HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Laundering (bloomberg.com)

90 points by prostoalex on Dec 20, 2014 | 45 comments

842.

We Are Built to Be Kind [video] (youtube.com)

90 points by SwellJoe on Dec 24, 2014 | 33 comments

843.

I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them (silent700.blogspot.com)

90 points by salgernon on Dec 25, 2014 | 30 comments

844.

Scientists have put a simulated worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body (sciencealert.com)

90 points by mamoriamohit on Dec 13, 2014 | 22 comments

845.

A tale of two’s complement (discuss.rust-lang.org)

90 points by adwn on Dec 28, 2014 | 21 comments

846.

How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)

90 points by lpsz on Dec 14, 2014 | 20 comments

847.

Scaling email transparency (stripe.com)

90 points by koopajah on Dec 8, 2014 | 19 comments

848.

Imposter Syndrome (blog.42floors.com)

90 points by jordanlee on Dec 15, 2014 | 16 comments

849.

Diary of a little girl in old New York (1919) (archive.org)

90 points by mcenedella on Dec 29, 2014 | 15 comments

850.

Summary of Golang Generics Discussion (docs.google.com)

89 points by signa11 on Dec 16, 2014 | 146 comments

851.

Ntimed – NTPD replacement (github.com)

89 points by 925dk on Dec 22, 2014 | 105 comments

852.

On Interviewing as a Junior Dev (lizmrush.com)

89 points by mlrtime on Dec 9, 2014 | 91 comments

853.

Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as Treatment for Depression (nytimes.com)

89 points by applecore on Dec 10, 2014 | 71 comments

854.

Ask HN: How can I stop being jealous of people who succeed before me?

89 points by loglinear on Dec 31, 2014 | 61 comments

855.

The Software Scientist (evanmiller.org)

89 points by carljoseph on Dec 27, 2014 | 49 comments

856.

The Insurance Market Mystifies an Airbnb Host (nytimes.com)

89 points by johnny99 on Dec 20, 2014 | 44 comments

857.

In his garage lab, Omahan aims to bend fabric of space (omaha.com)

89 points by rmason on Dec 30, 2014 | 43 comments

858.

Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Child IQ (plosone.org)

89 points by igonvalue on Dec 12, 2014 | 30 comments

859.

The Implications of Facebook Indexing a Trillion Posts (techcrunch.com)

89 points by testrun on Dec 29, 2014 | 30 comments

860.

Still no stem cells via easy 'STAP' path (nature.com)

89 points by lelf on Dec 18, 2014 | 21 comments

861.

Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU (mattkeeter.com)

89 points by mkeeter on Dec 15, 2014 | 18 comments

862.

24 Pull Requests (24pullrequests.com)

89 points by andrewnez on Dec 1, 2014 | 11 comments

863.

Statistical Learning (class.stanford.edu)

89 points by sonabinu on Dec 7, 2014 | 9 comments

864.

Four Areas of Legal Ripe for Disruption by Smart Startups (lawtechnologytoday.org)

88 points by krambs on Dec 16, 2014 | 67 comments

865.

Bitcoin adoption in 2015 (daltoncaldwell.com)

88 points by dalton on Dec 21, 2014 | 61 comments

866.

$82,982,977 USD: $ 0.04 Transaction Fee (blockchain.info)

88 points by cyphersanctus on Dec 3, 2014 | 56 comments

867.

Instacart Is Raising North of $100M at a $2B Valuation (techcrunch.com)

88 points by minimaxir on Dec 5, 2014 | 53 comments

868.

Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding (jacobsschool.ucsd.edu)

88 points by jcr on Dec 31, 2014 | 46 comments

869.

How workers ended up in cubes – and how they could break free (economist.com)

88 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 30, 2014 | 40 comments

870.

Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf] (events.ccc.de)

88 points by dodders on Dec 30, 2014 | 37 comments