HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20731.

The world's largest telescope is going to be built in Chile (vox.com)

42 points by frame on Mar 11, 2015 | 18 comments

20732.

Knuth and Plass line-breaking Revisited (defoe.sourceforge.net)

42 points by bootload on Aug 21, 2015 | 18 comments

20733.

Researchers hack Siri from 16 feet away (businessinsider.com)

42 points by dosapati on Oct 14, 2015 | 18 comments

20734.

MCG: Visual Functional Programming (area.autodesk.com)

42 points by tokenrove on Oct 31, 2015 | 18 comments

20735.

Commodore C64 Wi-Fi Modem (jammingsignal.wordpress.com)

42 points by doener on Dec 21, 2015 | 18 comments

20736.

Groundbreaking carbon capture project in Squamish, B.C (cbc.ca)

42 points by ph0rque on Oct 12, 2015 | 17 comments

20737.

Have We Drawn the Wrong Lessons from Epigenetics? (aeon.co)

42 points by mr_tyzic on Feb 28, 2015 | 17 comments

20738.

Type.js – remedying CSS’s typographic oversights (github.com)

42 points by kingzain on Mar 18, 2015 | 17 comments

20739.

Fruit Mutiny: Whither the breadfruit? (theparisreview.org)

42 points by Petiver on Mar 29, 2015 | 17 comments

20740.

Using PostgreSQL Arrays the Right Way (blog.heapanalytics.com)

42 points by afshin on Apr 6, 2015 | 17 comments

20741.

Born in the ’70s: Jack Ma’s Memo to Alibaba Employees on Management Shuffle (blogs.wsj.com)

42 points by carlchenet on May 8, 2015 | 17 comments

20742.

Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority: It’s free, automated, and open (letsencrypt.org)

42 points by ffk on May 12, 2015 | 17 comments

20743.

Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer with Simple Cell Phone (wired.com)

42 points by sergeant3 on Jul 27, 2015 | 17 comments

20744.

Gitualize – Like YouTube for GitHub (gitualize.com)

42 points by devonharvey on Aug 4, 2015 | 17 comments

20745.

Show HN: Meson, a C build system (github.com)

42 points by felipellrocha on Sep 1, 2015 | 17 comments

20746.

Shrinking Aral Sea (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

42 points by benologist on Oct 21, 2015 | 17 comments

20747.

Design of a digital republic (medium.com)

42 points by state on Oct 27, 2015 | 17 comments

20748.

HyPer – A Hybrid OLTP and OLAP High-Performance DBMS (hyper-db.com)

42 points by uberneo on Jan 14, 2015 | 16 comments

20749.

A Linux proud history – 15 years ago and the Brazilian ATM (heliocastro.info)

42 points by rbanffy on May 25, 2015 | 16 comments

20750.

Bud – A TLS terminating proxy (github.com)

42 points by indutny on Jun 9, 2015 | 16 comments

20751.

Show HN: WebGL-powered oscilloscope emulator (m1el.github.io)

42 points by m1el on Sep 4, 2015 | 16 comments

20752.

Number of Tor users recently halved (metrics.torproject.org)

42 points by frabcus on Nov 18, 2015 | 16 comments

20753.

Stross on Cameron's proposed UK crypto ban (antipope.org)

42 points by cstross on Jan 13, 2015 | 15 comments

20754.

Bootstrapping a Compiler (combinatorylogic.wordpress.com)

42 points by wglb on Jan 17, 2015 | 15 comments

20755.

Top carnivores increase their kill rates as a response to human-induced fear (rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org)

42 points by Thevet on Feb 28, 2015 | 15 comments

20756.

A review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology (heterodoxacademy.org)

42 points by ajdlinux on Sep 17, 2015 | 15 comments

20757.

"Memory foam" approach to unsupervised learning (arxiv.org)

42 points by bpolania on Oct 16, 2015 | 15 comments

20758.

San Quentin high-tech incubator forges coders, entrepreneurs (usatoday.com)

42 points by kawera on Dec 12, 2015 | 15 comments

20759.

Math and Computer Wizards Now Billionaires Thanks to Quant Trading (forbes.com)

42 points by 6502nerdface on Oct 6, 2015 | 14 comments

20760.

The Best Way yet to Talk to Aliens, If They’re out There (2013) (nautil.us)

42 points by dnetesn on Jan 20, 2015 | 14 comments