HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (nytimes.com)

303 points by rrherr on May 21, 2017 | 133 comments

242.

My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year (bbc.com)

303 points by happy-go-lucky on May 5, 2017 | 112 comments

243.

Ways to Read More Books (hbr.org)

302 points by submeta on May 6, 2017 | 117 comments

244.

A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus (wired.com)

301 points by rbanffy on May 16, 2017 | 429 comments

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Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1 (johnmathews.eu)

301 points by mthwsjc_ on May 27, 2017 | 36 comments

246.

Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices (bloomberg.com)

299 points by coloneltcb on May 26, 2017 | 116 comments

247.

Thunderbird’s Future Home (blog.mozilla.org)

298 points by buovjaga on May 9, 2017 | 124 comments

248.

Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012) (boingboing.net)

298 points by ryukafalz on May 14, 2017 | 96 comments

249.

Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?

296 points by sidcool on May 23, 2017 | 177 comments

250.

Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover (europa.eu)

296 points by antr on May 18, 2017 | 168 comments

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Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms (bbc.com)

296 points by raulk on May 5, 2017 | 151 comments

252.

Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009) (blog.notdot.net)

296 points by Tomte on May 30, 2017 | 34 comments

253.

Louisiana prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk (thelensnola.org)

295 points by user982 on May 2, 2017 | 137 comments

254.

Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in (reddit.com)

295 points by swalsh on May 1, 2017 | 122 comments

255.

FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill (techcrunch.com)

294 points by pearlsteinj on May 3, 2017 | 212 comments

256.

Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission (reuters.com)

294 points by rodionos on May 7, 2017 | 167 comments

257.

Interactive Mind Map for learning (github.com)

293 points by ratancs on May 11, 2017 | 58 comments

258.

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2016) (blog.bufferapp.com)

292 points by allenleein on May 21, 2017 | 92 comments

259.

Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report [pdf] (kpcb.com)

291 points by uptown on May 31, 2017 | 113 comments

260.

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (2010) [pdf] (aem.umn.edu)

291 points by lainon on May 28, 2017 | 24 comments

261.

Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website (motherboard.vice.com)

290 points by phr4ts on May 25, 2017 | 74 comments

262.

Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot (github.com)

290 points by visarga on May 25, 2017 | 66 comments

263.

Collecting huge amounts of data with WhatsApp (lorankloeze.nl)

290 points by jboynyc on May 12, 2017 | 59 comments

264.

How Bayesian Inference Works (2016) (brohrer.github.io)

290 points by amzans on May 27, 2017 | 47 comments

265.

“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003) (people.csail.mit.edu)

289 points by noblethrasher on May 1, 2017 | 227 comments

266.

SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video] (youtube.com)

289 points by romanhotsiy on May 1, 2017 | 108 comments

267.

Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book (100millionbooks.org)

289 points by m52go on May 7, 2017 | 100 comments

268.

NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1 (arstechnica.com)

288 points by ivank on May 26, 2017 | 98 comments

269.

Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt (bloomberg.com)

287 points by JumpCrisscross on May 19, 2017 | 225 comments

270.

Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime (mattwarren.org)

287 points by matthewwarren on May 19, 2017 | 28 comments