HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

America's newest nuclear plant shows why nuclear power is dying in the U.S (latimes.com)

50 points by adventured on Oct 12, 2015 | 126 comments

1592.

On being a female on a male-dominated engineering team (bryanaknight.com)

50 points by timtyrrell on Oct 28, 2015 | 74 comments

1593.

Are Fats Unhealthy? The Battle Over Dietary Guidelines (nytimes.com)

50 points by OrwellianChild on Oct 13, 2015 | 57 comments

1594.

A protocol for storing up to 1277 bytes in the Bitcoin blockchain (github.com)

50 points by williamcotton on Oct 15, 2015 | 44 comments

1595.

CloudFlare Route leak (cloudflarestatus.com)

50 points by anon1385 on Oct 5, 2015 | 36 comments

1596.

Crispr: Nobel prize for gene-editing technique at risk over patent dispute (independent.co.uk)

50 points by mudil on Oct 4, 2015 | 26 comments

1597.

Superscript: South Korea celebrates an ingenious writing system (economist.com)

50 points by nether on Oct 11, 2015 | 26 comments

1598.

Optical Computer Prototype (optalysys.com)

50 points by fenrissan on Oct 17, 2015 | 26 comments

1599.

Winner Takes Most (avc.com)

50 points by rock57 on Oct 22, 2015 | 25 comments

1600.

Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone (venturebeat.com)

50 points by happyscrappy on Oct 16, 2015 | 19 comments

1601.

The merger of Dell and EMC stems from the rise of cloud computing (economist.com)

50 points by jimsojim on Oct 13, 2015 | 14 comments

1602.

Microsoft, Tesla say software-defined batteries could redirect power on the fly (pcworld.com)

50 points by breck on Oct 4, 2015 | 13 comments

1603.

Pushing the Limits of Kernel Networking (rhelblog.redhat.com)

50 points by jsnell on Oct 1, 2015 | 10 comments

1604.

An African Startup Using Phones to Spot Counterfeit Drugs (bloomberg.com)

50 points by SQL2219 on Oct 16, 2015 | 8 comments

1605.

The New Data Engineering Ecosystem: Trends and Rising Stars (insightdataengineering.com)

50 points by ShaunaLAnderson on Oct 27, 2015 | 8 comments

1606.

In Damp Metro Tunnels, Prehistoric Plants Thrive (wamu.org)

50 points by smacktoward on Oct 10, 2015 | 5 comments

1607.

I showed leaked NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed (arstechnica.co.uk)

50 points by jrowley on Oct 10, 2015 | 5 comments

1608.

A close look at an operating botnet (conorpp.com)

50 points by conorpp on Oct 11, 2015 | 4 comments

1609.

Hadoop filesystem at Twitter (blog.twitter.com)

50 points by r4um on Oct 1, 2015 | 3 comments

1610.

Show HN: Wunderbrain – Indie iOS app to train your brain in a few minutes a week (itunes.apple.com)

50 points by mathieumorin on Oct 28, 2015 | 2 comments

1611.

N1: An extensible mail client built on the modern web (github.com)

50 points by robinj6 on Oct 11, 2015 | 0 comments

1612.

Ask HN: How can I tell if I have programming aptitude?

49 points by canicode on Oct 23, 2015 | 101 comments

1613.

The UK is replacing roundabouts with traffic lights; US is doing the opposite (theguardian.com)

49 points by jonathansizz on Oct 19, 2015 | 75 comments

1614.

Are global wages about to turn? (bbc.co.uk)

49 points by SimplyUseless on Oct 9, 2015 | 64 comments

1615.

Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials, but only in US (nature.com)

49 points by DanBC on Oct 8, 2015 | 55 comments

1616.

Unicorns, Startups and Hosted Email (blog.thinkst.com)

49 points by mh_ on Oct 20, 2015 | 52 comments

1617.

Report says Uber surge pricing has a twist: some drivers flee (sfgate.com)

49 points by aceperry on Oct 30, 2015 | 50 comments

1618.

Peeple sites 'disappear' from web after backlash over app (bbc.co.uk)

49 points by Turukawa on Oct 5, 2015 | 45 comments

1619.

Method of loci (en.wikipedia.org)

49 points by SworDsy on Oct 12, 2015 | 34 comments

1620.

Show HN: `diff arc0 arc3.1` (cdn.rawgit.com)

49 points by laarc on Oct 16, 2015 | 34 comments