HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

JSweet: A transpiler from Java to TypeScript/JavaScript (jsweet.org)

54 points by renaudpawlak on Dec 15, 2015 | 54 comments

1502.

Crows caught on camera making tools in the wild (csmonitor.com)

54 points by Futurebot on Dec 24, 2015 | 29 comments

1503.

Stop calling night owls lazy, we're not (levels.io)

54 points by pieterhg on Dec 20, 2015 | 17 comments

1504.

Rich’s sh (Posix shell) tricks (etalabs.net)

54 points by networked on Dec 17, 2015 | 15 comments

1505.

Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy (betterexplained.com)

54 points by gkop on Dec 24, 2015 | 14 comments

1506.

Introducing Background Sync Web API (developers.google.com)

54 points by toni on Dec 17, 2015 | 10 comments

1507.

What Happened in 2015 (avc.com)

54 points by kernelv on Dec 31, 2015 | 6 comments

1508.

The Long Haul: One Year of Solitude on America's Highways (esquire.com)

54 points by kawera on Dec 8, 2015 | 5 comments

1509.

Ed Snowden taught me to smuggle secrets past danger. Now I teach you (2014) (theintercept.com)

54 points by yuvmaoz on Dec 27, 2015 | 2 comments

1510.

Humans Are Slamming into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com)

53 points by nostromo on Dec 18, 2015 | 80 comments

1511.

Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves (motherboard.vice.com)

53 points by sageabilly on Dec 3, 2015 | 69 comments

1512.

Why Some Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is a State of Matter (2014) (medium.com)

53 points by ghosh on Dec 29, 2015 | 65 comments

1513.

When America Dreamed of a Nuclear-Powered Cargo Fleet (flexport.com)

53 points by nols on Dec 2, 2015 | 56 comments

1514.

Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients (cityam.com)

53 points by herbertlui on Dec 7, 2015 | 47 comments

1515.

Show HN: LoginBox – Authentication, payments and memberships from a single box (loginbox.io)

53 points by ipapikas on Dec 7, 2015 | 46 comments

1516.

What a DEC-20 Cost in 1976 (2007) (dec20.blogspot.com)

53 points by cpach on Dec 6, 2015 | 40 comments

1517.

Amigaville – A New Amiga Magazine (vintageisthenewold.com)

53 points by doener on Dec 11, 2015 | 39 comments

1518.

Sued Over Old Debt, and Blocked from Suing Back (nytimes.com)

53 points by petethomas on Dec 22, 2015 | 38 comments

1519.

LeBron James Signs Unprecedented Lifetime Contract with Nike (bloomberg.com)

53 points by adventured on Dec 8, 2015 | 34 comments

1520.

Foursquare's Valuation Is Getting Chopped in Half (inc.com)

53 points by dannylandau on Dec 29, 2015 | 33 comments

1521.

Cryptographically timestamping all your Git commits automatically (gwern.net)

53 points by gwern on Dec 3, 2015 | 28 comments

1522.

What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky? (aeon.co)

53 points by benbreen on Dec 27, 2015 | 28 comments

1523.

Taskwarrior – TODO List from Your Command Line (taskwarrior.org)

53 points by enesunal on Dec 2, 2015 | 25 comments

1524.

Tricky Twins Spoofed Trading Computers (bloombergview.com)

53 points by jonbaer on Dec 4, 2015 | 24 comments

1525.

Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels (news.mit.edu)

53 points by Libertatea on Dec 16, 2015 | 23 comments

1526.

Alibaba Buys South China Morning Post (techinasia.com)

53 points by williswee on Dec 11, 2015 | 18 comments

1527.

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Target List from the Cold War Declassified for the First Time (foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com)