HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Coursera shuts access to old platform courses (reachtarunhere.github.io)

590 points by reachtarunhere on Jun 11, 2016 | 266 comments

542.

No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office (business-standard.com)

590 points by joshsharp on Feb 23, 2016 | 181 comments

543.

Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1 (bengarney.com)

590 points by kimburgess on Jul 7, 2016 | 55 comments

544.

Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (theintercept.com)

588 points by etiam on Sep 18, 2016 | 171 comments

545.

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here (scientificamerican.com)

586 points by doener on Jul 30, 2016 | 331 comments

546.

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (freedom-to-tinker.com)

586 points by ColanR on Dec 17, 2016 | 257 comments

547.

Languages Which Almost Became CSS (eager.io)

586 points by zackbloom on Jun 28, 2016 | 133 comments

548.

Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars (syonyk.blogspot.com)

585 points by Shivetya on Mar 6, 2016 | 361 comments

549.

15 years of VLC and VideoLAN (jbkempf.com)

585 points by bpierre on Feb 1, 2016 | 149 comments

550.

How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution (medium.com)

585 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 2, 2016 | 116 comments

551.

Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)

584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 | 248 comments

552.

Writing Less Code (heydonworks.com)

583 points by fiatjaf on Aug 17, 2016 | 200 comments

553.

Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s (blogs.dropbox.com)

582 points by samber on Jul 14, 2016 | 190 comments

554.

Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything (factorio.com)

582 points by staticelf on Mar 11, 2016 | 113 comments

555.

Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO (buzzfeed.com)

581 points by philip1209 on Feb 9, 2016 | 232 comments

556.

The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org)

581 points by molecule on Apr 9, 2016 | 209 comments

557.

Xamarin Open-Sourced (open.xamarin.com)

581 points by fekberg on Apr 27, 2016 | 199 comments

558.

Cruise (blog.samaltman.com)

580 points by sama on Apr 13, 2016 | 386 comments

559.

MAME is now Free and Open Source Software (mamedev.org)

580 points by Lord_Nightmare on Mar 4, 2016 | 91 comments

560.

Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity (vox.com)

579 points by tchalla on Sep 9, 2016 | 352 comments

561.

How We Make Money at Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

578 points by ocoster on Nov 15, 2016 | 217 comments

562.

Canada's immigration website crashes on election night (ctvnews.ca)

577 points by iamdeedubs on Nov 9, 2016 | 526 comments

563.

Google Home (home.google.com)

577 points by stuartmemo on May 18, 2016 | 457 comments

564.

My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” (buzzfeed.com)

577 points by jseliger on Feb 10, 2016 | 347 comments

565.

Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire (reddit.com)

576 points by ikeboy on Dec 7, 2016 | 212 comments

566.

PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)

576 points by trymas on Jul 2, 2016 | 70 comments

567.

Docker in Production: A History of Failure (thehftguy.wordpress.com)

575 points by user5994461 on Nov 4, 2016 | 287 comments

568.

Alan Kay's reading list (squeakland.org)

575 points by drjohnson on May 30, 2016 | 168 comments

569.

Lenin was a mushroom (en.wikipedia.org)

574 points by Smaug123 on Jun 22, 2016 | 178 comments

570.

GitLab Master Plan (about.gitlab.com)

573 points by dwaxe on Sep 13, 2016 | 327 comments