HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4021.

2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internet (theverge.com)

8 points by rey12rey on Jan 7, 2015 | 0 comments

4022.

World’s first (known) bootkit for OS X can permanently backdoor Macs (arstechnica.com)

8 points by snake_case on Jan 7, 2015 | 0 comments

4023.

The Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (collection.cooperhewitt.org)

8 points by chippy on Jan 7, 2015 | 0 comments

4024.

White House Responds to Carmen Ortiz/Aaron Swartz Petition ()

8 points by kweinber on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4025.

How to Criticise with Kindness (brainpickings.org)

8 points by jeremynixon on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4026.

The state of ES6 on io.js (github.com)

8 points by shawndumas on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4027.

A Teenager’s View on Social Media (medium.com)

8 points by plainOldText on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4028.

My Quantified 2014: Life Behind the Command Line (blog.freecodecamp.com)

8 points by michaelq on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4029.

Is Bitcoin Made from Titanium? Currency on Rebound Despite Hack, Price Plunge (techtimes.com)

8 points by peedlecode on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4030.

Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment (eff.org)

8 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4031.

Some Performance Measurements on Maps (joearms.github.io)

8 points by davidw on Jan 8, 2015 | 0 comments

4032.

TempleOS: The Grand Vision (youtube.com)

8 points by TazeTSchnitzel on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4033.

Ignored expressions in Racket bytecode (gus-massa.blogspot.com)

8 points by gus_massa on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4034.

Chrome Security Team Member on WhiteHat Aviator Browser Problems (plus.google.com)

8 points by tptacek on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4035.

Infection Simulation: Ebola vs. Influenza (blog.rescale.com)

8 points by gpoort on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4036.

Peeking inside Rust Trait Objects (huonw.github.io)

8 points by adamnemecek on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4037.

Bootstrapping vs. Billionaires: Hack Your Perspective (net-results.com)

8 points by analogyMan on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4038.

Gngr is an old-fashioned new browser (gngr.info)

8 points by luu on Jan 9, 2015 | 0 comments

4039.

Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters (pewinternet.org)

8 points by jimiwen on Jan 10, 2015 | 0 comments

4040.

Light Clients and Proof of Stake (blog.ethereum.org)

8 points by jrbedard on Jan 10, 2015 | 0 comments

4041.

Why the Affero GPL? (gnu.org)

8 points by pmoriarty on Jan 10, 2015 | 0 comments

4042.

Lighthouse: a lightweight and scriptable spotlight-like program to run on X (github.com)

8 points by emgram769 on Jan 11, 2015 | 0 comments

4043.

“Data Rotting” concept receives CIDR 2015 Wildest Idea award (monetdb.org)

8 points by dnedev on Jan 11, 2015 | 0 comments

4044.

Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot (plosone.org)

8 points by gwern on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4045.

A Call for Better Vulnerability Response (blog.erratasec.com)

8 points by dchest on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4046.

Former US cybersecurity director gets 25 years for online child abuse (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

8 points by pain_perdu on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4047.

Hacking a Bitcoin exchange powered by Rails (sakurity.com)

8 points by homakov on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4048.

Payment for Stripe (paidhq.com)

8 points by rscherf on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4049.

Mailing Secret Letters in the 19th Century (2012) (laphamsquarterly.org)

8 points by Vigier on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

4050.

From Mainframe to Smartphone: What an Amazing Trip It's Been [pdf] (mvdirona.com)

8 points by wallflower on Jan 13, 2015 | 0 comments