HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Writing Software That Can Kill (blog.setec.io)

34 points by hlieberman on Feb 7, 2016 | 5 comments

1982.

Phoenix is Rails 5 (medium.com)

34 points by kemiller on Feb 8, 2016 | 5 comments

1983.

Defender of the Favicon (p01.org)

34 points by bootload on Feb 11, 2016 | 5 comments

1984.

An introduction to variable and feature selection [pdf] (jmlr.org)

34 points by sonabinu on Feb 16, 2016 | 5 comments

1985.

Popcorn Time Online (popcorntime-online.io)

34 points by tilt on Feb 10, 2016 | 3 comments

1986.

LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation (2014) (norvig.com)

34 points by duck on Feb 2, 2016 | 2 comments

1987.

Crowdsourced Mapping of North Korea (blogs.loc.gov)

34 points by Thevet on Feb 11, 2016 | 1 comments

1988.

Show HN: JavaScript port of Scientist library for refactoring critical paths (github.com)

34 points by ziyasal on Feb 18, 2016 | 1 comments

1989.

How Julian Assange Is Destroying WikiLeaks (nytimes.com)

33 points by bennettfeely on Feb 8, 2016 | 58 comments

1990.

British teenager suspected of being mystery hacker who stole CIA boss emails (telegraph.co.uk)

33 points by derFunk on Feb 13, 2016 | 54 comments

1991.

Yahoo to Say It's Exploring Strategic Alternatives (bloomberg.com)

33 points by Riod on Feb 2, 2016 | 53 comments

1992.

Ayn Rand Lamp (volcanophile.com)

33 points by jimsojim on Feb 20, 2016 | 51 comments

1993.

An Exhibition That Proves Video Games Can Be Art (nytimes.com)

33 points by wallflower on Feb 11, 2016 | 18 comments

1994.

Overnight, App for Booking Last-Minute Spaces with Local Hosts, Raises $2.5M (techcrunch.com)

33 points by romarv on Feb 25, 2016 | 17 comments

1995.

SFMTA publishes list of names with license plates (sfmta.com)

33 points by axoltl on Feb 22, 2016 | 16 comments

1996.

Ask HN: What's it like for software engineers on Wall Street?

33 points by aerovistae on Feb 17, 2016 | 14 comments

1997.

“In exchange for my honest and unbiased review” (google.com)

33 points by apsec112 on Feb 9, 2016 | 13 comments

1998.

Adobe Photoshop and 1700s Manuscripts: A New Approach to Digital Paleography (digitalhumanities.org)

33 points by benbreen on Feb 22, 2016 | 12 comments

1999.

Caffeine for Sale: The Hidden Trade of the World's Favorite Stimulant (npr.org)

33 points by nols on Feb 27, 2016 | 12 comments

2000.

The Superfluid Universe (aeon.co)

33 points by bootload on Feb 25, 2016 | 9 comments

2001.

How to write like a reporter from The Economist (economist.com)

33 points by squeakywheel on Feb 5, 2016 | 8 comments

2002.

How to win at Monopoly and piss off your friends (kottke.org)

33 points by iamchmod on Feb 9, 2016 | 8 comments

2003.

Senet: board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt (en.wikipedia.org)

33 points by based2 on Feb 14, 2016 | 5 comments

2004.

A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert (1989) (computerworld.com)

33 points by ingve on Feb 14, 2016 | 5 comments

2005.

What can we learn from our GitHub stars? (cockroachlabs.com)

33 points by taylorwc on Feb 17, 2016 | 2 comments

2006.

Why I killed my standing desk (medium.com)

32 points by fluxic on Feb 4, 2016 | 53 comments

2007.

Movebubble, an app that aims to make renting in London suck less, raises $1.6M (techcrunch.com)

32 points by romarv on Feb 15, 2016 | 48 comments

2008.

Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb (startupdaily.net)