HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1861.

Oculus Rift exclusivity protection leads to a VR piracy arms race (arstechnica.co.uk)

44 points by parenthephobia on May 23, 2016 | 64 comments

1862.

SQL vs. NoSQL Databases: What’s the Difference? (upwork.com)

44 points by rockdiesel on May 12, 2016 | 58 comments

1863.

Flux Electric Mopeds (fluxmopeds.com)

44 points by fisherjeff on May 12, 2016 | 45 comments

1864.

Introducing the HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution (h20435.www2.hp.com)

44 points by protomyth on May 17, 2016 | 36 comments

1865.

Flippaper – draw your own pinball game on paper (sewergadget.tumblr.com)

44 points by bane on May 27, 2016 | 27 comments

1866.

Looking into the eyes of failure (mentalhealthinstartups.com)

44 points by jd_routledge on May 23, 2016 | 24 comments

1867.

Terrapattern: a visual search tool for satellite imagery (terrapattern.com)

44 points by bufo on May 25, 2016 | 21 comments

1868.

Stanza: a new optionally-typed general-purpose programming language (lbstanza.org)

44 points by trishume on May 18, 2016 | 20 comments

1869.

Fidelity, in Reversal, Raises Value of Many Tech Startups (wsj.com)

44 points by prostoalex on May 3, 2016 | 18 comments

1870.

Ask HN: Generate random traffic for metadata obfuscation?

44 points by fratlas on May 31, 2016 | 18 comments

1871.

Deploying Elasticsearch on a 150 node cluster to index 10B documents (spinn3r.com)

44 points by burtonator on May 23, 2016 | 17 comments

1872.

Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard (computerhistory.org)

44 points by ingve on May 19, 2016 | 16 comments

1873.

That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification (2011) [pdf] (aclweb.org)

44 points by cmmn_nighthawk on May 29, 2016 | 15 comments

1874.

Elon Musk is doing for executive compensation what he did for electric cars (marketwatch.com)

44 points by lavamantis on May 8, 2016 | 9 comments

1875.

Memory Barriers: A Hardware View for Software Hackers (2010) [pdf] (rdrop.com)

44 points by Tomte on May 12, 2016 | 9 comments

1876.

Stories from Radium Age sci-fi, which ruled the early 20th century (arstechnica.com)

44 points by okket on May 31, 2016 | 7 comments

1877.

Inside card sorters: 1920s data processing, relay logic and linear time sorting (righto.com)

44 points by kens on May 1, 2016 | 6 comments

1878.

Creating Objective-C and C++ Packages Using Swift Package Manager (ankit.im)

44 points by aciid on May 22, 2016 | 6 comments

1879.

OmniDB: An Open Source Web Tool for Database Management and Conversion (github.com)

44 points by wind39 on May 5, 2016 | 5 comments

1880.

Why do so many people hate US airports? (2015) (bbc.com)

43 points by otoolep on May 19, 2016 | 85 comments

1881.

Linguistic purism in English (en.wikipedia.org)

43 points by colinprince on May 17, 2016 | 55 comments

1882.

An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories (smithsonianmag.com)

43 points by samclemens on May 26, 2016 | 51 comments

1883.

Tesla Tests Self-Driving Functions with Secret Updates to Its Customers’ Cars (technologyreview.com)

43 points by prostoalex on May 25, 2016 | 50 comments

1884.

Australia’s Offshore Cruelty (nytimes.com)

43 points by jamesk_au on May 24, 2016 | 36 comments

1885.

Literate programming: Two beefs with the classic version (2014) (akkartik.name)

43 points by kiyanwang on May 14, 2016 | 33 comments

1886.

The Future of Reproduction Is Mind-Boggling (newstatesman.com)

43 points by Hooke on May 15, 2016 | 33 comments

1887.

Your project's RCS history affects ease of contribution (or: don't squash PRs) (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

43 points by JoshTriplett on May 20, 2016 | 28 comments

1888.

Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks (arxiv.org)