HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Show HN: A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads (thecaravanserai.co)

265 points by brunooo on Feb 9, 2015 | 165 comments

2012.

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (dawood.in)

265 points by adwn on Feb 8, 2015 | 154 comments

2013.

Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company? (bloombergview.com)

265 points by dsri on Aug 11, 2015 | 124 comments

2014.

The Impossible Music of Black MIDI (rhizome.org)

265 points by GotAnyMegadeth on Nov 11, 2015 | 119 comments

2015.

JRuby 9000 released (blog.jruby.org)

265 points by headius on Jul 22, 2015 | 117 comments

2016.

China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys (betanews.com)

265 points by DiabloD3 on Dec 28, 2015 | 112 comments

2017.

Why Debian returned to FFmpeg (lwn.net)

265 points by vezzy-fnord on Jul 25, 2015 | 99 comments

2018.

Free Non-Commercial Renderman (renderman.pixar.com)

265 points by ykl on Mar 23, 2015 | 75 comments

2019.

TPP final negotiated text – IP chapter (wikileaks.org)

265 points by playhard on Oct 9, 2015 | 69 comments

2020.

Hackpad source code (github.com)

265 points by z1mm32m4n on Aug 21, 2015 | 49 comments

2021.

Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The World (carlcheo.com)

265 points by carlcheo on Mar 23, 2015 | 48 comments

2022.

Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case (torrentfreak.com)

265 points by adamnemecek on Jul 10, 2015 | 9 comments

2023.

Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland (realm.io)

264 points by ingve on Sep 28, 2015 | 223 comments

2024.

Why animals eat psychoactive plants (boingboing.net)

264 points by sethbannon on Feb 10, 2015 | 174 comments

2025.

Microsoft's Software is Malware (gnu.org)

264 points by talles on Nov 24, 2015 | 173 comments

2026.

China's Great Cannon (citizenlab.org)

264 points by acdha on Apr 10, 2015 | 169 comments

2027.

Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014) (noncombatant.org)

264 points by Rondom on May 20, 2015 | 166 comments

2028.

Pentagon Has No Idea Where $800M Went (sigar.mil)

264 points by cinquemb on Nov 4, 2015 | 139 comments

2029.

Guido on Python (lwn.net)

264 points by vezzy-fnord on Jul 31, 2015 | 125 comments

2030.

How bad are things? (slatestarcodex.com)

264 points by lkrubner on Dec 27, 2015 | 118 comments

2031.

RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability (rethinkdb.com)

264 points by coffeemug on Aug 11, 2015 | 105 comments

2032.

Ask HN: Open source OCR library?

264 points by whbv on Jun 25, 2015 | 98 comments

2033.

os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform (os.js.org)

264 points by eridal on Dec 30, 2015 | 94 comments

2034.

Chalkboard drawings frozen in time for 100 years discovered in Oklahoma school (washingtonpost.com)

264 points by Thevet on Jun 7, 2015 | 85 comments

2035.

JavaScript Cold War simulation (simonswain.com)

264 points by simonswain on Jun 10, 2015 | 72 comments

2036.

An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running (eff.org)

264 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 10, 2015 | 67 comments

2037.

Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents (eff.org)

264 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 24, 2015 | 64 comments

2038.

Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (networkfilter.blogspot.com)

264 points by fcambus on Jan 11, 2015 | 60 comments

2039.

Federal Court Invalidates Gag Order on National Security Letter Recipient (calyxinstitute.org)

264 points by jeo1234 on Sep 14, 2015 | 44 comments

2040.

Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents (nytimes.com)

263 points by aaronbrethorst on Apr 7, 2015 | 361 comments