HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

The Happy Ending Problem [video] (numberphile.com)

57 points by ColinWright on Oct 28, 2014 | 17 comments

1292.

To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal (nautil.us)

57 points by dnetesn on Oct 27, 2014 | 16 comments

1293.

Bitcoin mining is NP-hard (freedom-to-tinker.com)

57 points by frrp on Oct 28, 2014 | 15 comments

1294.

Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures (neverworkintheory.org)

57 points by cpeterso on Oct 10, 2014 | 6 comments

1295.

Guardian launches open-source data journalism tool (journalism.co.uk)

57 points by denzil_correa on Oct 25, 2014 | 3 comments

1296.

Scala: the Case for Correctness (arthur.gonigberg.com)

56 points by artgon on Oct 15, 2014 | 60 comments

1297.

Anonabox: a Tor hardware router (kickstarter.com)

56 points by chermanowicz on Oct 13, 2014 | 41 comments

1298.

Me and my 'useless' gall bladder (bbc.com)

56 points by dnetesn on Oct 14, 2014 | 40 comments

1299.

How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom (blogs.kqed.org)

56 points by shill on Oct 26, 2014 | 38 comments

1300.

Nintendo, One Year Later (ignorethecode.net)

56 points by shawndumas on Oct 31, 2014 | 38 comments

1301.

Google Timer (google.com)

56 points by franze on Oct 10, 2014 | 34 comments

1302.

Show HN: OrderCircle – Wholesale ordering software for small businesses (ordercircle.com)

56 points by captk on Oct 1, 2014 | 23 comments

1303.

Usaddress – Python library for parsing unstructured address strings with NLP (usaddress.rtfd.org)

56 points by danso on Oct 3, 2014 | 11 comments

1304.

Announcing Beta For Local SSD (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

56 points by cleverjake on Oct 29, 2014 | 10 comments

1305.

Implementation of Arc in C (github.com)

56 points by bhrgunatha on Oct 12, 2014 | 9 comments

1306.

Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival (2014) (youtube.com)

56 points by imc on Oct 7, 2014 | 4 comments

1307.

The risks of cheap water (nytimes.com)

55 points by whyenot on Oct 15, 2014 | 64 comments

1308.

Apple Event October 2014 Live Stream (apple.com)

55 points by qnk on Oct 16, 2014 | 63 comments

1309.

Twitpic Couldn’t Find an Acquirer, Will Shut Down After All on Oct 25th (techcrunch.com)

55 points by LukeB_UK on Oct 16, 2014 | 58 comments

1310.

Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

55 points by evo_9 on Oct 30, 2014 | 50 comments

1311.

Is reheated pasta less fattening? (bbc.com)

55 points by thret on Oct 17, 2014 | 48 comments

1312.

CVE-2014-6277 (cve.mitre.org)

55 points by chippy on Oct 9, 2014 | 47 comments

1313.

Genetic Relations Among Procrastination, Impulsivity, and Goal-Management Ability (pdf.yt)

55 points by gwern on Oct 26, 2014 | 37 comments

1314.

The Evolution of US Restrictions on Using and Exporting Encryption (1997) [pdf] (foia.cia.gov)

55 points by awakened on Oct 9, 2014 | 30 comments

1315.

SparkFun MicroView Review (rheingoldheavy.com)

55 points by unwind on Oct 13, 2014 | 25 comments

1316.

Function Purity and Immutability in D (drdobbs.com)

55 points by andrewbinstock on Oct 9, 2014 | 23 comments

1317.

Meteor Acquires YC Alum FathomDB for Its Development Platform (techcrunch.com)

55 points by arbesfeld on Oct 7, 2014 | 16 comments

1318.

Scalability, Part 2: Hypercubes (blog.ethereum.org)

55 points by jrbedard on Oct 22, 2014 | 12 comments

1319.

AI Swarms on the Blockchain (barisser.com)

55 points by barisser on Oct 22, 2014 | 12 comments

1320.

Step-by-step JavaScript interpreter, written in JavaScript (neil.fraser.name)

55 points by bcjordan on Oct 9, 2014 | 11 comments