HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (2004) (members.shaw.ca)

87 points by galfarragem on Mar 20, 2016 | 62 comments

1202.

Microsoft meets with private equity over Yahoo deal (reuters.com)

87 points by surement on Mar 28, 2016 | 61 comments

1203.

How Do You Say “Life” in Physics? (nautil.us)

87 points by dnetesn on Mar 22, 2016 | 49 comments

1204.

Performance and Usage at Instagram (engineering.instagram.com)

87 points by cgredona on Mar 4, 2016 | 29 comments

1205.

With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens (mantlethought.org)

87 points by samclemens on Mar 26, 2016 | 26 comments

1206.

Using Spark and Zeppelin to Process Big Data on Kubernetes 1.2 (blog.kubernetes.io)

87 points by TheIronYuppie on Mar 30, 2016 | 22 comments

1207.

From side project to 250M daily requests (medium.com)

87 points by coderholic on Mar 29, 2016 | 15 comments

1208.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Inference – The Metropolis Algorithm (quantstart.com)

87 points by shogunmike on Mar 24, 2016 | 9 comments

1209.

How Anxious Reappraisal Can Help Turn Anxiety into Productivity (theatlantic.com)

87 points by ingve on Mar 23, 2016 | 6 comments

1210.

Water extraction on Mars for an expanding human colony (fermatslibrary.com)

86 points by micaeloliveira on Mar 15, 2016 | 90 comments

1211.

Move Fast without Breaking Things (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

86 points by devy on Mar 28, 2016 | 63 comments

1212.

Show HN: Papier – Open a new tab and trap your best thoughts (getpapier.com)

86 points by calyhre on Mar 8, 2016 | 50 comments

1213.

Unicorn Logo Evolution (logoevolve.com)

86 points by JavaScriptrr on Mar 23, 2016 | 44 comments

1214.

Kik, left-pad, and npm (blog.npmjs.org)

86 points by mattei on Mar 24, 2016 | 27 comments

1215.

The SaaS Startup Founder’s Guide (startups.salesforce.com)

86 points by vyrotek on Mar 1, 2016 | 26 comments

1216.

GNU complexity 1.5 (lists.gnu.org)

86 points by lelf on Mar 2, 2016 | 25 comments

1217.

Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search (github.com)

86 points by trentmc on Mar 9, 2016 | 10 comments

1218.

Why Gold? (kevinlawler.com)

85 points by kcl on Mar 11, 2016 | 132 comments

1219.

Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot (reuters.com)

85 points by kevindeasis on Mar 11, 2016 | 88 comments

1220.

Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks (backchannel.com)

85 points by coloneltcb on Mar 23, 2016 | 81 comments

1221.

On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers (prog21.dadgum.com)

85 points by _isus on Mar 8, 2016 | 76 comments

1222.

Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers (blog.ycombinator.com)

85 points by liseman on Mar 14, 2016 | 55 comments

1223.

Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest (blogs.wsj.com)

85 points by sonabinu on Mar 4, 2016 | 48 comments

1224.

Georgette Packaging (YC W16) Makes Custom Branded Boxes and Cups for Bakeries (blog.ycombinator.com)

85 points by katm on Mar 14, 2016 | 47 comments

1225.

Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers (nature.com)

85 points by Amorymeltzer on Mar 14, 2016 | 37 comments

1226.

Chamath Palihapitiya says most of the things VCs have funded are "mostly crap" (vanityfair.com)

85 points by jackgavigan on Mar 28, 2016 | 36 comments

1227.

C++14: floats, bits, and constant expressions (brnz.org)

85 points by ingve on Mar 27, 2016 | 25 comments

1228.

Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization (blog.sigopt.com)

85 points by Zephyr314 on Mar 11, 2016 | 21 comments

1229.

Colonels of Truth (damninteresting.com)

85 points by ca98am79 on Mar 25, 2016 | 20 comments

1230.

An OCaml/Mirage-friendly implementation of the Plan9 filesystem protocol (github.com)

85 points by luu on Mar 5, 2016 | 11 comments