HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7561.

Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level (wsj.com)

149 points by jwblackwell on Apr 26, 2016 | 199 comments

7562.

The Shame of Palo Alto: An Interview with Kate Downing on Affordable Housing (stanfordpolitics.com)

149 points by jseliger on Aug 15, 2016 | 199 comments

7563.

Amazon Hires Homeless Workers, and Everyone Ends Up Disappointed (kuow.org)

149 points by deegles on Jan 21, 2016 | 192 comments

7564.

Ask HN: Restarting the YC Podcast – who would be most interesting to listen to?

149 points by craigcannon on Nov 16, 2016 | 180 comments

7565.

GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon (thehftguy.com)

149 points by mikecarlton on Dec 26, 2016 | 169 comments

7566.

What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population (ramiro.org)

149 points by gkst on Apr 11, 2016 | 158 comments

7567.

Why would you learn C++ in 2016? (itscompiling.eu)

149 points by ingve on Apr 12, 2016 | 154 comments

7568.

More microbursts are coming (bloomberg.com)

149 points by shawndumas on Jul 31, 2016 | 144 comments

7569.

What does a kilowatt hour look like? (blog.kubakuzma.com)

149 points by qoobaa on Sep 22, 2016 | 139 comments

7570.

Xterm(1) now UTF-8 by default on OpenBSD (undeadly.org)

149 points by protomyth on Mar 8, 2016 | 137 comments

7571.

JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference (openjdk.java.net)

149 points by azth on Mar 10, 2016 | 131 comments

7572.

Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority (fork.ethstats.net)

149 points by onestone on Jul 20, 2016 | 131 comments

7573.

Death by GPS (arstechnica.com)

149 points by bookmtn on May 8, 2016 | 129 comments

7574.

Dead Man's Switch (deadmansswitch.net)

149 points by niklasbuschmann on Oct 3, 2016 | 127 comments

7575.

Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language (fare.tunes.org)

149 points by wtbob on Mar 26, 2016 | 125 comments

7576.

U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem (reason.com)

149 points by ascertain on Dec 30, 2016 | 120 comments

7577.

“Ultrasonic cross-device tracking” embeds inaudible tones in advertisements (arstechnica.com)

149 points by Tomte on Nov 4, 2016 | 117 comments

7578.

What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed (themarshallproject.org)

149 points by samclemens on Apr 1, 2016 | 112 comments

7579.

Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive (bloomberg.com)

149 points by justinv on Jun 2, 2016 | 108 comments

7580.

IRS Requests Bitcoin Buyer Records in Broad Tax Evasion Case (fortune.com)

149 points by aaronhoffman on Nov 21, 2016 | 108 comments

7581.

How a 4-Pound Engine Can Replace a 40-Pound Engine (popularmechanics.com)

149 points by ytNumbers on Jun 15, 2016 | 107 comments

7582.

Ask HN: Why is there a black bar added on top?

149 points by t3ra on Mar 22, 2016 | 103 comments

7583.

The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C (recode.net)

149 points by prostoalex on Jan 21, 2016 | 101 comments

7584.

Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language (luna-lang.org)

149 points by zby on Feb 21, 2016 | 100 comments

7585.

Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup (desertsun.com)

149 points by galori on Jun 11, 2016 | 100 comments

7586.

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning (scientificamerican.com)

149 points by doppp on Sep 8, 2016 | 95 comments

7587.

Ask HN: Which areas of math are practical to programming/algorithms and why?

149 points by zerotosixty on Sep 21, 2016 | 95 comments

7588.

German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (reuters.com)