HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15151.

Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class (economist.com)

62 points by luu on Nov 7, 2015 | 75 comments

15152.

Wikipedia is blacklisted in Russia (techcrunch.com)

62 points by marinintim on Aug 25, 2015 | 74 comments

15153.

Hollywood's toxic addiction to franchises (grantland.com)

62 points by applecore on Jan 2, 2015 | 73 comments

15154.

The infernal semicolon (2012) (brendaneich.com)

62 points by tilt on Mar 5, 2015 | 72 comments

15155.

Exercise alone doesn't make you lose weight (washingtonpost.com)

62 points by adamsi on May 17, 2015 | 71 comments

15156.

The Story of Oculus Rift (vanityfair.com)

62 points by jonbaer on Sep 8, 2015 | 71 comments

15157.

Extreme altruism: caring for strangers at the expense of family (theguardian.com)

62 points by aschearer on Sep 25, 2015 | 71 comments

15158.

Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die (crainsnewyork.com)

62 points by andrewl on Sep 11, 2015 | 70 comments

15159.

Clarification on “Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster” (percona.com)

62 points by crivabene on Sep 18, 2015 | 70 comments

15160.

The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete? (arstechnica.com)

62 points by nikbackm on Dec 28, 2015 | 69 comments

15161.

The dark future of American space exploration (vox.com)

62 points by mariusz79 on Feb 24, 2015 | 68 comments

15162.

Palantir raises $680M (uk.finance.yahoo.com)

62 points by bane on Dec 11, 2015 | 67 comments

15163.

NY Attorney General Tells Daily Fantasy Sports to Stop Taking Bets in the State (nytimes.com)

62 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 10, 2015 | 66 comments

15164.

Highly educated women no longer have fewer kids (voxeu.org)

62 points by vezzy-fnord on Dec 11, 2015 | 66 comments

15165.

What Happens to Home Prices When Technologists Come to Town (redfin.com)

62 points by hariis on Jun 19, 2015 | 64 comments

15166.

How I ended up working illegally in the UK (medium.com)

62 points by robin_reala on Aug 19, 2015 | 64 comments

15167.

Goodbye Google plus photos (plus.google.com)

62 points by msoad on Nov 16, 2015 | 64 comments

15168.

Making Sense of the New VAT Rules (rachelandrew.github.io)

62 points by AliCollins on Jan 29, 2015 | 62 comments

15169.

Japanese Suicide Apartments (tofugu.com)

62 points by jimsojim on Dec 12, 2015 | 62 comments

15170.

China’s Troubling Robot Revolution (nytimes.com)

62 points by adventured on Jun 11, 2015 | 61 comments

15171.

Julia's Arraypocalypse Release (github.com)

62 points by ViralBShah on Sep 27, 2015 | 61 comments

15172.

What Was the Scotch Whisky Boom? Part 1: Value vs. Volume (thekrav.blogspot.com)

62 points by omnibrain on Jan 7, 2015 | 60 comments

15173.

Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad (nytimes.com)

62 points by digisth on Mar 21, 2015 | 60 comments

15174.

Newly Risen from Yeast: THC (nytimes.com)

62 points by Hooke on Sep 14, 2015 | 59 comments

15175.

Investment Riches Built on Subprime Auto Loans to Poor (dealbook.nytimes.com)

62 points by yablak on Jan 27, 2015 | 56 comments

15176.

How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft (nytimes.com)

62 points by ojbyrne on Jan 30, 2015 | 54 comments

15177.

Treeline (YC W15) Wants to Take the Coding Out of Building a Back End (techcrunch.com)