HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show (gigaom.com)

282 points by electic on Aug 25, 2013 | 108 comments

152.

Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser (blog.grunseid.com)

281 points by grun on Aug 15, 2013 | 148 comments

153.

Why does Angular.js rock? (angular-tips.com)

281 points by Foxandxss on Aug 3, 2013 | 125 comments

154.

Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors? (physics.stackexchange.com)

281 points by jonbaer on Aug 22, 2013 | 114 comments

155.

Does Steve Jobs know how to code? (woz.org)

280 points by bane on Aug 29, 2013 | 226 comments

156.

ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source (reactos.org)

280 points by kunai on Aug 31, 2013 | 118 comments

157.

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches (washingtonpost.com)

280 points by eplanit on Aug 20, 2013 | 109 comments

158.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

279 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2013 | 385 comments

159.

The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline (slate.com)

279 points by probabilistic on Aug 23, 2013 | 220 comments

160.

The Future of Programming in Node.js (groups.google.com)

278 points by Yakulu on Aug 13, 2013 | 176 comments

161.

Show HN: Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor (tridiv.com)

277 points by JulianGarnier on Aug 21, 2013 | 59 comments

162.

Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road (forbes.com)

276 points by cgi_man on Aug 14, 2013 | 129 comments

163.

Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic (cryptocloud.org)

276 points by detcader on Aug 5, 2013 | 82 comments

164.

Show HN: noteZilla - Interactive sheet music (notezilla.io)

275 points by siliconviking on Aug 16, 2013 | 130 comments

165.

Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text (explainshell.com)

275 points by duck on Aug 29, 2013 | 82 comments

166.

In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity (mobile.nytimes.com)

274 points by kmfrk on Aug 1, 2013 | 97 comments

167.

Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy (wekeroad.com)

272 points by EvilTrout on Aug 22, 2013 | 200 comments

168.

Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014 (nytimes.com)

272 points by bmmayer1 on Aug 28, 2013 | 172 comments

169.

"Journey to Justinia" – how I got my 5-year-old son to sit still for 5 hours (justy.me)

271 points by Bockit on Aug 19, 2013 | 70 comments

170.

You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up (groovypost.com)

269 points by pessimizer on Aug 12, 2013 | 178 comments

171.

Encryption is less secure than we thought (mit.edu)

268 points by qubitsam on Aug 14, 2013 | 72 comments

172.

Why I'll be a solo founder next time (dennybritz.com)

267 points by dennybritz on Aug 5, 2013 | 145 comments

173.

No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional (oregonlive.com)

267 points by rubyrescue on Aug 30, 2013 | 76 comments

174.

I cannot afford to go back to engineering school (medium.com)

265 points by ingrid on Aug 7, 2013 | 270 comments

175.

Shopify POS (shopify.com)

265 points by remi on Aug 28, 2013 | 120 comments

176.

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (darkpatterns.org)

265 points by kjhughes on Aug 30, 2013 | 94 comments

177.

Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal (rollingstone.com)

264 points by mhb on Aug 16, 2013 | 266 comments

178.

Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB? (electronics.stackexchange.com)

264 points by dchester195 on Aug 20, 2013 | 125 comments

179.

Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t (techcrunch.com)

264 points by L4mppu on Aug 9, 2013 | 86 comments

180.

NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies (theguardian.com)

264 points by uptown on Aug 23, 2013 | 75 comments