HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Boycott systemd (boycottsystemd.org)

258 points by martinp on Apr 24, 2014 | 232 comments

2012.

Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety (citylab.com)

258 points by mortenjorck on Oct 10, 2014 | 205 comments

2013.

Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion (dealbook.nytimes.com)

258 points by rickdale on Jan 23, 2014 | 202 comments

2014.

Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border (aclu.org)

258 points by frostmatthew on Jan 1, 2014 | 178 comments

2015.

The Anti-Facebook (theverge.com)

258 points by fourstar on Aug 18, 2014 | 164 comments

2016.

We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work (slate.com)

258 points by hownottowrite on Jun 22, 2014 | 158 comments

2017.

If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf] (wjh.harvard.edu)

258 points by monort on Nov 10, 2014 | 143 comments

2018.

Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job (time.com)

258 points by scottkduncan on Apr 11, 2014 | 139 comments

2019.

Global heatmap of cycling and running routes (labs.strava.com)

258 points by knappe on May 2, 2014 | 139 comments

2020.

Hum (letshum.com)

258 points by jonkratz on Mar 2, 2014 | 133 comments

2021.

Making Connections to Facebook More Secure (facebook.com)

258 points by jboynyc on Oct 31, 2014 | 116 comments

2022.

A redesign of the Django websites (djangoproject.com)

258 points by olasitarska on Dec 16, 2014 | 97 comments

2023.

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools? (stackoverflow.com)

258 points by gedrap on Feb 12, 2014 | 86 comments

2024.

Shrturl: Faking the web since 1942 (shrturl.co)

258 points by priteshjain on Jun 5, 2014 | 78 comments

2025.

Toward Go 1.3 (talks.golang.org)

257 points by babawere on Feb 11, 2014 | 257 comments

2026.

Some REST best practices (bourgeois.me)

257 points by brgs on Nov 17, 2014 | 162 comments

2027.

A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket (artyom.me)

257 points by jackhammer2022 on Apr 15, 2014 | 156 comments

2028.

SparkFun: We Hear You (facebook.com)

257 points by surge on Mar 20, 2014 | 153 comments

2029.

Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12) (hackpad.com)

257 points by yukichan on Apr 17, 2014 | 149 comments

2030.

Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors (blogs.wsj.com)

257 points by adidash on Oct 5, 2014 | 144 comments

2031.

On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM (daringfireball.net)

257 points by dieulot on Feb 22, 2014 | 140 comments

2032.

Schwab password policies and two factor authentication (jeremytunnell.com)

257 points by jeremyt on Dec 22, 2014 | 123 comments

2033.

Confessions of an Intermediate Programmer (michaelbromley.co.uk)

257 points by zaidos on Mar 3, 2014 | 116 comments

2034.

Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt (latimes.com)

257 points by damian2000 on Aug 25, 2014 | 107 comments

2035.

Challenge HN: Keep lame April Fools' gags off the front page

257 points by dang on Apr 1, 2014 | 97 comments

2036.

“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies” (developer.apple.com)

257 points by ca98am79 on Jun 2, 2014 | 88 comments

2037.

Functional Programming Patterns (slideshare.net)

257 points by ique on Nov 30, 2014 | 68 comments

2038.

Why my book can be downloaded for free (blog.plover.com)

257 points by draegtun on Dec 3, 2014 | 64 comments

2039.

Why I am leaving the best job I ever had (maxschireson.com)

257 points by jasondc on Aug 5, 2014 | 53 comments

2040.

Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM (vitessedata.com)

257 points by yangyang on Oct 17, 2014 | 37 comments