HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1921.

An interview with Ross Anderson on new threats to security and privacy (edge.org)

44 points by gpresot on May 8, 2017 | 1 comments

1922.

Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916 (washingtonpost.com)

43 points by tokenadult on May 28, 2017 | 78 comments

1923.

Ask HN: How did open source work before GitHub?

43 points by pvsukale3 on May 20, 2017 | 72 comments

1924.

Announcing GitHub Desktop Beta (github.com)

43 points by smoser on May 17, 2017 | 63 comments

1925.

The long, winding road for driverless cars (economist.com)

43 points by JumpCrisscross on May 26, 2017 | 57 comments

1926.

Why manufacturing jobs aren't coming back to the U.S (cnbc.com)

43 points by smaili on May 1, 2017 | 50 comments

1927.

Justice.exe: Bias in Algorithmic sentencing (justiceexe.com)

43 points by ahakki on May 7, 2017 | 50 comments

1928.

Google’s breakdown of what Americans don’t know how to spell, state by state (washingtonpost.com)

43 points by happy-go-lucky on May 31, 2017 | 37 comments

1929.

How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy (aeon.co)

43 points by diodorus on May 2, 2017 | 36 comments

1930.

What’s Happening with Me (medium.com)

43 points by minimaxir on May 16, 2017 | 32 comments

1931.

Venezuela Tries Protesters in Military Court ‘Like We Are in a War’ (nytimes.com)

43 points by azuajef on May 12, 2017 | 25 comments

1932.

Securing Telnet with SSL (ibm.com)

43 points by AJAlabs on May 5, 2017 | 19 comments

1933.

Python-GnuPG (github.com)

43 points by happy-go-lucky on May 5, 2017 | 14 comments

1934.

Policymakers around the world are embracing behavioural science (economist.com)

43 points by sohkamyung on May 21, 2017 | 14 comments

1935.

Experimental analog synth controlled by stem cell neural network (cdm.link)

43 points by glitcher on May 21, 2017 | 14 comments

1936.

Raspberry Pi is merging with a coding foundation (engadget.com)

43 points by abhas9 on May 26, 2017 | 14 comments

1937.

One of the Earliest Industrial Spies Was a French Missionary Stationed in China (atlasobscura.com)

43 points by lermontov on May 1, 2017 | 12 comments

1938.

Akamai blocks unordered HTTP request headers (gwillem.gitlab.io)

43 points by gwillem on May 2, 2017 | 11 comments

1939.

Schneier's Internet Security Agency – Bad Idea (cryptome.org)

43 points by sverige on May 14, 2017 | 8 comments

1940.

How Macron just changed cyber security forever (hackernoon.com)

43 points by mthomas on May 10, 2017 | 6 comments

1941.

Deterministic Components for Interactive Distributed Systems (ithare.com)

43 points by alexkon on May 8, 2017 | 4 comments

1942.

Apple acquires Lattice, an A.I company specializing in 'dark data' (techcrunch.com)

43 points by perseusprime11 on May 14, 2017 | 2 comments

1943.

Introduction to AI Techniques [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

43 points by lainon on May 31, 2017 | 2 comments

1944.

The Restoration of Early Unix Artifacts [pdf] (usenix.org)

43 points by jsnell on May 8, 2017 | 1 comments

1945.

Spec-provider: Infer Clojure specs from sample data (github.com)

43 points by scarredwaits on May 9, 2017 | 0 comments

1946.

'Accidental hero' finds kill switch to stop spread of ransomware cyber-attack (theguardian.com)

43 points by tooba on May 13, 2017 | 0 comments

1947.

The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation (newscientist.com)

43 points by daegloe on May 28, 2017 | 0 comments

1948.

Magic Leap Could Be Looking at an $8B Valuation (backchannel.com)

42 points by JumpCrisscross on May 15, 2017 | 99 comments

1949.

Ask HN: How many are 30+ years and still active programmers?

42 points by bootcat on May 8, 2017 | 80 comments

1950.

All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in oil and auto ‘death spiral’ (business.financialpost.com)

42 points by fmihaila on May 17, 2017 | 78 comments