HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead (nytimes.com)

155 points by manyoso on Jan 15, 2016 | 179 comments

512.

Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow (wi-fi.org)

155 points by daegloe on Jan 4, 2016 | 79 comments

513.

Jailbreak firmware turns cheap digital walkie-talkie into DMR scanning receiver (phasenoise.livejournal.com)

155 points by wolframio on Jan 29, 2016 | 32 comments

514.

Procedural cities from the Mandalay fractal (creativeapplications.net)

155 points by mdlincoln on Jan 5, 2016 | 16 comments

515.

Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball? (graphics.latimes.com)

154 points by emamd on Jan 8, 2016 | 150 comments

516.

A Book about Qt5 (qmlbook.github.io)

154 points by ingve on Jan 20, 2016 | 32 comments

517.

Feynman’s Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation (fermatslibrary.com)

153 points by luisb on Jan 26, 2016 | 40 comments

518.

Don't Assume It's Difficult Until It Is (weblog.jamisbuck.org)

153 points by jamis on Jan 9, 2016 | 29 comments

519.

Flyby anomaly (en.wikipedia.org)

153 points by mmastrac on Jan 16, 2016 | 21 comments

520.

Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says (bloomberg.com)

152 points by bhewes on Jan 21, 2016 | 144 comments

521.

MRI Scans of a person's brain (github.com)

152 points by shagunsodhani on Jan 24, 2016 | 121 comments

522.

There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts (theatlantic.com)

152 points by jseliger on Jan 23, 2016 | 118 comments

523.

A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System (toddwschneider.com)

152 points by lil_tee on Jan 13, 2016 | 42 comments

524.

Time is an illusion – challenges in distributed computing synchronization (queue.acm.org)

152 points by alanfranzoni on Jan 19, 2016 | 42 comments

525.

Managing your emotional state is fundamental to great design (deep.design)

152 points by xj9 on Jan 2, 2016 | 18 comments

526.

Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6 (oculus.com)

151 points by JDDunn9 on Jan 4, 2016 | 199 comments

527.

Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company (nytimes.com)

151 points by scottfr on Jan 10, 2016 | 142 comments

528.

Tale of Tasteless Tomatoes: Why Vegetables Do Not Taste Good Anymore (calmscience.net)

151 points by kafkaesq on Jan 29, 2016 | 136 comments

529.

PowerVR Wizard GPU does real-time ray tracing at 10x lower power than Nvidia GTX (blog.imgtec.com)

151 points by alexvoica on Jan 7, 2016 | 100 comments

530.

The unsung heroes of scientific software (nature.com)

151 points by bootload on Jan 5, 2016 | 73 comments

531.

Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk (ia801505.us.archive.org)

151 points by pavel_lishin on Jan 3, 2016 | 57 comments

532.

Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux (20papercups.net)

151 points by p4bl0 on Jan 13, 2016 | 57 comments

533.

Replacing Redis with BoltDB – A Pure Go Key/Value Store (specto.io)

151 points by tjcunliffe on Jan 11, 2016 | 48 comments

534.

Show HN: Plain text for the web (saola.in)

151 points by saola-app on Jan 3, 2016 | 47 comments

535.

Push notifications when you have 8M followers [video] (techcrunch.com)

151 points by pbhowmic on Jan 12, 2016 | 43 comments

536.

Include-what-you-use: Clang tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files (include-what-you-use.org)

151 points by ingve on Jan 23, 2016 | 40 comments

537.

Building an OpenBSD Router (openbsd.org)

151 points by fcambus on Jan 10, 2016 | 33 comments

538.

Monads to Machine Code (Part 1) (stephendiehl.com)

151 points by primodemus on Jan 5, 2016 | 12 comments

539.

Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process (davemart.in)

150 points by caiobegotti on Jan 4, 2016 | 84 comments

540.

Show HN: OSwatch – A News Aggregation Site for Open-Source Software (oswatch.net)

150 points by d99kris on Jan 15, 2016 | 73 comments