HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Piu-Piu-Sh: ‘Shoot Them All’ Game in Bash (github.com)

89 points by andrewshadura on Dec 25, 2017 | 9 comments

1232.

Free Computer Science and Technology Books (bookfusion.com)

89 points by skillachie on Dec 7, 2017 | 3 comments

1233.

Bitcoin Traders Claim There’s Method to Their Madness (bloomberg.com)

88 points by pdog on Dec 22, 2017 | 92 comments

1234.

Pass-Thru Income Deduction (evergreensmallbusiness.com)

88 points by ljoshua on Dec 20, 2017 | 90 comments

1235.

The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff (bloomberg.com)

88 points by mcone on Dec 27, 2017 | 77 comments

1236.

The Last JSON Spec (tbray.org)

88 points by robin_reala on Dec 15, 2017 | 71 comments

1237.

Max Howell's take on getting rejected by Google (quora.com)

88 points by whack on Dec 21, 2017 | 69 comments

1238.

Are EV certificates worth the paper they're written on? (scotthelme.co.uk)

88 points by pgl on Dec 5, 2017 | 66 comments

1239.

Americans Are Receiving Unordered Parcels from Chinese E-Criminals (forbes.com)

88 points by colinprince on Dec 17, 2017 | 53 comments

1240.

Nice Threads (blog.twitter.com)

88 points by davidbarker on Dec 12, 2017 | 50 comments

1241.

Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter (nytimes.com)

88 points by tysone on Dec 27, 2017 | 43 comments

1242.

Error handling in Upspin (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

88 points by xiaq on Dec 7, 2017 | 26 comments

1243.

The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book (smithsonianmag.com)

88 points by fanf2 on Dec 2, 2017 | 25 comments

1244.

Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis (blogs.nvidia.com)

88 points by bcaulfield on Dec 28, 2017 | 24 comments

1245.

Emoji-list with emojis, names, shortcodes, unicode and html entities (gist.github.com)

88 points by inex on Dec 17, 2017 | 23 comments

1246.

Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management/Discovery (aws.amazon.com)

88 points by MayBeColin on Dec 5, 2017 | 20 comments

1247.

One-third of Puerto Rico still doesn't have power (axios.com)

88 points by rbanffy on Dec 14, 2017 | 20 comments

1248.

Helm – a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation (github.com)

88 points by PleaseHelpMe on Dec 2, 2017 | 19 comments

1249.

Understanding image histograms with OpenCV (lmcaraig.com)

88 points by se7entyse7en on Dec 28, 2017 | 12 comments

1250.

Taxation – Explaining What a Double Irish Sandwich Is (media.ccc.de)

88 points by sschueller on Dec 29, 2017 | 12 comments

1251.

Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs (arxiv.org)

88 points by eref on Dec 7, 2017 | 1 comments

1252.

Aetna CEO Set to Reap About $500M If CVS Deal Closes (wsj.com)

87 points by mudil on Dec 5, 2017 | 155 comments

1253.

California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis (latimes.com)

87 points by jseliger on Dec 23, 2017 | 143 comments

1254.

What are you banned from? Why? (quora.com)

87 points by dredmorbius on Dec 13, 2017 | 112 comments

1255.

Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (hackernoon.com)

87 points by tosh on Dec 24, 2017 | 34 comments

1256.

“I Don’t Know, Probably Made My Usual C” (quoteinvestigator.com)

87 points by agronaut on Dec 14, 2017 | 33 comments

1257.

Upstart Gangs Filling the Yakuza Power Vacuum (nippon.com)

87 points by ilamont on Dec 13, 2017 | 32 comments

1258.

The Art of Conducting (commentarymagazine.com)

87 points by whatami on Dec 21, 2017 | 30 comments

1259.

Empirical research reveals three big problems with how patents are vetted (arstechnica.com)

87 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 27, 2017 | 26 comments

1260.

The FCC's Ajit Pai now openly mocking net neutrality protesters with new video (avclub.com)

87 points by gridscomputing on Dec 14, 2017 | 24 comments