HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

The Answer Man: An ancient poem was rediscovered and the world swerved (2011) (newyorker.com)

37 points by diodorus on Dec 23, 2015 | 2 comments

1952.

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)

37 points by moviuro on Dec 1, 2015 | 1 comments

1953.

IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services [pdf] (github.com)

37 points by ingve on Dec 2, 2015 | 0 comments

1954.

Show HN: Bench – A generic latency benchmarking library (github.com)

37 points by tylertreat on Dec 22, 2015 | 0 comments

1955.

Men’s Locker Room Designers Take Pity on Naked Millennials (nytimes.com)

36 points by tetraodonpuffer on Dec 14, 2015 | 84 comments

1956.

New genetic map of Britain shows waves of immigration going back 10,000 years (independent.co.uk)

36 points by Petiver on Dec 22, 2015 | 73 comments

1957.

Cable TV Decline: Cord-cutting is accelerating (bgr.com)

36 points by e15ctr0n on Dec 13, 2015 | 66 comments

1958.

Persistent IRC Considered Harmful (anticdent.org)

36 points by bengillies on Dec 21, 2015 | 59 comments

1959.

‘Nice’ Is a Four-Letter Word at Companies Practicing Radical Candor (wsj.com)

36 points by chrishough on Dec 30, 2015 | 56 comments

1960.

Workplace drug testing is widespread but ineffective (slate.com)

36 points by drewrv on Dec 28, 2015 | 51 comments

1961.

Should more OEMs cater to the small smartphone segment? (androidauthority.com)

36 points by walterbell on Dec 28, 2015 | 48 comments

1962.

Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008) (scientificamerican.com)

36 points by Thevet on Dec 30, 2015 | 37 comments

1963.

Limitations of protocols in Swift (inessential.com)

36 points by panic on Dec 16, 2015 | 30 comments

1964.

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Power Spectrum as a Random Bit Generator (arxiv.org)

36 points by aburan28 on Dec 2, 2015 | 26 comments

1965.

Death by Flaming Water Ski, and Other Misfortunes (newyorker.com)

36 points by benbreen on Dec 7, 2015 | 22 comments

1966.

Show HN: MeloCraft – Pitch detection in real-time (melocraft.net)

36 points by robhack on Dec 21, 2015 | 21 comments

1967.

Telize.com, a JSON IP and GeoIP REST API, goes open-source (github.com)

36 points by djvdorp on Dec 15, 2015 | 16 comments

1968.

The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England (atlasobscura.com)

36 points by samclemens on Dec 19, 2015 | 15 comments

1969.

High in the Andes, a Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City (news.nationalgeographic.com)

36 points by teh_klev on Dec 5, 2015 | 12 comments

1970.

Show HN: The story of space debris, made with WebGL for the Royal Institution (rigb.org)

36 points by stugrey on Dec 8, 2015 | 10 comments

1971.

How to accelerate a program using hardware (conorpp.com)

36 points by conorpp on Dec 17, 2015 | 9 comments

1972.

Can't sign in Google Calendar on my Samsung refrigerator (productforums.google.com)

36 points by andyjohnson0 on Dec 9, 2015 | 8 comments

1973.

Attritional interfaces (samgentle.com)

36 points by sgentle on Dec 25, 2015 | 5 comments

1974.

Vocabulary apps: a wish list (adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com)

36 points by ingve on Dec 30, 2015 | 5 comments

1975.

Dolphin Emulator – The New Era of HLE Audio (dolphin-emu.org)

36 points by mmastrac on Dec 30, 2015 | 5 comments

1976.

How Lugg (YC S15) Got Its On‑Demand Moving App Off the Ground (themacro.com)

36 points by kreutz on Dec 9, 2015 | 4 comments

1977.

Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend [pdf] (papers.nips.cc)

36 points by fitzwatermellow on Dec 9, 2015 | 3 comments

1978.

A summary of how not to measure latency (bravenewgeek.com)

36 points by juanrossi on Dec 14, 2015 | 3 comments

1979.

Asm.thi.ng – open-source bare-metal coding resources for ARM Cortex-M (asm.thi.ng)

36 points by dgellow on Dec 24, 2015 | 2 comments

1980.

2015 in review – 1 year after I quit blogging (nathanbarry.com)

36 points by porter on Dec 31, 2015 | 2 comments