HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6001.

Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (1994) (pluto.it)

135 points by espeed on Jun 28, 2014 | 48 comments

6002.

Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy (everestavalanchetragedy.com)

135 points by njsubedi on May 31, 2014 | 47 comments

6003.

Now Then – the hidden systems that've frozen time and stop us changing the world (bbc.co.uk)

135 points by ddeck on Jul 28, 2014 | 46 comments

6004.

C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers (nytimes.com)

135 points by aaronbrethorst on Jul 31, 2014 | 46 comments

6005.

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com)

135 points by conductor on Apr 18, 2014 | 44 comments

6006.

Show HN: An Open-Source Data Science Curriculum (github.com)

135 points by coderjack on Jan 16, 2014 | 43 comments

6007.

LowRISC: Open-source RISC-V SoC (lowrisc.org)

135 points by br0ke on Aug 5, 2014 | 43 comments

6008.

NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space (nasa.gov)

135 points by jedp on Nov 26, 2014 | 38 comments

6009.

Full Stack Startups (cdixon.org)

135 points by kloncks on Mar 15, 2014 | 37 comments

6010.

Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA (bigstory.ap.org)

135 points by cgtyoder on Nov 19, 2014 | 37 comments

6011.

Tell your ISP to stop retaining your data (openrightsgroup.org)

135 points by vrikis on Jun 20, 2014 | 36 comments

6012.

Clojure on the Mac App Store (nightweb.net)

135 points by gw on Mar 14, 2014 | 34 comments

6013.

An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

135 points by proppy on Jun 10, 2014 | 33 comments

6014.

NixOS 14.12 released (lists.science.uu.nl)

135 points by iElectric2 on Dec 31, 2014 | 31 comments

6015.

Open Name System: Extending DNS with the Blockchain (opennamesystem.org)

135 points by muneeb on Jul 23, 2014 | 29 comments

6016.

K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies (blog.revolutionanalytics.com)

135 points by platz on Jan 2, 2014 | 25 comments

6017.

Google killer-robots.txt (google.com)

135 points by yueq on Jul 2, 2014 | 23 comments

6018.

Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage (infoq.com)

135 points by sumitkumar on Jun 13, 2014 | 22 comments

6019.

Startup School Doodle Notes 2014 (startupnotes.org)

135 points by gkoberger on Oct 13, 2014 | 21 comments

6020.

Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012) (ahefner.livejournal.com)

135 points by felipebueno on Nov 27, 2014 | 16 comments

6021.

A Uniﬁed Theory of Garbage Collection [pdf] (cs.virginia.edu)

135 points by adamnemecek on Jul 13, 2014 | 15 comments

6022.

The Thermodynamic Ice Bag (copsub.com)

135 points by mixmax on Jul 20, 2014 | 7 comments

6023.

A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline (doc-ok.org)

135 points by ironchief on Sep 10, 2014 | 5 comments

6024.

What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching? (customer.comcast.com)

134 points by dsl on Nov 21, 2014 | 226 comments

6025.

Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

134 points by screenshot on Apr 26, 2014 | 213 comments

6026.

Driver caught using cell phone jamming device (myfoxny.com)

134 points by WritelyDesigned on Apr 30, 2014 | 201 comments

6027.

S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted (dealbook.nytimes.com)

134 points by Ashan on Jul 31, 2014 | 188 comments

6028.

Why we love Scala at Coursera (tech.coursera.org)

134 points by saeta on Feb 18, 2014 | 180 comments

6029.

Check your Google history (history.google.com)

134 points by algorithm_dk on May 27, 2014 | 155 comments

6030.

Why don’t designers take Android seriously? (medium.com)

134 points by amitkumar01 on Mar 24, 2014 | 140 comments