HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6181.

Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid (longreads.com)

195 points by kawera on Aug 12, 2017 | 117 comments

6182.

Reserve the 418 status code (tools.ietf.org)

195 points by BenjaminCoe on Aug 13, 2017 | 115 comments

6183.

The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over (diggitmagazine.com)

195 points by merraksh on Apr 30, 2017 | 114 comments

6184.

Short intro to C++ for Rust developers: Ownership and Borrowing (nercury.github.io)

195 points by ingve on Jan 22, 2017 | 97 comments

6185.

OpenBSD switches the default compiler on amd64 and i386 to clang (marc.info)

195 points by cnst on Jul 27, 2017 | 97 comments

6186.

A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups (bloomberg.com)

195 points by TrickyRick on Oct 31, 2017 | 94 comments

6187.

Can a Human See a Single Photon? (1996) (math.ucr.edu)

195 points by adenadel on Nov 12, 2017 | 91 comments

6188.

All about java.util.Date (codeblog.jonskeet.uk)

195 points by D_Guidi on Apr 23, 2017 | 90 comments

6189.

Microsoft Appoints Kevin Scott as CTO (news.microsoft.com)

195 points by ghosh on Jan 24, 2017 | 89 comments

6190.

Nim programming language (nim-lang.org)

195 points by evacchi on Apr 18, 2017 | 89 comments

6191.

The origins of XXX as FIXME (snellman.net)

195 points by panic on Apr 17, 2017 | 86 comments

6192.

Our understanding of the way the body handles salt may be wrong (nytimes.com)

195 points by mherrmann on May 27, 2017 | 86 comments

6193.

Ask HN: Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?

195 points by mezod on Nov 20, 2017 | 81 comments

6194.

AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum (medium.com)

195 points by pcmonk on Jun 21, 2017 | 70 comments

6195.

FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults (vez.mrsk.me)

195 points by beefhash on Dec 26, 2017 | 69 comments

6196.

Mirror grinding (scopemaking.net)

195 points by Tomte on Mar 10, 2017 | 65 comments

6197.

The Turds Who Voted to Sell Out Your Online Privacy Get Their Faces Plastered (gizmodo.com)

195 points by hackerkid on May 5, 2017 | 62 comments

6198.

MILA and the future of Theano (groups.google.com)

195 points by shagunsodhani on Sep 28, 2017 | 60 comments

6199.

Learn to Read Code (kylesletten.com)

195 points by kbsletten on Jun 29, 2017 | 57 comments

6200.

How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play (medium.com)

195 points by sds111 on Nov 5, 2017 | 57 comments

6201.

Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps (termipal.sh)

195 points by pavlov on Dec 20, 2017 | 54 comments

6202.

A proof-of-concept of a vulnerability in custom shell prompt scripts (github.com)

195 points by njhartwell on Mar 17, 2017 | 52 comments

6203.

Node v8.5.0 (nodejs.org)

195 points by bpierre on Sep 13, 2017 | 51 comments

6204.

Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For (nautil.us)

195 points by dnetesn on Mar 5, 2017 | 49 comments

6205.

Green Threads Explained (c9x.me)

195 points by terminalcommand on May 29, 2017 | 47 comments

6206.

Using Tesseract OCR with Python (pyimagesearch.com)

195 points by jonbaer on Jul 11, 2017 | 47 comments

6207.

A Guide to Crypto Currencies (mycrypto.guide)

195 points by frag on Aug 31, 2017 | 46 comments

6208.

Debian 8.7 released (debian.org)

195 points by type0 on Jan 15, 2017 | 43 comments

6209.

Erlang and First-Person Shooters (2011) [pdf] (erlang-factory.com)

195 points by Tomte on Apr 15, 2017 | 41 comments

6210.

Planets in Google Maps (blog.google)

195 points by sohkamyung on Oct 17, 2017 | 40 comments