HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Tim Cook Speaks Up (businessweek.com)

3086 points by replicatorblog on Oct 30, 2014 | 974 comments

2.

Hacker News API (blog.ycombinator.com)

1714 points by kevin on Oct 7, 2014 | 298 comments

3.

Google Inbox (googleblog.blogspot.com)

1069 points by jmdenis on Oct 22, 2014 | 451 comments

4.

Cursors (cursors.io)

1032 points by alloyed on Oct 19, 2014 | 236 comments

5.

The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' (keybase.io)

1025 points by jashkenas on Oct 8, 2014 | 230 comments

6.

GitHub Student Developer Pack (education.github.com)

1022 points by dctrwatson on Oct 7, 2014 | 207 comments

7.

Nexus 6 (google.com)

1005 points by myko on Oct 15, 2014 | 684 comments

8.

Firebase is Joining Google (firebase.com)

879 points by vladstoick on Oct 21, 2014 | 227 comments

9.

Microsoft Band (microsoft.com)

858 points by N0RMAN on Oct 30, 2014 | 514 comments

10.

Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record (nytimes.com)

816 points by specialp on Oct 24, 2014 | 236 comments

11.

I’m Terrified of My New TV (brennancenter.org)

739 points by pastycrinkles on Oct 31, 2014 | 336 comments

12.

Trouble at the Koolaid Point (seriouspony.com)

723 points by mpweiher on Oct 8, 2014 | 266 comments

13.

Yahoo Hacked (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

722 points by doctorshady on Oct 6, 2014 | 236 comments

14.

Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video] (youtube.com)

719 points by adamnemecek on Oct 5, 2014 | 126 comments

15.

Rolling Shutters (jasmcole.com)

708 points by hazz on Oct 12, 2014 | 41 comments

16.

Before the Startup (paulgraham.com)

703 points by bhaumik on Oct 2, 2014 | 163 comments

17.

Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance (robert.ocallahan.org)

651 points by francois2 on Oct 28, 2014 | 333 comments

18.

#define CTO (blog.gregbrockman.com)

650 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 27, 2014 | 107 comments

19.

Plastc Card (plastc.com)

648 points by cktsai on Oct 7, 2014 | 346 comments

20.

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds (medium.com)

635 points by libovness on Oct 9, 2014 | 177 comments

21.

Sprout (sprout.hp.com)

617 points by perone on Oct 29, 2014 | 162 comments

22.

Simple CPU (simplecpu.com)

617 points by michael_fine on Oct 19, 2014 | 62 comments

23.

iMac with Retina 5K display (apple.com)

615 points by davidbarker on Oct 16, 2014 | 415 comments

24.

"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this" (plus.google.com)

605 points by basil on Oct 6, 2014 | 465 comments

25.

My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell (thebillfold.com)

604 points by TarpitCarnivore on Oct 21, 2014 | 274 comments

26.

Why Inequality Matters (gatesnotes.com)

603 points by mhb on Oct 16, 2014 | 451 comments

27.

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn (timeshighereducation.co.uk)

599 points by superfx on Oct 1, 2014 | 521 comments

28.

SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight (nbcnews.com)

598 points by llamataboot on Oct 31, 2014 | 300 comments

29.

SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17 (permalink.gmane.org)

579 points by anon1385 on Oct 7, 2014 | 164 comments

30.

The Great Robocoin Rip-off: How We Lost $25,000 Buying a Robocoin ATM (docs.google.com)

575 points by metalab on Oct 15, 2014 | 128 comments