HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS (2014) (gigaom.com)

66 points by xngzng on May 1, 2015 | 15 comments

1202.

Against the definition of types (tomasp.net)

66 points by tpetricek on May 14, 2015 | 15 comments

1203.

The Secrets of Cloth Simulation in Alan Wake (gamasutra.com)

66 points by Red_Tarsius on May 13, 2015 | 11 comments

1204.

Ghost.py – Webkit-based scriptable web browser for Python (github.com)

66 points by avinassh on May 31, 2015 | 11 comments

1205.

Pycket: A Tracing JIT for a Functional Language (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

66 points by gkuan on May 14, 2015 | 7 comments

1206.

Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsing history (geeksnack.com)

65 points by jumpwah on May 22, 2015 | 107 comments

1207.

Windows 10: Designed for All Your Devices (blogs.windows.com)

65 points by mk44 on May 26, 2015 | 67 comments

1208.

Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's (bbc.co.uk)

65 points by tpatke on May 5, 2015 | 62 comments

1209.

Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at American universities? (2014) (theparisreview.org)

65 points by lermontov on May 25, 2015 | 53 comments

1210.

Deutsche Bank Ignored Its CDS Problems Until They Went Away (bloombergview.com)

65 points by dsri on May 26, 2015 | 51 comments

1211.

Worker-owned tech cooperatives find a niche near Silicon Valley (america.aljazeera.com)

65 points by sethbannon on May 28, 2015 | 43 comments

1212.

Stanford – The Get Rich University (2012) (newyorker.com)

65 points by ignoramous on May 2, 2015 | 42 comments

1213.

Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty Upset with Her Layoffs (techcrunch.com)

65 points by Errorcod3 on May 4, 2015 | 41 comments

1214.

No more dieting and other things we do differently after reporting on healthcare (vox.com)

65 points by sergeant3 on May 21, 2015 | 41 comments

1215.

Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles (nature.com)

65 points by crawshaw on May 3, 2015 | 35 comments

1216.

New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) Crowdfunds Houses for Homeless Families (techcrunch.com)

65 points by sarahbuhr on May 15, 2015 | 27 comments

1217.

New Greaseless Bearings Spin with 10 Times Less Friction (popularmechanics.com)

65 points by SwellJoe on May 22, 2015 | 24 comments

1218.

Valuation as a Scorecard (avc.com)

65 points by ghosh on May 6, 2015 | 13 comments

1219.

Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis? (aeon.co)

65 points by benbreen on May 12, 2015 | 13 comments

1220.

Virtual Structs Part 2: Classes Strike Back (smallcultfollowing.com)

65 points by adamnemecek on May 29, 2015 | 12 comments

1221.

Internal value representation in PHP 7, part 1 (nikic.github.io)

65 points by nikic on May 5, 2015 | 11 comments

1222.

Haskell Web Server in a 5MB Docker Image (fpcomplete.com)

65 points by lubomir on May 6, 2015 | 7 comments

1223.

Pronounceable Anagrams (smithamilli.com)

65 points by iheartramen on May 24, 2015 | 7 comments

1224.

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)

65 points by h43k3r on May 29, 2015 | 6 comments

1225.

The Data That Threatened to Break Physics (nautil.us)

65 points by jonbaer on May 14, 2015 | 4 comments

1226.

Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code (openjdk.java.net)

65 points by amatheus on May 6, 2015 | 3 comments

1227.

Hacking Starbucks to get unlimited coffee (sakurity.com)

65 points by homakov on May 21, 2015 | 2 comments

1228.

My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary (wired.com)

64 points by luu on May 21, 2015 | 82 comments

1229.

Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce.com (bloomberg.com)

64 points by coloneltcb on May 5, 2015 | 73 comments

1230.

Iowa Spent $50M to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started (bloomberg.com)

64 points by forgotAgain on May 19, 2015 | 69 comments