HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

How an obscure cult grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world (aeon.co)

155 points by Thevet on Feb 7, 2017 | 180 comments

692.

Grappling with Go (blog.ntpsec.org)

155 points by dcu on Feb 8, 2017 | 116 comments

693.

Uber launches 'urgent investigation' into sexual harassment claims (theguardian.com)

155 points by robbiet480 on Feb 20, 2017 | 79 comments

694.

Pom-pom crabs fight over tiny anemones, which they hold like boxing gloves (washingtonpost.com)

155 points by mhb on Feb 10, 2017 | 64 comments

695.

Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers (theguardian.com)

155 points by secfirstmd on Feb 12, 2017 | 62 comments

696.

Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory (pyfound.blogspot.com)

155 points by trurl42 on Feb 1, 2017 | 52 comments

697.

Military Reading List (bookadvice.co)

155 points by espek07 on Feb 3, 2017 | 48 comments

698.

A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (arxiv.org)

155 points by gwern on Feb 28, 2017 | 33 comments

699.

The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials into the New Serfs (thedailybeast.com)

154 points by shawndumas on Feb 6, 2017 | 190 comments

700.

Found: A Drug Catapult at the U.S.-Mexico Border (atlasobscura.com)

154 points by bcaulfield on Feb 18, 2017 | 133 comments

701.

Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed Up Password Cracking (fsecurify.com)

154 points by Faizann20 on Feb 25, 2017 | 59 comments

702.

Gita – autonomous lightweight delivery system (gita.piaggiofastforward.com)

154 points by systemfreund on Feb 5, 2017 | 57 comments

703.

Top Sites to Receive SMS Online Without a Phone (raymond.cc)

154 points by spaceboy on Feb 12, 2017 | 46 comments

704.

How to Setup a Secure VPN Server on Raspberry Pi or DigitalOcean (blog.hsp.dk)

154 points by spaceboy on Feb 11, 2017 | 45 comments

705.

Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age (cnbc.com)

153 points by siculars on Feb 13, 2017 | 219 comments

706.

Joining a billion rows 20x faster than Apache Spark (snappydata.io)

153 points by plamb on Feb 9, 2017 | 83 comments

707.

Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days (pbs.org)

153 points by john_mack on Feb 9, 2017 | 75 comments

708.

Meshbird – Distributed private networking (github.com)

153 points by wjh_ on Feb 13, 2017 | 55 comments

709.

Tips to Improve Your Mental Math Ability (gizmodo.com)

153 points by artsandsci on Feb 23, 2017 | 50 comments

710.

One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you (vitiral.github.io)

153 points by vitiral on Feb 25, 2017 | 38 comments

711.

Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing (nytimes.com)

152 points by prostoalex on Feb 11, 2017 | 192 comments

712.

I used LAMP to make a SaaS app with $3700/month profit (medium.com)

152 points by mskvsk on Feb 12, 2017 | 75 comments

713.

HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8 (github.com)

152 points by 01walid on Feb 8, 2017 | 65 comments

714.

Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.2: Managed State and More (rocket.rs)

152 points by sbenitez on Feb 6, 2017 | 60 comments

715.

Launch HN: Bitrise (YC W17) – Continuous Integration and Delivery for Mobile Apps

152 points by thebloodrabbit on Feb 22, 2017 | 56 comments

716.

Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter [video] (youtube.com)

152 points by zhirzh on Feb 23, 2017 | 45 comments

717.

Pyract: a new way of writing Gtk+ applications (learntemail.sam.today)

152 points by fmoralesc on Feb 5, 2017 | 9 comments

718.

Why Europe Is Warning of Pax Americana's End (bloomberg.com)

151 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 13, 2017 | 372 comments

719.

Supersonic passenger jets might make a comeback (latimes.com)

151 points by prostoalex on Feb 4, 2017 | 165 comments

720.

Monzo’s Response to Cloudbleed (monzo.com)

151 points by obeattie on Feb 24, 2017 | 59 comments