HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13021.

What does a GB of Internet service really cost? The worst case scenario (2011) (blogs.howstuffworks.com)

72 points by l1feh4ck on Dec 23, 2015 | 71 comments

13022.

Silicon Valley doesn't create jobs; it's wiping out middle-class jobs (cnn.com)

72 points by antisocial on Mar 18, 2015 | 70 comments

13023.

“Why are you releasing a full exploit just minutes after the patch is released?” (openwall.com)

72 points by jameshart on Jul 24, 2015 | 69 comments

13024.

Programming fonts (s9w.github.io)

72 points by s9w on Aug 3, 2015 | 69 comments

13025.

The Lost History of Gay Adult Adoption (nytimes.com)

72 points by pmcpinto on Oct 21, 2015 | 69 comments

13026.

Why You Should Hire Computer Science Majors (stephen-brennan.com)

72 points by brenns10 on Aug 31, 2015 | 67 comments

13027.

SystemBSD: Custom D-Bus daemons emulating systemd behavior on OpenBSD [pdf] (darknedgy.net)

72 points by vezzy-fnord on Sep 5, 2015 | 67 comments

13028.

MySQL 5.7.6 is out (datacharmer.blogspot.com)

72 points by porker on Mar 10, 2015 | 66 comments

13029.

Ubuntu testing Snappy for Desktop Next (plus.google.com)

72 points by baldfat on May 9, 2015 | 66 comments

13030.

Airbnb Raises $1.5B in One of Largest Private Placements (wsj.com)

72 points by t23 on Jun 27, 2015 | 66 comments

13031.

Why Rdio died (theverge.com)

72 points by coloneltcb on Nov 17, 2015 | 66 comments

13032.

Nadella talks Microsoft's mobile ambitions, Windows 10 strategy, HoloLens (zdnet.com)

72 points by cheerioz on Jul 14, 2015 | 63 comments

13033.

Science by democracy doesn’t work (medium.com)

72 points by Red_Tarsius on Jan 24, 2015 | 62 comments

13034.

PG: “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy” (twitter.com)

72 points by nichodges on Nov 8, 2015 | 62 comments

13035.

Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s (washingtonpost.com)

72 points by henrik_w on Feb 11, 2015 | 60 comments

13036.

IPv4 Address Market Takes Off (research.dyn.com)

72 points by oxplot on Apr 6, 2015 | 60 comments

13037.

We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living (nautil.us)

72 points by dnetesn on May 18, 2015 | 60 comments

13038.

Battery life: Apple's solving for x (sixcolors.com)

72 points by mmastrac on Jan 13, 2015 | 59 comments

13039.

How Game of War makes more than $1M a day (bloomberg.com)

72 points by hodgesmr on Mar 5, 2015 | 58 comments

13040.

Is There a Future for the Professions? (thegoodproject.org)

72 points by kawera on Dec 6, 2015 | 58 comments

13041.

How World of Warcraft led to Glassdoor (businessinsider.com)

72 points by bmahmood on May 11, 2015 | 57 comments

13042.

A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself (bbc.co.uk)

72 points by RobAley on Jun 5, 2015 | 57 comments

13043.

Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism (theatlantic.com)

72 points by Petiver on Sep 13, 2015 | 56 comments

13044.

Leaked Pinterest Documents Show Revenue, Growth Forecasts (techcrunch.com)

72 points by prostoalex on Oct 17, 2015 | 56 comments

13045.

Erik Naggum on Attributes in SGML, XML, Lisp (2001) (schnada.de)

72 points by networked on May 15, 2015 | 54 comments

13046.

LLJS : Low-Level JavaScript (mbebenita.github.io)

72 points by vmorgulis on Jun 21, 2015 | 53 comments

13047.

Nuclear Forensics Shows Nazis Were Nowhere Near Making Atomic Bomb (cen.acs.org)

72 points by fraqed on Oct 3, 2015 | 52 comments

13048.

The big drug database in the sky: One firefighter’s year-long legal nightmare (arstechnica.com)