HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Microsoft acquires AltspaceVR (techcrunch.com)

141 points by prostoalex on Oct 3, 2017 | 37 comments

812.

Ophelia became a major hurricane where no storm had before (arstechnica.com)

141 points by sndean on Oct 16, 2017 | 31 comments

813.

Golden Rules of Financial Safety (1999) (harrybrowne.org)

140 points by Tomte on Oct 30, 2017 | 110 comments

814.

The Toxic Saga of the Tsukiji Fish Market (eater.com)

140 points by fern12 on Oct 12, 2017 | 76 comments

815.

Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (tpapp.github.io)

140 points by fanf2 on Oct 15, 2017 | 72 comments

816.

How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you (snoyman.com)

140 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2017 | 45 comments

817.

How much traffic do I get from North Korea anyway? (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

140 points by fcambus on Oct 27, 2017 | 18 comments

818.

Zucktown, USA (thebaffler.com)

139 points by prostoalex on Oct 4, 2017 | 138 comments

819.

Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges – The Aliens Are All Asleep (spectrum.ieee.org)

139 points by simierno on Oct 20, 2017 | 118 comments

820.

Bootstrap 4 Beta 2 (blog.getbootstrap.com)

139 points by anorborg on Oct 19, 2017 | 101 comments

821.

High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (devblogs.nvidia.com)

139 points by ceyhunkazel on Oct 27, 2017 | 28 comments

822.

Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system (miyuki.github.io)

139 points by ingve on Oct 5, 2017 | 25 comments

823.

Attack of the week: DUHK (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

139 points by sohkamyung on Oct 24, 2017 | 21 comments

824.

Learning Diverse Skills via Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning (bair.berkeley.edu)

139 points by endswapper on Oct 22, 2017 | 15 comments

825.

The Crash of ’87, from the Wall Street Players Who Lived It (bloomberg.com)

138 points by thisisit on Oct 17, 2017 | 160 comments

826.

The great thaw of America’s north is coming (bbc.com)

138 points by fmihaila on Oct 16, 2017 | 95 comments

827.

What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012) (tor.com)

138 points by Tomte on Oct 22, 2017 | 85 comments

828.

Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip (newsroom.intel.com)

138 points by jonbaer on Oct 18, 2017 | 75 comments

829.

Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders (hyperallergic.com)

138 points by tintinnabula on Oct 25, 2017 | 55 comments

830.

Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography (practicallyefficient.com)

138 points by fanf2 on Oct 15, 2017 | 39 comments

831.

Show HN: Twitter bot which tweets Magic cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed (github.com)

138 points by minimaxir on Oct 11, 2017 | 38 comments

832.

A scientist who spots fake videos (nature.com)

138 points by rstoj on Oct 7, 2017 | 35 comments

833.

What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die? (psmag.com)

137 points by fern12 on Oct 11, 2017 | 250 comments

834.

Will automation put an end to the American trucker? (theguardian.com)

137 points by ranit on Oct 10, 2017 | 178 comments

835.

A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules (blog.twitter.com)

137 points by coloneltcb on Oct 19, 2017 | 175 comments

836.

Amazon and Apple hit by EU tax crackdown (bbc.co.uk)

137 points by T-zex on Oct 4, 2017 | 164 comments

837.

In Estonia virtually every process is digitized (fortune.com)

137 points by breck on Oct 22, 2017 | 96 comments

838.

Anaconda 5.0 Released (anaconda.com)

137 points by kawera on Oct 26, 2017 | 64 comments

839.

Redshift vs. BigQuery vs. Snowflake benchmark (blog.fivetran.com)

137 points by georgewfraser on Oct 9, 2017 | 57 comments

840.

Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist (theguardian.com)

137 points by fmihaila on Oct 16, 2017 | 35 comments