HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius from modern violins (thestrad.com)

310 points by ZeljkoS on Jul 14, 2016 | 246 comments

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Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration: why we often hate new stuff (washingtonpost.com)

308 points by walterbell on Jul 25, 2016 | 271 comments

153.

Pinboard Turns Seven (blog.pinboard.in)

308 points by mindprince on Jul 9, 2016 | 105 comments

154.

A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline (nytimes.com)

307 points by suprgeek on Jul 10, 2016 | 147 comments

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What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold (medium.com)

305 points by jessaustin on Jul 28, 2016 | 255 comments

156.

NASA Data Shows Toxic Air Threat Choking Indian Subcontinent (bloomberg.com)

305 points by rhayabusa on Jul 7, 2016 | 209 comments

157.

Cloudflare ReCAPTCHA De-Anonymizes Tor Users (cryptome.org)

305 points by walterbell on Jul 19, 2016 | 115 comments

158.

Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf] (sigtbd.csail.mit.edu)

305 points by obi1kenobi on Jul 27, 2016 | 108 comments

159.

Nexus phones now identify suspected spam callers (plus.google.com)

303 points by bishnu on Jul 25, 2016 | 238 comments

160.

Chasing Cats (myplace.frontier.com)

302 points by TheGuyWhoCodes on Jul 8, 2016 | 89 comments

161.

MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015) (ocw.mit.edu)

302 points by codepie on Jul 2, 2016 | 48 comments

162.

Jepsen: VoltDB 6.3 (aphyr.com)

301 points by samber on Jul 12, 2016 | 29 comments

163.

How 'Advantage Players' Game the Casinos (nytimes.com)

299 points by troydavis on Jul 1, 2016 | 127 comments

164.

Elixir 1.3.1 released (github.com)

299 points by eddd on Jul 11, 2016 | 96 comments

165.

NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over (techcrunch.com)

298 points by Osiris on Jul 26, 2016 | 227 comments

166.

CloudFlare, We Have a Problem (cryto.net)

297 points by signa11 on Jul 16, 2016 | 163 comments

167.

Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards (medium.com)

296 points by uptown on Jul 8, 2016 | 251 comments

168.

Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners (theintercept.com)

296 points by secfirstmd on Jul 21, 2016 | 150 comments

169.

Verizon nears deal to acquire Yahoo (bloomberg.com)

294 points by kshatrea on Jul 22, 2016 | 202 comments

170.

A beginners guide to thinking in SQL (sohamkamani.com)

293 points by craigkerstiens on Jul 11, 2016 | 87 comments

171.

The Inner Json Effect (thedailywtf.com)

291 points by dsego on Jul 29, 2016 | 141 comments

172.

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ (arobenko.gitbooks.io)

291 points by adamnemecek on Jul 21, 2016 | 83 comments

173.

Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders (bloomberg.com)

290 points by lmg643 on Jul 11, 2016 | 220 comments

174.

Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO (about.gitlab.com)

290 points by Siecje on Jul 20, 2016 | 139 comments

175.

Wireworld (en.wikipedia.org)

290 points by vmorgulis on Jul 7, 2016 | 26 comments

176.

Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?

288 points by new999999937 on Jul 18, 2016 | 139 comments

177.

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (blog.plover.com)