HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

High-Frequency Trading Is Nearing the Ultimate Speed Limit (technologyreview.com)

54 points by jonbaer on Aug 11, 2016 | 47 comments

1622.

DataJoy is shutting down (getdatajoy.com)

54 points by yrochat on Aug 3, 2016 | 45 comments

1623.

The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 (kickstarter.com)

54 points by chadfurman on Aug 9, 2016 | 44 comments

1624.

Discovering Planet Nine (newyorker.com)

54 points by jwmerrill on Aug 28, 2016 | 43 comments

1625.

Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? (nytimes.com)

54 points by dnetesn on Aug 23, 2016 | 40 comments

1626.

Excerise cannot undo effects of prolonged sitting (theatlantic.com)

54 points by astdb on Aug 16, 2016 | 39 comments

1627.

Successfully collaborating with computational biologists (stactivist.com)

54 points by azuajef on Aug 13, 2016 | 22 comments

1628.

Antoine’s, the oldest US restaurant owned by a single family (wondersandmarvels.com)

54 points by Thevet on Aug 22, 2016 | 22 comments

1629.

“Joel Test” for Data Science (blog.dominodatalab.com)

54 points by gk1 on Aug 10, 2016 | 21 comments

1630.

Is Apple's Cloud Key Vault a Crypto Backdoor? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

54 points by _xenonx_ on Aug 15, 2016 | 20 comments

1631.

His Mickey Mouse Ways: An Appreciation of Waylon Jennings (texasmonthly.com)

54 points by tintinnabula on Aug 21, 2016 | 16 comments

1632.

Go 1.7 Release Candidate 6 is released (groups.google.com)

54 points by kevindeasis on Aug 11, 2016 | 7 comments

1633.

3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist (scientificamerican.com)

54 points by kungfudoi on Aug 8, 2016 | 5 comments

1634.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Gets Ordered to Serve as a Public Defender (theatlantic.com)

54 points by kposehn on Aug 4, 2016 | 3 comments

1635.

Phoenix Channels vs. Rails ActionCable (dockyard.com)

54 points by bcardarella on Aug 11, 2016 | 3 comments

1636.

Toward practical quantum computers (news.mit.edu)

54 points by Lind5 on Aug 9, 2016 | 0 comments

1637.

Programming Languages as Boy Scouts (notes.willcrichton.net)

53 points by wcrichton on Aug 3, 2016 | 84 comments

1638.

“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment (buzzfeed.com)

53 points by avolcano on Aug 11, 2016 | 81 comments

1639.

Climate Change Is Hell on Alaska's Formerly Frozen Highways (bloomberg.com)

53 points by blondie9x on Aug 2, 2016 | 77 comments

1640.

Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands (showlist.io)

53 points by jnasty on Aug 13, 2016 | 58 comments

1641.

How hard is it to find a job in your city? (indeed.com)

53 points by SQL2219 on Aug 22, 2016 | 41 comments

1642.

Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snakebites (nature.com)

53 points by tetraodonpuffer on Aug 30, 2016 | 34 comments

1643.

Reactors: Foundational framework for distributed computing (reactors.io)

53 points by acjohnson55 on Aug 24, 2016 | 30 comments

1644.

Simple diet tricks for asm.js (floooh.github.io)

53 points by ingve on Aug 27, 2016 | 26 comments

1645.

Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (nauticalarch.org)

53 points by onderkalaci on Aug 1, 2016 | 23 comments

1646.

Couple Pleads Guilty to $20M Visa Fraud Involving Indian Workers (justice.gov)

53 points by mavelikara on Aug 30, 2016 | 23 comments

1647.

Snowden tweets 156 characters, which is deleted; speculation re assassination (yournewswire.com)