HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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YC Research (blog.ycombinator.com)

1776 points by sama on Oct 7, 2015 | 370 comments

2.

Let's Encrypt is Trusted (letsencrypt.org)

1260 points by coffeecheque on Oct 20, 2015 | 311 comments

3.

Free Lossless Image Format (flif.info)

1254 points by davidbarker on Oct 2, 2015 | 362 comments

4.

Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? (medium.com)

1121 points by alokedesai on Oct 28, 2015 | 339 comments

5.

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com)

1005 points by sohkamyung on Oct 15, 2015 | 246 comments

6.

New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft (blogs.windows.com)

875 points by yread on Oct 6, 2015 | 949 comments

7.

Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 (pigdog.org)

809 points by MilnerRoute on Oct 6, 2015 | 319 comments

8.

Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game (twitchinstalls.com)

802 points by jbott on Oct 30, 2015 | 250 comments

9.

Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department (alexandercoward.com)

778 points by elinear on Oct 12, 2015 | 260 comments

10.

Mercury Spill (jefftk.com)

764 points by luu on Oct 8, 2015 | 359 comments

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EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software (supporters.eff.org)

730 points by paulmlewis on Oct 27, 2015 | 107 comments

12.

Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices (bloomberg.com)

716 points by coloneltcb on Oct 1, 2015 | 529 comments

13.

A story about <input> (meowni.ca)

693 points by kevincennis on Oct 22, 2015 | 181 comments

14.

The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org)

667 points by walterbell on Oct 9, 2015 | 180 comments

15.

Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA (fusion.net)

658 points by kmfrk on Oct 16, 2015 | 216 comments

16.

Write like you talk (paulgraham.com)

647 points by bakztfuture on Oct 25, 2015 | 272 comments

17.

Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (anders.unix.se)

638 points by r3bl on Oct 29, 2015 | 232 comments

18.

A Guide to Fast Page Loads (nateberkopec.com)

597 points by nateberkopec on Oct 7, 2015 | 163 comments

19.

Ogo, a new take on personal transportation (ogotechnology.com)

588 points by prawn on Oct 19, 2015 | 182 comments

20.

Twitter announces layoffs (sec.gov)

582 points by uptown on Oct 13, 2015 | 381 comments

21.

Losing Sight (tink.uk)

564 points by robin_reala on Oct 3, 2015 | 93 comments

22.

Europe's highest court has rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement (uk.businessinsider.com)

563 points by noplay on Oct 6, 2015 | 299 comments

23.

Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (computers-are-fast.github.io)

557 points by luu on Oct 25, 2015 | 174 comments

24.

Page Weight Matters (2012) (blog.chriszacharias.com)

556 points by shubhamjain on Oct 15, 2015 | 165 comments

25.

Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos (github.com)

548 points by Jack000 on Oct 12, 2015 | 73 comments

26.

Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

546 points by imjk on Oct 27, 2015 | 402 comments

27.

The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz)

544 points by jodyribton on Oct 17, 2015 | 241 comments

28.

The Drone Papers (theintercept.com)

543 points by yuvadam on Oct 15, 2015 | 221 comments

29.

El Capitan and Homebrew (github.com)

540 points by juanfatas on Oct 1, 2015 | 288 comments

30.

Flux is the new WndProc (bitquabit.com)

532 points by gecko on Oct 13, 2015 | 126 comments