HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Inside the world of longsword fighting (nytimes.com)

267 points by benbreen on Jan 26, 2015 | 167 comments

1982.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today (fanfiction.net)

267 points by Eliezer on Mar 14, 2015 | 164 comments

1983.

The sad state of web app deployment (eev.ee)

267 points by cespare on Sep 18, 2015 | 160 comments

1984.

Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated (bbc.com)

267 points by d_a_robson on Mar 24, 2015 | 152 comments

1985.

FastMail under DDoS Attack (blog.fastmail.com)

267 points by aroman on Nov 11, 2015 | 129 comments

1986.

GiveDirectly Gives Poor People a Year's Income (huffingtonpost.com)

267 points by bcx on Jun 5, 2015 | 128 comments

1987.

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (blogs.msdn.com)

267 points by mousetraps on Mar 25, 2015 | 123 comments

1988.

Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor (undeadly.org)

267 points by saghul on Jul 8, 2015 | 117 comments

1989.

LLVM merges SafeStack (github.com)

267 points by theraven on Jun 26, 2015 | 79 comments

1990.

Docker containers on the desktop (blog.jessfraz.com)

267 points by julien421 on Feb 21, 2015 | 74 comments

1991.

Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture (ryanclark.me)

267 points by wayfarer2s on Feb 23, 2015 | 73 comments

1992.

HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet (blog.cloudflare.com)

267 points by akerl_ on Dec 3, 2015 | 69 comments

1993.

Counting Objects (githubengineering.com)

267 points by jssjr on Sep 22, 2015 | 37 comments

1994.

Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds (techcrunch.com)

266 points by arturogarrido on Jul 17, 2015 | 286 comments

1995.

The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam (theguardian.com)

266 points by oska on Dec 17, 2015 | 173 comments

1996.

Elixir v1.1.0 Released (github.com)

266 points by sadiqmmm on Sep 25, 2015 | 138 comments

1997.

Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator (ycgiftideas.com)

266 points by t-3-k on Dec 17, 2015 | 132 comments

1998.

Typedrummer (typedrummer.com)

266 points by moritzplassnig on May 10, 2015 | 126 comments

1999.

How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about (washingtonpost.com)

266 points by bontoJR on Jun 20, 2015 | 126 comments

2000.

Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?

266 points by dutchbrit on Aug 9, 2015 | 122 comments

2001.

Happy Birthday Monkey Island (grumpygamer.com)

266 points by alblue on Sep 4, 2015 | 119 comments

2002.

NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (1996) (marc.info)

266 points by joshavant on Mar 26, 2015 | 85 comments

2003.

CodePush by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)

266 points by onra87 on Nov 5, 2015 | 82 comments

2004.

Handwriting Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks (cs.toronto.edu)

266 points by cjdulberger on Jul 22, 2015 | 80 comments

2005.

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web (arstechnica.com)

266 points by akrymski on Feb 4, 2015 | 78 comments

2006.

Tell HN: Entrepreneurs, make sure you are getting guaranteed wins in life

266 points by hoodoof on Jun 26, 2015 | 78 comments

2007.

Projects and Companies (blog.samaltman.com)

266 points by runesoerensen on Aug 12, 2015 | 48 comments

2008.

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car (medium.com)

265 points by steven on May 11, 2015 | 279 comments

2009.

Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies (theverge.com)

265 points by lukashed on Feb 11, 2015 | 200 comments

2010.

You're Eight Times More Likely to Be Killed by a Police Officer Than a Terrorist (cato.org)

265 points by cryoshon on Oct 29, 2015 | 190 comments