HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1051.

When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal (technologyreview.com)

107 points by edward on Jul 24, 2017 | 155 comments

1052.

My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths (longreads.com)

107 points by DiabloD3 on Jul 14, 2017 | 121 comments

1053.

What I Learned from Researching Coding Bootcamps (medium.com)

107 points by vyrotek on Jul 1, 2017 | 70 comments

1054.

In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing (lithub.com)

107 points by lermontov on Jul 27, 2017 | 55 comments

1055.

The data behind the search for MH370 (geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com)

107 points by sohkamyung on Jul 19, 2017 | 29 comments

1056.

A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s (atlasobscura.com)

107 points by ilamont on Jul 21, 2017 | 26 comments

1057.

Generating Art with Code: A Handbook to “Little Planet Procedural” (alanluo.com)

107 points by happy-go-lucky on Jul 22, 2017 | 17 comments

1058.

GPU Performance for Game Artists (fragmentbuffer.com)

107 points by mnem on Jul 8, 2017 | 9 comments

1059.

ITER fusion energy pushed back beyond 2050 (bbc.co.uk)

106 points by _airh on Jul 18, 2017 | 155 comments

1060.

MDN’s new design is in Beta (blog.mozilla.org)

106 points by omnifischer on Jul 11, 2017 | 83 comments

1061.

I do whatever I want at work and I haven’t been fired yet (m.signalvnoise.com)

106 points by riqbal on Jul 11, 2017 | 69 comments

1062.

Transit Detection of a Starshade at the Inner Lagrange Point of an Exoplanet (arxiv.org)

106 points by sanxiyn on Jul 11, 2017 | 66 comments

1063.

Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’ (dlgnaturals.com)

106 points by dlgnaturals on Jul 12, 2017 | 56 comments

1064.

Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely to Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa (adweek.com)

106 points by kbyatnal on Jul 27, 2017 | 48 comments

1065.

JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary (azul.com)

106 points by Randgalt on Jul 11, 2017 | 29 comments

1066.

U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities (spectrum.ieee.org)

106 points by teklaperry on Jul 25, 2017 | 28 comments

1067.

Generating Images in JavaScript Without Using the Canvas API (medium.com)

106 points by petercooper on Jul 14, 2017 | 26 comments

1068.

Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone with the Opposite Sex (mobile.nytimes.com)

105 points by TuringNYC on Jul 3, 2017 | 155 comments

1069.

Netflix is $20B in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success? (latimes.com)

105 points by JackPoach on Jul 31, 2017 | 112 comments

1070.

In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers (bloomberg.com)

105 points by sndean on Jul 30, 2017 | 111 comments

1071.

The state of Mac gaming (arstechnica.com)

105 points by mpweiher on Jul 17, 2017 | 95 comments

1072.

Content isn't king (ben-evans.com)

105 points by mooreds on Jul 17, 2017 | 78 comments

1073.

Elevate your C programming skills by exploring the SQLite codebase (cppdepend.com)

105 points by cpprepository on Jul 9, 2017 | 73 comments

1074.

Ten years after first shipping Openmoko Neo1973 (laforge.gnumonks.org)

105 points by richardboegli on Jul 9, 2017 | 56 comments

1075.

Show HN: Using functions to construct Regex in Python (github.com)

105 points by iogf on Jul 9, 2017 | 55 comments

1076.

Bespoke porn: Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests (theguardian.com)

105 points by mathgenius on Jul 30, 2017 | 51 comments

1077.

What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees? (reddit.com)

105 points by cft on Jul 6, 2017 | 35 comments

1078.

TileMill – An open source map design studio (tilemill-project.github.io)

105 points by susi22 on Jul 10, 2017 | 24 comments

1079.

What is Eventual Consistency? (concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)

105 points by ingve on Jul 17, 2017 | 14 comments

1080.

Beyond public key encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

105 points by wglb on Jul 15, 2017 | 12 comments