HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1471.

Using wget and grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data (gist.github.com)

55 points by danso on Oct 2, 2015 | 20 comments

1472.

The Mathematical Surprises of Triangles, Squares and Pentagons (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

55 points by sohkamyung on Oct 29, 2015 | 19 comments

1473.

Latin Speakers of West Virginia (medium.com)

55 points by jthnews on Oct 22, 2015 | 18 comments

1474.

The CAP FAQ (github.com)

55 points by sytelus on Oct 18, 2015 | 15 comments

1475.

Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill (wsj.com)

55 points by pierrealexandre on Oct 20, 2015 | 15 comments

1476.

Windows corrupting UDP datagrams (blog.geeky-boy.com)

55 points by gkfasdfasdf on Oct 17, 2015 | 13 comments

1477.

Brian Eno Examines the Ecology of Culture in John Peel Lecture [pdf] (downloads.bbc.co.uk)

55 points by dpflan on Oct 14, 2015 | 9 comments

1478.

MathBox2 Demo – Ready or Not Music Visualization (acko.net)

55 points by senorgusto on Oct 4, 2015 | 2 comments

1479.

Annotated version of the paper that led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics (fermatslibrary.com)

55 points by cronaldo on Oct 13, 2015 | 2 comments

1480.

Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii (atlasobscura.com)

55 points by Thorondor on Oct 15, 2015 | 2 comments

1481.

The Swift Reflection API and what you can do with it (appventure.me)

55 points by ingve on Oct 26, 2015 | 2 comments

1482.

How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them (bbc.co.uk)

54 points by nns on Oct 14, 2015 | 113 comments

1483.

The Case for Getting Rid of Borders Completely (theatlantic.com)

54 points by bpolania on Oct 15, 2015 | 73 comments

1484.

Prison Without Punishment (themarshallproject.org)

54 points by hecubus on Oct 18, 2015 | 65 comments

1485.

Are Cats Domesticated? (newyorker.com)

54 points by ingve on Oct 25, 2015 | 58 comments

1486.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis (washingtonpost.com)

54 points by yummyfajitas on Oct 11, 2015 | 53 comments

1487.

Ask HN: Anything better than Tableau for data viz, dashboards?

54 points by datavizq on Oct 2, 2015 | 52 comments

1488.

Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton (qz.com)

54 points by antr on Oct 9, 2015 | 50 comments

1489.

What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions [pdf] (stanford.edu)

54 points by dangerman on Oct 8, 2015 | 43 comments

1490.

Ask HN: Resources for learning manual software testing?

54 points by tasdev on Oct 11, 2015 | 42 comments

1491.

Scholarship, Security and ‘Spillage’ on Campus (medium.com)

54 points by chmaynard on Oct 8, 2015 | 27 comments

1492.

Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data (broadly.vice.com)

54 points by eegilbert on Oct 16, 2015 | 24 comments

1493.

Cast-Free Arithmetic in Swift (realm.io)

54 points by ingve on Oct 12, 2015 | 22 comments

1494.

Chromium/Blink – Intent to Implement: Experimental Framework (groups.google.com)

54 points by lucideer on Oct 11, 2015 | 21 comments

1495.

Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App (macstories.net)

54 points by happyscrappy on Oct 14, 2015 | 21 comments

1496.

The Oldest Galaxies in the Universe (theatlantic.com)

54 points by Hooke on Oct 26, 2015 | 21 comments

1497.

Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets (medium.com)

54 points by zmanian on Oct 18, 2015 | 16 comments

1498.

Getting started with Erlang: a new way to look at Erlang's syntax (medium.com)

54 points by kansi on Oct 12, 2015 | 14 comments

1499.

Sentencing Overhaul Proposed in Senate with Bipartisan Backing (nytimes.com)

54 points by jegutman on Oct 2, 2015 | 12 comments

1500.

Neumann Space Ion Engine Sets Record for Specific Impulse (neumannspace.com)

54 points by jcr on Oct 1, 2015 | 12 comments