HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) (setosa.io)

419 points by sonabinu on Mar 20, 2016 | 44 comments

1232.

We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products (medium.com)

418 points by ph0rque on Nov 7, 2016 | 507 comments

1233.

Why Apple Is Right to Challenge an Order to Help the F.B.I (nytimes.com)

418 points by doe88 on Feb 19, 2016 | 311 comments

1234.

U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years (wsj.com)

418 points by kevinnk on Jul 8, 2016 | 269 comments

1235.

Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ (theregister.co.uk)

418 points by joshbaptiste on Jan 22, 2016 | 161 comments

1236.

Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple (rte.ie)

417 points by Oletros on Aug 30, 2016 | 419 comments

1237.

Never accept a counter-offer (vtorosyan.github.io)

417 points by vtorosyan on Oct 2, 2016 | 356 comments

1238.

Why GNU grep is fast (2010) (lists.freebsd.org)

417 points by mozumder on Aug 24, 2016 | 145 comments

1239.

Shutting down persona.org in November 2016 (mail.mozilla.org)

417 points by buro9 on Jan 12, 2016 | 136 comments

1240.

A Guide to Deep Learning (yerevann.com)

417 points by adamnemecek on Dec 28, 2016 | 34 comments

1241.

With Launch of AU Passport, Africa Is Now Borderless (venturesafrica.com)

416 points by juanplusjuan on Jul 24, 2016 | 107 comments

1242.

Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous (learnenough.com)

416 points by mhartl on Feb 4, 2016 | 102 comments

1243.

Show HN: Ascii to SVG (ivanceras.github.io)

416 points by ivanceras on Oct 2, 2016 | 76 comments

1244.

Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug (vox.com)

415 points by davidbarker on Mar 9, 2016 | 308 comments

1245.

“But he does good work.” (medium.com)

415 points by jarcane on Jun 21, 2016 | 268 comments

1246.

Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf] (pgcon.org)

415 points by postila on Sep 13, 2016 | 210 comments

1247.

Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address (github.com)

415 points by roberdam on Aug 10, 2016 | 199 comments

1248.

The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf] (wstein.org)

415 points by acidflask on Jun 11, 2016 | 196 comments

1249.

Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools (the-japan-news.com)

415 points by astdb on May 24, 2016 | 188 comments

1250.

Before You Grow (blog.ycombinator.com)

415 points by craigcannon on Nov 22, 2016 | 164 comments

1251.

Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics (nautil.us)

415 points by dnetesn on Nov 19, 2016 | 158 comments

1252.

Jenkins 2.0 Beta (jenkins.io)

415 points by sciurus on Mar 25, 2016 | 154 comments

1253.

GNU Octave (gnu.org)

415 points by jordigh on Nov 19, 2016 | 135 comments

1254.

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock (thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com)

415 points by wooby on Jan 20, 2016 | 117 comments

1255.

HARC (blog.ycombinator.com)

415 points by sama on May 11, 2016 | 101 comments

1256.

Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

414 points by rwieruch on Dec 22, 2016 | 321 comments

1257.

Text Summarization with TensorFlow (research.googleblog.com)

414 points by runesoerensen on Aug 24, 2016 | 69 comments

1258.

Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

414 points by deafcalculus on Dec 26, 2016 | 53 comments

1259.

The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it (washingtonpost.com)

413 points by capote on Jun 24, 2016 | 568 comments

1260.

Nootropics (gwern.net)

413 points by raldu on Sep 21, 2016 | 383 comments