HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

421.

Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago (vox.com)

202 points by elberto34 on May 19, 2016 | 103 comments

422.

Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone (theguardian.com)

202 points by lucaspiller on May 20, 2016 | 69 comments

423.

Cling: An Interactive C++ interpreter (root.cern.ch)

202 points by indatawetrust on May 22, 2016 | 50 comments

424.

IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open source (decosoftware.com)

202 points by somecoder on May 26, 2016 | 28 comments

425.

Iceland’s Ghost Planes (warisboring.com)

202 points by bootload on May 10, 2016 | 27 comments

426.

Spaces, a tool for small group sharing (googleblog.blogspot.com)

201 points by el_duderino on May 16, 2016 | 139 comments

427.

How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid (lowtechmagazine.com)

201 points by hellrich on May 18, 2016 | 138 comments

428.

Python Concurrency Decorators (github.com)

201 points by orangepenguin on May 12, 2016 | 46 comments

429.

Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments (experimental-geography.blogspot.com)

200 points by spenrose on May 16, 2016 | 151 comments

430.

Steve Blank: 'VCs Won't Admit They're in a Ponzi Scheme' (inc.com)

200 points by jackgavigan on May 26, 2016 | 76 comments

431.

Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones (cbc.ca)

199 points by jonbaer on May 16, 2016 | 177 comments

432.

Google Deactivates Web Search API (ajax.googleapis.com)

199 points by woodruffw on May 4, 2016 | 129 comments

433.

The Secret of Billions (medium.com)

199 points by vishnuks on May 23, 2016 | 111 comments

434.

Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy (forbes.com)

199 points by miraji on May 30, 2016 | 91 comments

435.

Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community (lede-project.org)

199 points by ycmbntrthrwaway on May 3, 2016 | 81 comments

436.

A 54-year-old custodian just graduated from the college he cleaned at night (washingtonpost.com)

199 points by shawndumas on May 23, 2016 | 63 comments

437.

SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time (theverge.com)

199 points by manu-chroma on May 28, 2016 | 49 comments

438.

Introducing the 2nd Generation Boosted Board (boostedboards.com)

198 points by jpb0104 on May 19, 2016 | 187 comments

439.

What cold showers and exercise have in common (2014) (gettingstronger.org)

198 points by RogtamBar on May 2, 2016 | 135 comments

440.

How the Gut Affects Mood (fivethirtyeight.com)

198 points by sndean on May 19, 2016 | 33 comments

441.

Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street? (mapstoryblog.thenittygritty.org)

197 points by jtsnow on May 5, 2016 | 167 comments

442.

Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software (medium.com)

197 points by zimbu668 on May 9, 2016 | 163 comments

443.

Code Page 437 Refuses to Die (horstmann.com)

197 points by ingve on May 8, 2016 | 89 comments

444.

Cache-Control: immutable (bitsup.blogspot.com)

197 points by chadaustin on May 11, 2016 | 71 comments

445.

Doctors' Secret Language for Assisted Suicide (theatlantic.com)

197 points by nitin_flanker on May 16, 2016 | 63 comments

446.

Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3

196 points by kevin on May 5, 2016 | 302 comments

447.

I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning (ibtimes.co.uk)

196 points by miraj on May 28, 2016 | 153 comments

448.

Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? (biorxiv.org)

196 points by bigdatabigdata on May 26, 2016 | 50 comments

449.

In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time (boredpanda.com)

195 points by maxoliver on May 17, 2016 | 94 comments

450.

Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014) (arxiv.org)

195 points by Phithagoras on May 1, 2016 | 78 comments