HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2941.

GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa (givedirectly.org)

274 points by deegles on May 6, 2016 | 213 comments

2942.

Coding without Google (bfilipek.com)

274 points by ingve on May 26, 2016 | 199 comments

2943.

U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages (eff.org)

274 points by merrier on Dec 8, 2016 | 193 comments

2944.

The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health (theguardian.com)

274 points by kevbin on Apr 11, 2016 | 192 comments

2945.

Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took (graphics.latimes.com)

274 points by iamben on Apr 14, 2016 | 178 comments

2946.

Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust (github.com)

274 points by ivank on Apr 26, 2016 | 177 comments

2947.

My Passion Was My Weak Spot (jacquesmattheij.com)

274 points by jacquesm on Mar 21, 2016 | 167 comments

2948.

Why Twitter Must Be Saved (stratechery.com)

274 points by doener on Nov 8, 2016 | 158 comments

2949.

85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound (digiday.com)

274 points by prostoalex on May 31, 2016 | 133 comments

2950.

Cassandra is not row level consistent (datanerds.io)

274 points by leastangle on Nov 24, 2016 | 121 comments

2951.

Too Many Tools and Frameworks (2015) (mrmrs.io)

274 points by moeamaya on Oct 4, 2016 | 118 comments

2952.

How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” (backchannel.com)

274 points by steven on Jun 22, 2016 | 116 comments

2953.

Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy (2015) (spacetelescope.org)

274 points by david90 on Jul 6, 2016 | 97 comments

2954.

MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval (blog.frizk.net)

274 points by mkesper on Dec 16, 2016 | 83 comments

2955.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) (openculture.com)

274 points by edw519 on Dec 15, 2016 | 68 comments

2956.

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (2014) [pdf] (ocw.mit.edu)

274 points by kercker on Sep 9, 2016 | 23 comments

2957.

Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)

273 points by antouank on Oct 18, 2016 | 396 comments

2958.

ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency (spectrum.ieee.org)

273 points by mbgaxyz on Oct 25, 2016 | 267 comments

2959.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm (climatecentral.org)

273 points by weatherlight on Sep 29, 2016 | 242 comments

2960.

The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede (theswedishnumber.com)

273 points by iriche on Apr 11, 2016 | 204 comments

2961.

Adblock via /etc/hosts (github.com)

273 points by lpsz on Feb 12, 2016 | 139 comments

2962.

What’s New In Python 3.6 (docs.python.org)

273 points by orf on Dec 7, 2016 | 126 comments

2963.

Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon (nojitter.com)

273 points by blaccspotmedia on Apr 13, 2016 | 123 comments

2964.

Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community (newsroom.fb.com)

273 points by jpdlla on Oct 3, 2016 | 116 comments

2965.

The world’s worst air force (hushkit.net)

273 points by protomyth on Dec 3, 2016 | 85 comments

2966.

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 (postgresql.org)

273 points by rachbelaid on Nov 15, 2016 | 81 comments

2967.

Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers (c9x.me)

273 points by rspivak on Jul 25, 2016 | 72 comments

2968.

Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day (99designs.com.au)

273 points by jhealy on Jul 15, 2016 | 70 comments

2969.

What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of? (askamathematician.com)

273 points by ColinWright on Jun 25, 2016 | 55 comments

2970.

Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of Democracy (theatlantic.com)

272 points by geromek on Apr 22, 2016 | 259 comments