HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Why Your Next iPhone Won't Be Ceramic (atomicdelights.com)

307 points by colinprince on Oct 17, 2016 | 154 comments

242.

Decades-Old Mystery Put to Rest: Why Are There X's in the Desert? (npr.org)

307 points by aaron987 on Oct 12, 2016 | 78 comments

243.

Vim for Humans (vimebook.com)

306 points by 0x54MUR41 on Oct 17, 2016 | 240 comments

244.

CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP (timkadlec.com)

306 points by Yennick on Oct 25, 2016 | 93 comments

245.

I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me (bbc.com)

305 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 20, 2016 | 246 comments

246.

Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001) (nytimes.com)

305 points by daschaefer on Oct 24, 2016 | 234 comments

247.

Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users (security.googleblog.com)

305 points by nnx on Oct 31, 2016 | 179 comments

248.

Introduction to Cyber Security (cybersecuritybase.github.io)

305 points by nygrenh on Oct 25, 2016 | 40 comments

249.

Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions (wildml.com)

305 points by dennybritz on Oct 2, 2016 | 21 comments

250.

Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation (washingtonpost.com)

304 points by zonotope on Oct 1, 2016 | 150 comments

251.

“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present” (nytimes.com)

304 points by hypertexthero on Oct 17, 2016 | 138 comments

252.

Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks (turkeyblocks.org)

304 points by purak on Oct 9, 2016 | 98 comments

253.

RethinkDB needs a new home (docs.google.com)

302 points by chrisabrams on Oct 7, 2016 | 97 comments

254.

Show HN: Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit (liquidti.me)

301 points by maxkrieger on Oct 25, 2016 | 86 comments

255.

Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line (i.got.nothing.to)

301 points by guyzmo on Oct 10, 2016 | 69 comments

256.

Elon Musk SpaceX AMA (reddit.com)

299 points by baq on Oct 23, 2016 | 92 comments

257.

Why does software development take so long? (blog.sesse.net)

296 points by cheiVia0 on Oct 26, 2016 | 268 comments

258.

ACLU exposes Facebook, Twitter for selling surveillance company user data (arstechnica.com)

296 points by AdmiralAsshat on Oct 11, 2016 | 63 comments

259.

How to Build Muscle (julian.com)

295 points by julianshapiro on Oct 1, 2016 | 191 comments

260.

The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer (marketmeditations.com)

295 points by _chu on Oct 31, 2016 | 65 comments

261.

Why kernel development still uses email (lwn.net)

294 points by dankohn1 on Oct 2, 2016 | 148 comments

262.

Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud (stripe.com)

293 points by sinak on Oct 19, 2016 | 113 comments

263.

The cost of forsaking C (medium.com)

292 points by Halienja on Oct 5, 2016 | 372 comments

264.

Intel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security (techcrunch.com)

292 points by eth0up on Oct 29, 2016 | 134 comments

265.

Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned? (discuss.horizon.io)

292 points by jamon51 on Oct 5, 2016 | 76 comments

266.

The McMansion Scale, Explained (mcmansionhell.com)

291 points by OrwellianChild on Oct 20, 2016 | 269 comments

267.

Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV (vincent.jousse.org)

291 points by tbassetto on Oct 16, 2016 | 76 comments

268.

Memory FAQ (nommu.org)

291 points by mbel on Oct 10, 2016 | 29 comments

269.

Disappearing messages for Signal (whispersystems.org)

290 points by iddqd on Oct 11, 2016 | 180 comments

270.

Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died (nytimes.com)

290 points by sew on Oct 18, 2016 | 29 comments