HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

Clever reforms can reduce the power of NIMBYs and cut housing costs (economist.com)

80 points by roymurdock on Apr 18, 2016 | 53 comments

1202.

Challenges of Deployment to ECS (convox.com)

80 points by mwarkentin on Apr 29, 2016 | 37 comments

1203.

Getting root access on a Tesla Model S (su-tesla.space)

80 points by waterside81 on Apr 6, 2016 | 36 comments

1204.

H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (2004) [pdf] (web.archive.org)

80 points by networked on Apr 23, 2016 | 26 comments

1205.

How Secure is TextSecure? (eprint.iacr.org)

80 points by kushti on Apr 6, 2016 | 21 comments

1206.

Strategic Scala Style: Practical Type Safety (lihaoyi.com)

80 points by lihaoyi on Apr 30, 2016 | 16 comments

1207.

How to Party Like It’s 1999: Emulation for Everyone (journal.code4lib.org)

80 points by ohjeez on Apr 28, 2016 | 9 comments

1208.

New Evidence on When Bible Was Written (nytimes.com)

79 points by adamsi on Apr 13, 2016 | 112 comments

1209.

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy (theatlantic.com)

79 points by lisper on Apr 26, 2016 | 105 comments

1210.

We’re not the “good guys”: American drone warfare is terrorizing the Middle East (salon.com)

79 points by nkurz on Apr 26, 2016 | 64 comments

1211.

German automakers who once laughed off Elon Musk are now starting to worry (latimes.com)

79 points by shawndumas on Apr 22, 2016 | 54 comments

1212.

April Fool's day links

79 points by msoad on Apr 1, 2016 | 51 comments

1213.

Performance These Days (inessential.com)

79 points by mpweiher on Apr 21, 2016 | 45 comments

1214.

Startup funding is slowing in San Francisco (qz.com)

79 points by lingben on Apr 14, 2016 | 42 comments

1215.

Inside Equinix's NY4 data center where Wall Street trades (bloomberg.com)

79 points by dodders on Apr 18, 2016 | 34 comments

1216.

A C64 Games Mashup (level4.jojati.com)

79 points by ingve on Apr 10, 2016 | 25 comments

1217.

Does technical debt lead to the rejection of pull requests? (arxiv.org)

79 points by nextjj on Apr 7, 2016 | 22 comments

1218.

Running Emacs on Android (endlessparentheses.com)

79 points by greenonion on Apr 6, 2016 | 20 comments

1219.

Hacking Team's 'Illegal' Latin American Empire (motherboard.vice.com)

79 points by secfirstmd on Apr 18, 2016 | 16 comments

1220.

First YC Fellowship Virtual Demo Day (blog.ycombinator.com)

79 points by degif on Apr 1, 2016 | 11 comments

1221.

The Absurd Primacy of the Car in American Life (theatlantic.com)

78 points by acjohnson55 on Apr 14, 2016 | 172 comments

1222.

Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay (backchannel.com)

78 points by steven on Apr 28, 2016 | 144 comments

1223.

Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law (theverge.com)

78 points by acdanger on Apr 12, 2016 | 119 comments

1224.

New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler (2015) (docs.google.com)

78 points by gjvc on Apr 2, 2016 | 97 comments

1225.

Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite (zco.com)

78 points by rafa2000 on Apr 29, 2016 | 75 comments

1226.

Are History’s “Greatest Philosophers” All That Great? (dailynous.com)

78 points by diodorus on Apr 28, 2016 | 66 comments

1227.

Researcher links mass extinctions to 'Planet X' (phys.org)

78 points by dnetesn on Apr 3, 2016 | 62 comments

1228.

Chinese Researchers Invent New Police Car That Can Scan Faces (blogs.wsj.com)

78 points by mc_manus on Apr 4, 2016 | 54 comments

1229.

India's Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2B People (bloomberg.com)

78 points by elorant on Apr 16, 2016 | 53 comments

1230.

A Radical Approach to Computation with Real Numbers [pdf] (johngustafson.net)

78 points by DavidSJ on Apr 2, 2016 | 49 comments