HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1921.

Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? (theatlantic.com)

39 points by bootload on Nov 11, 2015 | 46 comments

1922.

Show HN: Idina, a customizable news aggregator powered by machine learning (idina.com)

39 points by idina_news on Nov 4, 2015 | 24 comments

1923.

Spectro: Adventures in Go (markcrossfield.co.uk)

39 points by WestCoastJustin on Nov 20, 2015 | 21 comments

1924.

FSCQ: A formally verified crash-proof filesystem [pdf] (adam.chlipala.net)

39 points by anishathalye on Nov 20, 2015 | 18 comments

1925.

HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch (instructables.com)

39 points by lelf on Nov 17, 2015 | 14 comments

1926.

Slip coach (en.wikipedia.org)

39 points by mxfh on Nov 26, 2015 | 12 comments

1927.

How the Gates Foundation Reflects the Good and the Bad of “Hacker Philanthropy” (theintercept.com)

39 points by pavornyoh on Nov 26, 2015 | 12 comments

1928.

Fiverr, a Microtask Marketplace, Raises $60M (venturebeat.com)

39 points by jsnathan on Nov 11, 2015 | 11 comments

1929.

Spying on the Soviets with Graph Paper and a Calculator (airspacemag.com)

39 points by protomyth on Nov 21, 2015 | 9 comments

1930.

References and Borrowing (doc.rust-lang.org)

39 points by brudgers on Nov 10, 2015 | 7 comments

1931.

Reasons to Use Elixir in Finance (blog.johnorford.com)

39 points by henrik_w on Nov 1, 2015 | 6 comments

1932.

Using Docker-in-Docker for your CI or testing environment? Think twice (jpetazzo.github.io)

39 points by jvration on Nov 23, 2015 | 6 comments

1933.

Taiwan Tech Demise Shows Pain of Dependence on Desktop PCs (bloomberg.com)

39 points by pavornyoh on Nov 22, 2015 | 5 comments

1934.

The Great Chain of Being Sure About Things (economist.com)

39 points by rfreytag on Nov 6, 2015 | 4 comments

1935.

Evolutionary perspective on raising intelligence (2013) [pdf] (udel.edu)

39 points by Absentinsomniac on Nov 20, 2015 | 4 comments

1936.

Kilroy Is Still Here (theparisreview.org)

39 points by lermontov on Nov 12, 2015 | 3 comments

1937.

SecureDrop Leak Tool Produces a Massive Trove of Prison Docs (wired.com)

39 points by garrettr_ on Nov 12, 2015 | 2 comments

1938.

Forth Day 2015 (svfig.github.io)

39 points by wkoszek on Nov 19, 2015 | 2 comments

1939.

Multi-Version Execution Defeats a Compiler-Bug-Based Backdoor (blog.regehr.org)

39 points by p4bl0 on Nov 24, 2015 | 2 comments

1940.

The Gene Hackers (newyorker.com)

39 points by srunni on Nov 9, 2015 | 1 comments

1941.

Let’s Encrypt Public Beta: December 3, 2015 (letsencrypt.org)

39 points by ashishb4u on Nov 14, 2015 | 1 comments

1942.

Programmer automates his job (uk.businessinsider.com)

39 points by lelf on Nov 27, 2015 | 0 comments

1943.

Ex VMware, Microsoft and Citrix workers set up application container company (networkworld.com)

38 points by walterclifford on Nov 13, 2015 | 54 comments

1944.

How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU (medium.com)

38 points by ingve on Nov 20, 2015 | 51 comments

1945.

Hundreds of Nude Photos Jolt Colorado School (nytimes.com)

38 points by DanielBMarkham on Nov 14, 2015 | 41 comments

1946.

A Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old (smithsonianmag.com)

38 points by lujim on Nov 12, 2015 | 31 comments

1947.

How the MiG-15 grounded the U.S. bomber fleet in Korea (2013) (airspacemag.com)

38 points by lujim on Nov 6, 2015 | 26 comments

1948.

Seed 'extensions' are becoming the new normal in fundraising (venturebeat.com)

38 points by prostoalex on Nov 8, 2015 | 24 comments

1949.

The Internet Is a Series of Lead Tubes (lastwordonnothing.com)

38 points by fredfoobar42 on Nov 19, 2015 | 22 comments

1950.

Corporate America's buyback binge feeds investors, starves innovation (reuters.com)

38 points by walterbell on Nov 18, 2015 | 21 comments