HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4501.

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City (bloomberg.com)

238 points by ihsw2 on May 9, 2017 | 140 comments

4502.

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Is Worth a Shot (bloomberg.com)

238 points by dsri on Oct 16, 2017 | 132 comments

4503.

Syncthing Usage Data (data.syncthing.net)

238 points by GutenYe on Mar 13, 2017 | 119 comments

4504.

Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro (beta-blog.archagon.net)

238 points by archagon on Jan 2, 2017 | 107 comments

4505.

Reasons the Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava survival story smells fishy (unreasonablydangerousonionrings.com)

238 points by harambaebae69 on Nov 12, 2017 | 103 comments

4506.

Staffjoy is shutting down (blog.staffjoy.com)

238 points by philip1209 on Feb 14, 2017 | 96 comments

4507.

Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue (yubico.com)

238 points by cimnine on Oct 16, 2017 | 87 comments

4508.

A parametric version of the Spectral font (spectral.prototypo.io)

238 points by tbassetto on Jun 21, 2017 | 81 comments

4509.

The Mystery of a Lost Roman Herb (bbc.com)

238 points by tomcam on Sep 8, 2017 | 67 comments

4510.

Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes (righto.com)

238 points by darwhy on Jun 26, 2017 | 63 comments

4511.

Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++ (kevinbeason.com)

238 points by Ivoah on Feb 4, 2017 | 57 comments

4512.

Communicating Advanced Mathematics to Kids (blogs.ams.org)

238 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2017 | 53 comments

4513.

How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear (bloomberg.com)

238 points by mrkibo on Jan 20, 2017 | 49 comments

4514.

EFF is countersuing a patent troll that wants its name removed from a blog post (theregister.co.uk)

238 points by DamonHD on Apr 14, 2017 | 48 comments

4515.

Two museums having an informative fight on Twitter (newstatesman.com)

238 points by wglb on Sep 16, 2017 | 39 comments

4516.

Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning (eff.org)

238 points by sinak on Jun 20, 2017 | 19 comments

4517.

My phone was searched at LAX, which apparently is the new normal (latimes.com)

237 points by JumpCrisscross on Apr 7, 2017 | 271 comments

4518.

Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies (mail.mozilla.org)

237 points by rxlim on Apr 20, 2017 | 233 comments

4519.

The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea (washingtonpost.com)

237 points by josephorjoe on Jun 15, 2017 | 233 comments

4520.

A note on programmer salaries (stephaniehurlburt.com)

237 points by pryelluw on Aug 11, 2017 | 222 comments

4521.

HP made a laptop slightly thicker to add 3 hours of battery life (theverge.com)

237 points by slantyyz on Jan 3, 2017 | 216 comments

4522.

Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are (philly.com)

237 points by dpflan on Sep 22, 2017 | 209 comments

4523.

The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history (reddit.com)

237 points by edem on Nov 13, 2017 | 198 comments

4524.

Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers (seattletimes.com)

237 points by eropple on Aug 23, 2017 | 192 comments

4525.

US Senate Bill S.1241 to Criminalize Concealed Ownership of Bitcoin (btcmanager.com)

237 points by tehlike on Dec 2, 2017 | 180 comments

4526.

Why public lands must remain in public hands (fieldandstream.com)

237 points by diebir on May 3, 2017 | 179 comments

4527.

Our Approach to Privacy (apple.com)

237 points by fjk on Sep 17, 2017 | 179 comments

4528.

Canada to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018 (cbc.ca)

237 points by paglia_s on Mar 27, 2017 | 171 comments

4529.

High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials (washingtonpost.com)

237 points by dankohn1 on Apr 6, 2017 | 167 comments

4530.

Stack Overflow Salary Calculator (stackoverflow.blog)

237 points by lainon on Sep 19, 2017 | 165 comments