HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Request For Research: Basic Income (blog.ycombinator.com)

1876 points by mattkrisiloff on Jan 27, 2016 | 1121 comments

2.

Dear GitHub (github.com)

1678 points by msvan on Jan 14, 2016 | 463 comments

3.

David Bowie Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com)

1484 points by hccampos on Jan 11, 2016 | 301 comments

4.

Amazon's customer service backdoor (medium.com)

1447 points by grapehut on Jan 24, 2016 | 356 comments

5.

Marvin Minsky dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

1259 points by joelg on Jan 25, 2016 | 178 comments

6.

Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion (bbc.co.uk)

1207 points by xianshou on Jan 27, 2016 | 394 comments

7.

Facebook is closing Parse (blog.parse.com)

1202 points by theunquietone on Jan 28, 2016 | 500 comments

8.

How to C in 2016 (matt.sh)

1145 points by fcambus on Jan 8, 2016 | 581 comments

9.

Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL (theregister.co.uk)

1144 points by janvdberg on Jan 5, 2016 | 99 comments

10.

The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com)

1122 points by jmduke on Jan 1, 2016 | 367 comments

11.

Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments (ramiro.org)

1043 points by gkst on Jan 18, 2016 | 181 comments

12.

TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands (code.google.com)

1030 points by tptacek on Jan 11, 2016 | 229 comments

13.

Netflix Is Now Available Around the World (media.netflix.com)

1015 points by devhxinc on Jan 6, 2016 | 497 comments

14.

Life is Short (paulgraham.com)

970 points by janvdberg on Jan 16, 2016 | 451 comments

15.

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment (medium.com)

961 points by tptacek on Jan 14, 2016 | 408 comments

16.

Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab (about.gitlab.com)

924 points by levlaz on Jan 18, 2016 | 318 comments

17.

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto (caltech.edu)

883 points by cyanbane on Jan 20, 2016 | 150 comments

18.

The Refragmentation (paulgraham.com)

852 points by urs on Jan 2, 2016 | 444 comments

19.

Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity (desktopneo.com)

798 points by ziburski on Jan 19, 2016 | 314 comments

20.

Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

778 points by logic on Jan 20, 2016 | 185 comments

21.

Voxel.css (voxelcss.com)

771 points by notdarkyet on Jan 27, 2016 | 103 comments

22.

ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open (blogs.windows.com)

758 points by bevacqua on Jan 13, 2016 | 310 comments

23.

T-Shirts Unravelled (threadbase.com)

756 points by janzer on Jan 23, 2016 | 155 comments

24.

Get HTTPS for free (gethttpsforfree.com)

731 points by somecoder on Jan 30, 2016 | 159 comments

25.

Three Years as a One-Man Startup (medium.com)

718 points by steveridout on Jan 5, 2016 | 218 comments

26.

People Call Me Aaron (medium.com)

701 points by marsvoltaire on Jan 11, 2016 | 105 comments

27.

Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant (robindoherty.com)

697 points by synesso on Jan 6, 2016 | 316 comments

28.

Magic+ (getmagicnow.com)

687 points by calvin_c on Jan 5, 2016 | 462 comments

29.

Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show (dnainfo.com)

683 points by danso on Jan 28, 2016 | 343 comments

30.

Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup (brave.com)

667 points by Seldaek on Jan 20, 2016 | 549 comments