HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5791.

A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point (fastcompany.com)

180 points by markdown on Sep 1, 2016 | 175 comments

5792.

Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm' (github.com)

180 points by dogecoinbase on Jan 29, 2016 | 173 comments

5793.

A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie (blog.feabhas.com)

180 points by ingve on Dec 22, 2016 | 172 comments

5794.

A brief update (mattcutts.com)

180 points by rbinv on Jun 18, 2016 | 169 comments

5795.

Peter Doig sued for disavowing 40-year-old painting (nytimes.com)

180 points by dctoedt on Jul 7, 2016 | 142 comments

5796.

Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) (phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)

180 points by rfreytag on Aug 4, 2016 | 130 comments

5797.

Sherpa: They Die, We Go Home (kristof.blogs.nytimes.com)

180 points by jstreebin on Mar 28, 2016 | 121 comments

5798.

The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant citing public outcry (washingtonpost.com)

180 points by mrfusion on Oct 14, 2016 | 120 comments

5799.

Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security risk (blog.win-fu.com)

180 points by rewrew on Nov 29, 2016 | 119 comments

5800.

Software Development at 1 Hz (medium.com)

180 points by akkartik on Sep 25, 2016 | 118 comments

5801.

Who Pays for the Decentralized Web? (tierion.com)

180 points by nsrediron on Oct 16, 2016 | 98 comments

5802.

The End of the General Purpose Operating System (morethanseven.net)

180 points by grey-area on Nov 5, 2016 | 97 comments

5803.

Go upgrade Xcode. Fix your Git security hole (rachelbythebay.com)

180 points by hepha1979 on May 6, 2016 | 89 comments

5804.

Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go (allegro.tech)

180 points by janisz on Mar 30, 2016 | 88 comments

5805.

Aristotle, “On Trolling” (journals.cambridge.org)

180 points by diodorus on May 9, 2016 | 84 comments

5806.

Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification (hnchat.com)

180 points by zaytoun on Sep 5, 2016 | 80 comments

5807.

Time Series, the new shiny? (basho.com)

180 points by iamd3vil on May 10, 2016 | 76 comments

5808.

Safe Retirement Spending Using TensorFlow (blog.streeteye.com)

180 points by RockyMcNuts on Aug 31, 2016 | 76 comments

5809.

The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs (theawl.com)

180 points by samclemens on Jul 12, 2016 | 73 comments

5810.

Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory? (bbc.com)

180 points by logikblok on Nov 20, 2016 | 73 comments

5811.

Apache Traffic Server (trafficserver.apache.org)

180 points by nikolay on Jan 27, 2016 | 71 comments

5812.

Show HN: Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design (demos.creative-tim.com)

180 points by axelut on Jul 15, 2016 | 69 comments

5813.

Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot (m.aviationweek.com)

180 points by jakarta on Sep 14, 2016 | 69 comments

5814.

Data is a Toxic Asset (schneier.com)

180 points by interweb on Mar 12, 2016 | 65 comments

5815.

Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar [video] (youtube.com)

180 points by madmax108 on Nov 21, 2016 | 64 comments

5816.

Burned house horizon (en.wikipedia.org)

180 points by curtis on Dec 7, 2016 | 62 comments

5817.

Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Love Debugging) (redsymbol.net)

180 points by gkst on Mar 18, 2016 | 57 comments

5818.

Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go (blog.chewxy.com)