HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it (2002) (susanblackmore.co.uk)

52 points by monort on May 28, 2015 | 45 comments

1502.

Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements (blogs.windows.com)

52 points by vezycash on May 21, 2015 | 41 comments

1503.

Announcing the Acquisition of Surreal Vision (oculus.com)

52 points by jonas21 on May 26, 2015 | 35 comments

1504.

Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

52 points by tagabek on May 7, 2015 | 31 comments

1505.

Balancing Multiplayer Competitive Games (2009) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)

52 points by mirceasoaica on May 25, 2015 | 30 comments

1506.

The Little MAC Attack (dankaminsky.com)

52 points by jessaustin on May 12, 2015 | 27 comments

1507.

Why an iron fish can make you stronger (bbc.com)

52 points by inm on May 17, 2015 | 26 comments

1508.

Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015 (backblaze.com)

52 points by ars on May 22, 2015 | 26 comments

1509.

Superbad (superbad.com)

52 points by ownedthx on May 26, 2015 | 19 comments

1510.

Training for Discontent (medium.com)

52 points by tim_sw on May 16, 2015 | 17 comments

1511.

Tortuous History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa (nytimes.com)

52 points by Thevet on May 31, 2015 | 15 comments

1512.

NirCmd – a multipurpose Windows command line tool (nirsoft.net)

52 points by networked on May 30, 2015 | 14 comments

1513.

Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process (freedom-to-tinker.com)

52 points by notsony on May 11, 2015 | 13 comments

1514.

Announcing Firebase Mobile Offline Support (firebase.com)

52 points by tlarkworthy on May 29, 2015 | 10 comments

1515.

Running a South Pole data center (arstechnica.com)

52 points by jonbaer on May 1, 2015 | 9 comments

1516.

Boom – HTTP(S) load generator (github.com)

52 points by bojo on May 21, 2015 | 9 comments

1517.

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in Plain English (security.stackexchange.com)

52 points by luu on May 23, 2015 | 9 comments

1518.

The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See (2011) (mensjournal.com)

52 points by davesailer on May 30, 2015 | 5 comments

1519.

CAP Theorem: if all you have is a timeout, everything looks like a partition (blog.thislongrun.com)

52 points by nkeywal on May 25, 2015 | 3 comments

1520.

Geometry of the structure of viruses [pdf] (liga.ens.fr)

52 points by washedup on May 30, 2015 | 3 comments

1521.

Finding topics in Harry Potter using K-Means clustering (dogdogfish.com)

52 points by matthewsharpe3 on May 11, 2015 | 2 comments

1522.

House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act Without Amendments (eff.org)

52 points by joshstrange on May 13, 2015 | 1 comments

1523.

Larry Ellison Killed Aaron's Law (2014) (o.canada.com)

52 points by miket on May 9, 2015 | 0 comments

1524.

Chef Grills Steak, Volcano-Style, with Molten Lava (npr.org)

51 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 18, 2015 | 50 comments

1525.

Vim Tips For Intermediate Users (ideasintosoftware.com)

51 points by realyze on May 20, 2015 | 48 comments

1526.

The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you [video] (ted.com)

51 points by ColinWright on May 31, 2015 | 46 comments

1527.

Virgin Media stores user passwords in plaintext? (twitter.com)

51 points by atoponce on May 5, 2015 | 31 comments

1528.

My notes on Amazon's EC2 Container Service, aka Docker on AWS (jpetazzo.github.io)