HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1651.

Flashcards the Stasi used for facial recognition (atlasobscura.com)

49 points by grownseed on Nov 26, 2015 | 1 comments

1652.

A billionaire targeting contrarian, underappreciated causes (bloomberg.com)

48 points by ca98am79 on Nov 20, 2015 | 93 comments

1653.

We need a better way to get to space (theconversation.com)

48 points by vishaldpatel on Nov 9, 2015 | 69 comments

1654.

iPad Pro Has an App Store Problem (theverge.com)

48 points by milen on Nov 21, 2015 | 61 comments

1655.

Not Even Twitter Understands Twitter (baekdal.com)

48 points by huphtur on Nov 6, 2015 | 59 comments

1656.

What's Behind the Exodus from Rent the Runway? (fortune.com)

48 points by prostoalex on Nov 18, 2015 | 56 comments

1657.

Cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives – what happened? (washingtonpost.com)

48 points by r721 on Nov 3, 2015 | 50 comments

1658.

Pharma's Bizarre Pricing Shrug (bloomberg.com)

48 points by Amorymeltzer on Nov 19, 2015 | 37 comments

1659.

Leaky Ships: Ocean Carriers and the Age of Profitless Shipping (flexport.com)

48 points by thedogeye on Nov 18, 2015 | 34 comments

1660.

The Most Militarized Universities in America (news.vice.com)

48 points by bootload on Nov 16, 2015 | 32 comments

1661.

Grace Hopper Academy (gracehopper.com)

48 points by wyclif on Nov 19, 2015 | 30 comments

1662.

Human-in-the-loop computing is the future (computerworld.com)

48 points by yzmtf2008 on Nov 15, 2015 | 23 comments

1663.

Physicists use photons to carry messages from electrons 1.2 miles apart (news.stanford.edu)

48 points by jonbaer on Nov 25, 2015 | 16 comments

1664.

Computability: The Greatest Law of Physics (researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk)

48 points by theaeolist on Nov 10, 2015 | 14 comments

1665.

Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers (osrp.lanl.gov)

48 points by matt2000 on Nov 15, 2015 | 14 comments

1666.

Packet copies: Expensive or cheap? (github.com)

48 points by luu on Nov 1, 2015 | 12 comments

1667.

The 85 ways to tie a tie (tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk)

48 points by DanBC on Nov 14, 2015 | 12 comments

1668.

In 1975 a Kodak employee invented the digital camera (brw.com.au)

48 points by jonas21 on Nov 10, 2015 | 11 comments

1669.

Problems that warrant Docker orchestration (railsadventures.wordpress.com)

48 points by torkale on Nov 24, 2015 | 9 comments

1670.

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (cl.cam.ac.uk)

48 points by ColinWright on Nov 28, 2015 | 7 comments

1671.

Recursion, Tail Calls and Trampolines (datchley.name)

48 points by tuxz0r on Nov 17, 2015 | 4 comments

1672.

Notes on indexes and index-like structures (dbms2.com)

48 points by espeed on Nov 29, 2015 | 2 comments

1673.

Learning to Read, Again (2013) (fredgibbs.net)

48 points by lermontov on Nov 1, 2015 | 0 comments

1674.

In California, Stingy Water Users Are Fined in Drought, While the Rich Soak (nytimes.com)

47 points by jeo1234 on Nov 22, 2015 | 60 comments

1675.

Asia Struggles for a Solution to Its ‘Missing Women’ Problem (wsj.com)

47 points by kevindeasis on Nov 26, 2015 | 59 comments

1676.

Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or Specialists? (blog.apterainc.com)

47 points by pottereric on Nov 23, 2015 | 58 comments

1677.

Large analysis finds that low-fat diets have low impact (nature.com)

47 points by cryoshon on Nov 2, 2015 | 57 comments

1678.

What's the best way to die? (wilsonquarterly.com)

47 points by Hooke on Nov 3, 2015 | 54 comments

1679.

Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood (bloomberg.com)

47 points by trextrex on Nov 26, 2015 | 53 comments

1680.

21.co Bitcoin Computer Now on Sale (21.co)

47 points by dmvaldman on Nov 16, 2015 | 52 comments