HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

The work of Vera Rubin (astrobites.org)

72 points by sohkamyung on Dec 28, 2016 | 6 comments

1412.

How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities (hub.zhovner.com)

72 points by ThatGeoGuy on Dec 21, 2016 | 3 comments

1413.

Whistleblowers Dont Need Elite Credentials to Help Protect Us from Gov Overreach (eff.org)

72 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 28, 2016 | 3 comments

1414.

What we learnt from our mistakes in 2016 (theguardian.com)

72 points by vinnyglennon on Dec 25, 2016 | 2 comments

1415.

‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson (c2cjournal.ca)

72 points by skmurphy on Dec 5, 2016 | 0 comments

1416.

Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

71 points by webmaven on Dec 2, 2016 | 212 comments

1417.

Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

71 points by moraya-re on Dec 25, 2016 | 114 comments

1418.

Some Thoughts on Hiring at a New Startup (m.brianmcmanus.org)

71 points by bdmac97 on Dec 22, 2016 | 74 comments

1419.

How to empty the ketchup bottle every time and improve power plants too (economist.com)

71 points by chang2301 on Dec 2, 2016 | 65 comments

1420.

Show HN: Gun database – 100k ops/sec in IE6 on 2GB Atom CPU (github.com)

71 points by marknadal on Dec 24, 2016 | 48 comments

1421.

The Curse of the Excluded Middle (2014) (queue.acm.org)

71 points by tosh on Dec 26, 2016 | 37 comments

1422.

Kaby Lake Systems with Intel Optane SSDs Coming Soon (anandtech.com)

71 points by gbrown_ on Dec 28, 2016 | 35 comments

1423.

East Asian character emojis – “the fuller” story (chenhuijing.com)

71 points by jmadsen on Dec 30, 2016 | 33 comments

1424.

I mostly believe in Worms (blog.givewell.org)

71 points by apsec112 on Dec 23, 2016 | 32 comments

1425.

I was a robot and this is what I learned (theregister.co.uk)

71 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 7, 2016 | 31 comments

1426.

Passage to America, 1750 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)

71 points by walterbell on Dec 11, 2016 | 29 comments

1427.

Solar System’s biggest asteroid is an ancient ocean world (nature.com)

71 points by mooseburger on Dec 20, 2016 | 25 comments

1428.

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works (sciencealert.com)

71 points by chang2301 on Dec 6, 2016 | 20 comments

1429.

Tsunami warning issued after magnitude 7.9 quake hits east of Papua New Guinea (reuters.com)

71 points by denzil_correa on Dec 17, 2016 | 20 comments

1430.

Drowning in Information: NSA Revelations from 262 Spy Documents (theintercept.com)

71 points by severine on Dec 11, 2016 | 12 comments

1431.

Conductor – A microservices orchestration engine that runs in the cloud (netflix.github.io)

71 points by Nimsical on Dec 14, 2016 | 11 comments

1432.

Set Operations in the Unix Shell (2008) (catonmat.net)

71 points by polygot on Dec 24, 2016 | 10 comments

1433.

A real Good Samaritan (2010) (bbc.co.uk)

71 points by CarolineW on Dec 25, 2016 | 3 comments

1434.

Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

70 points by pasta on Dec 8, 2016 | 73 comments

1435.

Mapping the Growth of Disability Claims in America (bloomberg.com)

70 points by smaddali on Dec 18, 2016 | 61 comments

1436.

Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away from Coding Schools (bloomberg.com)

70 points by JSeymourATL on Dec 6, 2016 | 43 comments

1437.

Garbage collection in a large Lisp system (1984) (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

70 points by lispm on Dec 21, 2016 | 38 comments

1438.

Show HN: RegEx Face Off – Beat your friends with regular expressions (regexfaceoff.com)