HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery (quantamagazine.org)

550 points by DiabloD3 on Jun 22, 2016 | 139 comments

632.

Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

549 points by nikbackm on Nov 17, 2016 | 262 comments

633.

Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting (hyper.sh)

549 points by rocky1138 on Nov 7, 2016 | 211 comments

634.

Rudolf Kálmán Has Died (hungarytoday.hu)

549 points by szemet on Jul 6, 2016 | 68 comments

635.

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (github.com)

548 points by yincrash on Mar 22, 2016 | 487 comments

636.

Introducing Initialized Capital (initialized.com)

548 points by ernestipark on Oct 24, 2016 | 149 comments

637.

Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff (fastcoexist.com)

547 points by prawn on Sep 26, 2016 | 329 comments

638.

New GNU Emacs website (gnu.org)

547 points by rvern on May 8, 2016 | 229 comments

639.

Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe (juliareda.eu)

547 points by jrepin on Aug 30, 2016 | 174 comments

640.

Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers (blog.algorithmia.com)

547 points by erinjerri1678 on Nov 10, 2016 | 31 comments

641.

The State of JavaScript – Survey results (stateofjs.com)

546 points by ekianjo on Oct 3, 2016 | 346 comments

642.

My Favorite Books of 2016 (gatesnotes.com)

546 points by taylorwc on Dec 5, 2016 | 138 comments

643.

Umberto Eco has died (bbc.com)

546 points by kawera on Feb 20, 2016 | 126 comments

644.

Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub (blogs.microsoft.com)

546 points by fforflo on Jan 25, 2016 | 56 comments

645.

Answers to your questions about Apple and security (apple.com)

545 points by mrexroad on Feb 22, 2016 | 365 comments

646.

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) (stevehanov.ca)

545 points by _kush on Apr 6, 2016 | 157 comments

647.

Go 1.7 is released (blog.golang.org)

545 points by techietim on Aug 15, 2016 | 133 comments

648.

Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value (bloomberg.com)

544 points by huangc10 on Nov 10, 2016 | 585 comments

649.

Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (blog.codeship.com)

544 points by yranadive on Aug 4, 2016 | 429 comments

650.

Reasons not to use Uber (stallman.org)

544 points by deepakkarki on Nov 12, 2016 | 361 comments

651.

My Pixel has a manufacturing defect (9to5google.com)

544 points by ivank on Dec 10, 2016 | 344 comments

652.

Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement (twitter.com)

544 points by ishtu on Jan 26, 2016 | 174 comments

653.

Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater (newscientist.com)

543 points by rmason on Oct 7, 2016 | 184 comments

654.

Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases (blog.bitpay.com)

542 points by StavrosK on Apr 28, 2016 | 431 comments

655.

The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy (theguardian.com)

542 points by dineshp2 on Apr 11, 2016 | 338 comments

656.

Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console (nintendolife.com)

542 points by aeno on Jul 14, 2016 | 262 comments

657.

GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 (bloomberg.com)

540 points by mobee on Dec 15, 2016 | 568 comments

658.

The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up (sazzy.co.uk)

540 points by acconrad on Feb 24, 2016 | 332 comments

659.

Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid (bloomberg.com)

540 points by adventured on Sep 16, 2016 | 212 comments

660.

FCC Vote Means Internet Providers Need Permission to Share Your Data (npr.org)

540 points by suprgeek on Oct 27, 2016 | 112 comments