HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13951.

Why it's important to optimise the tricky parts of Ruby [video] (youtube.com)

86 points by chrisseaton on Jul 9, 2016 | 12 comments

13952.

Show HN: PDD – Probabilistic De-Duplication of Streams with Bloom Filters (github.com)

86 points by jparkie on Dec 5, 2016 | 12 comments

13953.

The mobile device lab at the Prineville data center (code.facebook.com)

86 points by slyall on Jul 15, 2016 | 11 comments

13954.

Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform (github.com)

86 points by seleniumbase on Jul 30, 2016 | 11 comments

13955.

Reverse Engineering Using Chrome (rudk.ws)

86 points by rudkovskyi on Oct 17, 2016 | 11 comments

13956.

The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics (quantamagazine.org)

86 points by nature24 on Nov 20, 2016 | 11 comments

13957.

Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search (github.com)

86 points by trentmc on Mar 9, 2016 | 10 comments

13958.

Hylogen: Haskell EDSL for live-coding fragment shaders (github.com)

86 points by luu on Jun 5, 2016 | 10 comments

13959.

Dataflow as database (github.com)

86 points by mrry on Jul 20, 2016 | 10 comments

13960.

Mediatek MT6261 ROM dumping via the vibration motor (sodnpoo.com)

86 points by sodnpoo on Feb 7, 2016 | 9 comments

13961.

Microsoft previews Project Springfield, a cloud-based bug detector (blogs.microsoft.com)

86 points by Qworg on Sep 26, 2016 | 9 comments

13962.

Show HN: Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python (libtmux.git-pull.com)

86 points by git-pull on Dec 18, 2016 | 8 comments

13963.

AI and the Future of Civilization (edge.org)

86 points by benbreen on Apr 2, 2016 | 7 comments

13964.

New attack steals SSNs, e-mail addresses, and more from HTTPS pages (arstechnica.com)

86 points by jvannistelrooy on Aug 4, 2016 | 7 comments

13965.

IM2CAD – Reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to a photograph (arxiv.org)

86 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 27, 2016 | 6 comments

13966.

Kenya’s M-Pesa has helped the poor, and the economy, while turning a profit (fortune.com)

86 points by davidderhy on Dec 11, 2016 | 5 comments

13967.

The Story Behind the Cover for the Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (bunniestudios.com)

86 points by chei0aiV on Feb 24, 2016 | 3 comments

13968.

Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (1950) [pdf] (strangebeautiful.com)

86 points by theideasmith on Jun 27, 2016 | 1 comments

13969.

Glibc bug allowing remote exploitation by rogue DNS servers (sourceware.org)

86 points by secure on Feb 16, 2016 | 0 comments

13970.

The Fed Wants to Test How Banks Would Handle Negative Rates (bloomberg.com)

85 points by irln on Feb 2, 2016 | 168 comments

13971.

Apple says Australia's banks pose a security threat to iPhones (afr.com)

85 points by rukuu001 on Aug 9, 2016 | 168 comments

13972.

The EU Is on the Verge of Collapse–An Interview with George Soros (nybooks.com)

85 points by nkurz on Jan 23, 2016 | 159 comments

13973.

Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (newyorker.com)

85 points by krsgoss on Nov 28, 2016 | 136 comments

13974.

Why Gold? (kevinlawler.com)

85 points by kcl on Mar 11, 2016 | 132 comments

13975.

Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander (nature.com)

85 points by okket on Oct 25, 2016 | 121 comments

13976.

Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Data Shows (wbur.org)

85 points by carlosgg on Sep 20, 2016 | 119 comments

13977.

Who Invented Homework? (geekandnerd.org)

85 points by Coliba on May 5, 2016 | 118 comments

13978.

Lyft losing as much as $50M a month, president confirms (siliconbeat.com)

85 points by prostoalex on Jul 13, 2016 | 112 comments

13979.

The CIA-backed startup that's taking over Palo Alto (cnbc.com)

85 points by adventured on Jan 13, 2016 | 110 comments

13980.

Half the world to be short-sighted by 2050 (sciencedaily.com)

85 points by elorant on Feb 19, 2016 | 106 comments