HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

Electric life forms that live on energy (newscientist.com)

253 points by jonbaer on Jul 18, 2014 | 54 comments

182.

Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. (github.com)

252 points by tbrock on Jul 12, 2014 | 53 comments

183.

Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet (words.zemn.me)

250 points by zemnmez on Jul 7, 2014 | 61 comments

184.

A Lisper's first impression of Julia (p-cos.blogspot.com)

250 points by ananthrk on Jul 20, 2014 | 38 comments

185.

Programming is not math? (j2kun.svbtle.com)

248 points by j2kun on Jul 18, 2014 | 159 comments

186.

Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager (eff.org)

248 points by gbarboza on Jul 31, 2014 | 129 comments

187.

The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies (wired.com)

247 points by wacvasconcelos on Jul 8, 2014 | 35 comments

188.

Kindle Unlimited (amazon.com)

245 points by zeratul on Jul 18, 2014 | 191 comments

189.

My Half Workday as a Turker (cs.cmu.edu)

245 points by alceufc on Jul 8, 2014 | 94 comments

190.

“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” (quora.com)

245 points by vvijay03 on Jul 18, 2014 | 62 comments

191.

My Startup School Europe talk: The Technology (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

245 points by paul on Jul 30, 2014 | 50 comments

192.

A Traditional City Primer (andrewalexanderprice.com)

244 points by nopinsight on Jul 26, 2014 | 154 comments

193.

PDFy – Instant PDF Host (pdf.yt)

244 points by ridgewell on Jul 15, 2014 | 98 comments

194.

Dijkstra’s algorithm and the Fibonacci heap (maryrosecook.com)

244 points by tosh on Jul 6, 2014 | 95 comments

195.

A 30-minute Introduction to Rust (doc.rust-lang.org)

244 points by aabelha on Jul 1, 2014 | 89 comments

196.

Stop The JerkTech (techcrunch.com)

243 points by minimaxir on Jul 4, 2014 | 199 comments

197.

Making an embedded Linux computer (hforsten.com)

243 points by thomasjames on Jul 13, 2014 | 21 comments

198.

PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release (morepypy.blogspot.com)

242 points by rguillebert on Jul 5, 2014 | 19 comments

199.

Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms (technologyreview.com)

241 points by Libertatea on Jul 22, 2014 | 120 comments

200.

The getrandom(2) system call was requested by the LibreSSL Portable developers (lists.openwall.net)

239 points by gnuvince on Jul 17, 2014 | 157 comments

201.

New York’s Shadow Transit (newyorker.com)

239 points by philers on Jul 2, 2014 | 123 comments

202.

Java vs. Scala: Divided We Fail (shipilev.net)

238 points by mritun on Jul 4, 2014 | 111 comments

203.

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com)

238 points by jamesbritt on Jul 20, 2014 | 75 comments

204.

Inspecting Yosemite's Icons (martiancraft.com)

238 points by e1ven on Jul 5, 2014 | 48 comments

205.

A Conference Stole My Identity (futurestack.com)

237 points by jballanc on Jul 24, 2014 | 142 comments

206.

Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu)

237 points by torb on Jul 6, 2014 | 96 comments

207.

Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (venturebeat.com)

237 points by owenwil on Jul 24, 2014 | 96 comments

208.

Dropping Loot (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

236 points by alphabetam on Jul 6, 2014 | 81 comments

209.

Responsive Logos (responsivelogos.co.uk)

236 points by hxw on Jul 22, 2014 | 53 comments

210.

I Don't Know Swift (robnapier.net)

235 points by speg on Jul 20, 2014 | 109 comments