HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge (npr.org)

429 points by jgrahamc on Mar 31, 2015 | 433 comments

692.

Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (bugzilla.redhat.com)

429 points by geoffbp on Mar 24, 2015 | 168 comments

693.

How a Blind Person Programs (blog.freecodecamp.com)

429 points by am391 on Jan 29, 2015 | 135 comments

694.

How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (sigbus.info)

429 points by rui314 on Dec 14, 2015 | 120 comments

695.

Firefox 41 can screenshot a single DOM element (hacks.mozilla.org)

429 points by liotier on Sep 30, 2015 | 79 comments

696.

“The colored boxes indicate which CPU core performed layout for each node” (blog.servo.org)

429 points by steveklabnik on Apr 2, 2015 | 57 comments

697.

FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers (techcrunch.com)

428 points by prostoalex on May 12, 2015 | 207 comments

698.

What You Believe Affects What You Achieve (gatesnotes.com)

428 points by pykello on Dec 17, 2015 | 148 comments

699.

EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US (arstechnica.co.uk)

428 points by de_Selby on May 25, 2015 | 143 comments

700.

Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? (observationdeck.io9.com)

428 points by shovel on Feb 8, 2015 | 130 comments

701.

Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com)

427 points by jeena on Aug 1, 2015 | 432 comments

702.

Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era (bloomberg.com)

427 points by lpage on Dec 16, 2015 | 351 comments

703.

Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” (medium.com)

427 points by Thevet on Jul 5, 2015 | 337 comments

704.

JavaScript at 20 (brendaneich.github.io)

427 points by kolodny on May 15, 2015 | 315 comments

705.

The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease (nytimes.com)

427 points by apsec112 on Oct 5, 2015 | 209 comments

706.

Ruby 2.3.0 Released (ruby-lang.org)

427 points by cremno on Dec 25, 2015 | 69 comments

707.

Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot (youtube.com)

426 points by mhb on Feb 10, 2015 | 245 comments

708.

Angular 2: Built on TypeScript (blogs.msdn.com)

426 points by hswolff on Mar 5, 2015 | 225 comments

709.

WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal (washingtonpost.com)

426 points by itbeho on Jun 3, 2015 | 214 comments

710.

The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces (motherboard.vice.com)

426 points by DiabloD3 on Mar 18, 2015 | 185 comments

711.

Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY (blog.chromium.org)

426 points by Nimi on Feb 9, 2015 | 179 comments

712.

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum (businessinsider.com)

425 points by jhonovich on May 8, 2015 | 309 comments

713.

The time has come to stand up for the GPL (sfconservancy.org)

425 points by tobltobs on Mar 6, 2015 | 273 comments

714.

FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection (nytimes.com)

425 points by facetube on Jul 1, 2015 | 152 comments

715.

Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life (esquire.co.uk)

424 points by Jem on Mar 5, 2015 | 506 comments

716.

Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab (apertoire.net)

424 points by apertoire on Mar 16, 2015 | 231 comments

717.

One in every 600 websites has .git exposed (jamiembrown.com)

424 points by jamiejin on Jul 26, 2015 | 205 comments

718.

EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis (gamerant.com)

424 points by taytus on Mar 5, 2015 | 197 comments

719.

Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea (candyjapan.com)

424 points by bemmu on Jun 5, 2015 | 196 comments

720.

Shutdownify is shutting down (shutdownify.com)

423 points by jawns on Aug 19, 2015 | 95 comments