HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7231.

Over time, leaders lose mental capacities (theatlantic.com)

175 points by prostoalex on Jun 19, 2017 | 114 comments

7232.

Children work in Congolese mines where cobalt is extracted for smartphones (news.sky.com)

175 points by guscost on Aug 9, 2017 | 106 comments

7233.

The Thoughts of Chairman Xi (bbc.co.uk)

175 points by princetman on Oct 13, 2017 | 99 comments

7234.

Three Uber security managers resign after CEO criticizes practices (reuters.com)

175 points by petethomas on Dec 1, 2017 | 94 comments

7235.

The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone (venturebeat.com)

175 points by seycombi on Feb 25, 2017 | 84 comments

7236.

Real people don't need end-to-end encryption says UK Home Secretary (uk.businessinsider.com)

175 points by fischersully on Aug 1, 2017 | 82 comments

7237.

Show HN: Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14 (github.com)

175 points by rep_movsd on Jul 31, 2017 | 81 comments

7238.

MINIX – The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel (networkworld.com)

175 points by rbanffy on Nov 6, 2017 | 77 comments

7239.

Sweden Leaks the Personal Information of Millions of Its Own Citizens (gizmodo.com)

175 points by brainpool on Jul 25, 2017 | 71 comments

7240.

Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir (reddit.com)

175 points by stanislavb on May 22, 2017 | 70 comments

7241.

Nasa revives 'weird life forms' trapped inside crystals for 60,000 years (telegraph.co.uk)

175 points by robteix on May 21, 2017 | 68 comments

7242.

What lies beneath async/await in C#? (foreverframe.pl)

175 points by goorion on Jan 12, 2017 | 65 comments

7243.

A 24-year-old made $345K in 2 months by beating Kickstarters to market (cnbc.com)

175 points by esalazar on Jan 31, 2017 | 63 comments

7244.

Rust's 2017 roadmap, six months in (blog.rust-lang.org)

175 points by darwhy on Jul 5, 2017 | 60 comments

7245.

Introduction to WebRender (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)

175 points by adamnemecek on Sep 22, 2017 | 59 comments

7246.

To Serve Man, with Software (blog.codinghorror.com)

175 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2017 | 59 comments

7247.

How Hash Algorithms Work (2007) (metamorphosite.com)

175 points by jjoachim3 on Jan 13, 2017 | 58 comments

7248.

Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week (eclecticlight.co)

175 points by mbgaxyz on Sep 24, 2017 | 58 comments

7249.

Astronomers Find Planet Hotter Than Most Stars (jpl.nasa.gov)

175 points by el_duderino on Jun 5, 2017 | 55 comments

7250.

Niagara Falls without water in 1969 (niagarafrontier.com)

175 points by howrude on Nov 9, 2017 | 55 comments

7251.

A handy guide to financial support for open source (github.com)

175 points by craigkerstiens on Nov 27, 2017 | 51 comments

7252.

Show HN: A Vim distribution inspired by Spacemacs (vim.liuchengxu.org)

175 points by liuchengxu on Mar 26, 2017 | 50 comments

7253.

Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites (blog.mozilla.org)

175 points by kungfudoi on Jan 24, 2017 | 44 comments

7254.

Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb (medium.com)

175 points by knighthacker on Mar 16, 2017 | 40 comments

7255.

A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993) (mccurley.org)

175 points by Tomte on Aug 21, 2017 | 40 comments

7256.

Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python (medium.com)

175 points by chriddyp-plotly on Jun 21, 2017 | 38 comments

7257.

Geek Career Paths (tbray.org)

175 points by rcarmo on Feb 19, 2017 | 37 comments

7258.

Real System Failures (c3.nasa.gov)

175 points by nz on Jul 13, 2017 | 33 comments

7259.

How do I improve my storytelling? (ask.metafilter.com)

175 points by nvr219 on Aug 20, 2017 | 33 comments

7260.

Twitter, but for Math, with Toots (blogs.ams.org)

175 points by aqsalose on Jun 15, 2017 | 29 comments