HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12631.

Nigel Richards, The Best Scrabble Player (fivethirtyeight.com)

70 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 9, 2014 | 46 comments

12632.

Show HN: Hacker Experience – Online hacking simulation game (hackerexperience.com)

70 points by napsterbr on Sep 12, 2014 | 45 comments

12633.

Don’t follow your dreams: A commencement speech for the mediocre (salon.com)

70 points by acqq on May 24, 2014 | 45 comments

12634.

The science behind how fonts make you feel (thenextweb.com)

70 points by aj on Jan 9, 2014 | 44 comments

12635.

Intel Clang-based C++ Compiler [pdf] (llvm.org)

70 points by Someone on Apr 28, 2014 | 44 comments

12636.

Supreme Court’s new rules on abstract patents hit Apple v. Samsung (arstechnica.com)

70 points by Deinos on Jul 29, 2014 | 44 comments

12637.

MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives (anandtech.com)

70 points by amardeep on Sep 2, 2014 | 44 comments

12638.

Shortwave: iBeacon-powered messaging (getshortwave.com)

70 points by siralonso on May 11, 2014 | 43 comments

12639.

Scientists have developed a material so dark that it can't be seen (independent.co.uk)

70 points by davidbarker on Jul 14, 2014 | 42 comments

12640.

Rust for C++ programmers – part 1: Hello world (featherweightmusings.blogspot.co.nz)

70 points by adamnemecek on Apr 18, 2014 | 41 comments

12641.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal (slate.com)

70 points by Libertatea on May 3, 2014 | 41 comments

12642.

William Gibson Writes the Future (gq.com)

70 points by Thevet on Oct 25, 2014 | 40 comments

12643.

BladeRunnerJS: Divide and conquer complex web apps (bladerunnerjs.org)

70 points by porker on Mar 19, 2014 | 39 comments

12644.

You will become who you choose to be around (kevinchau.me)

70 points by kevinchau on Mar 27, 2014 | 39 comments

12645.

The Quest for Randomness (americanscientist.org)

70 points by ot on Apr 22, 2014 | 39 comments

12646.

360 million newly stolen credentials on black market (reuters.com)

70 points by Varcht on Feb 26, 2014 | 38 comments

12647.

Why can we still crack snapchat photos in 12 lines of Ruby? (security.stackexchange.com)

70 points by trippy_biscuits on Mar 5, 2014 | 37 comments

12648.

The problem with self-published books (startupreader.net)

70 points by mijustin on Mar 27, 2014 | 37 comments

12649.

Do messages get lost when Erlang modules are upgraded? (pankajmore.in)

70 points by satvikc on Feb 11, 2014 | 36 comments

12650.

Project Cybersyn (1971) (en.wikipedia.org)

70 points by pavlov on Mar 14, 2014 | 36 comments

12651.

Show HN: Route Optimization API (routific.com)

70 points by mck- on Mar 29, 2014 | 36 comments

12652.

What's the Real U.S. Unemployment Rate? We Have No Idea (businessweek.com)

70 points by T-A on Aug 27, 2014 | 36 comments

12653.

Modern Science and the Bayesian-Frequentist Controversy (2005) [pdf] (statweb.stanford.edu)

70 points by ot on Jul 7, 2014 | 35 comments

12654.

Stripe vs. Paymill (9elements.com)

70 points by sippndipp on Feb 28, 2014 | 34 comments

12655.

Show HN: C++11 inline object definitions (github.com)

70 points by matt42 on May 7, 2014 | 34 comments

12656.

Founders On Depression (techcrunch.com)

70 points by fearless on Jul 30, 2014 | 34 comments

12657.

How Caffeine Can Cramp Creativity (2013) (newyorker.com)

70 points by rpm33 on Nov 10, 2014 | 34 comments

12658.

A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying (nytimes.com)

70 points by juanplusjuan on Dec 20, 2014 | 34 comments

12659.

Bitcoin Tops $1,000 Again as Zynga Accepts Virtual Money (bloomberg.com)

70 points by jasonlingx on Jan 7, 2014 | 33 comments

12660.

Egison – Pattern-matching-oriented Programming Language (egison.org)

70 points by hamidr on Jul 5, 2014 | 33 comments