HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Pilosa: open source, distributed bitmap index in Go (github.com)

183 points by jaffee on May 3, 2017 | 22 comments

542.

Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?

182 points by thewarrior on May 5, 2017 | 138 comments

543.

Ted Seides Concedes Bet with Warren Buffett (bloomberg.com)

182 points by greenburger on May 3, 2017 | 130 comments

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UK virtual reality firm Improbable raises $500M (bbc.com)

182 points by T-A on May 11, 2017 | 102 comments

545.

Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production?

182 points by sharmi on May 27, 2017 | 82 comments

546.

Crash course to Amiga assembly programming (reaktor.com)

182 points by nallerooth on May 11, 2017 | 52 comments

547.

The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D (play.freeciv.org)

182 points by roschdal on May 20, 2017 | 27 comments

548.

Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?

181 points by miguelrochefort on May 29, 2017 | 184 comments

549.

Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?

181 points by techspring on May 30, 2017 | 123 comments

550.

Intel and Samsung Gang Up on Qualcomm, Backing FTC Monopoly Suit (bloomberg.com)

181 points by xbmcuser on May 14, 2017 | 118 comments

551.

A way to make water potable using carbon dioxide (economist.com)

181 points by spatulan on May 21, 2017 | 38 comments

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Jupiter surprises scientists in Juno’s first flybys (latimes.com)

181 points by JumpCrisscross on May 27, 2017 | 20 comments

553.

A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats (arstechnica.com)

180 points by AndrewDucker on May 28, 2017 | 145 comments

554.

Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL (techcrunch.com)

180 points by willyyr on May 10, 2017 | 99 comments

555.

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015) (digitaljournal.com)

180 points by curtis on May 16, 2017 | 63 comments

556.

How to Create a Neural Network in JavaScript [video] (scrimba.com)

180 points by ingve on May 9, 2017 | 42 comments

557.

Learning to break ciphers (littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com)

180 points by libeclipse on May 19, 2017 | 8 comments

558.

How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second (blog.cloudflare.com)

180 points by r4um on May 11, 2017 | 6 comments

559.

Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm (blog.talosintelligence.com)

179 points by f2f on May 12, 2017 | 66 comments

560.

Storage engine design (akumuli.org)

179 points by chaotic-good on May 2, 2017 | 28 comments

561.

Imzy is shutting down (imzy.com)

178 points by strange_aeons on May 24, 2017 | 247 comments

562.

Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO (blog.sfgate.com)

178 points by stochastician on May 11, 2017 | 155 comments

563.

Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Work Environment (brokeassstuart.com)

178 points by rblion on May 28, 2017 | 132 comments

564.

Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013) (jasonlefkowitz.net)

178 points by smacktoward on May 14, 2017 | 105 comments

565.

Startup School 13: How to Find Product Market Fit – Peter Reinhardt [video] (startupschool.org)

178 points by sama on May 18, 2017 | 18 comments

566.

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications (codingthematrix.com)

178 points by _6cj7 on May 1, 2017 | 17 comments

567.

Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute (nautil.us)

177 points by dnetesn on May 4, 2017 | 213 comments

568.

Bringing back the Somali shilling (jpkoning.blogspot.com)

177 points by gwern on May 24, 2017 | 162 comments

569.

Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to (scientificamerican.com)

177 points by molecule on May 11, 2017 | 125 comments

570.

Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly (whatusersdo.com)

176 points by OJ_WhatUsersDo on May 16, 2017 | 114 comments