HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

How Did People in the Colonial Period Stay Informed? (historynewsnetwork.org)

40 points by Thevet on May 7, 2016 | 12 comments

1952.

Visualising random variables (terrytao.wordpress.com)

40 points by baoyu on May 18, 2016 | 12 comments

1953.

State Department Fails to Vet or Monitor Military Aid to Egypt (theintercept.com)

40 points by 13375p33dp0573r on May 15, 2016 | 11 comments

1954.

The fall of Salon.com (politico.com)

40 points by morgante on May 28, 2016 | 11 comments

1955.

Elliptical Propeller (2009) (rexresearch.com)

40 points by Gravityloss on May 29, 2016 | 11 comments

1956.

Show HN: Tmuxp – Tmux session manager written in Python (github.com)

40 points by git-pull on May 28, 2016 | 9 comments

1957.

What happened to the inaugural class of travel startup Remote Year (atlasobscura.com)

40 points by aaronbrethorst on May 11, 2016 | 8 comments

1958.

Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable (collectorsweekly.com)

40 points by samclemens on May 14, 2016 | 8 comments

1959.

Linux 4.6: What's new and improved (zdnet.com)

40 points by CrankyBear on May 19, 2016 | 7 comments

1960.

Python in production engineering (code.facebook.com)

40 points by samber on May 27, 2016 | 5 comments

1961.

Collection Pipeline (2015) (martinfowler.com)

40 points by oskarth on May 18, 2016 | 4 comments

1962.

Nothing but the Truth (themarshallproject.org)

40 points by lermontov on May 25, 2016 | 4 comments

1963.

The Intercept is broadening access to Snowden archive (theintercept.com)

40 points by auza on May 17, 2016 | 3 comments

1964.

GNU Hurd 0.8, GNU Mach 1.7, GNU MIG 1.7 Released (gnu.org)

40 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 18, 2016 | 3 comments

1965.

Life with Crypto Backdoors: Stingrays, Government Surveillance and Crime (david.newgas.net)

40 points by aburan28 on May 2, 2016 | 2 comments

1966.

Grokking Algorithms Is Out (adit.io)

40 points by egonschiele on May 31, 2016 | 2 comments

1967.

Students at Fake University Say They Were Collateral Damage in Sting Operation (nytimes.com)

40 points by leephillips on May 5, 2016 | 0 comments

1968.

GitHub New Pricing: Unlimited Private Repositories (github.com)

40 points by natsu90 on May 11, 2016 | 0 comments

1969.

John McCarthy: Reminiscences on the Theory of Time-Sharing (1983) (jmc.stanford.edu)

40 points by danso on May 25, 2016 | 0 comments

1970.

The principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income (2015) (medium.com)

39 points by drawnalong on May 4, 2016 | 101 comments

1971.

How Much Is a Good Teacher Worth? (2011) (hanushek.stanford.edu)

39 points by tokenadult on May 11, 2016 | 62 comments

1972.

California Braces for Unending Drought (nytimes.com)

39 points by jstreebin on May 10, 2016 | 51 comments

1973.

Sign Up for Summer YC Open Office Hours (blog.ycombinator.com)

39 points by dwaxe on May 26, 2016 | 31 comments

1974.

Turing machines that should run forever (newscientist.com)

39 points by cab1729 on May 11, 2016 | 26 comments

1975.

How to Survive Doomsday (nautil.us)

39 points by dnetesn on May 9, 2016 | 21 comments

1976.

Klocka – Pi-powered remote doorbell (github.com)

39 points by Nullabillity on May 16, 2016 | 16 comments

1977.

On fonts and dyslexia (atrophiedmind.wordpress.com)

39 points by wallflower on May 31, 2016 | 15 comments

1978.

How 18F handles information security and third party applications (18f.gsa.gov)

39 points by gboone42 on May 13, 2016 | 14 comments

1979.

My nephew brought home a menacing maths problem (medium.com)

39 points by fjmubeen on May 15, 2016 | 14 comments

1980.

Ganges River: India's dying mother (bbc.co.uk)

39 points by blahedo on May 12, 2016 | 13 comments