HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability (securityweek.com)

757 points by tomtoise on Jan 29, 2018 | 315 comments

32.

Waze Carpool (waze.com)

754 points by artsandsci on Jan 25, 2018 | 390 comments

33.

Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] (recurse.com)

750 points by davidbalbert on Jan 30, 2018 | 295 comments

34.

Many packages suddenly disappeared (github.com)

749 points by xxkylexx on Jan 6, 2018 | 492 comments

35.

DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing (spreadprivacy.com)

727 points by brisance on Jan 23, 2018 | 322 comments

36.

Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds (ac.els-cdn.com)

726 points by bcaulfield on Jan 24, 2018 | 386 comments

37.

Wine 3.0 Released (winehq.org)

724 points by etiam on Jan 18, 2018 | 222 comments

38.

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites (medium.com)

720 points by swyx on Jan 6, 2018 | 121 comments

39.

Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death

709 points by saaronm on Jan 11, 2018 | 82 comments

40.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)

699 points by rgun on Jan 19, 2018 | 294 comments

41.

Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases (twitter.com)

695 points by domoritz on Jan 28, 2018 | 267 comments

42.

Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000 (techcrunch.com)

692 points by middle1 on Jan 15, 2018 | 190 comments

43.

LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware (linuxboot.org)

691 points by doener on Jan 29, 2018 | 178 comments

44.

Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime (eff.org)

689 points by uptown on Jan 10, 2018 | 161 comments

45.

Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive (strongtowns.org)

662 points by oftenwrong on Jan 18, 2018 | 415 comments

46.

Show HN: Observable Notebooks (beta.observablehq.com)

654 points by jashkenas on Jan 31, 2018 | 128 comments

47.

The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday (twitter.com)

653 points by robin_reala on Jan 16, 2018 | 363 comments

48.

My new favorite book of all time (gatesnotes.com)

651 points by yarapavan on Jan 29, 2018 | 396 comments

49.

Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb (eliotand.me)

644 points by sdubois on Jan 23, 2018 | 166 comments

50.

Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors (lkml.org)

640 points by fanf2 on Jan 2, 2018 | 293 comments

51.

How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017) (c0ffee.net)

638 points by j_s on Jan 26, 2018 | 325 comments

52.

“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York (marginalrevolution.com)

621 points by pjc50 on Jan 22, 2018 | 207 comments

53.

Content-aware image resize library (github.com)

614 points by boyter on Jan 30, 2018 | 78 comments

54.

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com)

606 points by nikbackm on Jan 8, 2018 | 76 comments

55.

Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access (nature.com)

603 points by delib on Jan 5, 2018 | 143 comments

56.

Is it time for open processors? (lwn.net)

596 points by signa11 on Jan 19, 2018 | 234 comments

57.

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings (newsroom.intel.com)

588 points by runesoerensen on Jan 3, 2018 | 229 comments

58.

Learn FFmpeg the hard way (github.com)

586 points by dreampeppers99 on Jan 20, 2018 | 79 comments

59.

Useful Mental Models (2016) (defmacro.org)

586 points by Mougatine on Jan 8, 2018 | 73 comments

60.

Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning (blog.floydhub.com)

580 points by narenst on Jan 10, 2018 | 116 comments