HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Pardon Snowden (pardonsnowden.org)

2553 points by erlend_sh on Sep 14, 2016 | 781 comments

2.

Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] (spacex.com)

2123 points by tilt on Sep 27, 2016 | 1046 comments

3.

Philae Found (esa.int)

1238 points by de_dave on Sep 5, 2016 | 125 comments

4.

Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm (github.com)

1226 points by ExUtumno on Sep 30, 2016 | 122 comments

5.

EU Announces That All Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020 (futurism.com)

1205 points by emartinelli on Sep 6, 2016 | 132 comments

6.

Announcing new tools, forums, and features (github.com)

1142 points by joshmanders on Sep 14, 2016 | 269 comments

7.

Elon Musk on How to Build the Future (ycombinator.com)

1106 points by sama on Sep 15, 2016 | 513 comments

8.

Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop (reddit.com)

1054 points by makaronin on Sep 21, 2016 | 467 comments

9.

How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac (applehelpwriter.com)

1037 points by 8bitben on Sep 9, 2016 | 412 comments

10.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral (techcrunch.com)

986 points by mariusz79 on Sep 1, 2016 | 535 comments

11.

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] (youtube.com)

957 points by carlesfe on Sep 7, 2016 | 420 comments

12.

Homebrew 1.0.0 (brew.sh)

904 points by robin_reala on Sep 21, 2016 | 246 comments

13.

Show HN: Primitive Pictures (github.com)

894 points by fogleman on Sep 20, 2016 | 170 comments

14.

Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (cbc.ca)

853 points by curtis on Sep 1, 2016 | 339 comments

15.

I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas (kalzumeus.com)

850 points by rmoriz on Sep 9, 2016 | 317 comments

16.

Angular 2 Final Released (angular.io)

838 points by mikeryan52 on Sep 15, 2016 | 431 comments

17.

I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (jakewins.com)

833 points by jakewins on Sep 17, 2016 | 100 comments

18.

An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight (feminem.org)

832 points by bshep on Sep 3, 2016 | 288 comments

19.

Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

822 points by barefootcoder on Sep 12, 2016 | 661 comments

20.

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat (nytimes.com)

816 points by okket on Sep 12, 2016 | 599 comments

21.

Investing for Geeks (training.kalzumeus.com)

797 points by gk1 on Sep 16, 2016 | 457 comments

22.

How to steal a developer's local database (bouk.co)

770 points by chachram on Sep 1, 2016 | 230 comments

23.

Music theory for nerds (eev.ee)

766 points by hardmath123 on Sep 19, 2016 | 378 comments

24.

iPhone 7 (apple.com)

756 points by benigeri on Sep 7, 2016 | 1733 comments

25.

Ripgrep – A new command line search tool (blog.burntsushi.net)

740 points by anp on Sep 23, 2016 | 209 comments

26.

Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out of them (ohshitgit.com)

713 points by emilong on Sep 9, 2016 | 335 comments

27.

How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (nytimes.com)

694 points by niyazpk on Sep 3, 2016 | 199 comments

28.

Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?

692 points by rkhraishi on Sep 14, 2016 | 137 comments

29.

UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency (github.com)

688 points by kawera on Sep 25, 2016 | 423 comments

30.

In defence of Douglas Crockford (atom-morgan.github.io)

683 points by ramblerman on Sep 4, 2016 | 419 comments