HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8791.

Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational? (mathoverflow.net)

100 points by colinprince on Sep 16, 2014 | 24 comments

8792.

Tindie says forget Kickstarter (wired.com)

100 points by jewelia on May 6, 2014 | 24 comments

8793.

What’s New in Emacs 24.4 (masteringemacs.org)

100 points by signa11 on Oct 15, 2014 | 24 comments

8794.

USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style (samy.pl)

100 points by jonathanmarvens on Dec 17, 2014 | 24 comments

8795.

Purely Functional Configuration Management with Nix and NixOS (infoq.com)

100 points by ancatrusca on Jun 9, 2014 | 22 comments

8796.

2D gaming using Processing.js (processingjs.nihongoresources.com)

100 points by jwco on Nov 3, 2014 | 20 comments

8797.

Foo.Bar with Google?

100 points by mragh on Nov 11, 2014 | 20 comments

8798.

Take the Linux Filesystem Tour (tuxradar.com)

100 points by giis on Feb 23, 2014 | 19 comments

8799.

Link-time optimization in GCC, part 3 – LibreOffice (hubicka.blogspot.com)

100 points by fafner on Sep 10, 2014 | 19 comments

8800.

“I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging” (extension765.com)

100 points by tmflannery on Sep 23, 2014 | 18 comments

8801.

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

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

8802.

UPSERTisms in Postgres (johtopg.blogspot.se)

100 points by JoelJacobson on Apr 21, 2014 | 17 comments

8803.

Life Without Principle (1854) (thoreau.eserver.org)

100 points by begriffs on Jan 26, 2014 | 16 comments

8804.

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

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

8805.

Things We Believe After Building Maptia (medium.com)

100 points by yallahaline on Dec 16, 2014 | 16 comments

8806.

Open-source Real User Monitoring (github.hubspot.com)

100 points by sfeng on Feb 27, 2014 | 15 comments

8807.

The Case Against Time Warner-Comcast Just Got Stronger (tomsguide.com)

100 points by pwg on May 10, 2014 | 13 comments

8808.

Massive Moniker.com Breach, Valuable Domains Stolen (dotweekly.com)

100 points by yofie on Oct 7, 2014 | 12 comments

8809.

The Zen of Gradient Descent (mrtz.org)

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

8810.

ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

100 points by mad44 on Sep 29, 2014 | 9 comments

8811.

Cuckoo Filters, Practically Better Than Bloom [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu)

100 points by chewxy on Oct 21, 2014 | 9 comments

8812.

New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It (firstlook.org)

100 points by molecule on Sep 15, 2014 | 7 comments

8813.

Combining the power of gdb and valgrind (billiob.net)

100 points by jlemoine on Mar 30, 2014 | 6 comments

8814.

OCaml 4.01 for iOS 8 (psellos.com)

100 points by lelf on Dec 10, 2014 | 6 comments

8815.

IBM 704 Scientific Computer (zl2al.com)

100 points by wlj on Jan 3, 2014 | 4 comments

8816.

The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home (wired.com)

99 points by kevination on Oct 1, 2014 | 146 comments

8817.

Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters (reuters.com)

99 points by bjornsing on Nov 14, 2014 | 141 comments

8818.

Swedish woman's texts could clear Assange (thelocal.se)

99 points by tuukkah on Jul 4, 2014 | 136 comments

8819.

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

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

8820.

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

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