HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5461.

GM accused of installing devices in diesel trucks to beat emissions tests (cbc.ca)

211 points by breitling on May 25, 2017 | 164 comments

5462.

JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge (blogs.windows.com)

211 points by hellojs on Apr 20, 2017 | 163 comments

5463.

Nearly 1 in 3 drugs have a significant safety issue after FDA approval (latimes.com)

211 points by ohaikbai on May 15, 2017 | 159 comments

5464.

McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf] (enlaso.com)

211 points by tosh on Jun 3, 2017 | 154 comments

5465.

Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over (axios.com)

211 points by elsewhen on Sep 15, 2017 | 150 comments

5466.

60 journalists all spend one week covering Cincinnati's battle with heroin (cincinnati.com)

211 points by carlmungz on Sep 12, 2017 | 134 comments

5467.

China temporarily shuts down thousands of factories in pollution crackdown (msn.com)

211 points by kimsk112 on Oct 25, 2017 | 134 comments

5468.

Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return (bloomberg.com)

211 points by chollida1 on Jul 21, 2017 | 117 comments

5469.

Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu (paulfurley.com)

211 points by paulfurley on Dec 3, 2017 | 105 comments

5470.

Partial WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain (sourceware.org)

211 points by ingve on Mar 4, 2017 | 101 comments

5471.

A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But Gov Won’t Give Him One (aclu.org)

211 points by gehwartzen on Dec 3, 2017 | 101 comments

5472.

The Economy (core-econ.org)

211 points by Turukawa on Sep 19, 2017 | 97 comments

5473.

Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year (businessinsider.com)

211 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 | 96 comments

5474.

Socratic method to teaching by asking (garlikov.com)

211 points by mbparsa on Oct 2, 2017 | 93 comments

5475.

Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces (brandur.org)

211 points by brandur on Feb 25, 2017 | 82 comments

5476.

Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line (medium.com)

211 points by styfle on Oct 31, 2017 | 81 comments

5477.

Teenager's sickle cell reversed using a treatment to change his DNA (bbc.com)

211 points by _nh_ on Mar 3, 2017 | 75 comments

5478.

SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition (tech.slashdot.org)

211 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 29, 2017 | 72 comments

5479.

Ask HN: Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?

211 points by 6ak74rfy on Oct 13, 2017 | 72 comments

5480.

Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (2014) (ham-radio.com)

211 points by cyanoacry on Jan 23, 2017 | 67 comments

5481.

Wire messenger server code open-sourced (github.com)

211 points by vasili111 on Apr 8, 2017 | 67 comments

5482.

Rust creator Graydon Hoare is now at Apple working on Swift (lists.swift.org)

211 points by flount on Jan 31, 2017 | 65 comments

5483.

Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements (dougvitale.wordpress.com)

211 points by nailer on Sep 13, 2017 | 64 comments

5484.

Career Monogamy: The Awkward Tech Sin of Longevity (nemhouse.com)

211 points by gukov on May 31, 2017 | 57 comments

5485.

Designing state machines (drivy.engineering)

211 points by adipasquale on Jun 26, 2017 | 57 comments

5486.

LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract (arl.org)

211 points by atakan_gurkan on Aug 17, 2017 | 56 comments

5487.

Leaked: EU governments want to give record labels control over what we can post (juliareda.eu)

211 points by g4k on Oct 27, 2017 | 52 comments

5488.

Radar reveals two moons orbiting asteroid Florence (astronomynow.com)

211 points by japaget on Sep 6, 2017 | 51 comments

5489.

Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs (atlasobscura.com)

211 points by diodorus on Feb 20, 2017 | 48 comments

5490.

On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (1992) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

211 points by Audiophilip on Apr 4, 2017 | 44 comments