HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery (planetary.org)

281 points by ColinWright on Apr 22, 2014 | 32 comments

1682.

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately (techcrunch.com)

280 points by uptown on Feb 20, 2014 | 208 comments

1683.

IE7 users, we need to talk… (nursingjobs.us)

280 points by trothamel on Jan 29, 2014 | 180 comments

1684.

Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups (cloud.google.com)

280 points by fidotron on Sep 12, 2014 | 174 comments

1685.

Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto (bitcointalk.org)

280 points by citricsquid on Mar 7, 2014 | 173 comments

1686.

Twitter's GIF hack (blog.embed.ly)

280 points by kwntm on Jun 19, 2014 | 153 comments

1687.

Python 3.4.0 released (python.org)

280 points by jvm on Mar 17, 2014 | 135 comments

1688.

Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free (messagetoeagle.com)

280 points by Shivetya on Oct 23, 2014 | 134 comments

1689.

A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster (scientificamerican.com)

280 points by ColinWright on May 2, 2014 | 133 comments

1690.

The Invention of the AeroPress (priceonomics.com)

280 points by duck on Apr 20, 2014 | 127 comments

1691.

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (2013) (nytimes.com)

280 points by gwern on Jun 22, 2014 | 121 comments

1692.

SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites for Low Cost Internet Within Three Months (techcrunch.com)

280 points by ssclafani on Nov 11, 2014 | 113 comments

1693.

VC Pitches in a Year or Two (avc.com)

280 points by SethMurphy on Jan 15, 2014 | 96 comments

1694.

HN Plays 2048 (hnplays2048.herokuapp.com)

280 points by computer on Mar 20, 2014 | 81 comments

1695.

The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs (theglobeandmail.com)

280 points by soundsop on Sep 9, 2014 | 80 comments

1696.

Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (jeffcovey.net)

280 points by ingve on Jun 21, 2014 | 76 comments

1697.

Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops (slog.thestranger.com)

280 points by r0h1n on Feb 4, 2014 | 70 comments

1698.

How to be an open source gardener (words.steveklabnik.com)

280 points by nkurz on Apr 15, 2014 | 59 comments

1699.

Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court (eff.org)

280 points by chaqke on Jun 19, 2014 | 59 comments

1700.

Introducing split diffs (github.com)

280 points by dctrwatson on Sep 3, 2014 | 51 comments

1701.

Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf] (cs.bham.ac.uk)

280 points by jwdunne on Sep 28, 2014 | 47 comments

1702.

Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection (online.wsj.com)

279 points by adidash on Feb 28, 2014 | 277 comments

1703.

Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents (nytimes.com)

279 points by wrongc0ntinent on Mar 30, 2014 | 174 comments

1704.

The Day I Lost a Shit-ton of Money, Part I (ptotrading.blogspot.com)

279 points by jonnyy on Nov 11, 2014 | 163 comments

1705.

Flappy Bird by the Numbers (zachwill.com)

279 points by zachwill on Feb 9, 2014 | 143 comments

1706.

WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript (msdn.microsoft.com)

279 points by camus2 on Apr 2, 2014 | 131 comments

1707.

Ubuntu 14.04 released (releases.ubuntu.com)

279 points by pjvds on Apr 17, 2014 | 126 comments

1708.

Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy (hacks.mozilla.org)