HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing (newyorker.com)

406 points by anigbrowl on Dec 26, 2016 | 172 comments

122.

Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes (businessinsider.com)

405 points by kevcampb on Dec 13, 2016 | 236 comments

123.

Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?

402 points by fapi1974 on Dec 12, 2016 | 273 comments

124.

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016 (kalzumeus.com)

402 points by mkeeter on Dec 30, 2016 | 249 comments

125.

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac (techcrunch.com)

400 points by tambourine_man on Dec 20, 2016 | 607 comments

126.

Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business (arstechnica.com)

400 points by Tomte on Dec 13, 2016 | 182 comments

127.

UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power (washington.edu)

397 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2016 | 67 comments

128.

How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nytimes.com)

395 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 22, 2016 | 228 comments

129.

UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data (liberty-human-rights.org.uk)

394 points by NiallIain on Dec 21, 2016 | 105 comments

130.

De-Googleify Internet (degooglisons-internet.org)

391 points by vinceleo on Dec 9, 2016 | 255 comments

131.

Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54 (prerender.cloud)

385 points by jotto on Dec 3, 2016 | 217 comments

132.

Gimli Glider (en.wikipedia.org)

385 points by numlocked on Dec 18, 2016 | 198 comments

133.

Ask HN: Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?

385 points by mkrecny on Dec 12, 2016 | 195 comments

134.

Things I learnt making a fast website (hackernoon.com)

385 points by inian on Dec 23, 2016 | 108 comments

135.

How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage (discord.engineering)

382 points by Sikul on Dec 12, 2016 | 161 comments

136.

Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox (github.com)

381 points by luisrudge on Dec 21, 2016 | 217 comments

137.

Write a Shell in C (2015) (brennan.io)

379 points by pvsukale3 on Dec 6, 2016 | 68 comments

138.

Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2 (ml.berkeley.edu)

378 points by llazzaro on Dec 28, 2016 | 36 comments

139.

Why we chose Vue.js over React (pixeljets.com)

377 points by jetter on Dec 11, 2016 | 249 comments

140.

Four years with Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)

376 points by steveklabnik on Dec 21, 2016 | 188 comments

141.

A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X (trustwave.com)

373 points by finid on Dec 13, 2016 | 107 comments

142.

Facebook’s Walled Wonderland Is Inherently Incompatible with News (mondaynote.com)

369 points by drallison on Dec 5, 2016 | 229 comments

143.

The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) (bbsdocumentary.com)

365 points by sanimal on Dec 11, 2016 | 122 comments

144.

Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (medium.com)

365 points by nafizh on Dec 19, 2016 | 101 comments

145.

How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities (hub.zhovner.com)

364 points by atomlib on Dec 21, 2016 | 115 comments

146.

One Way to Improve Your Coding (changelog.com)

362 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2016 | 116 comments

147.

What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? (nautil.us)

362 points by dnetesn on Dec 29, 2016 | 68 comments

148.

Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab (deepmind.com)

362 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 5, 2016 | 29 comments

149.

I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (snellman.net)

361 points by b3h3moth on Dec 14, 2016 | 167 comments

150.

Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? (blog.triplebyte.com)

359 points by runesoerensen on Dec 14, 2016 | 503 comments