HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1921.

The Humble Book Bundle: Java by O’Reilly (humblebundle.com)

43 points by vquemener on Nov 20, 2017 | 5 comments

1922.

Plague Reached Europe by Stone Age (bbc.com)

43 points by pwg on Nov 24, 2017 | 3 comments

1923.

The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access (2016) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

43 points by lainon on Nov 6, 2017 | 1 comments

1924.

A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony (filfre.net)

43 points by doppp on Nov 24, 2017 | 1 comments

1925.

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (ruder.io)

43 points by rbanffy on Nov 23, 2017 | 0 comments

1926.

Seattle once again nation’s fastest-growing big city; population exceeds 700,000 (seattletimes.com)

42 points by jseliger on Nov 17, 2017 | 95 comments

1927.

A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem (nytimes.com)

42 points by untangle on Nov 30, 2017 | 94 comments

1928.

Ray Kurzweil thinks we could start living forever by 2029 (businessinsider.com)

42 points by lambersley on Nov 7, 2017 | 77 comments

1929.

Bitcoin Approaches $10,000 a piece (bbc.co.uk)

42 points by jeremyleach on Nov 27, 2017 | 73 comments

1930.

Google’s fired engineer: James Damore’s claim against search giant revealed (siliconbeat.com)

42 points by YouAreGreat on Nov 5, 2017 | 47 comments

1931.

Watsi uses crowdfunding to provide healthcare, but are patients better off? (brightthemag.com)

42 points by tanujnotes on Nov 17, 2017 | 39 comments

1932.

Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin's value rising so fast?

42 points by Michie on Nov 3, 2017 | 38 comments

1933.

“I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything” (2015) (arstechnica.com)

42 points by Tomte on Nov 25, 2017 | 38 comments

1934.

Argentina says abnormal noise heard after submarine's last contact as hopes fade (telegraph.co.uk)

42 points by wslh on Nov 23, 2017 | 36 comments

1935.

Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign (washingtonpost.com)

42 points by paulrigor on Nov 2, 2017 | 25 comments

1936.

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles (newscientist.com)

42 points by rbanffy on Nov 8, 2017 | 24 comments

1937.

Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) (nytimes.com)

42 points by stablemap on Nov 2, 2017 | 14 comments

1938.

New developer YouTube Series: “Build Out” (developers.googleblog.com)

42 points by adenadel on Nov 21, 2017 | 9 comments

1939.

A General Neural Network Hardware Architecture on FPGA [pdf] (arxiv.org)

42 points by Katydid on Nov 21, 2017 | 9 comments

1940.

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' (theguardian.com)

42 points by DyslexicAtheist on Nov 16, 2017 | 5 comments

1941.

FCC received 444,938 comments from Russian email addresses (bloomberg.com)

42 points by avs733 on Nov 29, 2017 | 5 comments

1942.

Our NIPS 2017 “Learning to Run” Approach (medium.com)

42 points by marcelsalathe on Nov 20, 2017 | 4 comments

1943.

The Bear Case for Crypto, Part II: The Great Bank Run (prestonbyrne.com)

41 points by wglb on Nov 27, 2017 | 77 comments

1944.

Ask HN: What age do you expect to be able to retire?

41 points by curiousgeek on Nov 30, 2017 | 42 comments

1945.

iRobot is testing software to make sense of all the rooms in a house (spectrum.ieee.org)

41 points by sohkamyung on Nov 21, 2017 | 40 comments

1946.

Why I’m leaving Silicon Valley (medium.com)

41 points by madmax108 on Nov 19, 2017 | 34 comments

1947.

On Thomas Hobbes and Leviathan (amp.theguardian.com)

41 points by submeta on Nov 20, 2017 | 27 comments

1948.

Qwant: A European search engine that respects privacy (about.qwant.com)

41 points by andersson42 on Nov 18, 2017 | 24 comments

1949.

France’s Prometheus reusable engine becomes ESA project, gets funding boost (spacenews.com)

41 points by nolok on Nov 11, 2017 | 22 comments

1950.

CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (shkspr.mobi)

41 points by robin_reala on Nov 27, 2017 | 20 comments