HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Swift is Open Source (swift.org)

1824 points by psuter on Dec 3, 2015 | 432 comments

2.

Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (exfiltrated.com)

1562 points by infosecau on Dec 17, 2015 | 516 comments

3.

In Memoriam: Ian Murdock (blog.docker.com)

1457 points by spb on Dec 30, 2015 | 366 comments

4.

SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] (spacex.com)

1284 points by clessg on Dec 22, 2015 | 426 comments

5.

Entering Public Beta (letsencrypt.org)

1249 points by sinak on Dec 3, 2015 | 213 comments

6.

Introducing OpenAI (openai.com)

1107 points by sama on Dec 11, 2015 | 376 comments

7.

Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt (openhunt.co)

1093 points by mhurwi on Dec 18, 2015 | 180 comments

8.

Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download (link.springer.com)

990 points by nkurz on Dec 30, 2015 | 171 comments

9.

The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car (bloomberg.com)

949 points by bcg1 on Dec 16, 2015 | 447 comments

10.

Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona (stavros.io)

905 points by StavrosK on Dec 24, 2015 | 237 comments

11.

Leaving the Mac App Store (blog.sketchapp.com)

884 points by davidbarker on Dec 1, 2015 | 401 comments

12.

Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source (blogs.windows.com)

852 points by clarle on Dec 5, 2015 | 268 comments

13.

Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics (linkedin.com)

804 points by temp on Dec 25, 2015 | 245 comments

14.

Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1 (telecom.kz)

803 points by out_of_protocol on Dec 2, 2015 | 361 comments

15.

A letter to our daughter (facebook.com)

790 points by arasmussen on Dec 1, 2015 | 518 comments

16.

How to be like Steve Ballmer (medium.com)

763 points by drb311 on Dec 2, 2015 | 188 comments

17.

Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation (danluu.com)

730 points by ingve on Dec 18, 2015 | 402 comments

18.

This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University (okwu.edu)

729 points by teh_klev on Dec 1, 2015 | 672 comments

19.

How Product Hunt really works (medium.com)

695 points by brw12 on Dec 15, 2015 | 222 comments

20.

Who Y Combinator Companies Want (data.triplebyte.com)

667 points by Harj on Dec 8, 2015 | 527 comments

21.

BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts (betterexplained.com)

666 points by rfreytag on Dec 22, 2015 | 126 comments

22.

How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal (danluu.com)

631 points by Tenoke on Dec 30, 2015 | 252 comments

23.

Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox (blogs.dropbox.com)

624 points by cedricr on Dec 7, 2015 | 421 comments

24.

The best icon is a text label (thomasbyttebier.be)

603 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 18, 2015 | 203 comments

25.

NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated (theintercept.com)

597 points by bainsfather on Dec 31, 2015 | 119 comments

26.

The Best Books I Read in 2015 (gatesnotes.com)

596 points by uptown on Dec 7, 2015 | 143 comments

27.

'New' Python modules of 2015 (blog.rtwilson.com)

591 points by ColinWright on Dec 23, 2015 | 131 comments

28.

Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill (theverge.com)

580 points by fisherjeff on Dec 16, 2015 | 121 comments

29.

Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit (henrycountyreport.com)

579 points by coloneltcb on Dec 2, 2015 | 252 comments

30.

Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web (theguardian.com)

570 points by plg on Dec 30, 2015 | 183 comments