HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4141.

Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase

251 points by bangda on Mar 9, 2017 | 51 comments

4142.

Internet Movie Cars Database (imcdb.org)

251 points by rishabhd on Sep 19, 2017 | 51 comments

4143.

How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users (reddit.com)

251 points by catherinezng on Jul 9, 2017 | 49 comments

4144.

OpenLara – Web-based classic Tomb Raider engine remake (xproger.info)

251 points by ptrptr on Apr 23, 2017 | 47 comments

4145.

Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second (righto.com)

251 points by darwhy on Jul 2, 2017 | 41 comments

4146.

IOCCC Flight Simulator (blog.aerojockey.com)

251 points by xparadigm on Aug 20, 2017 | 29 comments

4147.

TensorFlow Image Recognition on a Raspberry Pi (svds.com)

251 points by sasquire on Feb 8, 2017 | 28 comments

4148.

US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High (nytimes.com)

250 points by kcorbitt on May 17, 2017 | 418 comments

4149.

FaceID Security [pdf] (images.apple.com)

250 points by MBCook on Sep 27, 2017 | 304 comments

4150.

Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check (bloomberg.com)

250 points by ayanai on Feb 26, 2017 | 284 comments

4151.

When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work (nytimes.com)

250 points by SQL2219 on Nov 19, 2017 | 201 comments

4152.

Never Completed Game (nevercompletedgame.com)

250 points by lainon on Oct 1, 2017 | 198 comments

4153.

Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company (nytimes.com)

250 points by Tiktaalik on Feb 26, 2017 | 162 comments

4154.

BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] (ia902603.us.archive.org)

250 points by pmoriarty on Aug 17, 2017 | 151 comments

4155.

.NET core spies on users by default (github.com)

250 points by Ice_cream_suit on Oct 10, 2017 | 150 comments

4156.

Why isn't everything normally distributed? (johndcook.com)

250 points by tambourine_man on Jul 20, 2017 | 135 comments

4157.

California Could Legalize Magic Mushrooms in 2018 (hightimes.com)

250 points by whatyoucantsay on Nov 14, 2017 | 133 comments

4158.

New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed (theadvocate.com)

250 points by rbcgerard on Nov 16, 2017 | 115 comments

4159.

The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity (newyorker.com)

250 points by mathgenius on Jan 29, 2017 | 114 comments

4160.

How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet (nextplatform.com)

250 points by Katydid on Jul 17, 2017 | 101 comments

4161.

FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email (techcrunch.com)

250 points by rmason on Feb 7, 2017 | 98 comments

4162.

Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres (psyenix.blogspot.com)

250 points by yupyup on Aug 16, 2017 | 82 comments

4163.

Linux 4.10 is out (lwn.net)

250 points by ajdlinux on Feb 19, 2017 | 68 comments

4164.

Better Compression with Zstandard (gregoryszorc.com)

250 points by ctur on Mar 7, 2017 | 62 comments

4165.

SEC Discloses Edgar Corporate Filing System Was Hacked in 2016 (wsj.com)

250 points by k2enemy on Sep 21, 2017 | 57 comments

4166.

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (medium.com)

250 points by 19870213 on Dec 3, 2017 | 55 comments

4167.

Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video] (youtube.com)

250 points by wslh on May 11, 2017 | 53 comments

4168.

Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler (derevenets.com)

250 points by ingve on Jul 25, 2017 | 48 comments

4169.

Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

250 points by kungfudoi on Feb 27, 2017 | 43 comments

4170.

Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin (github.com)

250 points by jobeirne on Aug 7, 2017 | 42 comments