HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics (nature.com)

93 points by jgamman on Aug 18, 2015 | 44 comments

812.

Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase (medium.com)

93 points by jorde on Aug 6, 2015 | 41 comments

813.

Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer (dwavesys.com)

93 points by johlo on Aug 21, 2015 | 41 comments

814.

If we stand still, we go backwards (jakearchibald.com)

93 points by callum85 on Aug 3, 2015 | 33 comments

815.

Physicists announce graphene’s latest cousin: stanene (nature.com)

93 points by rottyguy on Aug 4, 2015 | 26 comments

816.

Show HN: SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python (spacy.io)

93 points by syllogism on Aug 20, 2015 | 10 comments

817.

The Bitcoin Blocksize: A Summary (rusty.ozlabs.org)

92 points by alexcasalboni on Aug 12, 2015 | 90 comments

818.

It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans (economist.com)

92 points by thomasrossi on Aug 23, 2015 | 75 comments

819.

“It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (1998) (gopher.quux.org)

92 points by beshrkayali on Aug 22, 2015 | 63 comments

820.

Sublime Text's Plugin API: It's Python, Sort Of (news.floobits.com)

92 points by ggreer on Aug 19, 2015 | 44 comments

821.

Bike Commuting to Work in Los Angeles (williamha.com)

92 points by burritofanatic on Aug 16, 2015 | 43 comments

822.

Sqitch - Sane database change management (sqitch.org)

92 points by dmmalam on Aug 31, 2015 | 38 comments

823.

The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted (epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com)

92 points by tokenadult on Aug 25, 2015 | 37 comments

824.

The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption (passcode.csmonitor.com)

92 points by jonbaer on Aug 28, 2015 | 26 comments

825.

Genode – Operating System Framework (genode.org)

92 points by neodypsis on Aug 29, 2015 | 23 comments

826.

OpenBSD Foundation Announces New Silver Donor: Yandex (undeadly.org)

92 points by stargrave on Aug 15, 2015 | 14 comments

827.

Jailhouse: Linux-based partitioning hypervisor (github.com)

92 points by kordless on Aug 21, 2015 | 7 comments

828.

The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited importance and legislative options [pdf] (harvardjol.com)

91 points by yummyfajitas on Aug 20, 2015 | 171 comments

829.

U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China’s Hacking (nytimes.com)

91 points by ddlatham on Aug 1, 2015 | 81 comments

830.

“I have already used the name for my programming language” (2009) (github.com)

91 points by scapbi on Aug 6, 2015 | 74 comments

831.

Aphantasia: A life without mental images (bbc.com)

91 points by adamcarson on Aug 31, 2015 | 73 comments

832.

For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap (csmonitor.com)

91 points by juanplusjuan on Aug 11, 2015 | 71 comments

833.

How RED Cameras Changed the Game (nyfa.edu)

91 points by fezz on Aug 14, 2015 | 63 comments

834.

Ethics for Freelance Programmers (mikecavaliere.com)

91 points by mcavaliere on Aug 28, 2015 | 60 comments

835.

How Google bought Waze (businessinsider.com)

91 points by geoffreyy on Aug 13, 2015 | 47 comments

836.

Russian parliament asks to prohibit Windows 10 use in state organizations (translate.google.com)

91 points by ommunist on Aug 22, 2015 | 46 comments

837.

A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mesolithic Human Activity (sciencedirect.com)