HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

Amazon's on-site emergency care endangers its employees (theintercept.com)

74 points by AndrewBissell on Dec 3, 2019 | 11 comments

1592.

Hobbes – A Language and an Embedded JIT Compiler (github.com)

74 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2019 | 10 comments

1593.

Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019 (altmetric.com)

74 points by ArtWomb on Dec 30, 2019 | 10 comments

1594.

Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks (phys.org)

74 points by known on Dec 29, 2019 | 9 comments

1595.

Why do holes horrify me? (mosaicscience.com)

73 points by bingden on Dec 3, 2019 | 91 comments

1596.

Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music (phys.org)

73 points by dnetesn on Dec 26, 2019 | 53 comments

1597.

Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans (fuse.wikichip.org)

73 points by rbanffy on Dec 14, 2019 | 50 comments

1598.

LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians (theglobeandmail.com)

73 points by eswat on Dec 18, 2019 | 50 comments

1599.

Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017) (shindoisshin.net)

73 points by dredmorbius on Dec 23, 2019 | 49 comments

1600.

The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong (bbc.com)

73 points by pseudolus on Dec 21, 2019 | 46 comments

1601.

Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019 (time.com)

73 points by tambourine_man on Dec 11, 2019 | 36 comments

1602.

C, what the fuck??! (bowero.nl)

73 points by bowero on Dec 15, 2019 | 36 comments

1603.

Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices (indiehackers.com)

73 points by stripesucks on Dec 24, 2019 | 34 comments

1604.

Clive James Got It Right (newyorker.com)

73 points by Vigier on Dec 2, 2019 | 16 comments

1605.

Notepad++ v7.8.2: Free Uyghur (notepad-plus-plus.org)

73 points by rahuldottech on Dec 10, 2019 | 14 comments

1606.

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World (nytimes.com)

73 points by tim333 on Dec 15, 2019 | 10 comments

1607.

One year, one lab, 16 spinouts (nature.com)

73 points by apsec112 on Dec 31, 2019 | 10 comments

1608.

ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET (twitter.com)

73 points by devhwrng on Dec 18, 2019 | 9 comments

1609.

Poetry v1.0 (github.com)

73 points by kndjckt on Dec 13, 2019 | 1 comments

1610.

The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb (chronicle.com)

72 points by jseliger on Dec 30, 2019 | 159 comments

1611.

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap (hbs.edu)

72 points by Dowwie on Dec 9, 2019 | 93 comments

1612.

Well, duh (1996) (lrb.co.uk)

72 points by vo2maxer on Dec 16, 2019 | 78 comments

1613.

A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare (randomcriticalanalysis.com)

72 points by jedharris on Dec 8, 2019 | 73 comments

1614.

This isn't fun anymore (2017) (therandymon.com)

72 points by colinhb on Dec 10, 2019 | 58 comments

1615.

Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority (scottaaronson.com)

72 points by weinzierl on Dec 19, 2019 | 53 comments

1616.

Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their caretaker saved them (greenwichtime.com)

72 points by tomohawk on Dec 13, 2019 | 50 comments

1617.

Learning Morse code in the 21st century (airfactsjournal.com)

72 points by hggh on Dec 23, 2019 | 36 comments

1618.

The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value (2014) [pdf] (gmo.com)

72 points by kick on Dec 7, 2019 | 35 comments

1619.

The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones (benkuhn.net)

72 points by signa11 on Dec 30, 2019 | 31 comments

1620.

RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled (medium.com)

72 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 20, 2019 | 28 comments