HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Termination of StartCom business (startcomca.com)

129 points by pferde on Dec 3, 2017 | 44 comments

842.

Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016) (quora.com)

129 points by turrini on Dec 10, 2017 | 41 comments

843.

Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut to Fly Untethered in Space, Has Died (npr.org)

129 points by lyk on Dec 24, 2017 | 21 comments

844.

Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals (gofreakingdoit.com)

128 points by superkarolis on Dec 4, 2017 | 109 comments

845.

WebAssembly, an executable format for the web (blog.octo.com)

128 points by arnoooooo on Dec 11, 2017 | 93 comments

846.

China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars (thedrive.com)

128 points by ourmandave on Dec 18, 2017 | 85 comments

847.

Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005 (typewritten.org)

128 points by pavlov on Dec 20, 2017 | 58 comments

848.

Babies who get more cuddles have their genetics changed for years, study shows (sciencealert.com)

128 points by ALee on Dec 2, 2017 | 47 comments

849.

What really happened in the Christmas truce of 1914? (bbc.co.uk)

128 points by jstewartmobile on Dec 25, 2017 | 47 comments

850.

Taking a sabbatical to work on Ruby profiling tools (jvns.ca)

128 points by bkudria on Dec 3, 2017 | 35 comments

851.

Technology Bookshelf (gutenberg.org)

128 points by stojano on Dec 12, 2017 | 12 comments

852.

We’re Going to Need More Lithium (bloomberg.com)

127 points by lxm on Dec 27, 2017 | 129 comments

853.

The importance of dumb mistakes in college (nytimes.com)

127 points by whyenot on Dec 10, 2017 | 97 comments

854.

Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings (roulette.pizza)

127 points by rscott on Dec 31, 2017 | 97 comments

855.

Artwork Personalization at Netflix (medium.com)

127 points by dingdongding on Dec 17, 2017 | 68 comments

856.

Neutrino experiment reveals inconsistency in how matter and antimatter behave (quantamagazine.org)

127 points by okket on Dec 28, 2017 | 67 comments

857.

Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition (nautil.us)

127 points by dnetesn on Dec 1, 2017 | 58 comments

858.

A visual ARM emulator (salmanarif.bitbucket.io)

127 points by sohkamyung on Dec 29, 2017 | 13 comments

859.

Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms (mattdesl.svbtle.com)

127 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2017 | 12 comments

860.

The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube (wired.com)

127 points by victorvation on Dec 26, 2017 | 9 comments

861.

Chef gives up a Michelin star, reflecting hardship of ‘the Other France’ (nytimes.com)

126 points by SREinSF on Dec 27, 2017 | 158 comments

862.

'Snoopers' charter' changes put forward (bbc.co.uk)

126 points by colinscape on Dec 2, 2017 | 70 comments

863.

Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India (stripe.com)

126 points by rahulshiv on Dec 14, 2017 | 46 comments

864.

Litecoin price, tweets, and conflict of interest (reddit.com)

126 points by dsr12 on Dec 20, 2017 | 43 comments

865.

The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half (vox.com)

126 points by lnguyen on Dec 29, 2017 | 42 comments

866.

Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (2015) (blogs.ams.org)

126 points by jpelecanos on Dec 5, 2017 | 38 comments

867.

Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler (hub.jhu.edu)

126 points by jamessun on Dec 21, 2017 | 19 comments

868.

Simulating Chutes and Ladders in Python (jakevdp.github.io)

126 points by wyldfire on Dec 20, 2017 | 16 comments

869.

Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (2009) (news.stanford.edu)

126 points by walterbell on Dec 30, 2017 | 16 comments

870.

Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut (bloomberg.com)

125 points by rbanffy on Dec 18, 2017 | 216 comments