HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5791.

Distributed Consensus – How Shared Data Is Stored (medium.com)

204 points by sohkamyung on May 25, 2017 | 8 comments

5792.

The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market (bloomberg.com)

203 points by tpatke on Dec 8, 2017 | 313 comments

5793.

What happened when Swedes tried six-hour days? (bbc.com)

203 points by mutor on Feb 8, 2017 | 243 comments

5794.

Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

203 points by wisebit on Jul 28, 2017 | 217 comments

5795.

I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. It ruined my life. (torontolife.com)

203 points by moonka on Nov 9, 2017 | 183 comments

5796.

The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November (blog.rongarret.info)

203 points by pk2200 on Oct 6, 2017 | 176 comments

5797.

How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers (aeon.co)

203 points by kawera on Jul 22, 2017 | 168 comments

5798.

Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

203 points by dpflucas on Jul 6, 2017 | 157 comments

5799.

Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers (hackaday.com)

203 points by rdl on Sep 1, 2017 | 155 comments

5800.

Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

203 points by gkya on Feb 6, 2017 | 152 comments

5801.

Compiler Optimizations are Awesome (blog.regehr.org)

203 points by turingbook on May 31, 2017 | 149 comments

5802.

Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft (blog.lyft.com)

203 points by vthallam on Oct 19, 2017 | 149 comments

5803.

Facebook wants your children's mind (thenextweb.com)

203 points by bloomca on Dec 10, 2017 | 147 comments

5804.

Magic Leap is neither magic nor leaping (theregister.co.uk)

203 points by zby on Jan 21, 2017 | 136 comments

5805.

US billionaire helped to back Brexit (theguardian.com)

203 points by jsvaughan on Feb 26, 2017 | 135 comments

5806.

Where we're going, we don't need headphones (rradczewski.github.io)

203 points by tckr on Jun 18, 2017 | 134 comments

5807.

Solar power grew faster than any other fuel in 2016 (bloomberg.com)

203 points by adventured on Oct 4, 2017 | 134 comments

5808.

Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead (2016) (prolifiko.com)

203 points by bcl on Jun 5, 2017 | 133 comments

5809.

How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015) (ibm.com)

203 points by aaronchall on Aug 29, 2017 | 120 comments

5810.

Programmer Competency Matrix (2016) (sijinjoseph.com)

203 points by weitzj on Mar 26, 2017 | 106 comments

5811.

No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’ (mobile.nytimes.com)

203 points by mcone on Aug 29, 2017 | 97 comments

5812.

Confession of a so-called AI expert (huyenchip.com)

203 points by parinvachhani on Aug 11, 2017 | 96 comments

5813.

Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions (benbowen.blog)

203 points by douche on Feb 22, 2017 | 78 comments

5814.

Female founders accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted advances (techcrunch.com)

203 points by janober on Jun 23, 2017 | 76 comments

5815.

Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer (disneyresearch.com)

203 points by saycheese on Feb 16, 2017 | 73 comments

5816.

500 Startups still owes money to its latest group of startups (axios.com)

203 points by moritzplassnig on Dec 1, 2017 | 73 comments

5817.

Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco (nytimes.com)

203 points by yonderboy on Jun 7, 2017 | 72 comments

5818.

High refined sugar intake linked to a 23% higher risk of mental disorders (ucl.ac.uk)