HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy (2013) (theguardian.com)

40 points by brudgers on Sep 21, 2015 | 6 comments

1682.

Neurotic Neurons: An Interactive Explanation [video] (ncase.me)

40 points by brad0 on Sep 25, 2015 | 6 comments

1683.

Generate command-line completions using a simple DSL (github.com)

40 points by dmmalam on Sep 4, 2015 | 5 comments

1684.

Of “Bomb Clocks,” Engineers and the $70M High School Football Stadium (frumped.org)

40 points by yitchelle on Sep 17, 2015 | 4 comments

1685.

Notes on How Parsers and Compilers Work (2007) (parsingintro.sourceforge.net)

40 points by terminalcommand on Sep 2, 2015 | 1 comments

1686.

The Dual Pythagorean Theorem (2011) (gregegan.net)

40 points by signa11 on Sep 3, 2015 | 1 comments

1687.

Technical report: Nix package manager on Windows (ternaris.com)

40 points by iElectric2 on Sep 8, 2015 | 1 comments

1688.

Do rent controls work? (economist.com)

39 points by realdlee on Sep 1, 2015 | 107 comments

1689.

Ask HN: Why don't publishers serve ads from their domains to thwart ad-blockers?

39 points by akc on Sep 15, 2015 | 83 comments

1690.

Office 2016 Is Microsoft's Best Hope to Show It's Changed (wired.com)

39 points by howsilly on Sep 23, 2015 | 66 comments

1691.

“On Accident” or “By Accident”? (literalminded.wordpress.com)

39 points by sudo_bang_bang on Sep 24, 2015 | 62 comments

1692.

French thought once dazzled the world. Where did it go wrong? (aeon.co)

39 points by lermontov on Sep 22, 2015 | 56 comments

1693.

The Middle-Class Squeeze (wsj.com)

39 points by grej on Sep 26, 2015 | 54 comments

1694.

R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? (2014) (matloff.wordpress.com)

39 points by mindcrime on Sep 9, 2015 | 49 comments

1695.

Show HN: Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys (github.com)

39 points by jlank on Sep 8, 2015 | 46 comments

1696.

An unapology (oss4gov.org)

39 points by lifeisstillgood on Sep 18, 2015 | 41 comments

1697.

The geography of American left-handedness (washingtonpost.com)

39 points by srikar on Sep 23, 2015 | 41 comments

1698.

Show HN: Get the real best price for your hotel or get a superior hotel (triprebel.com)

39 points by borgatov on Sep 16, 2015 | 40 comments

1699.

More Than One Third of Tutanota Emails Are End-To-End Encrypted (tutanota.com)

39 points by Kaylan on Sep 13, 2015 | 39 comments

1700.

TV vs. The Internet: Who Will Win? (nybooks.com)

39 points by prostoalex on Sep 25, 2015 | 33 comments

1701.

How many errors? (nedbatchelder.com)

39 points by ingve on Sep 7, 2015 | 27 comments

1702.

Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child (nytimes.com)

39 points by tim_sw on Sep 17, 2015 | 23 comments

1703.

A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win (nytimes.com)

39 points by kareemm on Sep 7, 2015 | 16 comments

1704.

Compute Engine Preemptible VMs Are Now Generally Available (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

39 points by boulos on Sep 8, 2015 | 16 comments

1705.

“Stop Spotify from waking computer up” (community.spotify.com)

39 points by rplnt on Sep 29, 2015 | 16 comments

1706.

Show HN: KafkaLite – A simple message broker inspired by Kafka (github.com)

39 points by flashgordon on Sep 8, 2015 | 14 comments

1707.

Scraping Hacker News on a Schedule with TaskPipes (blog.taskpipes.com)

39 points by f292 on Sep 23, 2015 | 12 comments

1708.

DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS Tutorial (cqrs.nu)

39 points by lisa_henderson on Sep 9, 2015 | 11 comments

1709.

Wherever You Go, Your Personal Cloud of Microbes Follows (npr.org)

39 points by pmcpinto on Sep 23, 2015 | 11 comments

1710.

An open source tool for planning sustainable public bike paths (geo8.webarch.net)

39 points by jpereira on Sep 16, 2015 | 9 comments