HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

The Chinese character system is a brake on development (chronicle.com)

45 points by temp on Jan 22, 2016 | 80 comments

1772.

Hipster Mattresses: Why? (tedium.co)

45 points by vermontdevil on Jan 15, 2016 | 76 comments

1773.

A Plague of Helicopters In New York (nytimes.com)

45 points by prostoalex on Jan 31, 2016 | 65 comments

1774.

A vanishingly small percentage of venture funding has been raised by black women (medium.com)

45 points by tobiaswright on Jan 29, 2016 | 61 comments

1775.

The Boss Doesn’t Want Your Resume (wsj.com)

45 points by graceofs on Jan 5, 2016 | 55 comments

1776.

Python hasattr() Considered Harmful (hynek.me)

45 points by blaze33 on Jan 13, 2016 | 54 comments

1777.

Michael Bloomberg considers an independent presidential run (washingtonpost.com)

45 points by SCAQTony on Jan 23, 2016 | 31 comments

1778.

On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (lareviewofbooks.org)

45 points by prostoalex on Jan 6, 2016 | 28 comments

1779.

Show HN: Chrome Extension to view any files in your browser (chrome.google.com)

45 points by dallamaneni on Jan 26, 2016 | 22 comments

1780.

Why There Are No Skyscrapers in the Middle of Manhattan (2012) (observer.com)

45 points by monort on Jan 10, 2016 | 21 comments

1781.

From Candy to Juleps, Persians Left Imprint on Many Edible Delights (npr.org)

45 points by Thevet on Jan 20, 2016 | 16 comments

1782.

How APIs Fulfill the Original Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture (infoq.com)

45 points by hestefisk on Jan 22, 2016 | 16 comments

1783.

EarthBound's Copy Protection (2011) (media.earthboundcentral.com)

45 points by JoshTriplett on Jan 3, 2016 | 14 comments

1784.

AI100: One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (ai100.stanford.edu)

45 points by fitzwatermellow on Jan 2, 2016 | 13 comments

1785.

We brought an antenna to Davos to track private airplanes, here's what we found (qz.com)

45 points by wolframio on Jan 25, 2016 | 13 comments

1786.

New gadgets and apps are trying to make mindfulness meditation easier (wsj.com)

45 points by prostoalex on Jan 2, 2016 | 11 comments

1787.

Marvin Minsky’s Marvelous Meat Machine (medium.com)

45 points by steven on Jan 26, 2016 | 11 comments

1788.

ORNL achieves milestone with plutonium-238 sample (ornl.gov)

45 points by aurhum on Jan 3, 2016 | 9 comments

1789.

The Past, Present and Future of Sketch (medium.com)

45 points by allanberger on Jan 13, 2016 | 9 comments

1790.

Daphne Oram: Portrait of an electronic music pioneer (2008) (theguardian.com)

45 points by flannery on Jan 29, 2016 | 8 comments

1791.

How Startups Are Working On a Decades-Old Problem in Education (techcrunch.com)

45 points by prostoalex on Jan 10, 2016 | 7 comments

1792.

Front-End Servers and Client-Side Random Load Balancing (highscalability.com)

45 points by dsr12 on Jan 4, 2016 | 6 comments

1793.

Show HN: RaftLib – Stream Computation library for C++ (raftlib.io)

45 points by jcbeard on Jan 15, 2016 | 6 comments

1794.

Stung by a Bad Purchase and Faltering in Digital Era, Xerox Decides to Split Up (nytimes.com)

45 points by e15ctr0n on Jan 30, 2016 | 6 comments

1795.

Embracing Conway's law (wingolog.org)

45 points by AndrewDucker on Jan 13, 2016 | 4 comments

1796.

An Implementation of J (sblom.github.io)

45 points by ksherlock on Jan 10, 2016 | 3 comments

1797.

Reflection on Brent Yorgey's Haskell Class (limdauto.github.io)

45 points by luu on Jan 16, 2016 | 3 comments

1798.

Kalamazoo: the largest gathering of medievalists on earth (thepointmag.com)

45 points by diodorus on Jan 29, 2016 | 3 comments

1799.

Followup: Ask HN: Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?

45 points by _whynow on Jan 17, 2016 | 1 comments

1800.

React Generator – Wireframe components and download starter files with one click (overreact.io)

45 points by kulakowka on Jan 8, 2016 | 0 comments