HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

GE Woes Deepen as SEC Investigation Throws Wrench in Turnaround (bloomberg.com)

67 points by uptown on Jan 24, 2018 | 57 comments

1622.

One Player's Quest to Beat the Seemingly Endless 'Desert Golf' (waypoint.vice.com)

67 points by joshwa on Jan 9, 2018 | 50 comments

1623.

Teaching an Almost 40-year Old Unix about Backspace (virtuallyfun.com)

67 points by beefhash on Jan 17, 2018 | 39 comments

1624.

“This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral (vanityfair.com)

67 points by tekacs on Jan 24, 2018 | 35 comments

1625.

6 alternative (and better) uses for blockchain (dtcollective.org.au)

67 points by rbanffy on Jan 22, 2018 | 32 comments

1626.

Superconductivity offers tantalising changes from electricity to transport (ft.com)

67 points by jonbaer on Jan 8, 2018 | 28 comments

1627.

Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection (pixeltwenty.com)

67 points by pixeltwenty on Jan 22, 2018 | 23 comments

1628.

In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books (qz.com)

67 points by submeta on Jan 1, 2018 | 22 comments

1629.

Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell (2013) (sciencedaily.com)

67 points by marojejian on Jan 30, 2018 | 21 comments

1630.

Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (pement.org)

67 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2018 | 17 comments

1631.

A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace (nytimes.com)

67 points by fspeech on Jan 12, 2018 | 17 comments

1632.

All Your IOPS Are Belong to Us: Case Study in Performance Optimization (2015) [pdf] (percona.com)

67 points by znpy on Jan 28, 2018 | 16 comments

1633.

Buffered Channels in Go: Tips and Tricks (rapidloop.com)

67 points by i_have_to_speak on Jan 15, 2018 | 15 comments

1634.

The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn (the-tls.co.uk)

67 points by benbreen on Jan 26, 2018 | 14 comments

1635.

Report from Iron Mountain (2006) (philipcoppens.com)

67 points by nkurz on Jan 5, 2018 | 12 comments

1636.

In pursuit of Otama's tone (2017) (windytan.com)

67 points by qrohlf on Jan 4, 2018 | 11 comments

1637.

Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion (2016) (queue.acm.org)

67 points by Cieplak on Jan 10, 2018 | 7 comments

1638.

Amazon Will Buy Target This Year, Gene Munster Predicts (bloomberg.com)

66 points by jolesf on Jan 2, 2018 | 105 comments

1639.

Open Letter to the Airbnb Community About Building a 21st Century Company (press.atairbnb.com)

66 points by duck on Jan 25, 2018 | 92 comments

1640.

Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town (economist.com)

66 points by edward on Jan 11, 2018 | 90 comments

1641.

Why Is Bitcoin Valuable? (taylorpearson.me)

66 points by nnx on Jan 21, 2018 | 73 comments

1642.

Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [video] (youtube.com)

66 points by bane on Jan 30, 2018 | 67 comments

1643.

Chipmakers Rally in Talent War (eetimes.com)

66 points by bcaulfield on Jan 21, 2018 | 66 comments

1644.

Show HN: HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments (hnnotify.xyz)

66 points by jermaustin1 on Jan 4, 2018 | 65 comments

1645.

Ariane rocket suffers from rare launch anomaly (bbc.com)

66 points by geertj on Jan 26, 2018 | 46 comments

1646.

Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost' (weeklystandard.com)

66 points by lermontov on Jan 23, 2018 | 42 comments

1647.

Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities (arxiv.org)

66 points by tim_sw on Jan 17, 2018 | 36 comments

1648.

Warming Ocean Temperatures Are Starving Reefs and Harming Marine Life (newsweek.com)