HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (2015) (quantamagazine.org)

160 points by 18nleung on Dec 5, 2017 | 28 comments

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Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform (en.liberapay.com)

160 points by cdancette on Dec 8, 2017 | 24 comments

633.

Did American Missile Defense Fail in Saudi Arabia? (nytimes.com)

159 points by Jerry2 on Dec 4, 2017 | 194 comments

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Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996) (nextcomputers.org)

159 points by mattl on Dec 20, 2017 | 155 comments

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Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater (nytimes.com)

159 points by prostoalex on Dec 23, 2017 | 123 comments

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How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding (washingtonpost.com)

159 points by smacktoward on Dec 18, 2017 | 108 comments

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Hacker News Transparency (hn.0x2237.club)

159 points by staunch on Dec 27, 2017 | 83 comments

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“Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data” (twitter.com)

159 points by uptown on Dec 30, 2017 | 45 comments

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Japanese startup Ispace raises $90M, targets landing on moon surface by 2020 (bloomberg.com)

159 points by lnguyen on Dec 13, 2017 | 40 comments

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How to scam and get 67k all 5 Star reviews on the app store (reddit.com)

159 points by knes on Dec 30, 2017 | 36 comments

641.

Clever ideas that failed (2010) (yacoset.com)

159 points by walrus on Dec 25, 2017 | 24 comments

642.

Can You Think Yourself into a Different Person? (2015) (mosaicscience.com)

158 points by LearnerHerzog on Dec 21, 2017 | 113 comments

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The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS (androidpolice.com)

158 points by platinum1 on Dec 31, 2017 | 108 comments

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Ed Lee, 65, SF mayor who had a close relationship with the tech world, has died (techcrunch.com)

158 points by doppp on Dec 12, 2017 | 85 comments

645.

This Dumb Industry: Wilson Boxes (shamusyoung.com)

158 points by smacktoward on Dec 5, 2017 | 77 comments

646.

High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables (tabbforum.com)

158 points by deegles on Dec 4, 2017 | 49 comments

647.

Automakers: Don't Ask Customers What They Want (roadandtrack.com)

157 points by csours on Dec 11, 2017 | 201 comments

648.

Four DB2 Code Bases? (perspectives.mvdirona.com)

157 points by fanf2 on Dec 23, 2017 | 97 comments

649.

The Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market (highscalability.com)

157 points by yarapavan on Dec 5, 2017 | 84 comments

650.

Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files (intoli.com)

157 points by foob on Dec 21, 2017 | 25 comments

651.

How Easy and Cheap It Is to Manipulate Reddit Discussions (medium.com)

157 points by coinmall on Dec 1, 2017 | 5 comments

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UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program (newsweek.com)

156 points by n-exploit on Dec 25, 2017 | 170 comments

653.

The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords (troyhunt.com)

156 points by robin_reala on Dec 4, 2017 | 64 comments

654.

Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time (bbc.com)

156 points by tuxguy on Dec 15, 2017 | 40 comments

655.

An Open Letter from Freelancers at Nautilus Magazine (nwu.org)

156 points by danso on Dec 13, 2017 | 39 comments

656.

A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture (github.com)

156 points by rhakmi on Dec 3, 2017 | 38 comments

657.

No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting (code.likeagirl.io)

155 points by CodeLikeAGirl on Dec 13, 2017 | 173 comments

658.

What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley (medium.com)

155 points by backpropaganda on Dec 17, 2017 | 160 comments

659.

Dude, You Broke the Future [video] (media.ccc.de)

155 points by bostik on Dec 29, 2017 | 125 comments

660.

Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at Google (quora.com)

155 points by ksourav on Dec 22, 2017 | 92 comments