HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform (news.microsoft.com)

2376 points by ethomson on Nov 12, 2014 | 894 comments

2.

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web (eff.org)

2019 points by mariusz79 on Nov 18, 2014 | 461 comments

3.

Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec (scribd.com)

1257 points by kvargs on Nov 13, 2014 | 558 comments

4.

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation (freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com)

1230 points by swills on Nov 17, 2014 | 204 comments

5.

President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet (whitehouse.gov)

1219 points by jordanmessina on Nov 10, 2014 | 433 comments

6.

Philae has landed (bbc.com)

1165 points by talltofu on Nov 12, 2014 | 299 comments

7.

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles (news.sciencemag.org)

1079 points by philip1209 on Nov 24, 2014 | 147 comments

8.

Firefox Developer Edition (developer.mozilla.org)

979 points by tazer on Nov 10, 2014 | 295 comments

9.

Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77 (npr.org)

963 points by vonmoltke on Nov 3, 2014 | 109 comments

10.

Amazon Echo (amazon.com)

924 points by danielsamuels on Nov 6, 2014 | 716 comments

11.

Unicode Text Converter (panix.com)

908 points by sysk on Nov 19, 2014 | 229 comments

12.

God's Lonely Programmer (motherboard.vice.com)

883 points by eli on Nov 25, 2014 | 320 comments

13.

Doing Business in Japan (kalzumeus.com)

818 points by waffle_ss on Nov 7, 2014 | 305 comments

14.

Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript (code.prod.facebook.com)

818 points by davemo on Nov 18, 2014 | 276 comments

15.

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com)

799 points by daddy_drank on Nov 6, 2014 | 90 comments

16.

Node.js in Flame Graphs (techblog.netflix.com)

778 points by stoey on Nov 19, 2014 | 240 comments

17.

Reverse OCR (reverseocr.tumblr.com)

745 points by mrtbld on Nov 5, 2014 | 89 comments

18.

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon (gnome.org)

722 points by PaulSec on Nov 11, 2014 | 208 comments

19.

The Other Side of Diversity (medium.com)

704 points by rouma7 on Nov 4, 2014 | 447 comments

20.

Go is moving to GitHub (groups.google.com)

686 points by davecheney on Nov 14, 2014 | 236 comments

21.

Please remove mitsuhiko/* (github.com)

634 points by art2 on Nov 1, 2014 | 433 comments

22.

Rosetta comet landing – live stream (rosetta.esa.int)

629 points by fla on Nov 12, 2014 | 102 comments

23.

The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming (blog.mozilla.org)

618 points by flardinois on Nov 3, 2014 | 197 comments

24.

Youtube-dl (rg3.github.io)

597 points by pmoriarty on Nov 23, 2014 | 169 comments

25.

Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists (buzzfeed.com)

588 points by uptown on Nov 18, 2014 | 342 comments

26.

Sometimes, it’s just time to go home (benmilne.com)

564 points by johns on Nov 7, 2014 | 163 comments

27.

Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2 (medium.com)

551 points by jgrodziski on Nov 20, 2014 | 111 comments

28.

Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video] (vimeo.com)