HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

When is a dollar not a dollar? (codingvc.com)

150 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2017 | 58 comments

692.

I had a boss who stood up for me against sexist office jerks (seattletimes.com)

150 points by curtis on Dec 11, 2017 | 33 comments

693.

The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration (jdlm.info)

150 points by jdleesmiller on Dec 10, 2017 | 22 comments

694.

A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (2009) [pdf] (nanog.org)

150 points by kercker on Dec 25, 2017 | 10 comments

695.

Faust: Functional programming language for real-time DSP and synthesis (faust.grame.fr)

150 points by SwellJoe on Dec 2, 2017 | 9 comments

696.

The destruction of graduate education in the United States (scottaaronson.com)

149 points by lisper on Dec 2, 2017 | 136 comments

697.

The Digital Advertising Duopoly (avc.com)

149 points by kernelv on Dec 28, 2017 | 110 comments

698.

Down with Determinants (1995) (axler.net)

149 points by sdenton4 on Dec 6, 2017 | 83 comments

699.

What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? (dave.cheney.net)

149 points by davecheney on Dec 6, 2017 | 55 comments

700.

How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Month Freelance Gig (blog.leif.io)

149 points by leifg on Dec 12, 2017 | 39 comments

701.

Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car experiment (theverge.com)

148 points by sundaeofshock on Dec 17, 2017 | 139 comments

702.

Where People Spend the Most and Least on Rent in America (priceonomics.com)

148 points by emberdev on Dec 3, 2017 | 125 comments

703.

The ABC conjecture has still not been proved (galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com)

148 points by thisisit on Dec 20, 2017 | 55 comments

704.

Building a Regex Engine in Fewer Than 40 Lines of Code (nickdrane.com)

148 points by tambourine_man on Dec 4, 2017 | 34 comments

705.

Flare: Clojure Dynamic Neural Net Library (aria42.com)

148 points by ghosthamlet on Dec 8, 2017 | 14 comments

706.

Why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened (theguardian.com)

147 points by charlysl on Dec 29, 2017 | 152 comments

707.

A link between polygamy and war (economist.com)

147 points by sohkamyung on Dec 26, 2017 | 106 comments

708.

Overview of the Crystal language (marmelab.com)

147 points by sdogruyol on Dec 17, 2017 | 90 comments

709.

Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video] (media.ccc.de)

147 points by teamhappy on Dec 30, 2017 | 75 comments

710.

Haiku Project (haiku-os.org)

147 points by jordansmithnz on Dec 20, 2017 | 64 comments

711.

New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers (princeton.edu)

147 points by lainon on Dec 12, 2017 | 56 comments

712.

Overture JS – A powerful basis for building web applications (overturejs.com)

147 points by fanf2 on Dec 18, 2017 | 51 comments

713.

MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA (media.mit.edu)

147 points by dsr12 on Dec 21, 2017 | 45 comments

714.

Not Explicit (boats.gitlab.io)

147 points by kawera on Dec 29, 2017 | 32 comments

715.

The Remarkable “Curvature Blindness” Illusion (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

147 points by tomrod on Dec 9, 2017 | 29 comments

716.

Machine Learning for Dummies (www-01.ibm.com)

147 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2017 | 25 comments

717.

A primer on Elixir Stream (activesphere.com)

147 points by wooola on Dec 3, 2017 | 3 comments

718.

Emergency rooms are monopolies (vox.com)

146 points by jseliger on Dec 8, 2017 | 169 comments

719.

iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use (simplyfixit.co.uk)

146 points by falsedan on Dec 30, 2017 | 114 comments

720.

Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion (cambridge.org)

146 points by richardw on Dec 28, 2017 | 55 comments