HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2821.

Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight (vox.com)

280 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 29, 2016 | 279 comments

2822.

Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming (aboveavalon.com)

280 points by rstocker99 on May 12, 2016 | 263 comments

2823.

Google’s top news link for ‘final election results’ is a fake news site (washingtonpost.com)

280 points by pessimizer on Nov 14, 2016 | 263 comments

2824.

Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco (techcrunch.com)

280 points by orenbarzilai on Dec 14, 2016 | 207 comments

2825.

Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef (reuters.com)

280 points by af16090 on Dec 1, 2016 | 169 comments

2826.

UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors (techcrunch.com)

280 points by benevol on Mar 11, 2016 | 150 comments

2827.

Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux (github.com)

280 points by turrini on Jul 20, 2016 | 140 comments

2828.

Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014) (computerhistory.org)

280 points by rmason on Dec 28, 2016 | 134 comments

2829.

How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads (stackfield.com)

280 points by rolfos on Sep 6, 2016 | 116 comments

2830.

Ask HN: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking?

280 points by ziggystardust on Oct 2, 2016 | 100 comments

2831.

Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects (blog.mozilla.org)

280 points by nandaja on Jun 22, 2016 | 98 comments

2832.

So, you want to learn bookkeeping (dwmbeancounter.com)

280 points by Tomte on Mar 7, 2016 | 87 comments

2833.

OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film (npr.org)

280 points by breck on Nov 24, 2016 | 85 comments

2834.

Task_t considered harmful (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

280 points by rivert on Oct 26, 2016 | 81 comments

2835.

1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video] (youtube.com)

280 points by dmlhllnd on Oct 22, 2016 | 67 comments

2836.

A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines (github.com)

280 points by odeke-em on Aug 20, 2016 | 67 comments

2837.

The People’s Code (whitehouse.gov)

280 points by jonbaer on Aug 11, 2016 | 60 comments

2838.

The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access (eff.org)

280 points by z0a on Dec 12, 2016 | 56 comments

2839.

Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts (techcrunch.com)

280 points by BreakoutList on Dec 14, 2016 | 3 comments

2840.

Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town (business.financialpost.com)

279 points by eigenvector on Feb 12, 2016 | 608 comments

2841.

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in 20 minutes (2014) [video] (boingboing.net)

279 points by based2 on Oct 29, 2016 | 317 comments

2842.

I Love Go; I Hate Go (dtrace.org)

279 points by tominous on Aug 2, 2016 | 316 comments

2843.

Why I Write Games in C (jonathanwhiting.com)

279 points by ingve on Jan 9, 2016 | 298 comments

2844.

The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken (blog.appcanary.com)

279 points by phillmv on Nov 1, 2016 | 256 comments

2845.

Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App (wsj.com)

279 points by miraj on Nov 20, 2016 | 249 comments

2846.

SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans (sourceforge.net)

279 points by tdurden on Feb 13, 2016 | 223 comments

2847.

Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case (engadget.com)

279 points by gscott on Dec 27, 2016 | 221 comments

2848.

Why is Python slow (blog.kevmod.com)

279 points by zbb on Jul 3, 2016 | 212 comments

2849.

Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC (blog.freelancersunion.org)

279 points by Mz on Nov 23, 2016 | 176 comments

2850.

Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” bricking UEFI (git.kernel.org)

279 points by the_why_of_y on Feb 22, 2016 | 160 comments