HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it (media.ccc.de)

197 points by sohkamyung on Dec 29, 2017 | 69 comments

482.

Quantum Development Kit preview (blogs.microsoft.com)

197 points by forrestbrazeal on Dec 11, 2017 | 49 comments

483.

Decentralization Roundup for 2017 (clutchofthedeadhand.com)

197 points by hotzeplotz on Dec 25, 2017 | 46 comments

484.

Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers (time.com)

196 points by rbanffy on Dec 6, 2017 | 140 comments

485.

Vandals smash beehives, killing 500k bees (beta.latimes.com)

196 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 31, 2017 | 97 comments

486.

A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots (atlasobscura.com)

196 points by leahculver on Dec 17, 2017 | 35 comments

487.

How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm (konghq.com)

196 points by pidginbil on Dec 19, 2017 | 33 comments

488.

FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults (vez.mrsk.me)

195 points by beefhash on Dec 26, 2017 | 69 comments

489.

Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps (termipal.sh)

195 points by pavlov on Dec 20, 2017 | 54 comments

490.

Selling Bitcoins in Canada (tbray.org)

194 points by gvb on Dec 20, 2017 | 113 comments

491.

Software compatibility and our own “User-Agent” problem (sigbus.info)

194 points by nmjohn on Dec 12, 2017 | 64 comments

492.

Layman's Guide to Elliptic-Curve Digital Signatures (2014) (royalfork.org)

194 points by HaseebQ on Dec 14, 2017 | 21 comments

493.

My offer numbers from big companies (us.teamblind.com)

193 points by non_sequitur on Dec 4, 2017 | 288 comments

494.

Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise options they can’t sell (qz.com)

193 points by chollida1 on Dec 12, 2017 | 184 comments

495.

Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 (techcrunch.com)

193 points by drukenemo on Dec 20, 2017 | 176 comments

496.

How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job (hackcareer.com)

193 points by djchung23 on Dec 19, 2017 | 82 comments

497.

Image text recognition APIs showdown (dataturks.com)

193 points by mohi13 on Dec 19, 2017 | 77 comments

498.

Probability and Statistics Cookbook [pdf] (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

193 points by sytelus on Dec 30, 2017 | 7 comments

499.

There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions (blockchain.info)

192 points by OyoKooN on Dec 19, 2017 | 142 comments

500.

Dice Become Ordered When Stirred, Not Shaken (physics.aps.org)

192 points by ingve on Dec 3, 2017 | 61 comments

501.

PayPal says personal data may be compromised for 1.6M TIO users (foxbusiness.com)

192 points by michaelmwangi on Dec 2, 2017 | 41 comments

502.

Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR (resumeskills.us)

191 points by sixtypoundhound on Dec 8, 2017 | 181 comments

503.

Not Ready for Takeoff: Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates (airportfacescans.com)

191 points by driverdan on Dec 26, 2017 | 151 comments

504.

Ask HN: Fully online CS degrees?

191 points by intermittently on Dec 11, 2017 | 113 comments

505.

How we saved money by replacing Mixpanel with BigQuery and K8S (blog.doit-intl.com)

191 points by tzury on Dec 5, 2017 | 65 comments

506.

Don't Talk to the Police (2012) (youtube.com)

190 points by Red_Tarsius on Dec 9, 2017 | 165 comments

507.

Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet (blog.cloudflare.com)

190 points by el_duderino on Dec 26, 2017 | 116 comments

508.

OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8) (undeadly.org)

190 points by ezequiel-garzon on Dec 9, 2017 | 31 comments

509.

Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not (latimes.com)

189 points by prostoalex on Dec 16, 2017 | 226 comments

510.

World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year (theguardian.com)

188 points by rstoj on Dec 27, 2017 | 273 comments