HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Criminals can guess Visa number and security code in six seconds, experts find (independent.co.uk)

218 points by seycombi on Dec 4, 2016 | 154 comments

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Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density (humantransit.org)

217 points by erispoe on Dec 16, 2016 | 229 comments

423.

Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit (sciencebulletin.org)

217 points by devinp on Dec 8, 2016 | 39 comments

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A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (2013) [pdf] (sensepost.com)

217 points by ingve on Dec 3, 2016 | 31 comments

425.

Tips for Self-Learning Programming (blog.hiphipjorge.com)

216 points by hiphipjorge on Dec 10, 2016 | 53 comments

426.

A homemade receiver for GPS and GLONASS satellites (lea.hamradio.si)

215 points by brian-armstrong on Dec 23, 2016 | 48 comments

427.

Thought Experiments to De-Risk Your Startup (codingvc.com)

215 points by lpolovets on Dec 15, 2016 | 32 comments

428.

The Signal protocol for Node and browsers (people.ischool.berkeley.edu)

215 points by ifelsehow on Dec 15, 2016 | 29 comments

429.

Apple’s rotten appeal (politico.eu)

214 points by mpweiher on Dec 21, 2016 | 203 comments

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The .zip file specification is flawed (github.com)

214 points by AndyKelley on Dec 12, 2016 | 118 comments

431.

House Judiciary Committee Encryption Working Group Year-End Report [pdf] (judiciary.house.gov)

214 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 25, 2016 | 71 comments

432.

The FBI Can Now Legally Hack Everywhere Around the World (saintlad.com)

214 points by jakekovoor on Dec 4, 2016 | 0 comments

433.

The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI (forbes.com)

213 points by sonabinu on Dec 11, 2016 | 123 comments

434.

Why I wrote a book about interpreters (thorstenball.com)

213 points by deanmen on Dec 1, 2016 | 69 comments

435.

Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years' (bbc.com)

212 points by richardboegli on Dec 20, 2016 | 123 comments

436.

NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation (pogo.org)

212 points by rosser on Dec 16, 2016 | 46 comments

437.

Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software (testing.googleblog.com)

212 points by tanin on Dec 1, 2016 | 43 comments

438.

Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Indra Nooyi to Join Presidential Advisory Council (reuters.com)

210 points by randomname2 on Dec 14, 2016 | 173 comments

439.

Researchers create gel that regrows tooth enamel (2015) (dentistryiq.com)

210 points by mad_dev on Dec 28, 2016 | 85 comments

440.

A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11 (github.com)

210 points by setra on Dec 5, 2016 | 81 comments

441.

Predictive Learning [pdf] (drive.google.com)

210 points by aaronyy on Dec 7, 2016 | 38 comments

442.

Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net)

210 points by arthur2e5 on Dec 11, 2016 | 15 comments

443.

The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a spouse in your 30s (theglobeandmail.com)

209 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 25, 2016 | 40 comments

444.

The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's Tour-De-force (boingboing.net)

209 points by DemiGuru on Dec 30, 2016 | 40 comments

445.

Linux on the Mac – state of the union (lwn.net)

208 points by ah- on Dec 12, 2016 | 138 comments

446.

Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time (news.stanford.edu)

208 points by qwename on Dec 6, 2016 | 96 comments

447.

Darktable 2.2.0 released (darktable.org)

208 points by geppetto on Dec 27, 2016 | 82 comments

448.

32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic (hackaday.io)

208 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 19, 2016 | 78 comments

449.

Linux 4.9 is out (lwn.net)

208 points by sply on Dec 11, 2016 | 44 comments

450.

OpenLava under IBM attack (groups.google.com)

208 points by BuuQu9hu on Dec 19, 2016 | 42 comments