HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion (highscalability.com)

276 points by bussetta on Feb 26, 2014 | 117 comments

152.

Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX (github.com)

276 points by jpallen on Feb 21, 2014 | 79 comments

153.

Frequency (xkcd.com)

274 points by jaimebuelta on Feb 17, 2014 | 82 comments

154.

Snowden Documents Reveal Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks (firstlook.org)

273 points by ibsathish on Feb 18, 2014 | 81 comments

155.

Meditate in front of your computer with Calm (calm.com)

269 points by ebahnx on Feb 26, 2014 | 172 comments

156.

Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user (public.brightside.io)

269 points by RougeFemme on Feb 25, 2014 | 95 comments

157.

I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem (shkspr.mobi)

267 points by edent on Feb 26, 2014 | 227 comments

158.

Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows? (embeddedgurus.com)

267 points by nuriaion on Feb 18, 2014 | 140 comments

159.

How I learned to stop giving advice (jamesavery.io)

266 points by javery on Feb 7, 2014 | 119 comments

160.

Torus-Earth (aleph.se)

266 points by Kutta on Feb 5, 2014 | 62 comments

161.

Why Indie Developers Go Insane (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

264 points by jaimebuelta on Feb 11, 2014 | 83 comments

162.

Ten Years of Coding Horror (blog.codinghorror.com)

264 points by sathyabhat on Feb 28, 2014 | 41 comments

163.

Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying (reuters.com)

262 points by lelf on Feb 24, 2014 | 176 comments

164.

Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (blogs.msdn.com)

261 points by vwilson on Feb 17, 2014 | 230 comments

165.

We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer (nytimes.com)

260 points by uladzislau on Feb 1, 2014 | 155 comments

166.

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)

260 points by marcopolis on Feb 24, 2014 | 116 comments

167.

Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings (chrome.blogspot.com)

259 points by slb on Feb 6, 2014 | 153 comments

168.

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)

259 points by spking on Feb 18, 2014 | 103 comments

169.

Nvidia submits patches to open source driver (lists.freedesktop.org)

259 points by tbrock on Feb 3, 2014 | 57 comments

170.

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com)

258 points by gedrap on Feb 12, 2014 | 86 comments

171.

Toward Go 1.3 (talks.golang.org)

257 points by babawere on Feb 11, 2014 | 257 comments

172.

On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM (daringfireball.net)

257 points by dieulot on Feb 22, 2014 | 140 comments

173.

Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014 (business.time.com)

256 points by josh-wrale on Feb 25, 2014 | 137 comments

174.

Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser (paradoxxxzero.github.io)

256 points by p4bl0 on Feb 28, 2014 | 85 comments

175.

The first congressman to battle the NSA has died (pando.com)

255 points by grovulent on Feb 5, 2014 | 32 comments

176.

EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers (eff.org)

254 points by Smerity on Feb 5, 2014 | 59 comments

177.

Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012) (confreaks.com)

254 points by fredwu on Feb 20, 2014 | 14 comments

178.

Brackets, a code editor (brackets.io)

253 points by ttty on Feb 6, 2014 | 124 comments

179.

School ditches rules and loses bullies (tvnz.co.nz)

253 points by luu on Feb 1, 2014 | 108 comments

180.

A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia (arstechnica.com)

252 points by SoapSeller on Feb 26, 2014 | 152 comments