HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

28741.

When and why did popcorn become a popular and common movie snack? (reddit.com)

25 points by vinchuco on Dec 22, 2017 | 2 comments

28742.

Donald Knuth's 23rd Annual Christmas Lecture: A Conjecture That Had to Be True (youtube.com)

25 points by svat on Dec 8, 2017 | 1 comments

28743.

Reaching and harnessing consensus with ArangoDB (arangodb.com)

25 points by freehold on Jan 11, 2017 | 1 comments

28744.

Rewriting the Code of Life (newyorker.com)

25 points by Dowwie on Jan 12, 2017 | 1 comments

28745.

A Layered Grammar of Graphics [pdf] (byrneslab.net)

25 points by adamnemecek on Jan 18, 2017 | 1 comments

28746.

IBM wants to change US law to allow software patents again (techrights.org)

25 points by zoobab on Feb 6, 2017 | 1 comments

28747.

The never-ending quest to build a hotel in space (theoutline.com)

25 points by imartin2k on Feb 27, 2017 | 1 comments

28748.

Startup workers see sexual harassment on 'breathtaking' scale in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com)

25 points by finid on Mar 2, 2017 | 1 comments

28749.

Doom Bots in TensorFlow (tech.marksblogg.com)

25 points by marklit on Mar 8, 2017 | 1 comments

28750.

Segment Open Fellowship (open.segment.com)

25 points by fouadmatin on Mar 22, 2017 | 1 comments

28751.

Testing Smarter with Mike Bland (formerly of Google) (hexawise.com)

25 points by mdengler on Mar 28, 2017 | 1 comments

28752.

A New Yorker's Quest for the Perfect Amount of Noise (nautil.us)

25 points by pmcpinto on Mar 30, 2017 | 1 comments

28753.

Electron is flash for the Desktop (josephg.com)

25 points by alecsx6 on Apr 11, 2017 | 1 comments

28754.

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has “a pretty good shot” of overtaking AWS (geekwire.com)

25 points by non_sequitur on Apr 25, 2017 | 1 comments

28755.

How to start (m.signalvnoise.com)

25 points by nate on May 23, 2017 | 1 comments

28756.

The 40-Year Old Mystery of the “Wow” Signal Was Just Solved (futurism.com)

25 points by pknerd on Jun 8, 2017 | 1 comments

28757.

First high-res look at microbial ballistics: Harpoons, spears, Gatling guns (arstechnica.com)

25 points by cel1ne on Jun 24, 2017 | 1 comments

28758.

Engineering Scalable, Isolated Mobile Features with Plugins at Uber (eng.uber.com)

25 points by benpious on Aug 2, 2017 | 1 comments

28759.

Letter from Pyongyang: The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea (newyorker.com)

25 points by sbuccini on Sep 8, 2017 | 1 comments

28760.

UTF-8 history (cl.cam.ac.uk)

25 points by ingve on Sep 13, 2017 | 1 comments

28761.

The Right Way to Manage Secrets in AWS (segment.com)

25 points by rbranson on Sep 19, 2017 | 1 comments

28762.

Is Clickbait Dead or Stronger Than Ever? (blog.almighty.press)

25 points by smokielad on Sep 20, 2017 | 1 comments

28763.

US Justice,State Departments join forces to probe companies abusing visa program (reuters.com)

25 points by RmDen on Oct 11, 2017 | 1 comments

28764.

Other People’s Lives: What makes biography good? (bostonreview.net)

25 points by diodorus on Oct 16, 2017 | 1 comments

28765.

In One Hour, Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit $10B (nytimes.com)

25 points by kungfudoi on Nov 11, 2017 | 1 comments

28766.

DLPaper2Code: Auto-Generation of Code from Deep Learning Research Papers (arxiv.org)

25 points by lainon on Nov 14, 2017 | 1 comments

28767.

The Martian author Andy Weir on his new novel Artemis and why he avoids politics (theverge.com)