HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award (news.mit.edu)

1735 points by melqdusy on Apr 4, 2017 | 287 comments

2.

Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) (josephg.com)

1519 points by charlieirish on Apr 11, 2017 | 996 comments

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What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? (privacylog.blogspot.com)

1494 points by ivank on Apr 21, 2017 | 438 comments

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We’re dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)

1477 points by alex_hirner on Apr 12, 2017 | 584 comments

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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone (lyrebird.ai)

1401 points by adbrebs on Apr 24, 2017 | 298 comments

6.

Build Your Own Text Editor (viewsourcecode.org)

1275 points by matthewbauer on Apr 5, 2017 | 159 comments

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Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego (jacquesmattheij.com)

1264 points by jacquesm on Apr 29, 2017 | 211 comments

8.

How We Built r/Place (redditblog.com)

1152 points by dkasper on Apr 13, 2017 | 242 comments

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Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US (nytimes.com)

1124 points by throw9982 on Apr 18, 2017 | 258 comments

10.

A Competitive Programmer's Handbook (cses.fi)

1117 points by aaggarwal on Apr 14, 2017 | 157 comments

11.

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] (djm.cc)

1080 points by Pamar on Apr 20, 2017 | 189 comments

12.

USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources (usafacts.org)

1044 points by neuralFatigue on Apr 18, 2017 | 340 comments

13.

How SSH got port number 22 (ssh.com)

1034 points by kissgyorgy on Apr 23, 2017 | 207 comments

14.

An off-grid social network (staltz.com)

1031 points by staltz on Apr 6, 2017 | 366 comments

15.

IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe (indiehackers.com)

1000 points by ploggingdev on Apr 11, 2017 | 235 comments

16.

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things (atlasobscura.com)

959 points by Hooke on Apr 1, 2017 | 322 comments

17.

The Mac Pro Lives (daringfireball.net)

877 points by neilprosser on Apr 4, 2017 | 801 comments

18.

PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer (groups.google.com)

854 points by wfunction on Apr 13, 2017 | 225 comments

19.

Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework (techcrunch.com)

851 points by apetresc on Apr 18, 2017 | 406 comments

20.

Wikipedia blocked in Turkey (turkeyblocks.org)

850 points by alansammarone on Apr 29, 2017 | 450 comments

21.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications (dave.cheney.net)

847 points by im_dario on Apr 11, 2017 | 521 comments

22.

Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers

847 points by zabana on Apr 19, 2017 | 312 comments

23.

Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value (bloomberg.com)

846 points by ayanai on Apr 3, 2017 | 586 comments

24.

Bob Taylor Has Died (nytimes.com)

841 points by my_first_acct on Apr 14, 2017 | 84 comments

25.

The Boring Company [video] (boringcompany.com)

836 points by janvdberg on Apr 28, 2017 | 752 comments

26.

Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support (chromestatus.com)

834 points by vvoyer on Apr 12, 2017 | 154 comments

27.

Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account (reuters.com)

831 points by anigbrowl on Apr 6, 2017 | 493 comments

28.

Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser (wsj.com)

824 points by kristianc on Apr 19, 2017 | 487 comments

29.

I’m a freelance copywriter (getcoleman.com)

788 points by sigmundritz on Apr 1, 2017 | 113 comments

30.

Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app (airbnb.design)

787 points by pouwerkerk on Apr 25, 2017 | 95 comments