HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

451.

Don’t Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

216 points by robinhouston on Aug 29, 2017 | 94 comments

452.

New York Subway X-Ray Area Maps (projectsubwaynyc.com)

216 points by citrin_ru on Aug 9, 2017 | 45 comments

453.

Robocalls Flooding Your Cellphone? Here’s How to Stop Them (nytimes.com)

215 points by gk1 on Aug 16, 2017 | 303 comments

454.

Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing (codecs.multimedia.cx)

215 points by lossolo on Aug 1, 2017 | 278 comments

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Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression (epjdatascience.springeropen.com)

215 points by mcone on Aug 8, 2017 | 87 comments

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Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC (github.com)

214 points by krlkv on Aug 25, 2017 | 170 comments

457.

Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat (techcrunch.com)

214 points by sethbannon on Aug 23, 2017 | 149 comments

458.

Uber's New CEO (stratechery.com)

214 points by agandy on Aug 29, 2017 | 78 comments

459.

Berlin Is Becoming a Sponge City [video] (youtube.com)

214 points by flohrian on Aug 30, 2017 | 66 comments

460.

Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures from Binaries [pdf] (usenix.org)

213 points by bmc7505 on Aug 18, 2017 | 43 comments

461.

How to Design Programs, Second Edition (ccs.neu.edu)

213 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2017 | 40 comments

462.

Airbnb dominated by professional landlords (dw.com)

212 points by frgtpsswrdlame on Aug 6, 2017 | 348 comments

463.

Is There Any Point to Protesting? (newyorker.com)

212 points by rafaelc on Aug 26, 2017 | 252 comments

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Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone (cnbc.com)

212 points by pestkranker on Aug 14, 2017 | 235 comments

465.

The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups (news.morningstar.com)

212 points by petethomas on Aug 9, 2017 | 96 comments

466.

Steadying the Mouse for People with Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis (steadymouse.com)

212 points by charlieirish on Aug 13, 2017 | 38 comments

467.

Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other (e360.yale.edu)

212 points by bryanrasmussen on Aug 19, 2017 | 38 comments

468.

Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

211 points by Kevin_S on Aug 4, 2017 | 346 comments

469.

Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year (businessinsider.com)

211 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 | 96 comments

470.

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract (arl.org)

211 points by atakan_gurkan on Aug 17, 2017 | 56 comments

471.

U.S. probes Uber for possible bribery law violations (reuters.com)

210 points by zeep on Aug 29, 2017 | 69 comments

472.

Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing (nytimes.com)

209 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2017 | 139 comments

473.

PhD Productivity Strategy: Do Deep Work in Less Hours (nextscientist.com)

209 points by nextscientist on Aug 30, 2017 | 110 comments

474.

Making your first dollar from a SaaS project (indiehackers.com)

209 points by czue on Aug 24, 2017 | 79 comments

475.

A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (bbc.com)

209 points by rubenv on Aug 11, 2017 | 66 comments

476.

Indian government bans archive.org (imgur.com)

209 points by anujdeshpande on Aug 9, 2017 | 43 comments

477.

Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)

209 points by js7745 on Aug 8, 2017 | 37 comments

478.

Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year (techcrunch.com)

208 points by brandonb on Aug 1, 2017 | 266 comments

479.

Proof of Work Without All the Work (arxiv.org)

208 points by federicoponzi on Aug 7, 2017 | 115 comments

480.

How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list? (pajiba.com)

208 points by cratermoon on Aug 24, 2017 | 79 comments