HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos (research.microsoft.com)

1470 points by davidst on Aug 10, 2014 | 172 comments

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Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft (theverge.com)

1224 points by coloneltcb on Aug 26, 2014 | 391 comments

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Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire (glasswire.com)

1013 points by greenwalls on Aug 25, 2014 | 331 comments

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Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft (imgur.com)

831 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2014 | 109 comments

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fork() can fail (rachelbythebay.com)

760 points by dantiberian on Aug 20, 2014 | 313 comments

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Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

749 points by silenteh on Aug 23, 2014 | 93 comments

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Edward Snowden: The Untold Story (wired.com)

717 points by promocha on Aug 13, 2014 | 223 comments

8.

X to close (medium.com)

704 points by viclou on Aug 13, 2014 | 195 comments

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MathBox 2 (acko.net)

657 points by teamonkey on Aug 14, 2014 | 88 comments

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Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK (90percentofeverything.com)

653 points by robin_reala on Aug 26, 2014 | 260 comments

11.

A Single Div (a.singlediv.com)

649 points by brbcoding on Aug 26, 2014 | 140 comments

12.

Hextris (hextris.github.io)

589 points by kome on Aug 17, 2014 | 92 comments

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Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter (gifyoutube.com)

577 points by RoryGlyphic on Aug 16, 2014 | 181 comments

14.

Polaroid Cube (polaroid.com)

575 points by dskhatri on Aug 11, 2014 | 181 comments

15.

Extracting audio from visual information (newsoffice.mit.edu)

573 points by r0h1n on Aug 4, 2014 | 127 comments

16.

They're Made out of Meat (terrybisson.com)

558 points by ColinWright on Aug 8, 2014 | 170 comments

17.

Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp (bellingcat.com)

547 points by mmayberry on Aug 22, 2014 | 106 comments

18.

The Road Ahead (anandtech.com)

537 points by bhauer on Aug 30, 2014 | 60 comments

19.

How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids (blog.codestarter.org)

492 points by mojombo on Aug 6, 2014 | 215 comments

20.

Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications (github.com)

486 points by ayberkt on Aug 24, 2014 | 74 comments

21.

Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue (businessweek.com)

479 points by benblodgett on Aug 26, 2014 | 143 comments

22.

Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official (techcrunch.com)

475 points by lalwanivikas on Aug 25, 2014 | 249 comments

23.

Project Euler Returns (projecteuler.net)

471 points by garycomtois on Aug 15, 2014 | 100 comments

24.

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone (vox.com)

470 points by dctoedt on Aug 28, 2014 | 161 comments

25.

US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet (theguardian.com)

460 points by primelens on Aug 30, 2014 | 154 comments

26.

Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win (rememberwinapp.com)

455 points by entangld on Aug 13, 2014 | 97 comments

27.

Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI (yahooeng.tumblr.com)

450 points by traviskuhl on Aug 29, 2014 | 223 comments

28.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

449 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2014 | 584 comments

29.

Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone (limetext.org)

442 points by pykello on Aug 19, 2014 | 244 comments

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Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app (wired.com)

438 points by bpierre on Aug 26, 2014 | 149 comments