HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

Do privacy studies help? A Retrospective look at Canvas Fingerprinting (freedom-to-tinker.com)

39 points by randomwalker on Jan 15, 2016 | 4 comments

1952.

Galileo’s Moon Drawings (2014) (openculture.com)

39 points by Hooke on Jan 18, 2016 | 4 comments

1953.

New John Dee discovery reveals resemblance to mother and a mysterious 'dwarf' (culture24.org.uk)

39 points by Hooke on Jan 17, 2016 | 3 comments

1954.

Finding and Solving Problems (2014) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

39 points by mathgenius on Jan 5, 2016 | 0 comments

1955.

The world beyond batch: Streaming 102 (oreilly.com)

39 points by henridf on Jan 25, 2016 | 0 comments

1956.

Immutable Infrastructure with AWS and Ansible – Part 2 (vcdxpert.com)

39 points by illumin8 on Jan 25, 2016 | 0 comments

1957.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)

38 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2016 | 102 comments

1958.

Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu? (2011) (superuser.com)

38 points by ukz on Jan 14, 2016 | 62 comments

1959.

How Amazon Outflanked Netflix (medium.com)

38 points by ziszis on Jan 8, 2016 | 57 comments

1960.

How to play Powerball so you don’t have to share the jackpot (washingtonpost.com)

38 points by b_emery on Jan 12, 2016 | 57 comments

1961.

Nasdaq’s Blockchain-Based Securities Platform Records First Transaction (blogs.wsj.com)

38 points by jackgavigan on Jan 4, 2016 | 41 comments

1962.

HTT Breaks Ground to Make Hyperloop a Reality (techcrunch.com)

38 points by daegloe on Jan 20, 2016 | 35 comments

1963.

At 83, I Decided to Develop an App (medium.com)

38 points by dangoldin on Jan 25, 2016 | 28 comments

1964.

Unit Definitions (futureboy.us)

38 points by btilly on Jan 26, 2016 | 24 comments

1965.

Llvmpipe: The Jitted OpenGL software renderer inside Mesa (mesa3d.org)

38 points by vmorgulis on Jan 10, 2016 | 22 comments

1966.

Sleazier sounds: electric guitar solos are descended from saxophone solos (lrb.co.uk)

38 points by tintinnabula on Jan 11, 2016 | 19 comments

1967.

Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives? (justsecurity.org)

38 points by privong on Jan 16, 2016 | 16 comments

1968.

Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals (2003) (sodaware.net)

38 points by Tomte on Jan 4, 2016 | 14 comments

1969.

Palette Gear: Hands-On Control of Your Favourite Software (palettegear.com)

38 points by prawn on Jan 20, 2016 | 13 comments

1970.

U.S. And European Negotiators Near Deadline for Data Transfer Deal (nytimes.com)

38 points by jstoiko on Jan 31, 2016 | 12 comments

1971.

String Theory Might Merge with Loop Quantum Gravity (wired.com)

38 points by colinprince on Jan 22, 2016 | 11 comments

1972.

An open letter to Paul Graham (medium.com)

38 points by jm3 on Jan 3, 2016 | 10 comments

1973.

SSO-23: Memory-Optimal Small String Optimization Implementation for C++ (github.com)

38 points by vmorgulis on Jan 27, 2016 | 10 comments

1974.

OpenStreetMap Tag Dynamics (matiasdahl.github.io)

38 points by chippy on Jan 20, 2016 | 9 comments

1975.

How the AI revolution was born in a Vancouver hotel (business.financialpost.com)

38 points by jonbaer on Jan 23, 2016 | 8 comments

1976.

Politicians are so predictable, a robot can literally write their speeches (washingtonpost.com)

38 points by t23 on Jan 26, 2016 | 8 comments

1977.

Yet another blog post about how parallelism is not concurrency (composition.al)

38 points by dbaupp on Jan 20, 2016 | 7 comments

1978.

Android mediaserver exploit – heap thermal vision (bits-please.blogspot.com)

38 points by laginimaineb on Jan 24, 2016 | 7 comments

1979.

Tesla Hires Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering (electrek.co)

38 points by stevewilhelm on Jan 31, 2016 | 7 comments

1980.

Linux LibOS project in 2016 (github.com)

38 points by jsnell on Jan 19, 2016 | 6 comments