HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

631.

Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second (highscalability.com)

102 points by aespinoza on Aug 4, 2014 | 23 comments

632.

A call to arms: Helping Internet services accept anonymous users (blog.torproject.org)

102 points by erkose on Aug 31, 2014 | 15 comments

633.

One mystery less, or how to get the “undumpable” ROM content dumped (e4aws.silverdr.com)

102 points by mmastrac on Aug 7, 2014 | 12 comments

634.

GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU (gplgpu.com)

102 points by raldu on Aug 19, 2014 | 9 comments

635.

The Future Programming Manifesto (alarmingdevelopment.org)

101 points by jashkenas on Aug 27, 2014 | 106 comments

636.

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework (airpair.com)

101 points by elkelk on Aug 21, 2014 | 90 comments

637.

Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?" (edge.org)

101 points by __Joker on Aug 31, 2014 | 71 comments

638.

Show HN: Codeanywhere (codeanywhere.com)

101 points by garrypettet on Aug 24, 2014 | 57 comments

639.

German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing (ndr.de)

101 points by m8rl on Aug 11, 2014 | 55 comments

640.

Show HN: Startuplister – A startup directory listing service (startuplister.com)

101 points by crixlet on Aug 13, 2014 | 50 comments

641.

The Derivative of a Number (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

101 points by j2kun on Aug 19, 2014 | 47 comments

642.

An App Store for Algorithms (wired.com)

101 points by doppenhe on Aug 11, 2014 | 45 comments

643.

Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken (github.com)

101 points by rspeer on Aug 16, 2014 | 40 comments

644.

Adam Carolla won’t let Personal Audio drop podcast patent infringement lawsuit (slate.com)

101 points by bennesvig on Aug 4, 2014 | 39 comments

645.

Show HN: LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines (github.com)

101 points by pguillory on Aug 28, 2014 | 35 comments

646.

Reverse Engineering a NAND Flash Device Management Algorithm (joshuawise.com)

101 points by jwise0 on Aug 4, 2014 | 29 comments

647.

Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs (usatoday.com)

100 points by edw519 on Aug 29, 2014 | 74 comments

648.

State Incentives Bringing SpaceX Commercial Launch Facility to Texas (governor.state.tx.us)

100 points by lsh123 on Aug 5, 2014 | 66 comments

649.

Glowing Plant Is One of Y Combinator’s First Biotech Startups (techcrunch.com)

100 points by katm on Aug 11, 2014 | 61 comments

650.

Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox (scientificamerican.com)

100 points by foolrush on Aug 27, 2014 | 44 comments

651.

Foursquare Now Tracks Users Even When the App Is Closed (blogs.wsj.com)

100 points by petethomas on Aug 6, 2014 | 42 comments

652.

Transmitting binary information from one person’s brain to another (newsweek.com)

100 points by holasnic on Aug 27, 2014 | 42 comments

653.

BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died (vox.com)

100 points by krsree on Aug 20, 2014 | 35 comments

654.

Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem (newscientist.com)

100 points by andrewljohnson on Aug 12, 2014 | 31 comments

655.

The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records (nytimes.com)

100 points by sheltgor on Aug 8, 2014 | 18 comments

656.

Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs (cs.tau.ac.il)

100 points by madars on Aug 8, 2014 | 16 comments

657.

The Zen of Gradient Descent (mrtz.org)

100 points by ot on Aug 15, 2014 | 11 comments

658.

Basic Income is Practical Today, Necessary Soon (hawkins.ventures)

99 points by mchusma on Aug 15, 2014 | 129 comments

659.

Tim Hortons agrees to Burger King offer for $94 a share (cbc.ca)

99 points by oulipian on Aug 26, 2014 | 117 comments

660.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (tools.ietf.org)

99 points by yoavz on Aug 5, 2014 | 109 comments