HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Stop pushing the web forward (quirksmode.org)

569 points by mmahemoff on Jul 28, 2015 | 299 comments

32.

Potato paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

559 points by Panoramix on Jul 15, 2015 | 132 comments

33.

New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto (bbc.co.uk)

558 points by nns on Jul 14, 2015 | 297 comments

34.

John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language (groups.google.com)

555 points by minikomi on Jul 1, 2015 | 346 comments

35.

I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help (github.com)

549 points by mehrzad on Jul 27, 2015 | 74 comments

36.

Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map (whoishiring.it)

546 points by xando on Jul 6, 2015 | 136 comments

37.

GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard' (github.com)

542 points by necessity on Jul 29, 2015 | 801 comments

38.

Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan (universonline.nl)

542 points by Someone on Jul 2, 2015 | 126 comments

39.

ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself (swannodette.github.io)

536 points by programnature on Jul 31, 2015 | 106 comments

40.

Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort (lukew.com)

535 points by mathattack on Jul 20, 2015 | 234 comments

41.

A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving (nytimes.com)

533 points by granfalloon on Jul 2, 2015 | 281 comments

42.

Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle (mattg.co.uk)

509 points by mmastrac on Jul 25, 2015 | 55 comments

43.

How a car works (2012) (howacarworks.com)

508 points by gshrikant on Jul 17, 2015 | 117 comments

44.

Airbnb, My $1B Lesson (arenavc.com)

504 points by rvcamo on Jul 23, 2015 | 138 comments

45.

Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production (sirupsen.com)

502 points by PolandKid on Jul 28, 2015 | 280 comments

46.

Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control (blog.mozilla.org)

497 points by ndesaulniers on Jul 30, 2015 | 290 comments

47.

PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database (github.com)

486 points by cdjk on Jul 22, 2015 | 204 comments

48.

The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts (wsj.com)

473 points by eas on Jul 10, 2015 | 180 comments

49.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died (thehindu.com)

458 points by Andromeda101 on Jul 27, 2015 | 76 comments

50.

1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999 (futilitycloset.com)

446 points by bemmu on Jul 1, 2015 | 84 comments

51.

How Shazam works (coding-geek.com)

446 points by billconan on Jul 11, 2015 | 48 comments

52.

Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses (github.com)

444 points by fiatjaf on Jul 7, 2015 | 92 comments

53.

Facebook’s Piracy Problem (slate.com)

439 points by wesd on Jul 8, 2015 | 236 comments

54.

“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service” (reddit.com)

439 points by kgm on Jul 18, 2015 | 67 comments

55.

How I became an artist (medium.com)

437 points by noahbradley on Jul 6, 2015 | 106 comments

56.

Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” (medium.com)

427 points by Thevet on Jul 5, 2015 | 337 comments

57.

FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection (nytimes.com)

425 points by facetube on Jul 1, 2015 | 152 comments

58.

One in every 600 websites has .git exposed (jamiembrown.com)

424 points by jamiejin on Jul 26, 2015 | 205 comments

59.

Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication (nytimes.com)

417 points by conover on Jul 7, 2015 | 217 comments

60.

Project Oberon (projectoberon.com)

417 points by Fenume on Jul 7, 2015 | 87 comments