HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor (mattstoller.substack.com)

781 points by jashkenas on Dec 5, 2019 | 310 comments

32.

Apple News No Longer Supports RSS (mjtsai.com)

781 points by newscracker on Dec 27, 2019 | 263 comments

33.

UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create (undraw.co)

775 points by pixelN on Dec 22, 2019 | 75 comments

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0.30000000000000004 (0.30000000000000004.com)

768 points by beznet on Dec 2, 2019 | 402 comments

35.

The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation (blogs.harvard.edu)

750 points by metasj on Dec 3, 2019 | 176 comments

36.

Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize (nbcnews.com)

743 points by danso on Dec 17, 2019 | 715 comments

37.

Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package (github.com)

741 points by LegitGandalf on Dec 5, 2019 | 114 comments

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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard (apple.com)

740 points by _quhg on Dec 18, 2019 | 355 comments

39.

Google claims copyright on employee side projects (twitter.com)

738 points by zoobab on Dec 18, 2019 | 384 comments

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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance (techcrunch.com)

730 points by mindgam3 on Dec 11, 2019 | 153 comments

41.

Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media (twitter.com)

728 points by andreigheorghe on Dec 11, 2019 | 406 comments

42.

ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval (icann.org)

728 points by watchdogtimer on Dec 16, 2019 | 86 comments

43.

Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

716 points by ItsFirefly on Dec 22, 2019 | 193 comments

44.

Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study (newatlas.com)

708 points by howard941 on Dec 11, 2019 | 112 comments

45.

Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client (yeokhengmeng.com)

705 points by yeokm1 on Dec 19, 2019 | 235 comments

46.

The Deep Sea (neal.fun)

703 points by thereyougo on Dec 21, 2019 | 96 comments

47.

Downsides to working at a tech giant (blog.garrytan.com)

700 points by razin on Dec 23, 2019 | 559 comments

48.

Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates (bbc.com)

690 points by hhs on Dec 12, 2019 | 411 comments

49.

Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code (feeding.cloud.geek.nz)

685 points by edward on Dec 29, 2019 | 227 comments

50.

The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com)

676 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 | 185 comments

51.

Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

673 points by deanstag on Dec 18, 2019 | 239 comments

52.

Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV (techcrunch.com)

660 points by samaysharma on Dec 17, 2019 | 162 comments

53.

Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens (reuters.com)

659 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 | 609 comments

54.

Django 3 (docs.djangoproject.com)

657 points by cstuder on Dec 2, 2019 | 187 comments

55.

Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots (selfhostedsource.tech)

656 points by techindex on Dec 5, 2019 | 112 comments

56.

Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

643 points by ignoramous on Dec 22, 2019 | 85 comments

57.

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) (twitter.com)

639 points by zdw on Dec 19, 2019 | 431 comments

58.

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com)

633 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Dec 30, 2019 | 382 comments

59.

No to Chrome (notochrome.org)

632 points by dredmorbius on Dec 6, 2019 | 306 comments

60.

Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video] (media.ccc.de)

626 points by sturza on Dec 30, 2019 | 243 comments