HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

A beginner’s guide to getting started in the cryptocurrency world (blog.goodaudience.com)

453 points by sherm8n on Dec 10, 2017 | 200 comments

92.

I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil (jiffchat.com)

447 points by niwde on Dec 26, 2017 | 176 comments

93.

LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police (kansas.com)

446 points by mcone on Dec 30, 2017 | 822 comments

94.

Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)

446 points by Pulcinella on Dec 19, 2017 | 117 comments

95.

Escaping Docker container using waitid() – CVE-2017-5123 (twistlock.com)

444 points by Da5hes on Dec 29, 2017 | 121 comments

96.

Things I have learnt as the software engineering lead of a multinational (minnenratta.wordpress.com)

442 points by kuahyeow on Dec 29, 2017 | 218 comments

97.

Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships (sfchronicle.com)

442 points by badrot on Dec 2, 2017 | 179 comments

98.

Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive (robert.ocallahan.org)

441 points by jonchang on Dec 3, 2017 | 300 comments

99.

Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler (parceljs.org)

435 points by KeitIG on Dec 5, 2017 | 163 comments

100.

New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff (blog.mozilla.org)

432 points by discreditable on Dec 19, 2017 | 125 comments

101.

Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing' (bbc.com)

431 points by colmvp on Dec 14, 2017 | 126 comments

102.

Ruby 2.5.0 Released (ruby-lang.org)

431 points by phereford on Dec 25, 2017 | 108 comments

103.

Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity (pineapplefund.org)

430 points by apo on Dec 13, 2017 | 213 comments

104.

In B-Flat (inbflat.net)

430 points by sdenton4 on Dec 16, 2017 | 43 comments

105.

MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike (wired.com)

429 points by golangnews on Dec 15, 2017 | 247 comments

106.

Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself (engineering.instagram.com)

427 points by ambivalence on Dec 21, 2017 | 229 comments

107.

MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch (wired.com)

426 points by platinumrad on Dec 1, 2017 | 162 comments

108.

macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team” (twitter.com)

424 points by fofolo on Dec 8, 2017 | 262 comments

109.

Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows (theguardian.com)

423 points by lxm on Dec 7, 2017 | 260 comments

110.

PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)

420 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2017 | 46 comments

111.

Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say (techcrunch.com)

419 points by rbanffy on Dec 8, 2017 | 292 comments

112.

Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda (bloomberg.com)

419 points by _jgvg on Dec 21, 2017 | 237 comments

113.

We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill (eff.org)

412 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 20, 2017 | 175 comments

114.

Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python (github.com)

412 points by jre on Dec 17, 2017 | 41 comments

115.

A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree (flightradar24.com)

411 points by Jamie452 on Dec 13, 2017 | 95 comments

116.

Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons (techcrunch.com)

410 points by slyall on Dec 7, 2017 | 305 comments

117.

AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012 (arstechnica.com)

410 points by Deinos on Dec 1, 2017 | 104 comments

118.

The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program (nytimes.com)

409 points by farseer on Dec 16, 2017 | 272 comments

119.

Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25 (blog.kroy.io)

409 points by robbiet480 on Dec 30, 2017 | 132 comments

120.

Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf] (learningsys.org)

408 points by andrew3726 on Dec 10, 2017 | 47 comments