HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy' (bbc.com)

510 points by DarkContinent on Nov 15, 2019 | 207 comments

1202.

How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser (prophitt.me)

510 points by asaasinator on Jun 18, 2019 | 149 comments

1203.

Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear (hopkinsmedicine.org)

510 points by laurex on Aug 13, 2019 | 95 comments

1204.

Windows gets a new terminal (techcrunch.com)

509 points by MikusR on May 6, 2019 | 422 comments

1205.

Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence (oxide.computer)

509 points by steveklabnik on Dec 2, 2019 | 399 comments

1206.

Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms (onezero.medium.com)

509 points by Lordarminius on Nov 8, 2019 | 363 comments

1207.

I Quit Social Media for a Year (joshcsimmons.com)

509 points by jcpsimmons on Sep 10, 2019 | 361 comments

1208.

Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max (nytimes.com)

509 points by aburan28 on May 14, 2019 | 244 comments

1209.

Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk? (syfy.com)

509 points by Santosh83 on Feb 19, 2019 | 225 comments

1210.

H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017) (propublica.org)

509 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 21, 2019 | 190 comments

1211.

How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code (quantamagazine.org)

509 points by _Microft on Jan 3, 2019 | 132 comments

1212.

Show HN: Learn React fundamentals (github.com)

509 points by tyroprogrammer on Feb 1, 2019 | 74 comments

1213.

Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties (derstandard.at)

508 points by superwayne on Apr 19, 2019 | 276 comments

1214.

About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests (bloomberg.com)

508 points by y2kenny on Jun 16, 2019 | 222 comments

1215.

I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016) (blog.haschek.at)

508 points by geek_at on Nov 9, 2019 | 174 comments

1216.

Applied Category Theory (ocw.mit.edu)

508 points by lelf on Apr 19, 2019 | 106 comments

1217.

Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer (medium.com)

508 points by timafuyc on Jul 27, 2019 | 70 comments

1218.

Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes (triplebyte.com)

507 points by Harj on Feb 18, 2019 | 511 comments

1219.

Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity (desktopneo.com)

507 points by iBelieve on Jun 11, 2019 | 360 comments

1220.

FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes (bloomberg.com)

507 points by dboreham on Jun 26, 2019 | 341 comments

1221.

Google's PageRank patent has expired (patents.google.com)

507 points by dfabulich on Jun 1, 2019 | 220 comments

1222.

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009) (sivers.org)

507 points by mhb on Sep 26, 2019 | 173 comments

1223.

Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager (github.com)

507 points by nailer on Sep 6, 2019 | 163 comments

1224.

What is the new Apple U1 chip? (quora.com)

507 points by MaysonL on Sep 11, 2019 | 161 comments

1225.

Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons (ftp.mozilla.org)

506 points by akyuu on May 5, 2019 | 371 comments

1226.

I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit (reddit.com)

506 points by rahuldottech on Dec 5, 2019 | 349 comments

1227.

For the Love of Pipes (blog.jessfraz.com)

506 points by ingve on Jan 22, 2019 | 303 comments

1228.

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian (techcrunch.com)

506 points by prostoalex on Sep 19, 2019 | 270 comments

1229.

Minimalism – An undervalued development skill (volument.com)

506 points by tipiirai on Dec 24, 2019 | 172 comments

1230.

White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit (reuters.com)

506 points by mzs on Dec 10, 2019 | 97 comments