HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

I wanted to understand why racists hated me, so I befriended Klansmen (washingtonpost.com)

370 points by evo_9 on Oct 1, 2017 | 208 comments

1982.

Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org)

370 points by robin_reala on Sep 28, 2017 | 191 comments

1983.

Pattern Matching for Java (cr.openjdk.java.net)

370 points by steve_barham on Apr 19, 2017 | 146 comments

1984.

Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux (betteros.org)

370 points by mabynogy on Aug 30, 2017 | 108 comments

1985.

Things to learn in React before using Redux (robinwieruch.de)

370 points by callumlocke on Jul 20, 2017 | 104 comments

1986.

We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules (eff.org)

370 points by DiabloD3 on Mar 27, 2017 | 50 comments

1987.

Scipy 1.0 released (mail.python.org)

370 points by ngoldbaum on Oct 25, 2017 | 36 comments

1988.

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results (apple.com)

369 points by ucha on Jan 31, 2017 | 529 comments

1989.

Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores (latimes.com)

369 points by Jerry2 on May 24, 2017 | 243 comments

1990.

Computer Science Education (google.com)

369 points by dr_linux on Feb 2, 2017 | 234 comments

1991.

Considerations on Cost Disease (slatestarcodex.com)

369 points by apsec112 on Feb 10, 2017 | 232 comments

1992.

Simplified and community-driven man pages (tldr.sh)

369 points by akras14 on Nov 26, 2017 | 162 comments

1993.

Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?

369 points by jiblyyyy on Feb 2, 2017 | 158 comments

1994.

An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016) (npr.org)

369 points by yurisagalov on Mar 15, 2017 | 158 comments

1995.

Textbook manifesto (2016) (greenteapress.com)

369 points by Tomte on Apr 9, 2017 | 156 comments

1996.

Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times (confluent.io)

369 points by rmoff on Sep 6, 2017 | 146 comments

1997.

Google Goes Public with Unpatched Microsoft Edge and IE Vulnerability (bugs.chromium.org)

369 points by uber1geek on Feb 28, 2017 | 136 comments

1998.

UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater (bbc.com)

369 points by theklub on Apr 3, 2017 | 112 comments

1999.

Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux (github.com)

369 points by jswizzard on May 25, 2017 | 98 comments

2000.

32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online (theregister.co.uk)

369 points by manirelli on Jun 23, 2017 | 91 comments

2001.

Writing a C Compiler, Part 1 (norasandler.com)

369 points by sidcool on Dec 1, 2017 | 60 comments

2002.

⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL (access.redhat.com)

368 points by alrs on Aug 2, 2017 | 338 comments

2003.

The future of education is plain text (simplystatistics.org)

368 points by simplystats2 on Jun 13, 2017 | 334 comments

2004.

The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers (washingtonpost.com)

368 points by uptown on Nov 16, 2017 | 155 comments

2005.

Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results (nytimes.com)

368 points by walterbell on Mar 30, 2017 | 150 comments

2006.

Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf] (schd.ws)

368 points by dmmalam on Oct 29, 2017 | 78 comments

2007.

A collection of text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era PCs (int10h.org)