HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

22771.

“How old is the shepherd?” – The problem that shook school mathematics (medium.com)

40 points by fjmubeen on Oct 16, 2016 | 9 comments

22772.

What does Unsplash cost to run? (crew.co)

40 points by prawn on Nov 7, 2016 | 9 comments

22773.

What happened to the inaugural class of travel startup Remote Year (atlasobscura.com)

40 points by aaronbrethorst on May 11, 2016 | 8 comments

22774.

Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable (collectorsweekly.com)

40 points by samclemens on May 14, 2016 | 8 comments

22775.

CIA spies on Senate (theguardian.com)

40 points by altrus on Sep 10, 2016 | 8 comments

22776.

Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster (en.wikipedia.org)

40 points by dedalus on Oct 16, 2016 | 8 comments

22777.

Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting (2015) [pdf] (icir.org)

40 points by hartem_ on Dec 27, 2016 | 8 comments

22778.

Bruce Schneier: We're sleepwalking to digital disaster we're too dumb to stop (theregister.co.uk)

40 points by munkiepus on Mar 3, 2016 | 7 comments

22779.

Linux 4.6: What's new and improved (zdnet.com)

40 points by CrankyBear on May 19, 2016 | 7 comments

22780.

Google's DeepMind to peek at NHS eye scans for disease analysis (bbc.co.uk)

40 points by jsingleton on Jul 5, 2016 | 7 comments

22781.

A one-dimensional transistor (kurzweilai.net)

40 points by jonbaer on Jul 20, 2016 | 7 comments

22782.

Playing for Data: Ground Truth from Computer Games (download.visinf.tu-darmstadt.de)

40 points by L_ on Aug 4, 2016 | 7 comments

22783.

Caren and the Tangled Tentacles: A Point-And-click Adventure Game for the C64 (martinwendt.de)

40 points by doener on Mar 17, 2016 | 6 comments

22784.

Co.cycles – Search Engine for Open Source Code (cocycles.com)

40 points by dekhtiar on Mar 23, 2016 | 6 comments

22785.

Italian banking is the next shoe to drop (marginalrevolution.com)

40 points by jseliger on Jul 6, 2016 | 6 comments

22786.

Hummingbird: Mobile-friendly, responsive live chat (olark.com)

40 points by bcx on Jul 12, 2016 | 6 comments

22787.

Life “not as we know it” might be possible on Titan (sciencealert.com)

40 points by weatherlight on Sep 24, 2016 | 6 comments

22788.

The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time (pitchfork.com)

40 points by severine on Sep 26, 2016 | 6 comments

22789.

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control (queue.acm.org)

40 points by alanfranzoni on Dec 2, 2016 | 6 comments

22790.

How Stories Deceive (newyorker.com)

40 points by jseliger on Jan 2, 2016 | 5 comments

22791.

2016 will be the year of conversational commerce (medium.com)

40 points by PVS-Studio on Jan 25, 2016 | 5 comments

22792.

Tutorial of Nulan – Lisp with Pattern Matching, Hygienic Macros and More (pauan.github.io)

40 points by vmorgulis on Feb 14, 2016 | 5 comments

22793.

Time has come for Zynga to sell the farmville (blogs.reuters.com)

40 points by e15ctr0n on Mar 6, 2016 | 5 comments

22794.

Don’t do the wrong thing better (diginomica.com)

40 points by ohjeez on Apr 19, 2016 | 5 comments

22795.

Python in production engineering (code.facebook.com)

40 points by samber on May 27, 2016 | 5 comments

22796.

Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory (quantamagazine.org)

40 points by bdr on Aug 4, 2016 | 5 comments

22797.

How to Write While Traveling (lithub.com)

40 points by Thevet on Sep 13, 2016 | 5 comments

22798.

Don't use “docker” in GitHub repo names or as Twitter handles (andreas-jung.com)