HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

751.

The Science of Politely Ending a Conversation (fastcodesign.com)

102 points by KhalilK on Dec 1, 2014 | 35 comments

752.

Using the Quick Raise of Matrices to a Power to Write a Fast Interpreter (kukuruku.co)

102 points by skazka16 on Dec 26, 2014 | 28 comments

753.

A gentle introduction to elliptic-curve cryptography [video] (media.ccc.de)

102 points by 0x006A on Dec 30, 2014 | 24 comments

754.

Bootstrapping Rust (aidancully.blogspot.com)

102 points by bluehex on Dec 11, 2014 | 16 comments

755.

“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more (schaechter.asmblog.org)

102 points by alexwg on Dec 28, 2014 | 7 comments

756.

Prison book ban ruled unlawful by High Court (bbc.co.uk)

101 points by danseagrave on Dec 5, 2014 | 76 comments

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HIV evolving 'into milder form' (m.bbc.co.uk)

101 points by GotAnyMegadeth on Dec 2, 2014 | 69 comments

758.

Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++? ()

101 points by ctb_mg on Dec 23, 2014 | 62 comments

759.

What Is Fatigue? (newyorker.com)

101 points by iKenshu on Dec 13, 2014 | 13 comments

760.

Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts (ranf.tl)

100 points by majodev on Dec 27, 2014 | 54 comments

761.

Why Math Might Be the Secret to School Success (npr.org)

100 points by JSeymourATL on Dec 9, 2014 | 51 comments

762.

Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat (vikparuchuri.com)

100 points by vikp on Dec 29, 2014 | 46 comments

763.

Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp (github.com)

100 points by momo-reina on Dec 27, 2014 | 40 comments

764.

How to Be Intoxicated (chronicle.com)

100 points by HarryHirsch on Dec 8, 2014 | 35 comments

765.

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter (nasa.gov)

100 points by frankydp on Dec 7, 2014 | 27 comments

766.

Oliver Heaviside (en.wikipedia.org)

100 points by z0a on Dec 26, 2014 | 25 comments

767.

USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style (samy.pl)

100 points by jonathanmarvens on Dec 17, 2014 | 24 comments

768.

Things We Believe After Building Maptia (medium.com)

100 points by yallahaline on Dec 16, 2014 | 16 comments

769.

OCaml 4.01 for iOS 8 (psellos.com)

100 points by lelf on Dec 10, 2014 | 6 comments

770.

An opinionated guide to Scheme implementations (2013) (wingolog.org)

99 points by felipebueno on Dec 4, 2014 | 41 comments

771.

Previous: A NeXT emulator (previous.alternative-system.com)

99 points by rcarmo on Dec 13, 2014 | 36 comments

772.

The dominant intelligence in the cosmos may be artificial (motherboard.vice.com)

98 points by Thevet on Dec 19, 2014 | 95 comments

773.

Leaving Academia (2013) (jakobegger.at)

98 points by msvan on Dec 5, 2014 | 74 comments

774.

Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux (youtube.com)

98 points by SwellJoe on Dec 21, 2014 | 53 comments

775.

It's Almost 2015. Update Your Footer (updateyourfooter.com)

98 points by mikk0j on Dec 29, 2014 | 46 comments

776.

Speeding Up PostgreSQL with Partial Indexes (blog.heapanalytics.com)

98 points by drob on Dec 10, 2014 | 27 comments

777.

Dolphin Progress Report: November 2014 (dolphin-emu.org)

98 points by mikexstudios on Dec 15, 2014 | 16 comments

778.

Fin – Keith Wesolowski retires (dtrace.org)

97 points by ABS on Dec 30, 2014 | 64 comments

779.

The Google Way of Attacking Problems (hbr.org)

97 points by frostmatthew on Dec 12, 2014 | 34 comments

780.

How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (hajo.me)

97 points by vinhnx on Dec 31, 2014 | 31 comments