HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9211.

Astronomers discover first Thorne-Żytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star (colorado.edu)

96 points by edave on Jun 4, 2014 | 11 comments

9212.

California blue whales, once nearly extinct, are back at historic levels (vox.com)

96 points by prostoalex on Sep 28, 2014 | 11 comments

9213.

DNS server that lets you look up EC2 instances by instance name (github.com)

96 points by cirwin on Aug 24, 2014 | 10 comments

9214.

Mtgox.com is gone (tools.pingdom.com)

96 points by delsarto on Feb 25, 2014 | 9 comments

9215.

Hello JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012) (blog.reverberate.org)

96 points by jeffreyrogers on Apr 6, 2014 | 9 comments

9216.

Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong (dustlayer.com)

96 points by yankcrime on Aug 16, 2014 | 9 comments

9217.

Animagraffs (animagraffs.com)

96 points by uptown on Jun 30, 2014 | 8 comments

9218.

Taipei's new mayor writes a GitBook (gitbook.com)

96 points by ytch on Dec 2, 2014 | 8 comments

9219.

Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003 (vox.com)

95 points by adventured on Jul 18, 2014 | 130 comments

9220.

Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate? (schneier.com)

95 points by sp8 on Feb 27, 2014 | 121 comments

9221.

Scala: Next Steps (scala-lang.org)

95 points by jfb on Jul 28, 2014 | 112 comments

9222.

A Financial Model Comparing Car Ownership with UberX in Los Angeles (gohe.ro)

95 points by kaleazy on Aug 31, 2014 | 111 comments

9223.

The Home Depot confirms payment systems breach (ir.homedepot.com)

95 points by manachar on Sep 8, 2014 | 108 comments

9224.

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science (nytimes.com)

95 points by melarina on Mar 15, 2014 | 104 comments

9225.

Show HN: Give 7 billion people a physical address (locationawarenames.org)

95 points by roberdam on Sep 4, 2014 | 103 comments

9226.

Objective-C isn't what you think it is (news.rapgenius.com)

95 points by khanlou on Feb 26, 2014 | 98 comments

9227.

No more time limits on Spotify (news.spotify.com)

95 points by mrhicks on Jan 16, 2014 | 96 comments

9228.

The Emacs Problem (2005) (sites.google.com)

95 points by swah on Feb 27, 2014 | 95 comments

9229.

Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up online budgets (theglobeandmail.com)

95 points by pastycrinkles on Nov 6, 2014 | 94 comments

9230.

Anonymity (blog.samaltman.com)

95 points by gatsby on Feb 10, 2014 | 93 comments

9231.

Emacs is Sexy (emacs.sexy)

95 points by jambo on Mar 12, 2014 | 90 comments

9232.

Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games (polygon.com)

95 points by smacktoward on Jul 24, 2014 | 90 comments

9233.

Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group (reuters.com)

95 points by ForHackernews on Jan 15, 2014 | 89 comments

9234.

Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?

95 points by petecooper on Sep 20, 2014 | 86 comments

9235.

Physicists Should Stop Saying Silly Things about Philosophy (preposterousuniverse.com)

95 points by seliopou on Jun 24, 2014 | 85 comments

9236.

We’re tackling aging (calicolabs.com)

95 points by exratione on Aug 9, 2014 | 85 comments

9237.

The case for an antibiotics tax (washingtonpost.com)

95 points by tpatke on Jan 14, 2014 | 84 comments

9238.

We're Fighting the Feds Over Your Email (m.us.wsj.com)

95 points by jcabala on Jul 30, 2014 | 84 comments

9239.

Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses (definedcodehosting.com)

95 points by vznatvps on Jul 14, 2014 | 82 comments

9240.

The Dot-Com Bust’s Worst Flops Were Actually Fantastic Ideas (wired.com)

95 points by InternetGiant on Dec 8, 2014 | 81 comments