HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Using the Plan9 Plumber Utility (2013) (mostlymaths.net)

60 points by pmoriarty on Dec 26, 2014 | 10 comments

1232.

The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (2007) (newyorker.com)

60 points by mhb on Dec 2, 2014 | 9 comments

1233.

How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer (theappendix.net)

60 points by omnibrain on Dec 23, 2014 | 6 comments

1234.

Wrapping web APIs made easy (github.com)

60 points by BaiCrazy on Dec 11, 2014 | 4 comments

1235.

Ancient doodle hints that Homo erectus was smarter than we thought (arstechnica.com)

60 points by mbrubeck on Dec 11, 2014 | 3 comments

1236.

Deal forcing Microsoft to offer browser choices ends (bbc.com)

59 points by jessecred on Dec 18, 2014 | 95 comments

1237.

Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go (benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org)

59 points by riccomini on Dec 23, 2014 | 62 comments

1238.

Why I Hate Object Orientated Programming (2010) (blog.jot.fm)

59 points by Immortalin on Dec 11, 2014 | 53 comments

1239.

Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009) (slate.com)

59 points by georgehdd on Dec 24, 2014 | 53 comments

1240.

New paper claims that the neutrino is likely a faster-than-light particle (phys.org)

59 points by kowdermeister on Dec 26, 2014 | 51 comments

1241.

Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf] (ubu.com)

59 points by benbreen on Dec 6, 2014 | 50 comments

1242.

Option and null in dynamic languages (codewords.hackerschool.com)

59 points by luu on Dec 8, 2014 | 50 comments

1243.

How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View (technologyreview.com)

59 points by nkurz on Dec 28, 2014 | 24 comments

1244.

Recent Train Times (recenttraintimes.co.uk)

59 points by annapowellsmith on Dec 11, 2014 | 23 comments

1245.

Instacart (YC S12) Scores $220M Investment (recode.net)

59 points by brianchu on Dec 30, 2014 | 21 comments

1246.

Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics (priceonomics.com)

59 points by rohin on Dec 16, 2014 | 16 comments

1247.

The wreck of the Kulluk (nytimes.com)

59 points by ilamont on Dec 31, 2014 | 14 comments

1248.

Programmable Materials (monograph.io)

59 points by flippyhead on Dec 9, 2014 | 12 comments

1249.

The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel (eudyptula-challenge.org)

59 points by nullflow on Dec 18, 2014 | 11 comments

1250.

Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code (arxiv.org)

59 points by HerrMonnezza on Dec 19, 2014 | 11 comments

1251.

Scalatex: Type-safe, programmable documents (github.com)

59 points by lihaoyi on Dec 28, 2014 | 11 comments

1252.

FastMail's CardDAV System (blog.fastmail.com)

59 points by cdvonstinkpot on Dec 22, 2014 | 7 comments

1253.

Writing a Phase-locked Loop in Straight C (liquidsdr.org)

59 points by blueintegral on Dec 10, 2014 | 6 comments

1254.

Kubernetes on Mesos (mesosphere.com)

59 points by ssk2 on Dec 12, 2014 | 5 comments

1255.

Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner (github.com)

58 points by alanfranz on Dec 16, 2014 | 53 comments

1256.

What Students Do (And Don't Do) in Khan Academy (blog.mrmeyer.com)

58 points by ColinWright on Dec 14, 2014 | 50 comments

1257.

Solidarity against online harassment (blog.torproject.org)

58 points by dsr12 on Dec 27, 2014 | 36 comments

1258.

Old-school desktop using Debian Jessie (sohcahtoa.org.uk)

58 points by vu3rdd on Dec 14, 2014 | 28 comments

1259.

Secure Mail for Devs (developermail.io)

58 points by DaGardner on Dec 13, 2014 | 22 comments

1260.

Zelkova – Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript (github.com)

58 points by gaalze on Dec 5, 2014 | 18 comments