HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5311.

This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air (smithsonianmag.com)

147 points by ColdHawaiian on Apr 12, 2014 | 83 comments

5312.

Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (2012) [pdf] (erlang-factory.com)

147 points by pitchups on Feb 20, 2014 | 81 comments

5313.

Supersonic: New UI Hybrid Framework – Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova (appgyver.com)

147 points by redindian75 on Dec 4, 2014 | 79 comments

5314.

What is a Web Framework? (jeffknupp.com)

147 points by mgrouchy on Mar 4, 2014 | 75 comments

5315.

VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC (andreasgal.com)

147 points by kinetik on Nov 16, 2014 | 74 comments

5316.

Great Quotes (paulgraham.com)

147 points by jeremynixon on Dec 26, 2014 | 73 comments

5317.

How to get business ideas – remove steps (ninjasandrobots.com)

147 points by nate on May 31, 2014 | 71 comments

5318.

The S in Rest (teddziuba.github.io)

147 points by fishtoaster on Aug 19, 2014 | 70 comments

5319.

Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

147 points by tomhoward on Aug 29, 2014 | 70 comments

5320.

Why threads can't fork (thorstenball.com)

147 points by akerl_ on Oct 13, 2014 | 68 comments

5321.

Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser (appetize.io)

147 points by weiyin on Oct 21, 2014 | 67 comments

5322.

PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework (github.com)

147 points by psykovsky on Nov 19, 2014 | 67 comments

5323.

Roadmap to Alpha Centauri (nautil.us)

147 points by dnetesn on Aug 29, 2014 | 63 comments

5324.

You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist (cato.org)

147 points by Argentum01 on Jan 20, 2014 | 62 comments

5325.

Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard (forbes.com)

147 points by ColinWright on Feb 23, 2014 | 59 comments

5326.

The Slow Web (jackcheng.com)

147 points by mozboz on Jun 10, 2014 | 55 comments

5327.

Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower (slatestarcodex.com)

147 points by gwern on Jun 22, 2014 | 54 comments

5328.

Organic Cat Litter Chief Suspect In Nuclear Waste Accident (npr.org)

147 points by timr on May 26, 2014 | 52 comments

5329.

Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players (meltingasphalt.com)

147 points by benbreen on Sep 21, 2014 | 51 comments

5330.

TDD your API (blog.balancedpayments.com)

147 points by steveklabnik on May 16, 2014 | 50 comments

5331.

Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out (archive.wired.com)

147 points by Tomte on Aug 15, 2014 | 50 comments

5332.

Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface (sciencedaily.com)

147 points by swombat on Jan 14, 2014 | 43 comments

5333.

Candy Crush creator abandons 'candy' trademark efforts (polygon.com)

147 points by bpierre on Feb 26, 2014 | 43 comments

5334.

Random Solutions are Often Good Enough (sultanik.com)

147 points by luu on Jul 17, 2014 | 41 comments

5335.

Skeletal Tracking Beta (developer.leapmotion.com)

147 points by Matetricks on May 28, 2014 | 40 comments

5336.

Zinc – Rust’s safety features applied to embedded development (zinc.rs)

147 points by sanxiyn on Jul 15, 2014 | 40 comments

5337.

All Things Digital shutting down (allthingsd.com)

147 points by ivank on Jan 1, 2014 | 36 comments

5338.

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions (minimaxir.com)

147 points by minimaxir on Feb 24, 2014 | 36 comments

5339.

A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans (medium.com)

147 points by Mz on Jul 24, 2014 | 31 comments

5340.

Secret Malware in EU Attack Linked to US and British Intelligence (firstlook.org)

147 points by FredericJ on Nov 24, 2014 | 31 comments