HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history (bbc.co.uk)

100 points by mumbi on Aug 16, 2013 | 45 comments

842.

2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart (torrentfreak.com)

100 points by jaytaylor on Aug 3, 2013 | 39 comments

843.

City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins (bbc.co.uk)

100 points by evilstreak on Aug 12, 2013 | 38 comments

844.

Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3 (techcrunch.com)

100 points by TheMakeA on Aug 20, 2013 | 31 comments

845.

Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic (cbc.ca)

99 points by fraqed on Aug 2, 2013 | 78 comments

846.

Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go (indiegogo.com)

99 points by hmottestad on Aug 21, 2013 | 68 comments

847.

Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access (nytimes.com)

99 points by goatslacker on Aug 21, 2013 | 65 comments

848.

Hugo: A Fast And Flexible Static Site Generator Built In GoLang (spf13.com)

99 points by spf13 on Aug 5, 2013 | 50 comments

849.

No HTML needed (kojika17.com)

99 points by jasoncartwright on Aug 12, 2013 | 45 comments

850.

Apple attempts to trademark the word 'startup' (zd.net)

99 points by rukshn on Aug 28, 2013 | 41 comments

851.

The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story (techcrunch.com)

99 points by BIackSwan on Aug 31, 2013 | 36 comments

852.

Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication (blog.authy.com)

99 points by cveigt on Aug 7, 2013 | 34 comments

853.

Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool written in Go (github.com)

99 points by tsenart on Aug 17, 2013 | 27 comments

854.

Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance (wired.com)

98 points by kristiandupont on Aug 30, 2013 | 86 comments

855.

Marissa Mayer Has “Many Enemies” (slate.com)

98 points by nikunjk on Aug 28, 2013 | 79 comments

856.

frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions (github.com)

98 points by jamesjyu on Aug 13, 2013 | 38 comments

857.

Chromecast Teardown (ifixit.com)

98 points by jonbaer on Aug 6, 2013 | 36 comments

858.

Make No Promises (swannodette.github.io)

98 points by _halgari on Aug 24, 2013 | 36 comments

859.

Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript (yz.mit.edu)

98 points by jashkenas on Aug 7, 2013 | 30 comments

860.

Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet (trustwave.com)

98 points by tosbourn on Aug 2, 2013 | 28 comments

861.

Judge Says Search Warrants for E-mails Must Be ‘Limited’ (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

98 points by kanamekun on Aug 31, 2013 | 16 comments

862.

Pisces III: A dramatic underwater rescue (bbc.co.uk)

98 points by groundCode on Aug 30, 2013 | 10 comments

863.

Profiling Atherton (kentbrew.github.io)

97 points by kentbrew on Aug 7, 2013 | 64 comments

864.

Want to Win a Political Debate? Try Making a Weaker Argument (psmag.com)

97 points by JoshTv on Aug 26, 2013 | 61 comments

865.

How I Made My Ruby Project 10x Faster (adit.io)

97 points by jjhageman on Aug 19, 2013 | 57 comments

866.

My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander (forbes.com)

97 points by sinak on Aug 22, 2013 | 53 comments

867.

How to Write the Shit Out of Something (erickarjaluoto.com)

97 points by karjaluoto on Aug 13, 2013 | 36 comments

868.

Java Algorithms and Clients (algs4.cs.princeton.edu)

97 points by javinpaul on Aug 27, 2013 | 34 comments

869.

Computer can read letters directly from the brain (ru.nl)

97 points by turing on Aug 24, 2013 | 32 comments

870.

Top Rift Experiences Right Now (oculusriftinfo.com)

97 points by thenomad on Aug 9, 2013 | 31 comments