HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

The arms race for anti-drone weaponry (theverge.com)

36 points by Futurebot on Nov 6, 2015 | 44 comments

2012.

What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs (chronicle.com)

36 points by danso on Nov 10, 2015 | 40 comments

2013.

Specific Problems with Other RNGs (pcg-random.org)

36 points by nkurz on Nov 11, 2015 | 38 comments

2014.

Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected to Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com)

36 points by richardboegli on Nov 26, 2015 | 37 comments

2015.

Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation (bclee.net)

36 points by fezz on Nov 19, 2015 | 23 comments

2016.

Show HN: Play games together on a big screen using your smartphone (airoplay.com)

36 points by airoplay on Nov 26, 2015 | 19 comments

2017.

ON Semiconductor to Acquire Fairchild Semiconductor for $2.4B in Cash (onsemi.com)

36 points by iliis on Nov 18, 2015 | 16 comments

2018.

Pocket spectrometer lets you measure the molecular makeup of nearly anything (inhabitat.com)

36 points by RogerWinn on Nov 18, 2015 | 16 comments

2019.

A 'Binary' System for Complex Numbers (1965) [pdf] (nsa.gov)

36 points by espeed on Nov 30, 2015 | 13 comments

2020.

Why Women Compete with Each Other (nytimes.com)

36 points by SimplyUseless on Nov 1, 2015 | 11 comments

2021.

Android malware drops Banker from PNG file (b0n1.blogspot.com)

36 points by boni11 on Nov 24, 2015 | 11 comments

2022.

You Don't Have to Be a Scientist to Own a Proper EEG Headset (braindecoder.com)

36 points by bootload on Nov 9, 2015 | 8 comments

2023.

MTN seeks to reduce $5.2B Nigerian fine (bbc.com)

36 points by tonteldoos on Nov 3, 2015 | 7 comments

2024.

How “High Output Management” became a cult classic in Silicon Valley (washingtonpost.com)

36 points by rdl on Nov 18, 2015 | 7 comments

2025.

Google News Lab (newslab.withgoogle.com)

36 points by atriix on Nov 4, 2015 | 6 comments

2026.

Interval hash tree: efficient index structure for searching object in large DBs [pdf] (almaden.ibm.com)

36 points by espeed on Nov 2, 2015 | 5 comments

2027.

PDP-11/34 says hello from 1978 (nycresistor.com)

36 points by DrScump on Nov 6, 2015 | 5 comments

2028.

How the River Thames was brought back from the dead (bbc.com)

36 points by nols on Nov 12, 2015 | 5 comments

2029.

H2scan: scan a list of sites to see which support HTTPS, SPDY/3.1 and HTTP/2 (github.com)

36 points by jgrahamc on Nov 27, 2015 | 5 comments

2030.

A multilinear singular value decomposition (2000) [pdf] (citeseer.ist.psu.edu)

36 points by cinquemb on Nov 28, 2015 | 5 comments

2031.

Recreational Maths in Python (alanzucconi.com)

36 points by nkurz on Nov 6, 2015 | 4 comments

2032.

Covariance and Contravariance in C++ Standard Library (cpptruths.blogspot.com)

36 points by ingve on Nov 14, 2015 | 4 comments

2033.

Live readings from the LHC's ALICE detector (alice-logbook.cern.ch)

36 points by ucaetano on Nov 26, 2015 | 4 comments

2034.

The Able Archer War Scare Declassified (1983) (nsarchive.gwu.edu)

36 points by mathgenius on Nov 3, 2015 | 3 comments

2035.

WebAssembly: Here Be Dragons [video] (youtube.com)

36 points by cokernel_hacker on Nov 10, 2015 | 3 comments

2036.

Show HN: Luapress v3 – simple and fast static site/blog generator (luapress.org)

36 points by Fizzadar on Nov 29, 2015 | 2 comments

2037.

Testing Math.random(): Crushing the browser (jandemooij.nl)

36 points by jandem on Nov 30, 2015 | 2 comments

2038.

Topological Transformation Approaches to Database Query Processing (2015) [pdf] (cse.msu.edu)