HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

A new history asks: Has all the progress of the past 100 years come undone? (slate.com)

66 points by samclemens on Nov 3, 2015 | 70 comments

1232.

2,000% price hike for infant seizure drug called 'absurd' (cbc.ca)

66 points by cordite on Nov 16, 2015 | 69 comments

1233.

Berlin social housing winning the residential race (thesaturdaypaper.com.au)

66 points by Mz on Nov 23, 2015 | 68 comments

1234.

Welsh village adopts multinational tax tactics (independent.co.uk)

66 points by sofaofthedamned on Nov 11, 2015 | 50 comments

1235.

Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating (nytimes.com)

66 points by xiaoma on Nov 7, 2015 | 47 comments

1236.

Instagram-Famous Teen Shows the Dark Backstory of Her Perfect Selfies (teenvogue.com)

66 points by striking on Nov 3, 2015 | 44 comments

1237.

Nokia Tries to Reinvent Itself, Again, by Taking Over Alcatel-Lucent (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

66 points by pavornyoh on Nov 30, 2015 | 37 comments

1238.

Resurrecting Duckhunt (hackaday.com)

66 points by voltagex_ on Nov 17, 2015 | 28 comments

1239.

The Many Ways of WeChat (techcrunch.com)

66 points by edithsan on Nov 26, 2015 | 28 comments

1240.

Porting Go to Linux on IBM Z Architecture (groups.google.com)

66 points by diakritikal on Nov 27, 2015 | 24 comments

1241.

Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations (wired.com)

66 points by walterbell on Nov 18, 2015 | 23 comments

1242.

NeuralTalk2: Efficient Image Captioning code in Torch, runs on GPU (github.com)

66 points by rshaban on Nov 22, 2015 | 23 comments

1243.

Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf] (cs.princeton.edu)

66 points by thristian on Nov 4, 2015 | 19 comments

1244.

Topology looks for the patterns inside big data (theconversation.com)

66 points by ColinWright on Nov 19, 2015 | 15 comments

1245.

MBrace: .NET engine for large-scale data processing (mbrace.io)

66 points by letrec on Nov 13, 2015 | 13 comments

1246.

Neural Networks with Few Multiplications (arxiv.org)

66 points by skybrian on Nov 9, 2015 | 8 comments

1247.

ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps (colorbrewer2.org)

66 points by bpierre on Nov 13, 2015 | 7 comments

1248.

Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks (news.nationalgeographic.com)

66 points by diodorus on Nov 9, 2015 | 1 comments

1249.

The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords (bloomberg.com)

65 points by edtrudeau on Nov 10, 2015 | 161 comments

1250.

The 16-bit v/s 8-bit Blind Listening Test, Part 2 (audiocheck.net)

65 points by nkurz on Nov 8, 2015 | 75 comments

1251.

China's Money Exodus (bloomberg.com)

65 points by cdnsteve on Nov 3, 2015 | 68 comments

1252.

If Lisp Is So Great (2003) (paulgraham.com)

65 points by munchor on Nov 27, 2015 | 64 comments

1253.

Zenefits CEO responds to rumors of company's struggles (businessinsider.com)

65 points by zabramow on Nov 16, 2015 | 57 comments

1254.

Barren islands that countries never stop fighting over (bbc.com)

65 points by carlosgg on Nov 18, 2015 | 55 comments

1255.

What programmers can learn from economists: fundamentals and models (blog.darknedgy.net)

65 points by ash on Nov 6, 2015 | 47 comments

1256.

Lyft looking to raise $500M in new funding at valuation of about $4B (nytimes.com)

65 points by Jerry2 on Nov 18, 2015 | 44 comments

1257.

Young People Are Happier Than They Used to Be (theatlantic.com)

65 points by cJ0th on Nov 8, 2015 | 42 comments

1258.

Jawbone Lays Off 60, 15% of Staff Globally, Closes NY Office (techcrunch.com)

65 points by cgoodmac on Nov 22, 2015 | 36 comments

1259.

How the Wright Brothers Blew It (2003) (forbes.com)

65 points by jitix on Nov 11, 2015 | 35 comments

1260.

Turing Tarpit (en.wikipedia.org)

65 points by jaytaylor on Nov 14, 2015 | 30 comments