HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

NASA: We're sending humans to Mars (twitter.com)

1424 points by didgeoridoo on Dec 2, 2014 | 586 comments

2.

“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS” (imgur.com)

1284 points by shalmanese on Dec 14, 2014 | 265 comments

3.

Nature makes all articles free to view (nature.com)

1102 points by nikhilpandit on Dec 2, 2014 | 128 comments

4.

Farewell, Dr. Dobb's (drdobbs.com)

1029 points by andrewbinstock on Dec 16, 2014 | 320 comments

5.

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket (coreos.com)

902 points by kelseyhightower on Dec 1, 2014 | 277 comments

6.

“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation” (article.gmane.org)

883 points by chummm on Dec 21, 2014 | 157 comments

7.

US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program (intelligence.senate.gov)

879 points by uptown on Dec 9, 2014 | 551 comments

8.

The Case for Slow Programming (ventrellathing.wordpress.com)

865 points by bufo on Dec 1, 2014 | 337 comments

9.

Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)

859 points by markmassie on Dec 29, 2014 | 70 comments

10.

BPG Image format (bellard.org)

843 points by mjs on Dec 5, 2014 | 328 comments

11.

Git client vulnerability announced (github.com)

818 points by polemic on Dec 18, 2014 | 177 comments

12.

EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional (eff.org)

808 points by etr71115 on Dec 18, 2014 | 169 comments

13.

India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin (techdirt.com)

796 points by peter123 on Dec 31, 2014 | 298 comments

14.

Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs (extremetech.com)

748 points by lelf on Dec 27, 2014 | 400 comments

15.

PostgreSQL 9.4 Released (postgresql.org)

744 points by petercooper on Dec 18, 2014 | 188 comments

16.

Android Studio 1.0 (android-developers.blogspot.com)

725 points by ingve on Dec 8, 2014 | 227 comments

17.

Look, no hands (looknohands.me)

698 points by jamesisaac on Dec 28, 2014 | 140 comments

18.

Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?

698 points by plinkplonk on Dec 7, 2014 | 110 comments

19.

Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)

694 points by r721 on Dec 3, 2014 | 420 comments

20.

How You Know (paulgraham.com)

686 points by _pius on Dec 15, 2014 | 257 comments

21.

Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy (paperplanes.de)

675 points by michaelochurch on Dec 10, 2014 | 329 comments

22.

The State of JavaScript in 2015 (breck-mckye.com)

675 points by sahara on Dec 1, 2014 | 220 comments

23.

Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 (gatesnotes.com)

656 points by prajjwal on Dec 15, 2014 | 114 comments

24.

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates (markshuttleworth.com)

650 points by selectnull on Dec 9, 2014 | 147 comments

25.

Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven (ifixit.org)

621 points by ColinWright on Dec 30, 2014 | 372 comments

26.

From hacker to hospice in seven weeks (benjamincburns.com)

618 points by benjamincburns on Dec 1, 2014 | 221 comments

27.

Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML (mail.mozilla.org)

609 points by ash on Dec 10, 2014 | 144 comments

28.

24/192 music downloads are silly (xiph.org)

604 points by tosh on Dec 2, 2014 | 424 comments

29.

Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework (getskeleton.com)

598 points by hit8run on Dec 9, 2014 | 121 comments

30.

Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (spiegel.de)

595 points by FabianBeiner on Dec 28, 2014 | 165 comments