HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet (blog.rongarret.info)

63 points by lisper on Jan 28, 2016 | 86 comments

1412.

How T-Mobile wanted to change itself but ended up changing the wireless industry (bizjournals.com)

63 points by jseliger on Jan 1, 2016 | 61 comments

1413.

Increased resident participation in planning produces extreme wealth segregation [pdf] (its.ucla.edu)

63 points by randycupertino on Jan 20, 2016 | 48 comments

1414.

Schrödinger's Firefox OS (elioqoshi.me)

63 points by bpierre on Jan 9, 2016 | 46 comments

1415.

George-Eugène Haussmann, the man who created Paris (bbc.com)

63 points by Perados on Jan 28, 2016 | 39 comments

1416.

To Prevent Back Pain, Orthotics Are Out, Exercise Is In (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

63 points by adamsi on Jan 28, 2016 | 31 comments

1417.

A proposal for removing obsolete Emacs packages (comments.gmane.org)

63 points by sohkamyung on Jan 11, 2016 | 29 comments

1418.

Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (2011) (gq.com)

63 points by pmcpinto on Jan 16, 2016 | 21 comments

1419.

A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection (filfre.net)

63 points by NateLawson on Jan 15, 2016 | 17 comments

1420.

Some Performance Experiments for Simple Data Structures (2011) [pdf] (lsub.org)

63 points by vmorgulis on Jan 27, 2016 | 16 comments

1421.

Show HN: Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth (play.freeciv.org)

63 points by roschdal on Jan 9, 2016 | 12 comments

1422.

Beauty Is Physics’ Secret Weapon (nautil.us)

63 points by BIackSwan on Jan 14, 2016 | 12 comments

1423.

Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (1996) (lipas.uwasa.fi)

63 points by jaybosamiya on Jan 19, 2016 | 12 comments

1424.

The Sad State of Web Development (medium.com)

63 points by chrisdotcode on Jan 11, 2016 | 10 comments

1425.

Nadim Kobeissi on why he left Peerio (twitter.com)

63 points by dazmax on Jan 16, 2016 | 6 comments

1426.

Why Must Systems Be Operated? (brooker.co.za)

63 points by luu on Jan 3, 2016 | 5 comments

1427.

Show HN: Static Analysis Tool for Dockerfiles in Haskell (github.com)

63 points by morgenkaffee on Jan 12, 2016 | 3 comments

1428.

Modular implicits – a system for ad-hoc polymorphism in OCaml [pdf] (eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au)

63 points by bshanks on Jan 2, 2016 | 1 comments

1429.

Crude Falls Below $30 a Barrel for the First Time in 12 Years (bloomberg.com)

62 points by siscia on Jan 13, 2016 | 87 comments

1430.

Michael Lewis: The Scourge of Wall Street (theguardian.com)

62 points by pmcpinto on Jan 24, 2016 | 84 comments

1431.

The complications of nutrition science (vox.com)

62 points by prostoalex on Jan 17, 2016 | 83 comments

1432.

Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?

62 points by Spooky23 on Jan 31, 2016 | 49 comments

1433.

A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs? (news.mit.edu)

62 points by skybrian on Jan 16, 2016 | 42 comments

1434.

David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013) (openculture.com)

62 points by samclemens on Jan 11, 2016 | 40 comments

1435.

Washington Gives $1.3M in Parking Fines During Snowstorm (nytimes.com)

62 points by daj40 on Jan 28, 2016 | 40 comments

1436.

Roswell: a Lisp installer and launcher for major environment that just works (github.com)

62 points by vmorgulis on Jan 31, 2016 | 30 comments

1437.

Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (2011) (lwn.net)

62 points by edward on Jan 9, 2016 | 17 comments

1438.

Assembly Is Too High Level: SIB Doubles (xlogicx.net)

62 points by ingve on Jan 20, 2016 | 16 comments

1439.

Fledgling Languages List (fll.presidentbeef.com)

62 points by gabordemooij on Jan 24, 2016 | 15 comments

1440.

Frama-C: Function Contracts and Static Analysis for the C Language (frama-c.com)

62 points by vmorgulis on Jan 9, 2016 | 14 comments