HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

Quantum hard drive breakthrough (phys.org)

52 points by lelf on Jan 8, 2015 | 20 comments

1412.

The First Website Ever Made (w3.org)

52 points by zeeshanm on Jan 1, 2015 | 19 comments

1413.

On professionalism in software (jakewins.com)

52 points by idlewan on Jan 11, 2015 | 19 comments

1414.

Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with (timeshighereducation.co.uk)

52 points by benbreen on Jan 7, 2015 | 18 comments

1415.

Incorrect optimization in 1963 (arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)

52 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 20, 2015 | 16 comments

1416.

San Diego Hacker News Meetup 58 Tomorrow (1/30) (anyvite.com)

52 points by th on Jan 29, 2015 | 15 comments

1417.

Story Worth – privately collect and share family stories (storyworth.com)

52 points by qu1mby on Jan 5, 2015 | 11 comments

1418.

Silent Circle and Lavabit design new end-to-end encrypted email protocol (darkmail.info)

52 points by wtbob on Jan 1, 2015 | 7 comments

1419.

Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? (theguardian.com)

51 points by room271 on Jan 21, 2015 | 89 comments

1420.

The reversible USB Type-C connector is turning heads at CES (arnnet.com.au)

51 points by drewjaja on Jan 7, 2015 | 72 comments

1421.

Sublime VS. Atom: Will GitHub's Text Editor Beat the Standing Champion? (blog.takipi.com)

51 points by joeyespo on Jan 26, 2015 | 70 comments

1422.

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2015?

51 points by csomar on Jan 1, 2015 | 66 comments

1423.

Why Google won't fix a security bug in almost a billion Android phones (engadget.com)

51 points by moe on Jan 25, 2015 | 47 comments

1424.

Leisure is the new productivity (edition.cnn.com)

51 points by sethbannon on Jan 13, 2015 | 30 comments

1425.

Why Corporations Could Get Higher Returns Than VCs (rwrld.blogspot.com)

51 points by zabramow on Jan 31, 2015 | 28 comments

1426.

A Brief History of Databases (2014) (avant.org)

51 points by benbreen on Jan 30, 2015 | 22 comments

1427.

Rubyspec is dead, long live Rubyspec (gist.github.com)

51 points by nateberkopec on Jan 1, 2015 | 18 comments

1428.

OpenWorm – Create a virtual C. elegans nematode (openworm.org)

51 points by emgeee on Jan 26, 2015 | 12 comments

1429.

The Frink programming language (ncreep.github.io)

51 points by mamcx on Jan 15, 2015 | 11 comments

1430.

Finding the distance from camera to object in image (pyimagesearch.com)

51 points by zionsrogue on Jan 19, 2015 | 10 comments

1431.

A window on Chaucer’s cramped, scary, smelly world (spectator.co.uk)

51 points by Vigier on Jan 20, 2015 | 10 comments

1432.

The Admiral of the Atom (city-journal.org)

51 points by calpaterson on Jan 3, 2015 | 8 comments

1433.

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org (youtube.com)

51 points by percept on Jan 9, 2015 | 8 comments

1434.

Understanding the ELF (medium.com)

51 points by LaSombra on Jan 29, 2015 | 7 comments

1435.

Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

51 points by pedrokost on Jan 10, 2015 | 2 comments

1436.

How Boston Removed Snow from Its Streets Throughout History (boston.com)

51 points by happyscrappy on Jan 26, 2015 | 2 comments

1437.

Why Tech Startups Should Look at Go (startupedmonton.tumblr.com)

50 points by ardan-bkennedy on Jan 15, 2015 | 107 comments

1438.

AWS C4 Instances (aws.amazon.com)

50 points by kapkapkap on Jan 13, 2015 | 68 comments

1439.

Reusable Software? Just Don't Write Generic Code (josdejong.com)

50 points by molf on Jan 7, 2015 | 63 comments

1440.

Ask HN: The purest skills needed to become a programmer?

50 points by TbobbyZ on Jan 26, 2015 | 52 comments