HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Bright (YC W15) raises $4M to bring solar to the developing world (medium.com)

51 points by sethbannon on Aug 5, 2015 | 24 comments

1502.

Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology (nature.com)

51 points by rms on Aug 5, 2015 | 23 comments

1503.

The Architecture of a Cryptocurrency (github.com)

51 points by kushti on Aug 7, 2015 | 22 comments

1504.

Tracing JITs and modern CPUs part 3: A bad case (github.com)

51 points by nkurz on Aug 9, 2015 | 22 comments

1505.

On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel (blog.xenproject.org)

51 points by fcambus on Aug 7, 2015 | 18 comments

1506.

Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (blog.darknedgy.net)

51 points by vezzy-fnord on Aug 27, 2015 | 13 comments

1507.

C++ Hints (cpphints.com)

51 points by PVS-Studio on Aug 24, 2015 | 9 comments

1508.

Announcing the Computation Graph Toolkit (joschu.github.io)

51 points by phreeza on Aug 25, 2015 | 0 comments

1509.

Lenovo Is Laying Off 3,200 (techcrunch.com)

50 points by ghosh on Aug 13, 2015 | 69 comments

1510.

Companies That May Be the Next $1B Startups (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

50 points by dankohn1 on Aug 24, 2015 | 53 comments

1511.

Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready (resize.ly)

50 points by jsingleton on Aug 13, 2015 | 50 comments

1512.

Open the Music Industry’s Black Box (nytimes.com)

50 points by stuartmemo on Aug 2, 2015 | 48 comments

1513.

Where Are Chernobyl’s Children? (medium.com)

50 points by bwang29 on Aug 27, 2015 | 45 comments

1514.

Windows 10 now wants you to pay for Solitaire (cnbc.com)

50 points by codewithcheese on Aug 1, 2015 | 40 comments

1515.

Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight? (wired.com)

50 points by LukeB_UK on Aug 22, 2015 | 39 comments

1516.

The worst impacts of climate change are starting to happen faster than expected (rollingstone.com)

50 points by cryptoz on Aug 5, 2015 | 31 comments

1517.

Another toll of the drought: Land is sinking in San Joaquin Valley (latimes.com)

50 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Aug 22, 2015 | 31 comments

1518.

The Easiest Hard Problem (2002) (americanscientist.org)

50 points by te on Aug 7, 2015 | 30 comments

1519.

What things compute? (researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk)

50 points by theaeolist on Aug 31, 2015 | 29 comments

1520.

Blackphone 2 – Coming Soon (silentcircle.com)

50 points by mike-cardwell on Aug 17, 2015 | 21 comments

1521.

Post-quantum cryptography (en.wikipedia.org)

50 points by drallison on Aug 22, 2015 | 21 comments

1522.

A Guide to the Apple Newton (512pixels.net)

50 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 | 20 comments

1523.

How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2 (bbc.com)

50 points by samaysharma on Aug 12, 2015 | 19 comments

1524.

1491 (2002) (theatlantic.com)

50 points by primroot on Aug 5, 2015 | 18 comments

1525.

FireTcl: Tcl embedded in Firefox browser (wiki.tcl.tk)

50 points by blacksqr on Aug 19, 2015 | 18 comments

1526.

NAND Flash: Dealing with a Flawed Medium (cushychicken.github.io)

50 points by cushychicken on Aug 23, 2015 | 15 comments

1527.

Strictly Tagged Clojure (arrdem.com)

50 points by jonnybgood on Aug 5, 2015 | 13 comments

1528.

Git for Windows 2.5.0 (github.com)

50 points by chadly on Aug 18, 2015 | 13 comments

1529.

Resflash – Resilient OpenBSD images for flash memory (github.com)

50 points by zdw on Aug 13, 2015 | 11 comments

1530.

Easy parallel Python with concurrent.futures (gist.github.com)

50 points by edward on Aug 15, 2015 | 11 comments