HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

A Protocol for Dying (hintjens.com)

1610 points by aleksi on Apr 22, 2016 | 318 comments

2.

Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens (bbc.com)

1373 points by G5ANDY on Apr 3, 2016 | 435 comments

3.

My Biggest Regret as a Programmer (thecodist.com)

1296 points by doppp on Apr 6, 2016 | 618 comments

4.

Kite – Programming Copilot (kite.com)

1138 points by wodow on Apr 14, 2016 | 232 comments

5.

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org)

1085 points by nkurz on Apr 29, 2016 | 381 comments

6.

WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete (whispersystems.org)

1055 points by piquadrat on Apr 5, 2016 | 376 comments

7.

YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader (rg3.github.io)

989 points by h43k3r on Apr 8, 2016 | 321 comments

8.

Visual Studio Code 1.0 (code.visualstudio.com)

966 points by lukehoban on Apr 14, 2016 | 461 comments

9.

Leaving Beta, New Sponsors (letsencrypt.org)

896 points by dankohn1 on Apr 12, 2016 | 170 comments

10.

Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

867 points by dang on Apr 6, 2016 | 286 comments

11.

How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script (devco.re)

865 points by phwd on Apr 21, 2016 | 124 comments

12.

The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install (mobiforge.com)

857 points by Ovid on Apr 22, 2016 | 449 comments

13.

Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser (playground.tensorflow.org)

855 points by shancarter on Apr 12, 2016 | 116 comments

14.

Being a Developer After 40 (medium.com)

854 points by wallflower on Apr 26, 2016 | 549 comments

15.

Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet (hackerthemes.com)

847 points by arechsteiner on Apr 21, 2016 | 161 comments

16.

SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast (youtube.com)

845 points by cryptoz on Apr 8, 2016 | 354 comments

17.

Infinit announces Project Dropboxe (blog.infinit.one)

830 points by winta on Apr 29, 2016 | 134 comments

18.

BYOT: Bring your own team (stripe.com)

826 points by hepha1979 on Apr 25, 2016 | 180 comments

19.

Save Netflix (eff.org)

813 points by thecombjelly on Apr 4, 2016 | 225 comments

20.

GitLab Pages (pages.gitlab.io)

812 points by webiad on Apr 5, 2016 | 291 comments

21.

Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11 (status.cloud.google.com)

799 points by sgrytoyr on Apr 13, 2016 | 350 comments

22.

US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses (k7r.eu)

773 points by dandelion_lover on Apr 3, 2016 | 104 comments

23.

Dropbox Project Infinite (blogs.dropbox.com)

743 points by maguay on Apr 26, 2016 | 290 comments

24.

Introducing MIR (blog.rust-lang.org)

736 points by steveklabnik on Apr 27, 2016 | 164 comments

25.

Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be (eff.org)

735 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 5, 2016 | 309 comments

26.

Node.js v6.0 Released (nodejs.org)

728 points by JoshGlazebrook on Apr 26, 2016 | 159 comments

27.

Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe (rationalconspiracy.com)

726 points by apsec112 on Apr 25, 2016 | 317 comments

28.

Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (mail.fsfeurope.org)

713 points by stargrave on Apr 4, 2016 | 274 comments

29.

Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps (reddit.com)

703 points by tshtf on Apr 16, 2016 | 244 comments

30.

Squash your commits (github.com)

702 points by WillAbides on Apr 1, 2016 | 339 comments