HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records (archive.org)

699 points by yurisagalov on Aug 8, 2017 | 97 comments

32.

Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk (zdnet.com)

698 points by stevekillian on Aug 9, 2017 | 290 comments

33.

An Intro to Compilers (nicoleorchard.com)

687 points by luu on Aug 13, 2017 | 104 comments

34.

Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android (blog.mozilla.org)

684 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 18, 2017 | 335 comments

35.

Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t (thecut.com)

682 points by gkanai on Aug 21, 2017 | 538 comments

36.

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)

677 points by dbenamy on Aug 11, 2017 | 191 comments

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YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material' (middleeasteye.net)

674 points by jacobr on Aug 12, 2017 | 320 comments

38.

Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community (thehill.com)

664 points by rbanffy on Aug 4, 2017 | 334 comments

39.

A Solution of the P versus NP Problem? (arxiv.org)

662 points by fahrbach on Aug 14, 2017 | 286 comments

40.

Inside a fast CSS engine (hacks.mozilla.org)

660 points by rbanffy on Aug 22, 2017 | 141 comments

41.

Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System (joshondesign.com)

656 points by daureg on Aug 20, 2017 | 340 comments

42.

24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) (xiph.org)

647 points by Ivoah on Aug 29, 2017 | 428 comments

43.

SVG can do that? (slides.com)

645 points by funspectre on Aug 15, 2017 | 197 comments

44.

Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock (morepypy.blogspot.com)

644 points by TiredOfLife on Aug 14, 2017 | 315 comments

45.

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star (news.ucsc.edu)

641 points by mrfusion on Aug 10, 2017 | 295 comments

46.

A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects (sideprojectchecklist.com)

632 points by karlhughes on Aug 6, 2017 | 66 comments

47.

Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

628 points by chrisherd on Aug 28, 2017 | 135 comments

48.

Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python (hy.readthedocs.io)

625 points by tosh on Aug 2, 2017 | 215 comments

49.

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery (brendangregg.com)

623 points by dmit on Aug 8, 2017 | 86 comments

50.

Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins (bloomberg.com)

620 points by dsri on Aug 2, 2017 | 219 comments

51.

Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists (github.com)

614 points by paulgb on Aug 12, 2017 | 155 comments

52.

Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch (seat31b.com)

604 points by msh on Aug 6, 2017 | 248 comments

53.

FizzleFade (fabiensanglard.net)

604 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 29, 2017 | 176 comments

54.

DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment (deepmind.com)

603 points by nijynot on Aug 9, 2017 | 270 comments

55.

E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent (thirtybees.com)

602 points by themaveness on Aug 18, 2017 | 223 comments

56.

Disconnect. Offline only (chris.bolin.co)

601 points by danmeade on Aug 23, 2017 | 199 comments

57.

Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another (theverge.com)

598 points by Tomte on Aug 3, 2017 | 318 comments

58.

Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble (steveblank.com)

596 points by chmaynard on Aug 12, 2017 | 354 comments

59.

How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe (bloomberg.com)

594 points by coloneltcb on Aug 1, 2017 | 182 comments

60.

Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost (tools.ietf.org)

594 points by beliu on Aug 7, 2017 | 167 comments