HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

931.

A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones (wired.com)

136 points by breck on Jan 12, 2018 | 68 comments

932.

Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations (robert.ocallahan.org)

136 points by sankha93 on Jan 17, 2018 | 68 comments

933.

Why is setState asynchronous? (github.com)

136 points by stablemap on Jan 25, 2018 | 45 comments

934.

How China Spied on the African Union’s Computers (mg.co.za)

136 points by KumarAseem on Jan 31, 2018 | 41 comments

935.

Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” Radio Broadcasts Re-Recorded (aperiodical.com)

136 points by sohkamyung on Jan 4, 2018 | 33 comments

936.

Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? (citylab.com)

135 points by misnamed on Jan 7, 2018 | 168 comments

937.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin (medium.com)

135 points by tejasmanohar on Jan 23, 2018 | 123 comments

938.

Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

135 points by lainon on Jan 5, 2018 | 69 comments

939.

GoPro quits the drone business (theverge.com)

135 points by ar7hur on Jan 8, 2018 | 60 comments

940.

Jon Skeet earns 1mm rep on Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

135 points by juliasilge on Jan 16, 2018 | 30 comments

941.

CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation (github.com)

135 points by jeswin on Jan 29, 2018 | 19 comments

942.

Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It (nytimes.com)

134 points by SREinSF on Jan 23, 2018 | 142 comments

943.

Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs (en.zhaoxin.com)

134 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Jan 4, 2018 | 74 comments

944.

What Are Capabilities? (habitatchronicles.com)

134 points by abecedarius on Jan 7, 2018 | 69 comments

945.

Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong (pathsensitive.com)

134 points by matt_d on Jan 17, 2018 | 55 comments

946.

Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups (pushupalarm.com)

134 points by faris-ssj on Jan 8, 2018 | 45 comments

947.

Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

134 points by brysonm on Jan 25, 2018 | 34 comments

948.

Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming (hpe.com)

133 points by rbanffy on Jan 13, 2018 | 83 comments

949.

Front (YC S14) Raises $66M (techcrunch.com)

133 points by julien_c on Jan 24, 2018 | 80 comments

950.

Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA (riscv.org)

133 points by sverige on Jan 7, 2018 | 75 comments

951.

Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16 (github.com)

133 points by yuche on Jan 10, 2018 | 73 comments

952.

C as an intermediate language (2012) (yosefk.com)

133 points by yinso on Jan 20, 2018 | 60 comments

953.

Decades of movie poster history go online (sites.utexas.edu)

133 points by sohkamyung on Jan 22, 2018 | 23 comments

954.

A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints from Scratch (blog.paytonturnage.com)

133 points by GarethX on Jan 5, 2018 | 20 comments

955.

How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux (brendangregg.com)

133 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2018 | 8 comments

956.

Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++, Part 2 (solarianprogrammer.com)

133 points by AlexeyBrin on Jan 14, 2018 | 6 comments

957.

Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off (recode.net)