HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School (techcrunch.com)

1952 points by ahmad19526 on Sep 16, 2015 | 946 comments

2.

Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com)

1479 points by ins0 on Sep 11, 2015 | 223 comments

3.

Node v4.0.0 (nodejs.org)

1248 points by mmebane on Sep 8, 2015 | 267 comments

4.

Show HN: Make a programmable mirror (github.com)

1172 points by hannahmitt on Sep 11, 2015 | 136 comments

5.

Our First Certificate Is Now Live (letsencrypt.org)

1131 points by joshmoz on Sep 14, 2015 | 255 comments

6.

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says (nytimes.com)

1011 points by uptown on Sep 28, 2015 | 178 comments

7.

React Native for Android (code.facebook.com)

907 points by Kajdav on Sep 14, 2015 | 240 comments

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'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules (latimes.com)

872 points by augustocallejas on Sep 23, 2015 | 196 comments

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Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight (nytimes.com)

830 points by m_haggar on Sep 21, 2015 | 450 comments

10.

Otto, the successor to Vagrant (hashicorp.com)

772 points by agonzalezro on Sep 28, 2015 | 177 comments

11.

When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup (medium.com)

767 points by katm on Sep 22, 2015 | 233 comments

12.

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip (zulip.org)

755 points by joeclef on Sep 25, 2015 | 313 comments

13.

What Happens Next Will Amaze You (idlewords.com)

753 points by synacksynack on Sep 23, 2015 | 281 comments

14.

The Pixel Factory (acko.net)

739 points by bpierre on Sep 7, 2015 | 47 comments

15.

Two HN Announcements (blog.ycombinator.com)

698 points by tilt on Sep 29, 2015 | 284 comments

16.

Google’s look, evolved (googleblog.blogspot.com)

683 points by rryan on Sep 1, 2015 | 430 comments

17.

Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads (techcrunch.com)

683 points by zhuxuefeng1994 on Sep 1, 2015 | 302 comments

18.

Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock (hellorhei.com)

681 points by damjanstankovic on Sep 26, 2015 | 103 comments

19.

Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA (eff.org)

641 points by panarky on Sep 22, 2015 | 158 comments

20.

The Website That Got Me Expelled (codeword.xyz)

639 points by Rudism on Sep 5, 2015 | 281 comments

21.

New human-like species discovered (bbc.co.uk)

635 points by m1k3r420 on Sep 10, 2015 | 211 comments

22.

Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web (ipfs.io)

632 points by stesch on Sep 8, 2015 | 235 comments

23.

Show HN: %%30%30: A Game (github.com)

608 points by szhu on Sep 20, 2015 | 89 comments

24.

The Case of Richard Glossip (pg.posthaven.com)

595 points by david_shaw on Sep 28, 2015 | 223 comments

25.

Amazon Flex (flex.amazon.com)

593 points by adrow on Sep 29, 2015 | 461 comments

26.

Stripe: Open Source (stripe.com)

581 points by benjamindc on Sep 3, 2015 | 64 comments

27.

Show HN: Hacker News Simulator (news.ycombniator.com)

572 points by orf on Sep 20, 2015 | 163 comments

28.

Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss (medium.com)

561 points by orf on Sep 18, 2015 | 414 comments

29.

Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money (qz.com)

553 points by jmngomes on Sep 1, 2015 | 300 comments

30.

37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned (flyertalk.com)

552 points by rplnt on Sep 14, 2015 | 230 comments