HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5041.

The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover (edition.cnn.com)

222 points by Tomte on Jun 19, 2017 | 90 comments

5042.

Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé' (2016) (theguardian.com)

222 points by nwrk on Apr 25, 2017 | 89 comments

5043.

Ask HN: How do you start giving tech talks?

222 points by litzer on Jul 28, 2017 | 89 comments

5044.

Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian (vox.com)

222 points by prostoalex on Mar 19, 2017 | 87 comments

5045.

Betelgeuse captured by ALMA (eso.org)

222 points by aaron695 on Jun 26, 2017 | 77 comments

5046.

Show HN: Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems (therecipe.github.io)

222 points by therecipe on Apr 8, 2017 | 74 comments

5047.

Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font (verticalsysadmin.com)

222 points by atsaloli on Sep 15, 2017 | 66 comments

5048.

Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash reporter, cryptohomed (bugs.chromium.org)

222 points by chx on Nov 16, 2017 | 66 comments

5049.

2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera (home.strw.leidenuniv.nl)

222 points by cremno on Jul 4, 2017 | 55 comments

5050.

Ask HN: What are hardware development learning web tutorials?

222 points by yadavrg on Nov 19, 2017 | 40 comments

5051.

The great nutrient collapse (politico.com)

222 points by clumsysmurf on Sep 14, 2017 | 37 comments

5052.

AWS IAM Policies in a Nutshell (start.jcolemorrison.com)

222 points by colemorrison on Mar 23, 2017 | 34 comments

5053.

Intel's Remote AMT Vulnerability (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

222 points by tptacek on May 1, 2017 | 33 comments

5054.

Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) (h14s.p5r.org)

222 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2017 | 19 comments

5055.

BayesDB: A probabilistic programming platform (probcomp.csail.mit.edu)

222 points by erwan on Jul 9, 2017 | 15 comments

5056.

Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook (store.google.com)

221 points by vyrotek on Oct 4, 2017 | 326 comments

5057.

We’re losing the information war (seattletimes.com)

221 points by dthal on Mar 30, 2017 | 312 comments

5058.

How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune (nytimes.com)

221 points by rafaelc on Dec 19, 2017 | 295 comments

5059.

Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App (londonreconnections.com)

221 points by porker on Sep 25, 2017 | 242 comments

5060.

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot (spectrum.ieee.org)

221 points by sohkamyung on Jul 7, 2017 | 223 comments

5061.

Research does not say that people produce more when working 40 hours per week (metarabbit.wordpress.com)

221 points by barry-cotter on Jul 8, 2017 | 190 comments

5062.

Fun vs. Computer Science (2016) (prog21.dadgum.com)

221 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2017 | 181 comments

5063.

Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine (elth.co)

221 points by rahulchowdhury on Oct 1, 2017 | 179 comments

5064.

Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona (uanews.arizona.edu)

221 points by incan1275 on Aug 19, 2017 | 169 comments

5065.

Things that Idris improves things over Haskell (deque.blog)

221 points by deque-blog on Jun 14, 2017 | 154 comments

5066.

N.S.A Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets (nytimes.com)

221 points by sashk on Apr 28, 2017 | 126 comments

5067.

US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com)

221 points by stevemclaugh on Nov 6, 2017 | 123 comments

5068.

Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact (arxiv.org)

221 points by moh_maya on Jun 1, 2017 | 121 comments

5069.

Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities (security.googleblog.com)

221 points by philips on Oct 2, 2017 | 117 comments

5070.

Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Collisions at Sea (nytimes.com)

221 points by sus_007 on Oct 1, 2017 | 116 comments