HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon (technologyreview.com)

272 points by lelf on May 6, 2015 | 79 comments

152.

Yagni (martinfowler.com)

271 points by petercooper on May 26, 2015 | 178 comments

153.

Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C (kore.io)

271 points by api on May 17, 2015 | 170 comments

154.

UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights (eff.org)

271 points by DiabloD3 on May 9, 2015 | 80 comments

155.

Typedrummer (typedrummer.com)

266 points by moritzplassnig on May 10, 2015 | 126 comments

156.

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car (medium.com)

265 points by steven on May 11, 2015 | 279 comments

157.

Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014) (noncombatant.org)

264 points by Rondom on May 20, 2015 | 166 comments

158.

Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work (economist.com)

263 points by prostoalex on May 1, 2015 | 244 comments

159.

The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole (bbc.com)

261 points by fhinson on May 26, 2015 | 157 comments

160.

How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) (npr.org)

261 points by snappieT on May 28, 2015 | 154 comments

161.

The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet (pagerduty.com)

261 points by gregone on May 8, 2015 | 59 comments

162.

Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck (medium.com)

260 points by edward on May 16, 2015 | 303 comments

163.

Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support (techcrunch.com)

259 points by harshabhat86 on May 12, 2015 | 212 comments

164.

Announcing Google Cloud Bigtable (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

257 points by suprgeek on May 6, 2015 | 151 comments

165.

Whoever Is Leaking Trans-Pacific Partnership Drafts: Please Leak More (motherboard.vice.com)

257 points by DiabloD3 on May 10, 2015 | 91 comments

166.

Enterprise Sales Guide: The Process of Selling Enterprise Software Demystified (enterprisesales.nyc)

257 points by mickeygraham on May 27, 2015 | 66 comments

167.

Rust Playground (play.rust-lang.org)

257 points by dolftax on May 24, 2015 | 42 comments

168.

Meteor Raises $20M (techcrunch.com)

256 points by brendannee on May 19, 2015 | 155 comments

169.

Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API (deckofcardsapi.com)

255 points by crobertsbmw on May 11, 2015 | 137 comments

170.

React JS Best Practices (blog.siftscience.com)

252 points by lopatin on May 9, 2015 | 89 comments

171.

Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide (fourhourworkweek.com)

251 points by Killah911 on May 6, 2015 | 160 comments

172.

DragonBox: Secretly teach algebra to your children (dragonboxapp.com)

249 points by rkda on May 1, 2015 | 100 comments

173.

Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card (techcrunch.com)

249 points by harshabhat86 on May 29, 2015 | 100 comments

174.

Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail (therealnews.com)

249 points by snowy on May 23, 2015 | 90 comments

175.

Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool (percy.io)

249 points by fotinakis on May 29, 2015 | 52 comments

176.

Game theory’s cure for corruption (aeon.co)

246 points by vimes656 on May 11, 2015 | 115 comments

177.

Why do airplane windows have tiny holes? (slate.com)

246 points by mml on May 31, 2015 | 66 comments

178.

Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints (ejohn.org)

245 points by mxfh on May 20, 2015 | 64 comments

179.

Amazing Source Code Related Easter Egg in Ex Machina (moviecode.tumblr.com)

244 points by jgrahamc on May 17, 2015 | 57 comments

180.

Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of (sahandsaba.com)

242 points by willk on May 11, 2015 | 117 comments