HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5971.

Rust gets working asmjs and wasm targets (github.com)

177 points by wyldfire on Oct 1, 2016 | 19 comments

5972.

Technology in Hostile States: Ten Principles for User Protection (blog.torproject.org)

177 points by subliminalpanda on Dec 18, 2016 | 17 comments

5973.

Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent (qz.com)

176 points by allerhellsten on Oct 23, 2016 | 403 comments

5974.

YC set to launch one-year minimum income pilot project to figure out logistics (arstechnica.com)

176 points by Tomte on Jun 25, 2016 | 245 comments

5975.

IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise (computerworld.com)

176 points by okket on Sep 26, 2016 | 223 comments

5976.

SpoonRocket shuts down (techcrunch.com)

176 points by tomgallard on Mar 15, 2016 | 187 comments

5977.

There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com)

176 points by hvo on May 23, 2016 | 181 comments

5978.

The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (2010) (theguardian.com)

176 points by rublev on Aug 16, 2016 | 180 comments

5979.

The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments (medium.com)

176 points by douche on Nov 17, 2016 | 178 comments

5980.

Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit (techcrunch.com)

176 points by arbuge on Feb 4, 2016 | 160 comments

5981.

The Metaprogrammer (codersnotes.com)

176 points by ingve on Sep 7, 2016 | 157 comments

5982.

IBM’s 24-core Power9 chip (nextplatform.com)

176 points by ajdlinux on Aug 24, 2016 | 154 comments

5983.

Sydney's fun police have put out the light of the nightlife (theguardian.com)

176 points by nness on Feb 6, 2016 | 152 comments

5984.

Google Pixel C Review (anandtech.com)

176 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2016 | 149 comments

5985.

Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth (sfgate.com)

176 points by timr on Apr 16, 2016 | 130 comments

5986.

Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots) (blog.jetbrains.com)

176 points by andrey_cheptsov on Mar 4, 2016 | 110 comments

5987.

Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’ (techcrunch.com)

176 points by eth0up on Nov 29, 2016 | 109 comments

5988.

Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own (annals.org)

176 points by soneca on Dec 15, 2016 | 104 comments

5989.

Maybe Blockchain Really Does Have Magical Powers (bloomberg.com)

176 points by elaineo on Sep 2, 2016 | 98 comments

5990.

The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer [pdf] (arxiv.org)

176 points by tkuhn on May 10, 2016 | 91 comments

5991.

Pinker: “News is a misleading way to understand the world” (vox.com)

176 points by jseliger on Aug 16, 2016 | 87 comments

5992.

Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers (theregister.co.uk)

176 points by aburan28 on Sep 19, 2016 | 87 comments

5993.

Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh' (itunes.apple.com)

176 points by abhagi on May 12, 2016 | 86 comments

5994.

From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story (arstechnica.com)

176 points by nols on Jun 24, 2016 | 80 comments

5995.

Wine 2.0 RC1 Released (winehq.org)

176 points by satuim on Dec 10, 2016 | 77 comments

5996.

Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003) (mini-itx.com)

176 points by PascLeRasc on Feb 1, 2016 | 68 comments

5997.

Superformula (en.wikipedia.org)

176 points by GuiA on Jul 21, 2016 | 65 comments

5998.

Why Wait? the Science Behind Procrastination (psychologicalscience.org)

176 points by rfreytag on Apr 21, 2016 | 63 comments

5999.

Show HN: I created a Github profile widget (learning to code) (github.com)

176 points by thewriter on Jul 26, 2016 | 62 comments

6000.

Web Scraping to Create Open Data (blog.scrapinghub.com)

176 points by stummjr on Mar 30, 2016 | 55 comments