HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1741.

What's the worst that could happen with my phone data? (nytimes.com)

65 points by edward on Dec 28, 2019 | 35 comments

1742.

VR optics and why inter-pupillary distance (IPD) means too many things (tomforsyth1000.github.io)

65 points by walterbell on Dec 16, 2019 | 25 comments

1743.

Lawyers for users of QuadrigaCX seek exhumation of founder (bbc.com)

65 points by pseudolus on Dec 15, 2019 | 20 comments

1744.

Macro-mind thinking (consciouscompanymedia.com)

65 points by HNLurker2 on Dec 30, 2019 | 13 comments

1745.

A Complex Hierarchy of Avoidance Behaviors in a Single-Cell Eukaryote (cell.com)

65 points by bookofjoe on Dec 7, 2019 | 9 comments

1746.

How writing began, and other unexpectedly funny stories about cuneiform [video] (aeon.co)

65 points by jelliclesfarm on Dec 29, 2019 | 8 comments

1747.

Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: 160k Pages of Medieval Manuscripts Digitized (openculture.com)

65 points by vo2maxer on Dec 6, 2019 | 0 comments

1748.

German court bans Uber's ride-hailing services in Germany (reuters.com)

64 points by notlukesky on Dec 20, 2019 | 117 comments

1749.

An immune molecule can sometimes influence the social behavior of mice: study (news.mit.edu)

64 points by mrrazz on Dec 20, 2019 | 67 comments

1750.

Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser (github.com)

64 points by slowenough on Dec 2, 2019 | 41 comments

1751.

The ego depletion saga demonstrates the importance of effect sizes (pigee.wordpress.com)

64 points by luu on Dec 7, 2019 | 32 comments

1752.

MISC: A homoiconic language based on maps (will.thimbleby.net)

64 points by tosh on Dec 21, 2019 | 26 comments

1753.

Making S3 More Resilient Using Lambda Edge (contentful.com)

64 points by thelonelygod on Dec 16, 2019 | 23 comments

1754.

The best teacher I never had (2016) (gatesnotes.com)

64 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 22, 2019 | 23 comments

1755.

Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about (friendsweekly.com)

64 points by jaymeh13 on Dec 21, 2019 | 22 comments

1756.

The Crankiest Group in Cyberspace (echonyc.com)

64 points by TheSpiceIsLife on Dec 24, 2019 | 18 comments

1757.

The use of the word ‘robust' to describe software in UK law (ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk)

64 points by fanf2 on Dec 20, 2019 | 17 comments

1758.

Show HN: Url2cite: Transparently convert links to citations in markdown papers (phiresky.github.io)

64 points by phiresky on Dec 14, 2019 | 15 comments

1759.

An overview of direct memory access (2014) (geidav.wordpress.com)

64 points by panic on Dec 20, 2019 | 13 comments

1760.

Why Privacy Matters Even If “You Have Nothing to Hide” (write.privacytools.io)

64 points by LinuxBender on Dec 31, 2019 | 11 comments

1761.

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998) (rheingold.com)

64 points by kick on Dec 9, 2019 | 9 comments

1762.

Metagenomic Analysis of a Blood Stain from French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (biorxiv.org)

64 points by Hooke on Dec 3, 2019 | 8 comments

1763.

The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing (danco.substack.com)

64 points by got-any-grapes on Dec 6, 2019 | 8 comments

1764.

Robot Odyssey (1984) (robotodyssey.online)

64 points by sea6ear on Dec 28, 2019 | 8 comments

1765.

Get Your Firefox Flashback (mozilla.org)

64 points by robin_reala on Dec 7, 2019 | 6 comments

1766.

Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online (www3.nhk.or.jp)

63 points by ytch on Dec 6, 2019 | 64 comments

1767.

Russia blocks Premier League broadcasts by Amazon's Twitch over lawsuit (reuters.com)

63 points by omgtehlion on Dec 16, 2019 | 42 comments

1768.

Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)