HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts are all the same species (vox.com)

99 points by lukas on Aug 6, 2014 | 97 comments

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How casinos get you to spend more money (vox.com)

99 points by bennesvig on Aug 8, 2014 | 93 comments

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Netflix Open Connect Content Delivery Network (netflix.com)

99 points by nkurz on Aug 14, 2014 | 82 comments

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Who Made That Paintball? (nytimes.com)

99 points by fuzzythinker on Aug 18, 2014 | 56 comments

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How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands (noisey.vice.com)

99 points by fizl on Aug 15, 2014 | 24 comments

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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) (yosefk.com)

99 points by mbrubeck on Aug 7, 2014 | 17 comments

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Show HN: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers (yourfirstcustomers.com)

99 points by jjets718 on Aug 19, 2014 | 14 comments

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A few useful things to know about machine learning (2012) [pdf] (cs.washington.edu)

99 points by chaitanyav on Aug 27, 2014 | 7 comments

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Self Employed CV

98 points by sudorank on Aug 26, 2014 | 40 comments

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Complete iOS7 Course for free (producthunt.com)

98 points by mstolpm on Aug 19, 2014 | 36 comments

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Wire Recorder Project: Recovering old family recordings made on steel wire (gentweb.co.uk)

98 points by dirktheman on Aug 28, 2014 | 28 comments

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Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL (floored.com)

98 points by uptown on Aug 27, 2014 | 14 comments

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On Machine Learning (bugra.github.io)

98 points by jonbaer on Aug 24, 2014 | 2 comments

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Computers Aren’t Fast Anymore (2013) (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)

97 points by buremba on Aug 28, 2014 | 110 comments

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In 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights Dispute, Conan Doyle Estate Slammed Again (hollywoodreporter.com)

97 points by nkurz on Aug 5, 2014 | 107 comments

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Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod (backblaze.com)

97 points by LukeLambert on Aug 12, 2014 | 85 comments

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Ask HN: Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?

97 points by antocv on Aug 12, 2014 | 84 comments

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Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (2005) (legacy.igda.org)

97 points by support_ribbons on Aug 26, 2014 | 57 comments

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A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua (npr.org)

97 points by victoro on Aug 16, 2014 | 56 comments

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Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength (newscientist.com)

97 points by ultimatedelman on Aug 4, 2014 | 49 comments

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Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C (github.com)

97 points by api on Aug 19, 2014 | 46 comments

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A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007) (wincent.com)

97 points by geertj on Aug 1, 2014 | 33 comments

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Really Good Emails (reallygoodemails.com)

97 points by rayshan on Aug 8, 2014 | 21 comments

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Whole organ 'grown' in world first (bbc.co.uk)

97 points by k-mcgrady on Aug 24, 2014 | 17 comments

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The legend of John von Neumann (1973) (stepanov.lk.net)

96 points by tjaerv on Aug 22, 2014 | 65 comments

686.

Van Gogh Museum (vangoghmuseum.nl)

96 points by primigenus on Aug 27, 2014 | 50 comments

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Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface (en.itar-tass.com)

96 points by Shivetya on Aug 20, 2014 | 34 comments

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Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles (quodb.com)

96 points by lusob on Aug 4, 2014 | 30 comments

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What is a Hacker? (1985) (cs.berkeley.edu)

96 points by Jach on Aug 23, 2014 | 29 comments

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PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time to Fix PACER (techdirt.com)

96 points by thinkcomp on Aug 26, 2014 | 26 comments