HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1261.

Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches (collectorsweekly.com)

83 points by bootload on Dec 15, 2016 | 34 comments

1262.

Pythagorean Cup: Practical Joke Chalice Overflows with Ancient Greek Humor (99percentinvisible.org)

83 points by misnamed on Dec 25, 2016 | 20 comments

1263.

Alone in Pico: Postmortem of a 3D demake (lexaloffle.com)

83 points by phoboslab on Dec 4, 2016 | 15 comments

1264.

Thinking in Parallel (blog.baasil.io)

83 points by jondubois on Dec 5, 2016 | 8 comments

1265.

Record Query – A tool for doing record analysis and transformation (github.com)

83 points by networked on Dec 3, 2016 | 7 comments

1266.

The fourth industrial revolution: a primer on Artificial Intelligence (medium.com)

83 points by wslh on Dec 18, 2016 | 7 comments

1267.

What Is Bitcoin? A Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners (blockgeeks.com)

83 points by yelnatz on Dec 5, 2016 | 0 comments

1268.

Channels in Golang (tapirgames.com)

82 points by bsg75 on Dec 25, 2016 | 104 comments

1269.

As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms (news.nationalgeographic.com)

82 points by clumsysmurf on Dec 25, 2016 | 89 comments

1270.

MSSQL on Linux – the details (adfinis-sygroup.ch)

82 points by winged on Dec 28, 2016 | 58 comments

1271.

What a Sensory Isolation Tank Taught Me About My Brain (nytimes.com)

82 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 31, 2016 | 57 comments

1272.

The Django Project Debates User Tracking (lwn.net)

82 points by miiiiiike on Dec 2, 2016 | 50 comments

1273.

First steps forward with Fitbit (developer.pebble.com)

82 points by antouank on Dec 16, 2016 | 47 comments

1274.

Elementary proof that e is irrational (fermatslibrary.com)

82 points by luisb on Dec 13, 2016 | 44 comments

1275.

Code Inflation (2015) [pdf] (spinroot.com)

82 points by saretired on Dec 18, 2016 | 37 comments

1276.

Quarter of inmates could have been spared prison without risk, study says (theguardian.com)

82 points by kafkaesq on Dec 11, 2016 | 21 comments

1277.

Introduction to Parallel Computing (computing.llnl.gov)

82 points by n-s-f on Dec 10, 2016 | 3 comments

1278.

Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity (sfbay.techsolidarity.org)

81 points by stablemap on Dec 2, 2016 | 120 comments

1279.

How a Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment (2014) (priceonomics.com)

81 points by ryan_j_naughton on Dec 3, 2016 | 67 comments

1280.

A defense of Christianity helped unlock the secrets of the brain (nautil.us)

81 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 20, 2016 | 66 comments

1281.

“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week." (facebook.com)

81 points by minimaxir on Dec 6, 2016 | 56 comments

1282.

Burnout [audio] (npr.org)

81 points by noobhacker on Dec 11, 2016 | 45 comments

1283.

Show HN: Automated Pipelines to Your Kubernetes Clusters (distelli.com)

81 points by kt9 on Dec 12, 2016 | 45 comments

1284.

New Exploit Breaks the iPhone's Messaging App with One Text (tomshardware.com)

81 points by pierre-renaux on Dec 31, 2016 | 35 comments

1285.

The IT security culture, hackers vs. industry consortia (laforge.gnumonks.org)

81 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 31, 2016 | 28 comments

1286.

To Make the World Better, Think Small (nytimes.com)

81 points by dnetesn on Dec 31, 2016 | 28 comments

1287.

Programming Music: The Applications of Algorithmic Composition [pdf] (getinspired.mit.edu)