HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4501.

Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots (blog.sciencegeekgirl.com)

169 points by andrelaszlo on Nov 28, 2013 | 165 comments

4502.

The way government does tech is outdated and risky (washingtonpost.com)

169 points by madelfio on Oct 22, 2013 | 136 comments

4503.

Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery (cbc.ca)

169 points by WestCoastJustin on Dec 11, 2013 | 130 comments

4504.

New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users (dailydot.com)

169 points by mcrittenden on Jul 19, 2013 | 120 comments

4505.

Reddit’s Pitch deck to Advertisers (slideshare.net)

169 points by muratmutlu on May 18, 2013 | 115 comments

4506.

HTML.js – Befriend the DOM (nbubna.github.io)

169 points by smanuel on Aug 13, 2013 | 106 comments

4507.

Freedom: The Big American Lie (faz.net)

169 points by Riesling on Jun 29, 2013 | 105 comments

4508.

Alcohol without the hangover? (theguardian.com)

169 points by Fice on Nov 17, 2013 | 97 comments

4509.

Valve demonstrates Steam Controller [video] (joystiq.com)

169 points by evo_9 on Oct 11, 2013 | 94 comments

4510.

Introducing Silvrback: Hosted, Markdown-Powered Blogging (silvrback.com)

169 points by dsowers on Aug 21, 2013 | 91 comments

4511.

GNU Make 4.0 Released (lists.gnu.org)

169 points by jgrahamc on Oct 9, 2013 | 88 comments

4512.

Two years after quitting my job: 2013 in review (nathanbarry.com)

169 points by kanamekun on Dec 30, 2013 | 88 comments

4513.

Ask HN: and now what?

169 points by shameonme on May 24, 2013 | 85 comments

4514.

Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer (justin.abrah.ms)

169 points by abrahms on Jul 26, 2013 | 78 comments

4515.

GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org (gimp.org)

169 points by uladzislau on Nov 9, 2013 | 75 comments

4516.

Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?

169 points by n_coats on Jul 13, 2013 | 74 comments

4517.

Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ (linuxjournal.com)

169 points by jonasvp on Feb 19, 2013 | 72 comments

4518.

BitMessage - Bitcoin Inspired Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging (bitmessage.org)

169 points by ericb on May 24, 2013 | 64 comments

4519.

Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video] (abcnews.go.com)

169 points by dfc on Jul 28, 2013 | 64 comments

4520.

Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1 (blog.nullspace.io)

169 points by antics on Aug 12, 2013 | 62 comments

4521.

The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' (guardian.co.uk)

169 points by uptown on Jul 15, 2013 | 61 comments

4522.

Vagrant 1.4 (vagrantup.com)

169 points by bpierre on Dec 9, 2013 | 61 comments

4523.

Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf] (static.googleusercontent.com)

169 points by matant on Nov 6, 2013 | 59 comments

4524.

On the Cleverness of Compilers (alexey.radul.name)

169 points by nkurz on Aug 25, 2013 | 54 comments

4525.

Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on (github.com)

169 points by henning on Mar 23, 2013 | 51 comments

4526.

Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer (nlpwp.org)

169 points by ColinWright on Feb 11, 2013 | 46 comments

4527.

Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials (seas.harvard.edu)

169 points by interconnector on Sep 17, 2013 | 40 comments

4528.

Cards Against Humanity’s “$5 More” Black Friday Sale (maxistentialist.tumblr.com)