HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

How would the world change if we found extraterrestrial life? (phys.org)

47 points by lelf on Jan 29, 2015 | 52 comments

1502.

The Hidden Psychology of Wearing Glasses (psmag.com)

47 points by pepys on Jan 28, 2015 | 46 comments

1503.

'Billionaires' Book Review: Money Can't Buy Happiness (newrepublic.com)

47 points by tacon on Jan 3, 2015 | 44 comments

1504.

Malaysia Airlines Defaced - 404 Plane Not Found (wsj.com)

47 points by scubasteve on Jan 26, 2015 | 44 comments

1505.

Branch-free FizzBuzz in Assembly (pepijndevos.nl)

47 points by luu on Jan 3, 2015 | 43 comments

1506.

How Can an Aircraft Disappear Over the Ocean? (technologyreview.com)

47 points by wglb on Jan 3, 2015 | 38 comments

1507.

Bitcoin – The Magic of Mining (economist.com)

47 points by mgertner on Jan 17, 2015 | 37 comments

1508.

Rust – “hello world” contains Lovecraft quotes (github.com)

47 points by monort on Jan 11, 2015 | 36 comments

1509.

Integrated Circuit design for the IoT (blog.synflow.com)

47 points by MootWoop on Jan 8, 2015 | 28 comments

1510.

From Vertigo to Tinnitus, Ear Ailments Are New Focus for Drugs (nytimes.com)

47 points by digisth on Jan 10, 2015 | 26 comments

1511.

Voxelvoid – A retro arcade shooter (voxelvoid.com)

47 points by bottled_poe on Jan 13, 2015 | 26 comments

1512.

Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (1963) (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

47 points by sebastianconcpt on Jan 19, 2015 | 20 comments

1513.

Survey shows surprise decline in US startups run by young people (gigaom.com)

47 points by jklp on Jan 7, 2015 | 18 comments

1514.

How the Germans invented gay rights more than a century ago (newyorker.com)

47 points by Thevet on Jan 21, 2015 | 15 comments

1515.

Show HN: XCV – cut, copy and paste files with bash (github.com)

47 points by busterc on Jan 1, 2015 | 12 comments

1516.

HTML5 Canvas Fingerprinter (browserleaks.com)

47 points by logn on Jan 14, 2015 | 12 comments

1517.

60 Years of Urban Change: Northeast (iqc.ou.edu)

47 points by gbarnes on Jan 23, 2015 | 11 comments

1518.

Learn Vimscript the Hard Way (learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com)

47 points by StylifyYourBlog on Jan 26, 2015 | 11 comments

1519.

Shatranj, the predecessor of modern chess (en.wikipedia.org)

47 points by diodorus on Jan 26, 2015 | 10 comments

1520.

An Open Source Tool for Easier Database Testing (18f.gsa.gov)

47 points by uptown on Jan 13, 2015 | 8 comments

1521.

Show HN: Pipeglade – Pipe-Driven GTK+ Interfaces (pipeglade.boundp.org)

47 points by trebb on Jan 1, 2015 | 7 comments

1522.

Show HN: Bond – A Swift binding framework (github.com)

47 points by srdanrasic on Jan 30, 2015 | 7 comments

1523.

Ten years a MicroISV (successfulsoftware.net)

47 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 7, 2015 | 6 comments

1524.

Sebastian Seung's Quest to Map the Human Brain (nytimes.com)

47 points by mturmon on Jan 14, 2015 | 3 comments

1525.

Using React.js and Application Cache for a fast, synced app (tabforacause.org)

47 points by kjennison on Jan 29, 2015 | 3 comments

1526.

The Snoopers’ Charter: Shameful Opportunism (paulbernal.wordpress.com)

47 points by MarcScott on Jan 24, 2015 | 2 comments

1527.

Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool (codeascraft.com)

47 points by desp on Jan 27, 2015 | 1 comments

1528.

Notepad++ Site Evidently Hacked (notepad-plus-plus.org)

47 points by RokStdy on Jan 12, 2015 | 0 comments

1529.

A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is in the U.S (economist.com)

46 points by denzil_correa on Jan 8, 2015 | 149 comments

1530.

Battling the ‘Monsanto law’ in Ghana (newint.org)

46 points by givan on Jan 11, 2015 | 70 comments