HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6451.

Is democracy a failure? (1861) (nytimes.com)

167 points by siavosh on Nov 5, 2016 | 266 comments

6452.

Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films (openculture.com)

167 points by pmcpinto on Mar 16, 2016 | 219 comments

6453.

Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse (bloomberg.com)

167 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 24, 2016 | 215 comments

6454.

My search for a MacBook Pro alternative (medium.com)

167 points by gh1 on Dec 9, 2016 | 189 comments

6455.

Advanced Economies Must Still Make Things (spectrum.ieee.org)

167 points by craigjb on Apr 1, 2016 | 178 comments

6456.

Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO (bloomberg.com)

167 points by surement on Aug 16, 2016 | 174 comments

6457.

Bill Gates calls for terror data debate (bbc.com)

167 points by lentil_soup on Feb 23, 2016 | 154 comments

6458.

Getting ahead vs. doing well (sethgodin.typepad.com)

167 points by pmcpinto on Jan 10, 2016 | 146 comments

6459.

Berlin is now in a position to usurp London as the startup capital of Europe (geektime.com)

167 points by scarletknight on Jun 27, 2016 | 146 comments

6460.

Apple starts rejecting apps that use UIWebBrowserView (forum.ionicframework.com)

167 points by simplyinfinity on Mar 18, 2016 | 100 comments

6461.

Judge rejects Airbnb bid to halt San Francisco ordinance (reuters.com)

167 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 9, 2016 | 95 comments

6462.

Lessons from Doom (2010) (vectorpoem.com)

167 points by Kristine1975 on Jun 23, 2016 | 89 comments

6463.

A Raspberry Pi dashcam with two cameras and a GPS (pidashcam.blogspot.com)

167 points by aithoughts on Mar 27, 2016 | 85 comments

6464.

React.js Conf live stream [video] (youtube.com)

167 points by tilt on Feb 22, 2016 | 80 comments

6465.

China launches second trial space station (bbc.com)

167 points by RyanMcGreal on Sep 16, 2016 | 80 comments

6466.

At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance (nytimes.com)

167 points by kafkaesq on Jul 27, 2016 | 75 comments

6467.

The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man (atlasobscura.com)

167 points by Petiver on Dec 23, 2016 | 73 comments

6468.

First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs and Tools (android-developers.blogspot.com)

167 points by krat on Mar 9, 2016 | 72 comments

6469.

WebExtensions in Firefox 52 (blog.mozilla.org)

167 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 20, 2016 | 69 comments

6470.

Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World (hynek.me)

167 points by hynek on Jan 7, 2016 | 65 comments

6471.

A list of modern C++ features (github.com)

167 points by deepakkarki on Nov 14, 2016 | 65 comments

6472.

Angry Bots Demo (webassembly.org)

167 points by tilt on Nov 29, 2016 | 65 comments

6473.

OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing (open-lambda.org)

167 points by gfortaine on Aug 23, 2016 | 64 comments

6474.

Libreboot – A free BIOS or UEFI replacement (libreboot.org)

167 points by zerognowl on Oct 8, 2016 | 62 comments

6475.

Show HN: A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption (github.com)

167 points by mschultheiss on Jan 8, 2016 | 61 comments

6476.

Leonardo da Vinci's application letter (lettersofnote.com)

167 points by xvirk on Jan 27, 2016 | 61 comments

6477.

V8 Release 5.1 (v8project.blogspot.com)

167 points by kenOfYugen on Apr 23, 2016 | 56 comments

6478.

Cayley – An open-source graph database (github.com)

167 points by indatawetrust on Jun 13, 2016 | 56 comments

6479.

React in patterns (github.com)

167 points by rzky on Jul 26, 2016 | 51 comments

6480.

A Primer on Bézier Curves – B-Splines (pomax.github.io)

167 points by TheRealPomax on Sep 15, 2016 | 29 comments