HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

451.

How a destructive idea paved the way for modern math (nautil.us)

209 points by dnetesn on Oct 30, 2017 | 53 comments

452.

Programming Models for Distributed Computation (github.com)

209 points by ingve on Oct 6, 2017 | 18 comments

453.

Rising Rents Are Pushing More Tenants Past the Breaking Point (bloomberg.com)

208 points by kimsk112 on Oct 26, 2017 | 291 comments

454.

A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations (nytimes.com)

207 points by ddlatham on Oct 20, 2017 | 339 comments

455.

UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance (techcrunch.com)

207 points by infodroid on Oct 17, 2017 | 148 comments

456.

A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages (bbc.com)

207 points by tmbsundar on Oct 27, 2017 | 123 comments

457.

Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS (bloomberg.com)

206 points by SREinSF on Oct 6, 2017 | 177 comments

458.

Vitamin B6 and B12 Supplements Appear to Cause Cancer in Men (theatlantic.com)

206 points by simulate on Oct 26, 2017 | 108 comments

459.

Consul 1.0 Released (hashicorp.com)

206 points by schmichael on Oct 16, 2017 | 62 comments

460.

Inside the vintage Xerox Alto's display, a tiny lightbulb keeps it working (righto.com)

206 points by darwhy on Oct 14, 2017 | 50 comments

461.

Edward – A Turing-Complete Language for Deep Probabilistic Programming (arxiv.org)

206 points by xtacy on Oct 19, 2017 | 30 comments

462.

An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling (ofir.io)

206 points by oDot on Oct 31, 2017 | 11 comments

463.

Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology (kapwing.com)

205 points by justswim on Oct 31, 2017 | 180 comments

464.

Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim (nim-lang.org)

205 points by mindB on Oct 19, 2017 | 151 comments

465.

The “Happy Path” to HTTPS (troyhunt.com)

205 points by jgrahamc on Oct 18, 2017 | 86 comments

466.

NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site (wweek.com)

204 points by danso on Oct 10, 2017 | 299 comments

467.

Welp, there go my Git signatures (karl.kornel.us)

204 points by CaliforniaKarl on Oct 23, 2017 | 46 comments

468.

The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November (blog.rongarret.info)

203 points by pk2200 on Oct 6, 2017 | 176 comments

469.

Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft (blog.lyft.com)

203 points by vthallam on Oct 19, 2017 | 149 comments

470.

Solar power grew faster than any other fuel in 2016 (bloomberg.com)

203 points by adventured on Oct 4, 2017 | 134 comments

471.

Build a Business, not an App (listed.standardnotes.org)

203 points by mobitar on Oct 30, 2017 | 18 comments

472.

My night at the museum (daniel.haxx.se)

203 points by robin_reala on Oct 20, 2017 | 13 comments

473.

Ask HN: Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?

201 points by davidjnelson on Oct 8, 2017 | 186 comments

474.

Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility? (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)

201 points by fern12 on Oct 3, 2017 | 160 comments

475.

How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80% (schneems.com)

201 points by itsderek23 on Oct 9, 2017 | 110 comments

476.

Judge blasts Waymo v. Uber lawyers, delays trial until December (arstechnica.com)

201 points by aetherson on Oct 3, 2017 | 88 comments

477.

The hippocampus as a 'predictive map' (deepmind.com)

201 points by runesoerensen on Oct 3, 2017 | 46 comments

478.

The often-overlooked random forest kernel (rmarcus.info)

201 points by stablemap on Oct 29, 2017 | 20 comments

479.

An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor (vidarholen.net)

200 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2017 | 52 comments

480.

Optical Effects in User Interfaces (medium.muz.li)

200 points by Ivoah on Oct 7, 2017 | 23 comments