HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic? (ianbicking.org)

133 points by ctoth on Oct 23, 2013 | 83 comments

512.

Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS (thenextweb.com)

133 points by hackhackhack on Oct 17, 2013 | 58 comments

513.

Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word (eff.org)

133 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 5, 2013 | 35 comments

514.

$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December (arstechnica.com)

132 points by _ks3e on Oct 22, 2013 | 195 comments

515.

C++ has become a scripting language (voices.canonical.com)

132 points by alexchamberlain on Oct 16, 2013 | 193 comments

516.

There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company (firstround.com)

132 points by ca98am79 on Oct 8, 2013 | 130 comments

517.

Was My Life Worth Living? (1934) (ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu)

132 points by t0dd on Oct 20, 2013 | 101 comments

518.

Banksy Art Sale in Central Park [video] (banksy.co.uk)

132 points by jmacd on Oct 14, 2013 | 95 comments

519.

Lithium Battery Pack Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard (boostedboards.posthaven.com)

132 points by skdoo on Oct 9, 2013 | 72 comments

520.

Node v0.10.21 Stable has critical security fix (blog.nodejs.org)

132 points by aaronblohowiak on Oct 18, 2013 | 49 comments

521.

The trouble with timestamps (aphyr.com)

132 points by sethev on Oct 14, 2013 | 12 comments

522.

Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide (blog.canonical.com)

131 points by devx on Oct 6, 2013 | 102 comments

523.

Wysiwtfftwomg (markboulton.co.uk)

131 points by Isofarro on Oct 20, 2013 | 85 comments

524.

Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

131 points by zafirk on Oct 8, 2013 | 82 comments

525.

The End of Hypocrisy (cryptome.org)

131 points by markmassie on Oct 29, 2013 | 69 comments

526.

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter (nytimes.com)

131 points by wallflower on Oct 9, 2013 | 17 comments

527.

Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray (theguardian.com)

130 points by yread on Oct 17, 2013 | 86 comments

528.

What I Love about Mozilla (mihneadb.net)

130 points by mihneadb on Oct 7, 2013 | 45 comments

529.

RSA-210 factored (mersenneforum.org)

130 points by Mithrandir on Oct 7, 2013 | 34 comments

530.

The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science (extremetech.com)

129 points by eaxitect on Oct 26, 2013 | 115 comments

531.

Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator (toys.usvsth3m.com)

129 points by ColinWright on Oct 14, 2013 | 37 comments

532.

Extensionizr: Chrome extension boilerplate generator (extensionizr.com)

129 points by tilt on Oct 26, 2013 | 25 comments

533.

Algernon's Law (gwern.net)

128 points by gwern on Oct 9, 2013 | 129 comments

534.

In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand (markokarppinen.com)

128 points by jamesmoss on Oct 15, 2013 | 89 comments

535.

Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility (futureblock.com)

128 points by locksley on Oct 8, 2013 | 83 comments

536.

Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down (phys.org)

128 points by bromagosa on Oct 14, 2013 | 64 comments

537.

How to Make a $19 Police Scanner (sites.google.com)

128 points by rbcoffee on Oct 16, 2013 | 53 comments

538.

Towards an inexpensive open-source desktop CT scanner (tricorderproject.org)

128 points by matthewbadeau on Oct 24, 2013 | 41 comments

539.

Codex Seraphinianus: A new edition of the strangest book (dangerousminds.net)

128 points by dsr12 on Oct 12, 2013 | 30 comments

540.

Intro to Pandas data structures (gregreda.com)

128 points by grej on Oct 27, 2013 | 18 comments