HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

17851.

Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines (theguardian.com)

45 points by edward on May 17, 2014 | 14 comments

17852.

Could We Build a Dyson Sphere? (popularmechanics.com)

45 points by itazula on Aug 23, 2014 | 14 comments

17853.

Automatically Solving Captchas on Project Euler (franklinta.com)

45 points by nilknarf on Aug 25, 2014 | 14 comments

17854.

Old laptop batteries could power slums, IBM says (bbc.com)

45 points by yitchelle on Dec 7, 2014 | 14 comments

17855.

Kim Dotcom plans £109m Mega listing on New Zealand stock exchange (theguardian.com)

45 points by thewhitetulip on Mar 25, 2014 | 13 comments

17856.

The death of the homepage (martinbelam.com)

45 points by Isofarro on May 17, 2014 | 13 comments

17857.

Swift Thinking [video] (realm.io)

45 points by arrspdx on Jul 8, 2014 | 13 comments

17858.

Drones Outpacing Rules as Popularity Soars in New York (nytimes.com)

45 points by mcenedella on Aug 4, 2014 | 13 comments

17859.

O’Reilly purchases Pearson’s stake in Safari (radar.oreilly.com)

45 points by lukethomas on Aug 4, 2014 | 13 comments

17860.

The Enchiridion, or Manual, of Epictetus (ptypes.com)

45 points by jj-abram on Nov 19, 2014 | 13 comments

17861.

Heathkit – The Electronic History Mystery (adafruit.com)

45 points by joezydeco on Dec 20, 2014 | 13 comments

17862.

Unbabel (YC W14) Launches A Human-Edited Machine Translation Service (techcrunch.com)

45 points by vasco_ on Mar 23, 2014 | 12 comments

17863.

Principles of Recruiting from Keith Rabois (blog.entelo.com)

45 points by jonbischke on May 16, 2014 | 12 comments

17864.

How Long Does a YC Hiring Link Stay On the Front Page? (kiyototamura.tumblr.com)

45 points by kiyoto on May 27, 2014 | 12 comments

17865.

The fatal attraction of FRP (t0yv0.blogspot.com)

45 points by platz on Jul 27, 2014 | 12 comments

17866.

Bitmask: an open source app to provide easy and secure encrypted communication (bitmask.net)

45 points by psiconaut on Aug 25, 2014 | 12 comments

17867.

Maps attributed to Marco Polo sketch what looks like the coast of Alaska (smithsonianmag.com)

45 points by randallsquared on Oct 5, 2014 | 12 comments

17868.

The GNU C Library version 2.19 is now available (sourceware.org)

45 points by slashdotaccount on Feb 9, 2014 | 11 comments

17869.

Parallel Locality Sensitive Hashing (istc-bigdata.org)

45 points by espeed on May 30, 2014 | 11 comments

17870.

Notes from Startup School NY 2014 (myusings.tumblr.com)

45 points by lorenyu on Jun 19, 2014 | 11 comments

17871.

Fifty Years of Databases (2012) (wp.sigmod.org)

45 points by yorp on Sep 5, 2014 | 11 comments

17872.

My acquired Bitcoin startup Bridgewalker is now open source (bridgewalkerapp.com)

45 points by jav on Jan 9, 2014 | 10 comments

17873.

Important Metrics in a Startup's Financial Statements (ttunguz.github.io)

45 points by nanopisaroni on Jan 17, 2014 | 10 comments

17874.

How to set up an Online Tutoring Business. A Programmer's Guide [pdf] (drive.google.com)

45 points by matthiaseisen on May 20, 2014 | 10 comments

17875.

Discouraged Developer (tbray.org)

45 points by pswenson on Jul 17, 2014 | 10 comments

17876.

Show HN: React 0.12 renders to Web Components (gist.github.com)

45 points by OlavHN on Nov 7, 2014 | 10 comments

17877.

Halliburton buys oilfield rival Baker Hughes for $34B (cbc.ca)

45 points by oulipian on Nov 17, 2014 | 10 comments

17878.

VR Coaster: The Discoveries we made (vr-coaster.com)

45 points by qznc on Nov 19, 2014 | 10 comments

17879.

NYPD’s Twitter request for photos backfires (washingtonpost.com)

45 points by jonah on Apr 23, 2014 | 9 comments

17880.

Type Erasure with Merged Concepts in C++ (aherrmann.github.io)

45 points by adamnemecek on Oct 19, 2014 | 9 comments