HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

661.

The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution (economist.com)

104 points by dmmalam on Dec 1, 2013 | 61 comments

662.

Japan now the Hades of free speech and investigative journalism (japansubculture.com)

104 points by adregan on Dec 7, 2013 | 50 comments

663.

2013: A Year of Open Source at Facebook (code.facebook.com)

104 points by jamesgpearce on Dec 20, 2013 | 43 comments

664.

SES-8 – Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission (spacex.com)

104 points by nakkiel on Dec 3, 2013 | 38 comments

665.

60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none (thecssninja.com)

104 points by yashness on Dec 9, 2013 | 32 comments

666.

Metaprogramming Python For Big Data (tuulos.github.io)

104 points by fixxer on Dec 12, 2013 | 27 comments

667.

NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report (theguardian.com)

104 points by SworDsy on Dec 17, 2013 | 10 comments

668.

A useful Caps Lock key (brettterpstra.com)

103 points by rbcoffee on Dec 27, 2013 | 136 comments

669.

The origin of zero-based array indexing (exple.tive.org)

103 points by fizwhiz on Dec 10, 2013 | 107 comments

670.

Ask HN: Tools you use for remote working?

103 points by d0m on Dec 14, 2013 | 66 comments

671.

Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet (wired.com)

103 points by texan on Dec 6, 2013 | 43 comments

672.

Show HN: My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away

103 points by gregpilling on Dec 23, 2013 | 34 comments

673.

Reverse Engineering a Furby (poppopret.org)

103 points by Moral_ on Dec 18, 2013 | 26 comments

674.

Sad News for the Opscode Community (opscode.com)

103 points by benatkin on Dec 6, 2013 | 17 comments

675.

Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence' (theguardian.com)

103 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2013 | 16 comments

676.

Help me bring Black Girls Code to Brooklyn - I'm matching the first $5K (crowdtilt.com)

102 points by kn0thing on Dec 28, 2013 | 230 comments

677.

Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (stavros.io)

102 points by StavrosK on Dec 24, 2013 | 22 comments

678.

Dissecting the GZIP format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com)

102 points by siromoney on Dec 17, 2013 | 19 comments

679.

Ruby 2.1: Profiling Ruby (tmm1.net)

102 points by tmm1 on Dec 25, 2013 | 15 comments

680.

Advanced Computer Architecture Reading List (cs.ucf.edu)

102 points by luu on Dec 28, 2013 | 5 comments

681.

Android Support vs iOS Support (fidlee.com)

101 points by tlo on Dec 5, 2013 | 108 comments

682.

How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (alexandreafonso.wordpress.com)

101 points by kens on Dec 1, 2013 | 88 comments

683.

Datacoin (datacoin.info)

101 points by karlzt on Dec 24, 2013 | 50 comments

684.

Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants (nypost.com)

101 points by lmg643 on Dec 26, 2013 | 50 comments

685.

How to Become a Better Developer (coderwall.com)

101 points by bitsweet on Dec 24, 2013 | 37 comments

686.

Meteor 0.7.0: Scaling realtime queries using oplog instead of poll-and-diff (meteor.com)

101 points by debergalis on Dec 17, 2013 | 23 comments

687.

Swiss to vote on proposals to treat bitcoin as foreign currency (finextra.com)

101 points by baazaar on Dec 23, 2013 | 22 comments

688.

US drone strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake (reuters.com)

100 points by dkasper on Dec 12, 2013 | 62 comments

689.

David Deutsch On Artificial Intelligence (aeon.co)

100 points by thewarrior on Dec 13, 2013 | 59 comments

690.

COBOL on Wheelchair (azac.pl)

100 points by tartle on Dec 22, 2013 | 40 comments