HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

Is democracy a failure? (1861) (nytimes.com)

167 points by siavosh on Nov 5, 2016 | 266 comments

632.

Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse (bloomberg.com)

167 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 24, 2016 | 215 comments

633.

Judge rejects Airbnb bid to halt San Francisco ordinance (reuters.com)

167 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 9, 2016 | 95 comments

634.

WebExtensions in Firefox 52 (blog.mozilla.org)

167 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 20, 2016 | 69 comments

635.

A list of modern C++ features (github.com)

167 points by deepakkarki on Nov 14, 2016 | 65 comments

636.

Angry Bots Demo (webassembly.org)

167 points by tilt on Nov 29, 2016 | 65 comments

637.

Ask HN: Do you still use UML?

166 points by dmitripopov on Nov 5, 2016 | 185 comments

638.

KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features (9bis.net)

166 points by xenophonf on Nov 13, 2016 | 112 comments

639.

Ask HN: Best Git workflow for small teams

166 points by tmaly on Nov 13, 2016 | 87 comments

640.

Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (2006) (spinroot.com)

166 points by mpweiher on Nov 4, 2016 | 81 comments

641.

Shrimp Trap (primitivetechnology.wordpress.com)

166 points by nikolay on Nov 4, 2016 | 77 comments

642.

Elm from a Business Perspective (gizra.com)

166 points by amitaibu on Nov 9, 2016 | 75 comments

643.

Tesla runs an entire island on solar power (engadget.com)

166 points by marceee0901 on Nov 23, 2016 | 71 comments

644.

Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often (nytimes.com)

166 points by andyraskin on Nov 27, 2016 | 60 comments

645.

Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering [pdf] (southampton.ac.uk)

166 points by danso on Nov 25, 2016 | 51 comments

646.

List of Computer Science courses with video lectures (github.com)

166 points by turingbook on Nov 22, 2016 | 29 comments

647.

Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] (unctad.org)

165 points by doener on Nov 19, 2016 | 219 comments

648.

Show HN: A DigitalOcean-like support community for your website in 3 minutes (haash.io)

165 points by maliman on Nov 23, 2016 | 97 comments

649.

GNU Parallel Tutorial (gnu.org)

165 points by pi-rat on Nov 13, 2016 | 65 comments

650.

Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn too fast (blog.ycombinator.com)

165 points by craigcannon on Nov 21, 2016 | 49 comments

651.

Vuvuzela: private messaging system that protects metadata (vuvuzela.io)

165 points by 0xmohit on Nov 30, 2016 | 45 comments

652.

Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning (research.google.com)

164 points by dudisbrie on Nov 21, 2016 | 168 comments

653.

Huawei Boss Crashes; News Stories Disappear (cambodiadaily.com)

164 points by _coldfire on Nov 29, 2016 | 52 comments

654.

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014) (happyassassin.net)

164 points by luu on Nov 11, 2016 | 51 comments

655.

Show HN: Best of Themes – The simplest way to browse thousands of website themes (bestofthemes.com)

164 points by danialtz on Nov 4, 2016 | 42 comments

656.

The unbearable smugness of the press (cbsnews.com)

163 points by andrenth on Nov 11, 2016 | 258 comments

657.

Delhi’s air is so toxic that schools are closing, expats are fleeing (qz.com)

163 points by enra on Nov 6, 2016 | 138 comments

658.

What Percent of the Top-Voted Comments in Reddit Threads Were Also First Comment? (minimaxir.com)