HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic (alternet.org)

105 points by samclemens on Nov 15, 2014 | 78 comments

722.

Brazil builds its own fiber optic network to avoid the NSA (sovereignman.com)

105 points by m_warsh on Nov 14, 2014 | 49 comments

723.

How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (2011) (discovermagazine.com)

105 points by wallflower on Nov 21, 2014 | 35 comments

724.

Most operating systems have implemented realtime signals incorrectly (zinascii.com)

105 points by rzezeski on Nov 3, 2014 | 23 comments

725.

MozVR (mozvr.com)

105 points by robin_reala on Nov 10, 2014 | 18 comments

726.

Counterparty Recreates Ethereum's Smart Contract Platform on Bitcoin (counterparty.io)

105 points by PhantomPhreak on Nov 12, 2014 | 16 comments

727.

‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB (en.wikipedia.org)

105 points by mquandalle on Nov 27, 2014 | 14 comments

728.

Many Older Brains Have Plasticity, but in a Different Place (neurosciencenews.com)

105 points by npalli on Nov 19, 2014 | 5 comments

729.

Half of stars lurk outside galaxies (nature.com)

104 points by scott_s on Nov 19, 2014 | 78 comments

730.

Dell’s Life After Wall Street (nytimes.com)

104 points by constantinum on Nov 3, 2014 | 74 comments

731.

Inside the Dynomak: A Fusion Technology Cheaper Than Coal (spectrum.ieee.org)

104 points by ohaal on Nov 27, 2014 | 72 comments

732.

Backups suck (2013) (3ofcoins.net)

104 points by JensRantil on Nov 28, 2014 | 41 comments

733.

On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (2013) (online.wsj.com)

104 points by gwern on Nov 6, 2014 | 39 comments

734.

BitQuest – Minecraft server with Bitcoin-denominated economy (bitquest.co)

104 points by phaser on Nov 21, 2014 | 36 comments

735.

Consul.io – Service discovery and configuration made easy (consul.io)

104 points by rogerfernandezg on Nov 15, 2014 | 34 comments

736.

Mining of Massive Datasets (mmds.org)

104 points by luu on Nov 3, 2014 | 16 comments

737.

Rubinius 3.0 – Part 1: The Rubinius Team (rubini.us)

104 points by jc00ke on Nov 10, 2014 | 10 comments

738.

I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them (washingtonpost.com)

103 points by ColinWright on Nov 7, 2014 | 99 comments

739.

Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting (blogs.wsj.com)

103 points by T-A on Nov 27, 2014 | 55 comments

740.

The Loneliest Genius (nautil.us)

103 points by pmcpinto on Nov 27, 2014 | 40 comments

741.

Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls (arstechnica.com)

103 points by pjl on Nov 11, 2014 | 30 comments

742.

Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks (thorstenball.com)

103 points by philnash on Nov 20, 2014 | 11 comments

743.

Particles.js (vincentgarreau.com)

103 points by mparramon on Nov 12, 2014 | 9 comments

744.

Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (1997) (math.ucr.edu)

102 points by solray on Nov 16, 2014 | 86 comments

745.

How Does a Debugger Work? (blog.0x972.info)

102 points by wazari972 on Nov 24, 2014 | 40 comments

746.

Red Programming Language (red-lang.org)

102 points by Immortalin on Nov 15, 2014 | 38 comments

747.

Startup creates VetiGel, a plant based polymer that seals wounds in seconds (medicalxpress.com)

102 points by lelf on Nov 22, 2014 | 32 comments

748.

Kurzgesagt Information Design (kurzgesagt.org)

102 points by cpg on Nov 9, 2014 | 30 comments

749.

CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler (homepage.ntlworld.com)

102 points by userbinator on Nov 8, 2014 | 22 comments

750.

I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women (pando.com)

102 points by julespitt on Nov 18, 2014 | 10 comments