HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Chasing the Harvest: ‘If You Want to Die, Stay at the Ranch’ (longreads.com)

41 points by DiabloD3 on May 23, 2017 | 13 comments

1982.

The story of Homer: Voyage’s first self-driving taxi (news.voyage.auto)

41 points by kn0thing on May 5, 2017 | 12 comments

1983.

Scientists solve 400-year-old mystery of Prince Rupert's drops (phys.org)

41 points by dnetesn on May 9, 2017 | 11 comments

1984.

Medieval Fantasy City Generator (watabou.itch.io)

41 points by vanni on May 24, 2017 | 10 comments

1985.

Influencing Machines (reallifemag.com)

41 points by kawera on May 28, 2017 | 10 comments

1986.

IKEA dives into world of Artificial Intelligence (thememo.com)

41 points by morehuman on May 2, 2017 | 9 comments

1987.

Shrinkray: Lightweight alternative to Electron (github.com)

41 points by letalvoj on May 9, 2017 | 8 comments

1988.

Flexe finds spare warehouse space for e-commerce merchants (bloomberg.com)

41 points by bilifuduo on May 11, 2017 | 8 comments

1989.

Statistics of amplification DDoS attacks over last six months (blog.cloudflare.com)

41 points by majke on May 26, 2017 | 8 comments

1990.

The Anatomical Venus: Wax models used for dissection in the 18th century (2016) (collectorsweekly.com)

41 points by Phithagoras on May 7, 2017 | 3 comments

1991.

Magic Leap Could Be Looking at an $8B Valuation (backchannel.com)

41 points by jonas21 on May 15, 2017 | 3 comments

1992.

Matthew Garrett: A quick overview of Intel's AMT vulnerability (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

41 points by _wmd on May 1, 2017 | 1 comments

1993.

The worm that spreads WanaCrypt0r (blog.malwarebytes.com)

41 points by doener on May 13, 2017 | 1 comments

1994.

Love in the Time of Compiler Construction [pdf] (charon.persephoneslair.org)

41 points by mpweiher on May 28, 2017 | 0 comments

1995.

There’s Nothing Apple’s CEO Cares About More Than Not Paying Taxes (theintercept.com)

40 points by Cbasedlifeform on May 6, 2017 | 51 comments

1996.

Man to pay $300k in damages for hacking employer (bbc.com)

40 points by happy-go-lucky on May 14, 2017 | 36 comments

1997.

Why is Puerto Rico in bankruptcy? (globalpoliticsandlaw.com)

40 points by Bordecorex on May 4, 2017 | 27 comments

1998.

Windows 10 China Government Edition allows to control encryption and telemetry (betanews.com)

40 points by daenney on May 23, 2017 | 18 comments

1999.

Android Encryption Demystified (blog.elcomsoft.com)

40 points by sashk on May 23, 2017 | 17 comments

2000.

A Map of San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley Gang Territories (google.com)

40 points by matthberg on May 27, 2017 | 17 comments

2001.

USB Type-C and power delivery 101 – Ports and connections (embedded.com)

40 points by neverminder on May 9, 2017 | 16 comments

2002.

Did a selfie accidentally reveal the administration’s plan to halt all visas? (economist.com)

40 points by dx034 on May 5, 2017 | 14 comments

2003.

Ask HN: Reached 1k+ paying or registered users without spending on ads?

40 points by bhootai on May 30, 2017 | 14 comments

2004.

“Things 3” Released (culturedcode.com)

40 points by uptown on May 18, 2017 | 11 comments

2005.

HypheNN-De: German Hyphenation with Neural Networks (blog.m-siemens.de)

40 points by msiemens on May 14, 2017 | 10 comments

2006.

Google Tango – Research Update May 2017 (youtube.com)

40 points by mr_overalls on May 22, 2017 | 10 comments

2007.

The elegant timing contraption of the Nenana Ice Classic (adn.com)

40 points by fold on May 2, 2017 | 8 comments

2008.

Red Pens and Invisible Ink: Editors do their work behind the scenes (slate.com)

40 points by samclemens on May 25, 2017 | 6 comments

2009.

Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore (nytimes.com)

40 points by Vannatter on May 22, 2017 | 5 comments

2010.

“Everything that works works because it's Bayesian” Why Deep Nets Generalize? (inference.vc)

40 points by fhuszar on May 25, 2017 | 5 comments