HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8851.

Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states (news.harvard.edu)

150 points by chmaynard on Jan 30, 2017 | 112 comments

8852.

The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006) (moishelettvin.blogspot.com)

150 points by shubhamjain on Sep 5, 2017 | 112 comments

8853.

The future of Wayland, and Sway's role in it (drewdevault.com)

150 points by ingve on Oct 19, 2017 | 112 comments

8854.

Don't setenv in multi-threaded code on glibc (rachelbythebay.com)

150 points by r4um on Jan 31, 2017 | 104 comments

8855.

New Zealand Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to U.S (bbc.com)

150 points by rmason on Feb 20, 2017 | 102 comments

8856.

Microsoft is laying off thousands in a major global sales reorganization (techcrunch.com)

150 points by gk1 on Jul 3, 2017 | 99 comments

8857.

NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened (computerhistory.org)

150 points by stefanu on Feb 8, 2017 | 98 comments

8858.

Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments (npr.org)

150 points by daegloe on Mar 16, 2017 | 98 comments

8859.

Show HN: Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda? (servers.lol)

150 points by adjohn on Dec 14, 2017 | 96 comments

8860.

HTTP Immutable Responses (tools.ietf.org)

150 points by okket on Sep 15, 2017 | 89 comments

8861.

‘Honeypot’ pages to try to convert people searching for cracked software (successfulsoftware.net)

150 points by charlieirish on Mar 18, 2017 | 87 comments

8862.

Kotlin 1.1: What’s coming in the standard library (blog.jetbrains.com)

150 points by ingve on Jan 24, 2017 | 85 comments

8863.

Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups (mobile.nytimes.com)

150 points by albertogui on Aug 6, 2017 | 74 comments

8864.

Is your internet up to date? (en.conn.internet.nl)

150 points by BuuQu9hu on Jan 9, 2017 | 73 comments

8865.

Zen and the Art of Unit Testing (marcin-chwedczuk.github.io)

150 points by Liriel on Mar 15, 2017 | 70 comments

8866.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach (gpbnews.org)

150 points by diafygi on Mar 4, 2017 | 69 comments

8867.

Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period (pages.nist.gov)

150 points by tuxxy on Mar 13, 2017 | 64 comments

8868.

The Odin Project – Learn Web Development for Free (theodinproject.com)

150 points by CoffeeOnWrite on Jul 23, 2017 | 64 comments

8869.

X-Seed 4000 (en.wikipedia.org)

150 points by bane on Aug 25, 2017 | 64 comments

8870.

Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Surveillance (aclu.org)

150 points by maxt on Jan 15, 2017 | 63 comments

8871.

When is a dollar not a dollar? (codingvc.com)

150 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2017 | 58 comments

8872.

Why Elixir (2014) (theerlangelist.com)

150 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2017 | 57 comments

8873.

He created a Wikipedia article per day for a year, including on his wedding day (blog.wikimedia.org)

150 points by The_ed17 on Sep 8, 2017 | 57 comments

8874.

Kitten – A statically typed, stack-based functional programming language (kittenlang.org)

150 points by throwaway7645 on Jan 7, 2017 | 49 comments

8875.

You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout (rachelandrew.co.uk)

150 points by kawera on Jul 1, 2017 | 49 comments

8876.

Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication (android-developers.googleblog.com)

150 points by AndrewDucker on Jul 31, 2017 | 49 comments

8877.

RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC (gcc.gnu.org)

150 points by edelsohn on Jan 18, 2017 | 44 comments

8878.

How I failed to replicate an $86M project in 1 line of code (medium.com)

150 points by rodgerd on Sep 2, 2017 | 43 comments

8879.

EFF to Court: The First Amendment Protects the Right to Record First Responders (eff.org)

150 points by DiabloD3 on Sep 20, 2017 | 43 comments

8880.

Tesla is working with AMD to develop its own A.I. chip for self-driving cars (cnbc.com)

150 points by adventured on Sep 20, 2017 | 43 comments