments

1507.

Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient's Brain (scientificamerican.com)

81 points by laurex on Apr 12, 2019 | 42 comments

1508.

Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales (cnn.com)

81 points by aaronbrethorst on Apr 30, 2019 | 37 comments

1509.

The US govt’s indictment of Julian Assange poses grave threats to press freedom (theintercept.com)

81 points by LogicRiver on Apr 13, 2019 | 33 comments

1510.

SEC Charges Two Robo-Advisers with False Disclosures (2018) (sec.gov)

81 points by obi1kenobi on Apr 14, 2019 | 31 comments

1511.

Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block (grapevine.is)

81 points by praptak on Apr 29, 2019 | 10 comments

1512.

Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018 (economist.com)

80 points by spac on Apr 1, 2019 | 113 comments

1513.

Swift Generics Evolution (timekl.com)

80 points by mpweiher on Apr 15, 2019 | 100 comments

1514.

Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project (github.com)

80 points by jblindsay on Apr 25, 2019 | 86 comments

1515.

Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not (nytimes.com)

80 points by arunbahl on Apr 5, 2019 | 76 comments

1516.

The Terrifying Potential of 5G (newyorker.com)

80 points by everybodyknows on Apr 27, 2019 | 66 comments

1517.

Vietnam’s Empty Forests (nytimes.com)

80 points by mykowebhn on Apr 2, 2019 | 63 comments

1518.

Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading (cryptotrader.tax)

80 points by wiidude32 on Apr 7, 2019 | 54 comments

1519.

Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit (Regolith-linux.org)

80 points by kgilmer on Apr 19, 2019 | 33 comments

1520.

Apple Hires AI and Deep Learning Expert Ian Goodfellow (cnbc.com)

80 points by shamino on Apr 4, 2019 | 31 comments

1521.

Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data (nasa.gov)

80 points by daegloe on Apr 28, 2019 | 27 comments

1522.

I Obtained Satoshi's Treasure Keys 1, 2, and 3 in Minutes (gist.github.com)

80 points by tardigras on Apr 17, 2019 | 25 comments

1523.

Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs

80 points by wolfgang42 on Apr 29, 2019 | 9 comments

1524.

Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)

80 points by kbp on Apr 30, 2019 | 8 comments

1525.

15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook (wired.com)

80 points by jmsflknr on Apr 16, 2019 | 3 comments

1526.

The Death of an Adjunct (theatlantic.com)

79 points by akeck on Apr 9, 2019 | 90 comments

1527.

Jumia is not an African startup (threadreaderapp.com)

79 points by amolo on Apr 13, 2019 | 59 comments

1528.

Living Wage Calculator (livingwage.mit.edu)

79 points by dsr12 on Apr 26, 2019 | 51 comments

1529.

Cone Programming Langauge (cone.jondgoodwin.com)

79 points by adamnemecek on Apr 3, 2019 | 47 comments

1530.

Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon (nytimes.com)

79 points by js2 on Apr 26, 2019 | 33 comments