HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Algorithms Are Great and All, but They Can Also Ruin Lives (wired.com)

37 points by ghosh on Nov 19, 2014 | 28 comments

1682.

How the 49ers Are Using Beacons to Help You Find Hot Dogs and Beer (techcrunch.com)

37 points by turoczy on Nov 4, 2014 | 20 comments

1683.

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc (2011) (facebook.com)

37 points by luu on Nov 15, 2014 | 15 comments

1684.

Show HN: OJ – A Clojure library for talking to your database (github.com)

37 points by taylorlapeyre on Nov 5, 2014 | 14 comments

1685.

Crunch – Go-based toolkit for ETL and feature extraction on Hadoop (github.com)

37 points by jondot on Nov 19, 2014 | 11 comments

1686.

Mind-controlled transgene expression by a wireless-powered designer cell implant (nature.com)

37 points by benbreen on Nov 16, 2014 | 10 comments

1687.

Korg volca sample SDK – a sample and sequence encoding library (github.com)

37 points by adamnemecek on Nov 19, 2014 | 10 comments

1688.

The ArcticStartup guide to Estonian startup scene (arcticstartup.com)

37 points by jkaljundi on Nov 20, 2014 | 10 comments

1689.

Website Streams Camera Footage from Users Who Didn't Change Their Password (motherboard.vice.com)

37 points by BrandonMarc on Nov 7, 2014 | 9 comments

1690.

The IBM Selectric and Its Mechanical Digital-to-Analog Converter (2010) [video] (commons.wikimedia.org)

37 points by numlocked on Nov 4, 2014 | 8 comments

1691.

Man and Uber Man (vanityfair.com)

37 points by r0h1n on Nov 5, 2014 | 8 comments

1692.

Why Boot Is Relevant for The Clojure Ecosystem (martinklepsch.org)

37 points by mklappstuhl on Nov 6, 2014 | 6 comments

1693.

Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar (2013) (nymag.com)

37 points by gwern on Nov 2, 2014 | 5 comments

1694.

The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (priceonomics.com)

37 points by pif on Nov 23, 2014 | 4 comments

1695.

Optimizing Tail Call Recursion (spin.atomicobject.com)

37 points by silentbicycle on Nov 5, 2014 | 2 comments

1696.

Life at the Top: What a window washer sees (2013) (newyorker.com)

37 points by todayiamme on Nov 13, 2014 | 2 comments

1697.

Qt Weekly #21: Dynamic OpenGL implementation loading in Qt 5.4 (blog.qt.digia.com)

37 points by koopajah on Nov 27, 2014 | 2 comments

1698.

Let's read a Truetype font file from scratch (stevehanov.ca)

37 points by eadler on Nov 5, 2014 | 0 comments

1699.

The Journey to Find, Analyze, and Fix Pac Man’s Split Screen (2007) (donhodges.com)

37 points by grouchysmurf on Nov 25, 2014 | 0 comments

1700.

Fight Over Yahoo’s Use of Flickr Photos (online.wsj.com)

36 points by alxndr on Nov 29, 2014 | 40 comments

1701.

Elon Musk’s Next Mission: Internet Satellites (online.wsj.com)

36 points by jakarta on Nov 7, 2014 | 28 comments

1702.

DefineJS – A lightweight implementation of AMD module format (fixjs.github.io)

36 points by fixjs on Nov 16, 2014 | 26 comments

1703.

Automated CAD (bytecruft.com)

36 points by anjowo on Nov 19, 2014 | 23 comments

1704.

PR2 Very Close to Completing Laundry Cycle (spectrum.ieee.org)

36 points by spectruman on Nov 20, 2014 | 20 comments

1705.

The physics of mosh pits (kottke.org)

36 points by mzehrer on Nov 3, 2014 | 14 comments

1706.

What Are Wallabies Doing in Ireland? (smithsonianmag.com)

36 points by samclemens on Nov 12, 2014 | 13 comments

1707.

The Origin of String Cheese (theatlantic.com)

36 points by zvanness on Nov 23, 2014 | 13 comments

1708.

Is Behavioral Economics the Past or the Future? (orderstatistic.wordpress.com)

36 points by mindcrime on Nov 2, 2014 | 9 comments

1709.

Restoring the IBM 1401 (computerhistory.org)

36 points by cyberviewer on Nov 8, 2014 | 8 comments

1710.

Riffle: a high-performance write-once key/value storage engine for Clojure (blog.factual.com)

36 points by prospero on Nov 17, 2014 | 7 comments