HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014) (yosefk.com)

283 points by ingve on Aug 28, 2016 | 261 comments

212.

YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)

282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 | 93 comments

213.

On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted (kennethreitz.org)

281 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 10, 2016 | 117 comments

214.

A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines (github.com)

280 points by odeke-em on Aug 20, 2016 | 67 comments

215.

The People’s Code (whitehouse.gov)

280 points by jonbaer on Aug 11, 2016 | 60 comments

216.

I Love Go; I Hate Go (dtrace.org)

279 points by tominous on Aug 2, 2016 | 316 comments

217.

SRL – Simple Regex Language (simple-regex.com)

279 points by maxpert on Aug 29, 2016 | 133 comments

218.

A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

279 points by betolink on Aug 28, 2016 | 83 comments

219.

Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010) (pepijndevos.nl)

278 points by pepijndevos on Aug 24, 2016 | 189 comments

220.

Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas (mnn.com)

278 points by nreece on Aug 4, 2016 | 129 comments

221.

Infrastructure for Deep Learning (openai.com)

278 points by yigitdemirag on Aug 30, 2016 | 67 comments

222.

When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All (backchannel.com)

277 points by dwaxe on Aug 3, 2016 | 264 comments

223.

Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery (techcrunch.com)

277 points by prostoalex on Aug 5, 2016 | 179 comments

224.

The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

276 points by tedsanders on Aug 28, 2016 | 164 comments

225.

FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System (freenas.org)

275 points by phantom_oracle on Aug 25, 2016 | 176 comments

226.

Tesla and Solar City Combine (tesla.com)

275 points by chasingtheflow on Aug 1, 2016 | 139 comments

227.

Amazon Launchpad for Startups (amazon.com)

275 points by ankit84 on Aug 31, 2016 | 82 comments

228.

Simpler GitHub Pages publishing (github.com)

275 points by dwaxe on Aug 17, 2016 | 63 comments

229.

Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M (techcrunch.com)

272 points by rhc2104 on Aug 1, 2016 | 175 comments

230.

Chinese CA WoSign faces revocation after possibly issuing fake certificates (percya.com)

272 points by tombrossman on Aug 30, 2016 | 110 comments

231.

NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments (npr.org)

271 points by hampelm on Aug 17, 2016 | 433 comments

232.

IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia (siliconangle.com)

271 points by adamnemecek on Aug 6, 2016 | 76 comments

233.

HackedThat: Breaking in to a hardened server via the back door (polynome.co)

271 points by bradleybuda on Aug 25, 2016 | 66 comments

234.

Debian turns 23 (bits.debian.org)

271 points by fcambus on Aug 16, 2016 | 52 comments

235.

New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car (tesla.com)

269 points by obi1kenobi on Aug 23, 2016 | 209 comments

236.

Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain (theregister.co.uk)

269 points by dragonbonheur on Aug 23, 2016 | 99 comments

237.

Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking (sf.curbed.com)

268 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 | 180 comments

238.

HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC (theregister.co.uk)