HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

1630 points by dang on Dec 5, 2016 | 1214 comments

2.

Amazon Go (amazon.com)

1247 points by mangoman on Dec 5, 2016 | 982 comments

3.

Building Jarvis (facebook.com)

1164 points by tosh on Dec 19, 2016 | 251 comments

4.

Cat-proofing a cat feeding machine (quinndunki.com)

1107 points by mef on Dec 21, 2016 | 289 comments

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Developers’ side projects (joelonsoftware.com)

1052 points by grabeh on Dec 9, 2016 | 389 comments

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Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts (yahoo.tumblr.com)

1046 points by QUFB on Dec 14, 2016 | 569 comments

7.

OpenAI Universe (universe.openai.com)

1021 points by sama on Dec 5, 2016 | 129 comments

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Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team (diracdeltas.github.io)

1009 points by xenophonf on Dec 15, 2016 | 280 comments

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Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website (launchaco.com)

929 points by marclave on Dec 7, 2016 | 164 comments

10.

How the Singapore Circle Line rogue train was caught with data (blog.data.gov.sg)

921 points by sohkamyung on Dec 1, 2016 | 110 comments

11.

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io)

919 points by zerognowl on Dec 2, 2016 | 140 comments

12.

'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience (shivankaul.com)

911 points by skaul on Dec 8, 2016 | 510 comments

13.

Things You Notice When You Quit the News (raptitude.com)

891 points by ysarbabi on Dec 11, 2016 | 487 comments

14.

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (idlewords.com)

883 points by pw on Dec 22, 2016 | 580 comments

15.

Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017 (nytimes.com)

861 points by danvoell on Dec 6, 2016 | 249 comments

16.

Bose Hearphones (hearphones.bose.com)

830 points by akramhussein on Dec 9, 2016 | 407 comments

17.

Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off (npr.org)

812 points by doctorshady on Dec 2, 2016 | 481 comments

18.

John Glenn has died (dispatch.com)

797 points by oaf357 on Dec 8, 2016 | 152 comments

19.

Waymo: Google's self-driving car company (waymo.com)

785 points by _khwc on Dec 13, 2016 | 748 comments

20.

World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com)

785 points by Osiris30 on Dec 15, 2016 | 301 comments

21.

I am not a self-made man (facebook.com)

785 points by sergiotapia on Dec 9, 2016 | 261 comments

22.

HandBrake 1.0.0 Released (handbrake.fr)

780 points by bomanbot on Dec 26, 2016 | 174 comments

23.

Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

779 points by djadmin on Dec 11, 2016 | 678 comments

24.

German research institutions boycott Elsevier (sub.uni-goettingen.de)

764 points by millettjon on Dec 15, 2016 | 121 comments

25.

I'm giving up on PGP (blog.filippo.io)

745 points by FiloSottile on Dec 6, 2016 | 338 comments

26.

Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch (medium.com)

735 points by batina on Dec 19, 2016 | 104 comments

27.

Htop explained (peteris.rocks)

716 points by p8donald on Dec 2, 2016 | 101 comments

28.

Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)

692 points by leeny on Dec 28, 2016 | 311 comments

29.

Practical Deep Learning for Coders (course.fast.ai)

683 points by jph00 on Dec 20, 2016 | 91 comments

30.

Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience (rajk.me)

669 points by quantumtremor on Dec 1, 2016 | 422 comments