HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

19981.

What If Urban Sprawl Is the Only Realistic Way to Create Affordable Cities? (blogs.wsj.com)

51 points by dcgudeman on Sep 14, 2016 | 109 comments

19982.

There are no acceptable ads (blog.fivefilters.org)

51 points by bigbugbag on Dec 11, 2016 | 106 comments

19983.

Who's to Blame for the 16 GB RAM Limit on the New MacBook Pros: Apple or Intel? (daringfireball.net)

51 points by grzm on Nov 1, 2016 | 102 comments

19984.

Why are Brits so obsessed with buying their own homes? (theguardian.com)

51 points by fat-chunk on Jan 16, 2016 | 100 comments

19985.

Denmark is on its way to becoming an organic food country (foodrevolution.org)

51 points by finid on Oct 5, 2016 | 92 comments

19986.

Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

51 points by linkula on Nov 16, 2016 | 85 comments

19987.

The Anthropic Principle (2000) (physics.sfsu.edu)

51 points by lainon on Dec 23, 2016 | 85 comments

19988.

A defense of C's null-terminated strings (utcc.utoronto.ca)

51 points by jsnell on Jan 4, 2016 | 84 comments

19989.

Base Ten for Almost Everything (randomascii.wordpress.com)

51 points by ingve on Feb 13, 2016 | 82 comments

19990.

Millennials Don’t Use Credit Cards Because They Have No Money (thebillfold.com)

51 points by bonefishgrill on Aug 19, 2016 | 81 comments

19991.

A Step Forward in Parental Leave at Etsy (blog.etsy.com)

51 points by dmnd on Mar 16, 2016 | 79 comments

19992.

University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers (bbc.co.uk)

51 points by andygambles on Jun 10, 2016 | 79 comments

19993.

Comcast rolling out 1TB data caps to most states in November (dataplan.xfinity.com)

51 points by hedora on Oct 7, 2016 | 73 comments

19994.

“Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation” (medium.com)

51 points by gempir on Nov 6, 2016 | 73 comments

19995.

Sex, honour, shame and blackmail in an online world (bbc.com)

51 points by hawski on Oct 26, 2016 | 71 comments

19996.

As sewbots threaten Asia's sweatshops, we need to decide who will benefit (boingboing.net)

51 points by miraj on Jul 22, 2016 | 70 comments

19997.

The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014) (motherboard.vice.com)

51 points by zensavona on Sep 5, 2016 | 70 comments

19998.

We are ruthless on code reviews (techblog.workiva.com)

51 points by grey on Apr 27, 2016 | 69 comments

19999.

Hillary Clinton's Wall St Speeches Published by Wikileaks (bbc.com)

51 points by JohnHammersley on Oct 8, 2016 | 69 comments

20000.

Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software (wsj.com)

51 points by redcastle on Dec 7, 2016 | 68 comments

20001.

The design of Britain's wall sockets (fastcodesign.com)

51 points by rwmj on Jan 31, 2016 | 65 comments

20002.

Buying groceries for rich people, I realized upward mobility is largely a myth (buzzfeed.com)

51 points by drags on Mar 24, 2016 | 65 comments

20003.

Livestream: Peter Thiel Speaks at Republican National Convention (youtube.com)

51 points by flinner on Jul 22, 2016 | 63 comments

20004.

Windows for Submarines (2008) (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

51 points by Osiris30 on Dec 25, 2016 | 63 comments

20005.

Check-in before code review is an antipattern (jamesmckay.net)

51 points by infodroid on Jan 24, 2016 | 61 comments

20006.

Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Europe (rentswatch.com)

51 points by pirhoo on May 3, 2016 | 61 comments

20007.

Andrew Ng calls Tesla irresponsible for shipping an imperfect autopilot (facebook.com)