HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

On Making Oneself Less Unreadable (theparisreview.org)

102 points by benbreen on Dec 5, 2017 | 50 comments

1082.

Deus Vult – Social Networks in Crusader Kings 2 (anquantarbuile.com)

102 points by creade on Dec 5, 2017 | 41 comments

1083.

Ask HN: Resources for learning about boot loaders?

102 points by rayascott on Dec 21, 2017 | 27 comments

1084.

Hackers shut down plant by targeting its safety system (engadget.com)

102 points by jbuzbee on Dec 17, 2017 | 26 comments

1085.

A $47B Emergency-Response Network That’s Already Obsolete (theatlantic.com)

102 points by prostoalex on Dec 26, 2017 | 23 comments

1086.

Optimization for Deep Learning Highlights (ruder.io)

102 points by stablemap on Dec 3, 2017 | 9 comments

1087.

Lectures from Princeton on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies (reddit.com)

102 points by sharjeelsayed on Dec 9, 2017 | 4 comments

1088.

Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace (blog.wallaroolabs.com)

102 points by scottlf on Dec 18, 2017 | 2 comments

1089.

The Limits to Growth (1972) [pdf] (donellameadows.org)

101 points by lainon on Dec 13, 2017 | 55 comments

1090.

MyRocks – A RocksDB storage engine with MySQL (myrocks.io)

101 points by gfortaine on Dec 3, 2017 | 45 comments

1091.

Pruning AI networks without impacting performance (ibm.com)

101 points by rbanffy on Dec 12, 2017 | 20 comments

1092.

The sunk cost fallacy: Devs describe how it almost destroyed them (gamasutra.com)

101 points by tnolet on Dec 21, 2017 | 20 comments

1093.

Bicycle Built for 2,000 (2009) (bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com)

101 points by cribbles on Dec 8, 2017 | 19 comments

1094.

Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video] (media.ccc.de)

101 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 30, 2017 | 17 comments

1095.

A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates (news.mit.edu)

101 points by CarolineW on Dec 2, 2017 | 16 comments

1096.

A Python internals adventure (2014) (flowerhack.dreamwidth.org)

101 points by luu on Dec 27, 2017 | 3 comments

1097.

Call options used to bet that Bitcoin will go over $50K next year (wsj.com)

100 points by nvk on Dec 21, 2017 | 150 comments

1098.

What's Wrong with Students? (econlog.econlib.org)

100 points by jseliger on Dec 26, 2017 | 100 comments

1099.

Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues (scientificamerican.com)

100 points by a_imho on Dec 15, 2017 | 94 comments

1100.

Bundle Phobia: find the cost of adding an npm package to your bundle (bundlephobia.com)

100 points by orf on Dec 18, 2017 | 69 comments

1101.

Philosophy Needs a New Definition (lareviewofbooks.org)

100 points by jseliger on Dec 19, 2017 | 66 comments

1102.

The Case Against Reading Everything (thewalrus.ca)

100 points by samclemens on Dec 16, 2017 | 56 comments

1103.

Cryptsetup 2.0.0 introduces new on-disk LUKS2 format (kernel.org)

100 points by tyngde on Dec 24, 2017 | 35 comments

1104.

Where’s the Next Silicon Valley? VC Is Betting on the Midwest (spectrum.ieee.org)

99 points by teklaperry on Dec 19, 2017 | 304 comments

1105.

U.S. blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' cyber attack (reuters.com)

99 points by wybiral on Dec 19, 2017 | 109 comments

1106.

Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains (nytimes.com)

99 points by flinner on Dec 7, 2017 | 85 comments

1107.

My Internet Mea Culpa (shift.newco.co)

99 points by pixelcort on Dec 27, 2017 | 81 comments

1108.

How Australian Tech Companies Can Think About Silicon Valley (muru-d.com)

99 points by nreece on Dec 8, 2017 | 64 comments

1109.

This is not a new year’s resolution (crystal-lang.org)

99 points by thibaut_barrere on Dec 20, 2017 | 42 comments

1110.

Proofs of Useful Work [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)

99 points by pmuk on Dec 22, 2017 | 38 comments