HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news (ma.ttias.be)

183 points by Mojah on Dec 31, 2016 | 178 comments

542.

French journal Mediapart supports Tails, others should too (tails.boum.org)

183 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 16, 2016 | 16 comments

543.

X86 Assembly Guide (cs.virginia.edu)

183 points by misframer on Dec 31, 2016 | 16 comments

544.

Marketing automation is getting out-of-hand (factore.ca)

182 points by adriand on Dec 9, 2016 | 134 comments

545.

Ransomware gives free decryption keys to victims who infect their friends (bleepingcomputer.com)

182 points by progval on Dec 10, 2016 | 123 comments

546.

Are ideas getting harder to find? [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)

182 points by britishsheep on Dec 19, 2016 | 106 comments

547.

Git Cheat Sheet (gist.github.com)

182 points by akras14 on Dec 14, 2016 | 57 comments

548.

Watt time is left (tedunangst.com)

181 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2016 | 161 comments

549.

You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much (nytimes.com)

181 points by LiweiZ on Dec 22, 2016 | 147 comments

550.

Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] (cse.chalmers.se)

181 points by tosh on Dec 8, 2016 | 140 comments

551.

RFC 7764 – Guidance on Markdown (tools.ietf.org)

181 points by arthur2e5 on Dec 14, 2016 | 109 comments

552.

PHPMailer Exploit – Remote Code Execution (legalhackers.com)

181 points by dawid_golunski on Dec 28, 2016 | 96 comments

553.

Vera Rubin has died (carnegiescience.edu)

181 points by bryanrasmussen on Dec 26, 2016 | 11 comments

554.

Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC (goupstate.com)

180 points by forrestbrazeal on Dec 19, 2016 | 187 comments

555.

A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie (blog.feabhas.com)

180 points by ingve on Dec 22, 2016 | 172 comments

556.

Burned house horizon (en.wikipedia.org)

180 points by curtis on Dec 7, 2016 | 62 comments

557.

Show HN: Staticland – Open source static site hosting with SSL via Let's Encrypt (static.land)

180 points by sethvincent on Dec 5, 2016 | 38 comments

558.

George Hotz Is Giving Away Self-Driving Software (spectrum.ieee.org)

179 points by devnonymous on Dec 6, 2016 | 164 comments

559.

ReMarkable Paper Tablet (blog.getremarkable.com)

179 points by mtaksrud on Dec 6, 2016 | 150 comments

560.

State of Startups (stateofstartups.firstround.com)

179 points by ValG on Dec 2, 2016 | 114 comments

561.

Stack identical flat objects so they project over an edge as far as possible (quantamagazine.org)

179 points by dtnewman on Dec 20, 2016 | 38 comments

562.

In Defense of Inclusionism (gwern.net)

178 points by Tomte on Dec 11, 2016 | 171 comments

563.

Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery (sciencealert.com)

178 points by tnorton0310 on Dec 25, 2016 | 148 comments

564.

Unscii – A set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts (pelulamu.net)

178 points by vanni on Dec 15, 2016 | 28 comments

565.

I’m a Bad Developer, That’s the Only Reasonable Explanation (medium.com)

177 points by passenger on Dec 30, 2016 | 125 comments

566.

System loads web pages 34 percent faster by fetching files more effectively (news.mit.edu)

177 points by qwename on Dec 18, 2016 | 101 comments

567.

Tips for Reading Code (2014) (wiki.c2.com)

177 points by _qc3o on Dec 30, 2016 | 69 comments

568.

Telomeres – Too much of a good thing? (joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com)

177 points by discombobulate on Dec 12, 2016 | 68 comments

569.

Writing a Tiny x86 Bootloader (joebergeron.io)

177 points by joebergeron on Dec 28, 2016 | 45 comments

570.

Technology in Hostile States: Ten Principles for User Protection (blog.torproject.org)

177 points by subliminalpanda on Dec 18, 2016 | 17 comments