HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

15961.

How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s (nytimes.com)

72 points by dredmorbius on Aug 8, 2016 | 74 comments

15962.

Is serotonin the happy brain chemical? (theneurosphere.com)

72 points by jimsojim on Jan 26, 2016 | 72 comments

15963.

Get an unbiased opinion on if you should get out of bed (shouldigetup.com)

72 points by wiemee on Mar 3, 2016 | 71 comments

15964.

The Most Popular Cars in American Cities (yourmechanic.com)

72 points by Thevet on Apr 11, 2016 | 71 comments

15965.

The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence (ethereumclassic.github.io)

72 points by ETH_Classic on Aug 13, 2016 | 71 comments

15966.

Xiaomi Mi Air 13.3in Notebook Review (notebookcheck.net)

72 points by yread on Oct 24, 2016 | 71 comments

15967.

Programming is boring (dividebyze.ro)

72 points by mhotchen on Nov 4, 2016 | 71 comments

15968.

Rethinking email confirmation (blinkingcaret.com)

72 points by rdfi on Dec 7, 2016 | 70 comments

15969.

Facebook's News Feed (newyorker.com)

72 points by jeo1234 on Jul 3, 2016 | 68 comments

15970.

San Francisco Progressives Declare War on Affordable Housing (bloomberg.com)

72 points by joshlittle on Aug 2, 2016 | 68 comments

15971.

Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabic in Latin Script (github.com)

72 points by _samihasan_ on Dec 17, 2016 | 68 comments

15972.

The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted (marketwatch.com)

72 points by lisper on May 5, 2016 | 67 comments

15973.

New elephant study shows catastrophic decline in Africa (cnn.com)

72 points by adamnemecek on Aug 31, 2016 | 67 comments

15974.

France to build 1000 km of roads with solar panels (solarcrunch.org)

72 points by gipkot on Jan 30, 2016 | 65 comments

15975.

Debt-Laden Millennials Want Their Own Startups but Can’t Afford Them (bloomberg.com)

72 points by adventured on Sep 22, 2016 | 65 comments

15976.

Warren Buffett's Net Worth by Age (microcapclub.com)

72 points by tiffani on Sep 12, 2016 | 63 comments

15977.

Ask HN: How do you define a junior developer?

72 points by guessmyname on Sep 22, 2016 | 63 comments

15978.

‘MormonWikileaks’ website launched, seeking transparency in LDS Church (fox13now.com)

72 points by gscott on Dec 20, 2016 | 62 comments

15979.

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Referee State Disputes Over Marijuana (nbcnews.com)

72 points by tnuc on Mar 21, 2016 | 60 comments

15980.

Black therapist was shot by Florida police while helping a person with autism (businessinsider.com)

72 points by zerr on Jul 21, 2016 | 60 comments

15981.

Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe (phys.org)

72 points by dnetesn on Apr 10, 2016 | 58 comments

15982.

Ask HN: What if we legalize cybercrime? (bqp.io)

72 points by CiPHPerCoder on Dec 27, 2016 | 57 comments

15983.

What should we learn from past AI forecasts? (openphilanthropy.org)

72 points by ghosh on May 27, 2016 | 55 comments

15984.

The misleading stream of articles about scientific studies (washingtonpost.com)

72 points by timthorn on Aug 17, 2016 | 55 comments

15985.

When Bitcoin Grows Up: What Is Money? (lrb.co.uk)

72 points by elorant on Apr 25, 2016 | 53 comments

15986.

Gawker.com to end operations next week after nearly 14 years of operation (cnbc.com)

72 points by jeo1234 on Aug 18, 2016 | 52 comments

15987.

Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood (2009) (nybooks.com)

72 points by taylorbuley on Aug 26, 2016 | 52 comments

15988.

Haskell vs. Clojure (2014) (gist.github.com)

72 points by kafkaesq on Sep 14, 2016 | 52 comments

15989.

The Squirrel Programming Language (squirrel-lang.org)

72 points by cia48621793 on Jun 12, 2016 | 50 comments

15990.

Distro Chooser (distrochooser.de)

72 points by franzpeterstein on Sep 17, 2016 | 50 comments