HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon (medium.com)

52 points by atroyn on Jan 31, 2016 | 74 comments

1622.

Can a $9 Computer Spark a New Wave of Tinkering and Innovation? (npr.org)

52 points by evo_9 on Jan 22, 2016 | 68 comments

1623.

Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes (plus.google.com)

52 points by mrb on Jan 26, 2016 | 67 comments

1624.

Ageism: a worsening epidemic (baltimoresun.com)

52 points by hwstar on Jan 22, 2016 | 64 comments

1625.

To Lions, Zebras Are Mostly Gray (theatlantic.com)

52 points by Hooke on Jan 31, 2016 | 53 comments

1626.

Why Perl 6 is Different (2010) (blogs.perl.org)

52 points by brudgers on Jan 12, 2016 | 50 comments

1627.

How Much Polish Is There in Yiddish (and How Much Yidddish Is There in Polish)? (culture.pl)

52 points by stared on Jan 3, 2016 | 47 comments

1628.

Moore’s Law Not Dead – Intel’s Use of HPC to Keep It Alive (hpcwire.com)

52 points by ingve on Jan 12, 2016 | 44 comments

1629.

Fundraising values Skyscanner at $1.6B (ft.com)

52 points by edward on Jan 12, 2016 | 36 comments

1630.

Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications (gethooksapp.com)

52 points by kozkozkoz on Jan 7, 2016 | 29 comments

1631.

Angular 2 First App Post-Mortem (medium.com)

52 points by Halienja on Jan 22, 2016 | 29 comments

1632.

Abominable Function Types (C++) (open-std.org)

52 points by vmorgulis on Jan 20, 2016 | 26 comments

1633.

How to Cover the One Percent (nybooks.com)

52 points by xoher on Jan 24, 2016 | 21 comments

1634.

Sendfile: a system call for web developers to know about (jvns.ca)

52 points by Symmetry on Jan 23, 2016 | 20 comments

1635.

How Gawker Brings in Millions in Affiliate Sales (wsj.com)

52 points by nichodges on Jan 1, 2016 | 14 comments

1636.

Show HN: Character Recognition with OpenCV (github.com)

52 points by brakmic on Jan 24, 2016 | 13 comments

1637.

Show HN: A programmable embedded browser written in pure Java (github.com)

52 points by logn on Jan 13, 2016 | 11 comments

1638.

Building a global IoT data network in 6 months (medium.com)

52 points by htdvisser on Jan 13, 2016 | 9 comments

1639.

Somebody was on Sulawesi before 118,000 years ago (johnhawks.net)

52 points by diodorus on Jan 24, 2016 | 2 comments

1640.

Why are Brits so obsessed with buying their own homes? (theguardian.com)

51 points by fat-chunk on Jan 16, 2016 | 100 comments

1641.

A defense of C's null-terminated strings (utcc.utoronto.ca)

51 points by jsnell on Jan 4, 2016 | 84 comments

1642.

The design of Britain's wall sockets (fastcodesign.com)

51 points by rwmj on Jan 31, 2016 | 65 comments

1643.

Check-in before code review is an antipattern (jamesmckay.net)

51 points by infodroid on Jan 24, 2016 | 61 comments

1644.

A Historian Who Fled the Nazis and Still Wants Us to Read Hitler (newyorker.com)

51 points by lermontov on Jan 6, 2016 | 43 comments

1645.

Sites with a /now page (nownownow.com)

51 points by dwightgunning on Jan 5, 2016 | 39 comments

1646.

Ooc – a small programming language that compiles to C99 (ooc-lang.org)

51 points by networked on Jan 9, 2016 | 27 comments

1647.

Show HN: HNLive – Hacker News in Real Time (hnlive.cf)

51 points by max0563 on Jan 22, 2016 | 26 comments

1648.

Myanmar was off the grid for decades, is catching up fast (techinasia.com)

51 points by williswee on Jan 20, 2016 | 23 comments

1649.

Using machine learning to predict basketball scores (blog.sigopt.com)

51 points by prasoon2211 on Jan 1, 2016 | 21 comments

1650.

Show HN: Water-Simulation with Real-Time Reflections and Perlin-Noise Terrain (github.com)

51 points by EllipticCurve on Jan 7, 2016 | 18 comments