HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

Can Evolution Have a ‘Higher Purpose’? (nytimes.com)

46 points by not_that_noob on Dec 12, 2016 | 130 comments

1802.

Caesarean births 'affecting human evolution' (bbc.com)

46 points by MichalSikora on Dec 6, 2016 | 61 comments

1803.

London house prices are having a relatively bad December (bloomberg.com)

46 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 12, 2016 | 61 comments

1804.

Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords (2005) (cnet.com)

46 points by Tomte on Dec 9, 2016 | 60 comments

1805.

Stop Obsessing Over Comments On Hacker News (2015) (venngage.com)

46 points by deepakkarki on Dec 30, 2016 | 54 comments

1806.

Condé Nast Shutters Self Magazine in Print, More Cuts on the Way (wwd.com)

46 points by perseusprime11 on Dec 1, 2016 | 49 comments

1807.

Is Software Development Really a Dead-End Job After 35-40? (dzone.com)

46 points by kellet on Dec 15, 2016 | 49 comments

1808.

Bitcoin Startup Adds Former Barclays Chief Antony Jenkins (wsj.com)

46 points by alcio on Dec 12, 2016 | 32 comments

1809.

A New Physics Theory of Life (2014) (quantamagazine.org)

46 points by mads on Dec 5, 2016 | 31 comments

1810.

YC's Winter Reading List (blog.ycombinator.com)

46 points by craigcannon on Dec 6, 2016 | 28 comments

1811.

How We Got from Doc Brown to Walter White (nautil.us)

46 points by pmcpinto on Dec 23, 2016 | 23 comments

1812.

Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Epic Literary Feud (publishersweekly.com)

46 points by samclemens on Dec 7, 2016 | 22 comments

1813.

Notes on the Xircom PE3 parallel port Ethernet adapter (brutman.com)

46 points by networked on Dec 28, 2016 | 21 comments

1814.

Transparency report for the first half of 2016 (blogs.dropbox.com)

46 points by el_duderino on Dec 13, 2016 | 18 comments

1815.

A/B testing the gnupg developers. Submitting patches as female and male pseudonyms (twitter.com)

46 points by slyall on Dec 21, 2016 | 18 comments

1816.

Dutch woman with two British children told to leave UK after 24 years (theguardian.com)

46 points by pierre-renaux on Dec 28, 2016 | 16 comments

1817.

PHPMailer RCE (legalhackers.com)

46 points by easychris on Dec 26, 2016 | 10 comments

1818.

Paul English Shares His Approach to Effective Giving (forbes.com)

46 points by Mz on Dec 29, 2016 | 9 comments

1819.

MacOS is becoming legacy software (theverge.com)

46 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 22, 2016 | 8 comments

1820.

Mathiness: not just a problem of macro-economics (2015) (magic-maths-money.blogspot.com)

46 points by jimsojim on Dec 25, 2016 | 8 comments

1821.

Let’s stop copying C (eev.ee)

46 points by heisenbit on Dec 1, 2016 | 7 comments

1822.

A Deep Hierarchical Approach to Lifelong Learning in Minecraft (arxiv.org)

46 points by jonbaer on Dec 30, 2016 | 7 comments

1823.

Catching crumbs from the table (2000) (nature.com)

46 points by nether on Dec 26, 2016 | 5 comments

1824.

Implementing Function Spreadsheets (2008) [pdf] (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

46 points by luu on Dec 30, 2016 | 4 comments

1825.

NIPS 2016 Spotlight Videos (nips.cc)

46 points by pinouchon on Dec 7, 2016 | 2 comments

1826.

Adaptive query optimization – ML to improve Postgres analytical queries (github.com)

46 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 20, 2016 | 2 comments

1827.

Microsoft 2017 event lineup (blogs.microsoft.com)

46 points by douche on Dec 8, 2016 | 1 comments

1828.

How basic income could fail in America (businessinsider.com)

45 points by Mz on Dec 18, 2016 | 131 comments

1829.

What Future Java Might Look Like (blog.codefx.org)

45 points by reactor on Dec 7, 2016 | 102 comments

1830.

Why won't biologists say that animals might be conscious? (aeon.co)

45 points by eatitraw on Dec 17, 2016 | 68 comments