HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

10 years of Ubuntu:How Linux’s beloved newcomer became its criticized king(2014) (arstechnica.com)

34 points by phantom_oracle on Apr 17, 2016 | 24 comments

2012.

Why babies are sleeping in boxes (bbc.com)

34 points by MichalSikora on Apr 9, 2016 | 19 comments

2013.

Beginner Guide to Building a Blog with React/Express/MongoDB Part 1: Setup/Webpack (amoderndev.com)

34 points by wallebot on Apr 3, 2016 | 18 comments

2014.

Country OS – The best way to manage your country in the 21st century (countryos.com)

34 points by seer on Apr 1, 2016 | 14 comments

2015.

The Inherent Problem with Anonymous Apps (medium.com)

34 points by jorgecastillo on Apr 12, 2016 | 13 comments

2016.

Publishers Must Adapt to a “Distributed First” Model (blog.naytev.com)

34 points by zackliscio on Apr 18, 2016 | 12 comments

2017.

Icarus Verilog Simulator (github.com)

34 points by luu on Apr 5, 2016 | 11 comments

2018.

Antitrust: EU Commission Lodges Complaints on Google for Android OS (europa.eu)

34 points by Aissen on Apr 20, 2016 | 10 comments

2019.

Is Staying in the New Going Out? (mobile.nytimes.com)

34 points by justinwr on Apr 13, 2016 | 7 comments

2020.

Forbidden Data: Wyoming just criminalized citizen science (slate.com)

34 points by zimbu668 on Apr 22, 2016 | 7 comments

2021.

Film Dialouge Broken Down by Gender and Age (polygraph.cool)

34 points by kamkazemoose on Apr 9, 2016 | 6 comments

2022.

Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory [pdf] (azul.com)

34 points by dmit on Apr 3, 2016 | 5 comments

2023.

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji (grouplens.org)

34 points by pilif on Apr 7, 2016 | 5 comments

2024.

The great mystery of mathematics is its lack of mystery (aeon.co)

34 points by olpimo on Apr 1, 2016 | 3 comments

2025.

Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation (theguardian.com)

34 points by kawera on Apr 5, 2016 | 3 comments

2026.

Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook (makeitopen.com)

34 points by mjohnston4 on Apr 13, 2016 | 3 comments

2027.

Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence (2015) [pdf] (futureoflife.org)

34 points by fitzwatermellow on Apr 24, 2016 | 3 comments

2028.

Notes on distributed systems from Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr) (github.com)

34 points by jxf on Apr 1, 2016 | 1 comments

2029.

Largest network of cortical neurons mapped from ~100 terabytes data set (kurzweilai.net)

34 points by rayascott on Apr 5, 2016 | 1 comments

2030.

The World Is Getting Fatter and No One Knows How to Stop It (bloomberg.com)

33 points by rezist808 on Apr 7, 2016 | 63 comments

2031.

Ask HN: Average Salary for PHP Dev in London?

33 points by payamb on Apr 8, 2016 | 54 comments

2032.

Tipping Is Coming to Uber (bloomberg.com)

33 points by petethomas on Apr 22, 2016 | 48 comments

2033.

Turkey tries to have a German comedian locked up–in Germany (economist.com)

33 points by doener on Apr 13, 2016 | 41 comments

2034.

“C++ is a horrible language” – Linus Torvalds (article.gmane.org)

33 points by setra on Apr 27, 2016 | 39 comments

2035.

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian will “appcast” the new Reddit app at 5pm PT (kamcord.com)

33 points by arathnam on Apr 28, 2016 | 32 comments

2036.

Bernie Sanders is now calling for a nationwide ban on fracking (inhabitat.com)

33 points by neurobuddha on Apr 12, 2016 | 31 comments

2037.

One Easy Way to Make Wikipedia Better (theatlantic.com)

33 points by tokenadult on Apr 22, 2016 | 31 comments

2038.

What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? (fivethirtyeight.com)

33 points by bkurtz13 on Apr 25, 2016 | 25 comments

2039.

Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. After a Nuclear Attack (1976) [pdf] (web.ornl.gov)

33 points by benbreen on Apr 24, 2016 | 23 comments

2040.

Coding on tape – computer science A-level 1970s style (bbc.co.uk)

33 points by iamphilrae on Apr 3, 2016 | 15 comments