HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1651.

Sun's galactic journey linked to mass extinctions (2013) (abc.net.au)

48 points by DrScump on Jul 2, 2016 | 20 comments

1652.

I Teach Seniors How to Use Technology (medium.com)

48 points by DinahDavis on Jul 18, 2016 | 19 comments

1653.

The Apple Goes Mushy Part II: OS X's Interface Decline (nicholaswindsorhoward.com)

48 points by j-kent on Jul 28, 2016 | 18 comments

1654.

Narbacular Drop Technical Design Document [pdf] (nuclearmonkeysoftware.com)

48 points by Rolpa on Jul 6, 2016 | 16 comments

1655.

A Twitter adaption of “Ulysses” reveals the secret of Bloomsday (theatlantic.com)

48 points by samclemens on Jul 16, 2016 | 10 comments

1656.

Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo (nature.com)

48 points by gwern on Jul 7, 2016 | 9 comments

1657.

Docker Built-In Orchestration Ready for Production: Docker 1.12 Goes GA (blog.docker.com)

48 points by samber on Jul 29, 2016 | 9 comments

1658.

ANZ Bank's security incident response tool open sourced (theregister.co.uk)

48 points by apapli on Jul 16, 2016 | 8 comments

1659.

Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer (2014) (spectrum.ieee.org)

48 points by rutenspitz on Jul 4, 2016 | 6 comments

1660.

SwiftKey app leaked users' email addresses and phone numbers to strangers (telegraph.co.uk)

48 points by JumpCrisscross on Jul 29, 2016 | 6 comments

1661.

FaRM: Fast Remote Memory (blog.carlosgaldino.com)

48 points by carlosgaldino on Jul 26, 2016 | 2 comments

1662.

The person(s) behind the mirror (josephkirwin.com)

48 points by CarolineW on Jul 30, 2016 | 2 comments

1663.

Making an Embedded DBMS JIT-Friendly (soft-dev.org)

48 points by vmorgulis on Jul 10, 2016 | 0 comments

1664.

Peter Thiel: Fake Culture Wars Only Distract Us from Our Economic Decline (realclearpolitics.com)

47 points by spking on Jul 22, 2016 | 91 comments

1665.

Meat Is Horrible (washingtonpost.com)

47 points by sethbannon on Jul 1, 2016 | 46 comments

1666.

Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI (theverge.com)

47 points by nzonbi on Jul 7, 2016 | 22 comments

1667.

Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk?

47 points by Fr0styMatt88 on Jul 29, 2016 | 22 comments

1668.

GM paid less for Cruise Automation than was reported (businessinsider.com)

47 points by argonaut on Jul 22, 2016 | 21 comments

1669.

Is It Safe To Assume 95%+ of Adtech Companies Are Full Of Shit? (2015) (reddit.com)

47 points by AnbeSivam on Jul 19, 2016 | 11 comments

1670.

The Mixologist: How Mike Will Made It (newyorker.com)

47 points by fitzwatermellow on Jul 7, 2016 | 10 comments

1671.

The history of R's predecessor, S, from co-creator Rick Becker [video] (blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

47 points by sndean on Jul 7, 2016 | 9 comments

1672.

Preserving the Sublime at One of the Darkest Places in America (vqronline.org)

47 points by sergeant3 on Jul 9, 2016 | 8 comments

1673.

Reverse engineering and exploitation of a Little Snitch vulnerability (sentinelone.com)

47 points by based2 on Jul 23, 2016 | 6 comments

1674.

Generating naming languages (mewo2.com)

47 points by mewo2 on Jul 29, 2016 | 4 comments

1675.

Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers (medium.com)

46 points by caente on Jul 19, 2016 | 108 comments

1676.

Twitter Just Permanently Suspended Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos (buzzfeed.com)

46 points by Jerry2 on Jul 20, 2016 | 92 comments

1677.

More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Widening (2015) (npr.org)

46 points by neverminder on Jul 17, 2016 | 82 comments

1678.

The end of sprawl (washingtonpost.com)

46 points by jseliger on Jul 30, 2016 | 82 comments

1679.

Ask HN: Typical work hours

46 points by chrisBob on Jul 19, 2016 | 66 comments

1680.

Peter Thiel's Heroic Political Fantasies (nytimes.com)

46 points by listentojohan on Jul 25, 2016 | 64 comments