HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

What a PhD Really Means in the US National Security Community (news.vice.com)

120 points by bootload on Jan 27, 2016 | 72 comments

722.

Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence (bloomberg.com)

120 points by JohnHammersley on Jan 1, 2016 | 66 comments

723.

U.S. blocks Philips' $3.3B sale of Lumileds to Asian buyers (reuters.com)

120 points by nkurz on Jan 23, 2016 | 64 comments

724.

NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google (nexedi.com)

120 points by frequent on Jan 29, 2016 | 49 comments

725.

First Nation's clay kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria in lab tests (cbc.ca)

120 points by walterbell on Jan 27, 2016 | 48 comments

726.

How Following Others Will Leave You Broke (calmscience.net)

120 points by dennisgorelik on Jan 28, 2016 | 47 comments

727.

How to Name Clojure Functions (stuartsierra.com)

120 points by henrik_w on Jan 10, 2016 | 34 comments

728.

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process (themacro.com)

120 points by ctdean on Jan 23, 2016 | 34 comments

729.

Ford says it conducted successful tests of driverless cars in snowy conditions (bbc.com)

119 points by Futurebot on Jan 11, 2016 | 138 comments

730.

Yahoo planning 10% layoffs as early as this month, report says (bizjournals.com)

119 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 8, 2016 | 131 comments

731.

The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over (prog21.dadgum.com)

119 points by panic on Jan 1, 2016 | 87 comments

732.

Unix History Repository (github.com)

119 points by brudgers on Jan 29, 2016 | 14 comments

733.

Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet? (webappsec-test.info)

118 points by yeukhon on Jan 18, 2016 | 123 comments

734.

Feds Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES (bloomberg.com)

118 points by ted0 on Jan 8, 2016 | 113 comments

735.

Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming (2015) (crufter.com)

118 points by kenshiro_o on Jan 6, 2016 | 100 comments

736.

“My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also” (twitter.com)

118 points by aburan28 on Jan 9, 2016 | 84 comments

737.

Time’s Almost Reversible Arrow (quantamagazine.org)

118 points by alberto_ol on Jan 8, 2016 | 78 comments

738.

Paul Allen's yacht destroyed 14,000 sq.ft of reef in the West Bay Caymans (caymannewsservice.com)

118 points by Jerry2 on Jan 27, 2016 | 70 comments

739.

Microchip Technology to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6B (nytimes.com)

118 points by mkeeter on Jan 21, 2016 | 61 comments

740.

VR First by Crytek (vrfirst.cryengine.com)

118 points by lentil_soup on Jan 19, 2016 | 59 comments

741.

Be your own video hoster with Docker and Nginx (datarhei.github.io)

118 points by betablocker on Jan 9, 2016 | 30 comments

742.

100 Days of Swift (samvlu.com)

118 points by awaxman11 on Jan 4, 2016 | 23 comments

743.

Japan Must Let Zombie Companies Die (bloombergview.com)

117 points by tmlee on Jan 25, 2016 | 104 comments

744.

Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia (bloomberg.com)

117 points by rmxt on Jan 6, 2016 | 103 comments

745.

Show HN: CMS.js – Fully Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator (cdmedia.github.io)

117 points by inflam52 on Jan 18, 2016 | 94 comments

746.

You can't trust Amazon Underground (discours.es)

117 points by dajbelshaw on Jan 4, 2016 | 84 comments

747.

Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 (blogs.oracle.com)

117 points by nikanj on Jan 27, 2016 | 68 comments

748.

Headphone and Amp Impedance (2011) (nwavguy.blogspot.com)

117 points by pmoriarty on Jan 23, 2016 | 57 comments

749.

Babylonians Were Using Geometry Centuries Earlier Than Thought (smithsonianmag.com)

117 points by anigbrowl on Jan 29, 2016 | 21 comments

750.

Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize floating point error (github.com)

117 points by santaclaus on Jan 24, 2016 | 19 comments