HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005) (lists.warhead.org.uk)

141 points by pmoriarty on Dec 4, 2014 | 47 comments

482.

Publish and Perish at Imperial College London: The Death of Stefan Grimm (dcscience.net)

141 points by pms on Dec 2, 2014 | 35 comments

483.

Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (2007) (weblog.raganwald.com)

141 points by olalonde on Dec 20, 2014 | 34 comments

484.

Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English (scientificamerican.com)

141 points by pepys on Dec 19, 2014 | 28 comments

485.

Distributed systems readings (andrew.cmu.edu)

141 points by nitishmd on Dec 4, 2014 | 16 comments

486.

Software engineering interview questions (oj.leetcode.com)

140 points by sfbushstreet on Dec 23, 2014 | 96 comments

487.

The Internet is Shit (2003) (internetisshit.org)

140 points by chroem- on Dec 7, 2014 | 82 comments

488.

Inside the Collapse of the New Republic (newyorker.com)

140 points by GabrielF00 on Dec 12, 2014 | 59 comments

489.

Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope

139 points by throwawaybcporn on Dec 25, 2014 | 79 comments

490.

DuetDisplay and Unattributed Open-Source (github.com)

139 points by cyphunk on Dec 20, 2014 | 50 comments

491.

Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++ (github.com)

139 points by doublextremevil on Dec 21, 2014 | 31 comments

492.

Introduction to Data Analysis in R (f.briatte.org)

139 points by danso on Dec 12, 2014 | 11 comments

493.

The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js (nodesource.com)

138 points by callum85 on Dec 10, 2014 | 113 comments

494.

Node.js is forked, not fucked (wesleyio.tumblr.com)

138 points by josep2 on Dec 8, 2014 | 68 comments

495.

VNC Roulette (srsly.de)

138 points by dewey on Dec 29, 2014 | 66 comments

496.

Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform (techblog.netflix.com)

138 points by trickz on Dec 12, 2014 | 44 comments

497.

Bitcore – A pure JavaScript Bitcoin API (bitcore.io)

138 points by eordano on Dec 23, 2014 | 29 comments

498.

Apple CoreGraphics framework logging input data to /tmp (mozilla.org)

138 points by rbdn on Dec 5, 2014 | 22 comments

499.

PresidentObama on GitHub (github.com)

137 points by joeyyang on Dec 10, 2014 | 64 comments

500.

Turf – A modular GIS engine written in JavaScript (turfjs.org)

137 points by uptown on Dec 24, 2014 | 22 comments

501.

The World of Linux System Calls (sysdigcloud.com)

137 points by nkurz on Dec 28, 2014 | 12 comments

502.

Shadershop – programming GPU shaders by direct manipulation (tobyschachman.com)

137 points by revorad on Dec 1, 2014 | 6 comments

503.

“Why you should not use Uber (the car ride brokering company)” (stallman.org)

136 points by jpatokal on Dec 29, 2014 | 144 comments

504.

The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar (citylab.com)

136 points by skinofstars on Dec 12, 2014 | 109 comments

505.

Confidentiality at FastMail (blog.fastmail.com)

136 points by brongondwana on Dec 15, 2014 | 53 comments

506.

Unexpected Life Found in the Ocean's Deepest Trench (npr.org)

136 points by benbreen on Dec 26, 2014 | 34 comments

507.

Nim Programming Language Tutorial (nim-lang.org)

136 points by j-b on Dec 29, 2014 | 31 comments

508.

Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises $65M to Build Predictive Data Tech (wsj.com)

136 points by lightcatcher on Dec 18, 2014 | 27 comments

509.

Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams (github.com)

136 points by signa11 on Dec 15, 2014 | 22 comments

510.

This year in side projects (ianww.com)

136 points by typpo on Dec 30, 2014 | 21 comments