HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

It’s open-source software that’s eating the world (venturebeat.com)

48 points by yarapavan on Dec 7, 2015 | 60 comments

1622.

Facebook changes how it enforces 'real name' policy in wake of criticism (theguardian.com)

48 points by bootload on Dec 15, 2015 | 60 comments

1623.

Should we solar panel the Sahara desert? (bbc.com)

48 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 31, 2015 | 60 comments

1624.

Wooden high-rises change city skylines as builders ditch concrete (theguardian.com)

48 points by kawera on Dec 12, 2015 | 59 comments

1625.

The power of the command-line as a programming environment (pindexis.github.io)

48 points by pindexis on Dec 27, 2015 | 33 comments

1626.

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)

48 points by jaybosamiya on Dec 24, 2015 | 29 comments

1627.

The Importance of Reading as a Software Engineer (isaacjordan.me)

48 points by Sheepzez on Dec 13, 2015 | 26 comments

1628.

Lightsaber Escape (lightsaber.withgoogle.com)

48 points by jackdweck on Dec 15, 2015 | 22 comments

1629.

Baby's First Garbage Collector (2013) (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

48 points by rspivak on Dec 26, 2015 | 17 comments

1630.

US State Names and Abbreviations as PHP Arrays (gist.github.com)

48 points by paultela on Dec 17, 2015 | 15 comments

1631.

A bank persuaded Twitter to delete my tweets (uk.businessinsider.com)

48 points by teddyh on Dec 30, 2015 | 14 comments

1632.

How much money has been spent bringing Matt Damon back home? (quora.com)

48 points by zatkin on Dec 28, 2015 | 13 comments

1633.

The sleepy village that stopped the black death (bbc.com)

48 points by Perados on Dec 26, 2015 | 12 comments

1634.

The History of the Hedgehog (web.archive.org)

48 points by pepys on Dec 21, 2015 | 11 comments

1635.

Nokia, ARM, Enea craft new TCP/IP stack for the cloud (theregister.co.uk)

48 points by timthorn on Dec 8, 2015 | 10 comments

1636.

Randall's Theory Increases Number of Dimensions in Physical Universe (2009) (thecrimson.com)

48 points by bootload on Dec 11, 2015 | 9 comments

1637.

Musk: Model Xmas Show (twitter.com)

48 points by apaprocki on Dec 25, 2015 | 9 comments

1638.

Microsoft GraphView: Use SQL Server or Azure SQL to efficiently manage graphs (github.com)

48 points by us0r on Dec 20, 2015 | 6 comments

1639.

Attacking HTTP/2 Implementations (yahoo-security.tumblr.com)

48 points by _jomo on Dec 9, 2015 | 4 comments

1640.

Ask HN: 11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?

47 points by lsiunsuex on Dec 23, 2015 | 67 comments

1641.

Show HN: Demo of Wiki and Forum coded in C under 80k (home.ronsor.gq)

47 points by ronsor on Dec 4, 2015 | 56 comments

1642.

Yahoo investors rankle at spin-off plan, one suggests laying off 9,000 (arstechnica.com)

47 points by pavornyoh on Dec 14, 2015 | 56 comments

1643.

MVVM is Exceptionally OK (ashfurrow.com)

47 points by marvel_boy on Dec 21, 2015 | 49 comments

1644.

look(1): lines beginning with given string (linux.die.net)

47 points by mtdewcmu on Dec 13, 2015 | 45 comments

1645.

Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions (nature.com)

47 points by Audiophilip on Dec 13, 2015 | 40 comments

1646.

Satoshi: “I am not Craig Wright. We are all Satoshi.” (lists.linuxfoundation.org)