HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

This AI Boom Will Also Bust (overcomingbias.com)

662 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Dec 3, 2016 | 302 comments

32.

Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

658 points by takinola on Dec 9, 2016 | 705 comments

33.

AngelList acquires Product Hunt (techcrunch.com)

656 points by gjenkin on Dec 1, 2016 | 265 comments

34.

New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation (pages.nist.gov)

642 points by aaronharnly on Dec 14, 2016 | 305 comments

35.

Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video] (darkpatterns.org)

639 points by alexpoulsen on Dec 6, 2016 | 311 comments

36.

LiChess: Learn from your mistakes (en.lichess.org)

639 points by akkartik on Dec 23, 2016 | 113 comments

37.

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline (bloomberg.com)

632 points by kjhughes on Dec 8, 2016 | 441 comments

38.

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)

631 points by petepete on Dec 13, 2016 | 327 comments

39.

To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) (nytimes.com)

618 points by jseliger on Dec 22, 2016 | 639 comments

40.

Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income (nytimes.com)

610 points by salmonet on Dec 17, 2016 | 394 comments

41.

Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly (godbolt.org)

602 points by setra on Dec 15, 2016 | 151 comments

42.

Talks that changed the way I think about programming (opowell.com)

593 points by greywolve on Dec 8, 2016 | 95 comments

43.

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (freedom-to-tinker.com)

586 points by ColanR on Dec 17, 2016 | 257 comments

44.

Amazon seller’s account suspended after changing profile name on Kindle Fire (reddit.com)

576 points by ikeboy on Dec 7, 2016 | 212 comments

45.

Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps (kickstarter.engineering)

571 points by mecredis on Dec 14, 2016 | 73 comments

46.

It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) (edw519.posthaven.com)

568 points by Mz on Dec 6, 2016 | 287 comments

47.

Why does calloc exist? (vorpus.org)

553 points by wyldfire on Dec 5, 2016 | 132 comments

48.

Why time management is ruining our lives (theguardian.com)

552 points by eoin_murphy on Dec 22, 2016 | 203 comments

49.

Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (2013) (istacee.wordpress.com)

550 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 8, 2016 | 354 comments

50.

My Favorite Books of 2016 (gatesnotes.com)

546 points by taylorwc on Dec 5, 2016 | 138 comments

51.

My Pixel has a manufacturing defect (9to5google.com)

544 points by ivank on Dec 10, 2016 | 344 comments

52.

GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 (bloomberg.com)

540 points by mobee on Dec 15, 2016 | 568 comments

53.

What Makes a Senior Software Developer? (blog.professorbeekums.com)

536 points by beekums on Dec 12, 2016 | 238 comments

54.

Pebble's next step (blog.getpebble.com)

529 points by david-given on Dec 7, 2016 | 442 comments

55.

Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe (radio.garden)

527 points by gamma_raj on Dec 13, 2016 | 110 comments

56.

Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier (talyarkoni.org)

525 points by geospeck on Dec 12, 2016 | 140 comments

57.

1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856 (rachelbythebay.com)

522 points by TimWolla on Dec 8, 2016 | 100 comments

58.

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013) (bottomupcs.com)

516 points by Chesco_ on Dec 24, 2016 | 156 comments

59.

VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim (vimwiki.github.io)

515 points by type0 on Dec 12, 2016 | 120 comments

60.

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (nngroup.com)

512 points by hug on Dec 6, 2016 | 325 comments