HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

Russia’s Duma approved some of the most repressive laws in post-Soviet history (meduza.io)

71 points by walterbell on Jul 7, 2016 | 60 comments

1292.

Wal-Mart Proves Open Source Is Big Business (forbes.com)

71 points by kungfudoi on Jul 27, 2016 | 33 comments

1293.

Vik Muniz Painstakingly Reconstructs the Backs of Famous Paintings (hyperallergic.com)

71 points by prismatic on Jul 30, 2016 | 16 comments

1294.

Chronix: A fast and efficient time series storage (chronix.io)

71 points by based2 on Jul 1, 2016 | 13 comments

1295.

China puts final touches to world's largest telescope (aljazeera.com)

71 points by yexponential on Jul 3, 2016 | 12 comments

1296.

Data-Oriented Design (dataorienteddesign.com)

71 points by indatawetrust on Jul 26, 2016 | 5 comments

1297.

Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) (vintagecomputing.com)

70 points by erickhill on Jul 19, 2016 | 60 comments

1298.

KeyBox: Web-Based SSH Access and Key Management (github.com)

70 points by crunk on Jul 6, 2016 | 49 comments

1299.

What are your rabbit holes on the internet? (For instance, HN one we all share)

70 points by textread on Jul 19, 2016 | 46 comments

1300.

Ask HN: Improve C language skills after K&R?

70 points by SoftwarePatent on Jul 28, 2016 | 39 comments

1301.

Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3B to create a security software giant (venturebeat.com)

70 points by davidiach on Jul 7, 2016 | 34 comments

1302.

WebGL Julia Set (jonathan-potter.github.io)

70 points by roombarampage on Jul 19, 2016 | 22 comments

1303.

State-Space of Drug Effects (qualiacomputing.com)

70 points by gwern on Jul 12, 2016 | 17 comments

1304.

Restoring an unusual vintage clock display (tinkerings.org)

70 points by mmastrac on Jul 30, 2016 | 14 comments

1305.

Neurons Gone Wild (meltingasphalt.com)

70 points by colinprince on Jul 6, 2016 | 4 comments

1306.

Linux USB charging, part 2: implementation (lwn.net)

70 points by sohkamyung on Jul 25, 2016 | 3 comments

1307.

The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser (2015) (torproject.org)

70 points by indolering on Jul 5, 2016 | 0 comments

1308.

Show HN: Orgalorg – modern parallel SSH, file sync and cluster maintenance tool (github.com)

70 points by seletskiy on Jul 25, 2016 | 0 comments

1309.

Why Angular 2 Switched to TypeScript (vsavkin.com)

69 points by Doolwind on Jul 24, 2016 | 111 comments

1310.

Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities (blogs.wsj.com)

69 points by jseliger on Jul 10, 2016 | 94 comments

1311.

Mathematical Notation Is Awful (blackhole12.blogspot.com)

69 points by blackhole on Jul 31, 2016 | 94 comments

1312.

Company town (en.wikipedia.org)

69 points by lelf on Jul 27, 2016 | 70 comments

1313.

FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case (abcnews.go.com)

69 points by jvrossb on Jul 5, 2016 | 57 comments

1314.

China's innovation economy a real estate bubble in disguise? (reuters.com)

69 points by T-A on Jul 7, 2016 | 49 comments

1315.

Bidding war with Salesforce drove up Microsoft’s LinkedIn bill (next.ft.com)

69 points by cm2187 on Jul 2, 2016 | 42 comments

1316.

The Renewed Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer: Avoiding ISA Bloat (eecs.berkeley.edu)

69 points by ingve on Jul 10, 2016 | 31 comments

1317.

Blockchains: Past, Present and Future [video] (youtube.com)

69 points by vram22 on Jul 23, 2016 | 28 comments

1318.

FBI recommends no charges against Hillary Clinton for personal email server use (theguardian.com)