HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode [pdf] (usenix.org)

73 points by gcp on Aug 17, 2017 | 9 comments

1502.

A Short History of Complex Numbers (2006) [pdf] (math.uri.edu)

73 points by eklitzke on Aug 21, 2017 | 8 comments

1503.

The Attention Economy and the Net (1997) (firstmonday.org)

73 points by jpelecanos on Aug 17, 2017 | 6 comments

1504.

Solar Eclipse live stream (nasa.gov)

73 points by smaili on Aug 21, 2017 | 6 comments

1505.

Fears for tourists in London as acid attacks escalate in recent weeks (cnbc.com)

72 points by mbgaxyz on Aug 6, 2017 | 83 comments

1506.

900 out of 1000 people say a car is blue, what's the probability it is blue? (stats.stackexchange.com)

72 points by tekromancr on Aug 24, 2017 | 67 comments

1507.

Show HN: Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack) (hashtags.chat)

72 points by _aaya on Aug 4, 2017 | 57 comments

1508.

HTC Vive Price Cut (blog.vive.com)

72 points by Assossa on Aug 21, 2017 | 57 comments

1509.

Chinese chatbots apparently re-educated after political faux pas (reuters.com)

72 points by pseudolus on Aug 4, 2017 | 56 comments

1510.

Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look at the Only Statewide School Laptop Program (peoriapublicradio.org)

72 points by imartin2k on Aug 26, 2017 | 55 comments

1511.

Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses (wired.com)

72 points by rmason on Aug 4, 2017 | 54 comments

1512.

Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1B Video Bet (bloomberg.com)

72 points by mcone on Aug 31, 2017 | 51 comments

1513.

Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) (lowendmac.com)

72 points by kmooney on Aug 1, 2017 | 37 comments

1514.

Launch HN: Thematic (YC S17) Customer Feedback Analysis via NLP

72 points by zelandiya on Aug 15, 2017 | 31 comments

1515.

SoundCloud is here to stay (blog.soundcloud.com)

72 points by techthumb on Aug 11, 2017 | 28 comments

1516.

How Reliable Are FinFETs? (semiengineering.com)

72 points by Lind5 on Aug 17, 2017 | 28 comments

1517.

“For many people, flexibility at work can be a liberation.” (sitra.fi)

72 points by greifswalder on Aug 26, 2017 | 25 comments

1518.

Django and React/Redux Boilerplate Project (github.com)

72 points by fgarci03 on Aug 28, 2017 | 22 comments

1519.

Serverless Event Gateway (serverless.com)

72 points by rmason on Aug 17, 2017 | 20 comments

1520.

465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability (arstechnica.com)

72 points by artsandsci on Aug 30, 2017 | 14 comments

1521.

Lego EV3 and Android and OpenCV (jataka.hu)

72 points by wslh on Aug 27, 2017 | 6 comments

1522.

Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC (medium.com)

71 points by Tomte on Aug 22, 2017 | 128 comments

1523.

Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

71 points by throaway33121 on Aug 17, 2017 | 78 comments

1524.

Not even wrong: Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory? [pdf] (tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk)

71 points by fanf2 on Aug 7, 2017 | 77 comments

1525.

Red Over Red, the Failure of U.S. Navy Leadership (gcaptain.com)

71 points by protomyth on Aug 22, 2017 | 70 comments

1526.

Ask HN: Does coding give you brain fog?

71 points by shaydoc on Aug 15, 2017 | 69 comments

1527.

Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms (psymposia.com)