HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

How Software Gets Bloated: From Telephony to Bitcoin (hackingdistributed.com)

179 points by bootload on Apr 6, 2016 | 54 comments

482.

Aria2: CLI downloader for HTTP, FTP, torrents, metalinks (aria2.github.io)

179 points by nickysielicki on Apr 7, 2016 | 40 comments

483.

Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses (eff.org)

178 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 19, 2016 | 147 comments

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Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history (independent.co.uk)

178 points by Thevet on Apr 6, 2016 | 89 comments

485.

For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” (dancohen.org)

178 points by tintinnabula on Apr 24, 2016 | 84 comments

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Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica (mathics.github.io)

178 points by Jerry2 on Apr 9, 2016 | 73 comments

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React Native: A year in review (code.facebook.com)

178 points by ihsw on Apr 18, 2016 | 54 comments

488.

Segment Sources – Load Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe into Redshift and Postgres (segment.com)

178 points by TheHydroImpulse on Apr 6, 2016 | 37 comments

489.

Cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (github.com)

177 points by tambourine_man on Apr 1, 2016 | 90 comments

490.

Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks (thekua.com)

177 points by rspivak on Apr 3, 2016 | 71 comments

491.

Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth (sfgate.com)

176 points by timr on Apr 16, 2016 | 130 comments

492.

Why Wait? the Science Behind Procrastination (psychologicalscience.org)

176 points by rfreytag on Apr 21, 2016 | 63 comments

493.

Kestrel Computer Project (kestrelcomputer.github.io)

176 points by ycmbntrthrwaway on Apr 15, 2016 | 42 comments

494.

Apple’s Organizational Crossroads (stratechery.com)

176 points by hullo on Apr 19, 2016 | 36 comments

495.

Benefits of 1 Minute of All-Out Effort during Exercise (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

175 points by tosseraccount on Apr 28, 2016 | 142 comments

496.

At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich (nytimes.com)

175 points by ahmad19526 on Apr 27, 2016 | 86 comments

497.

Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft (scientificamerican.com)

175 points by nimbs on Apr 30, 2016 | 64 comments

498.

Creativity Is Much More Than 10k Hours of Deliberate Practice (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

175 points by edtechdev on Apr 18, 2016 | 55 comments

499.

Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module (blog.hboeck.de)

175 points by Artemis2 on Apr 10, 2016 | 43 comments

500.

Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) (superuser.com)

175 points by zo1 on Apr 2, 2016 | 28 comments

501.

F*** You, I Quit – Hiring Is Broken (medium.com)

175 points by lolptdr on Apr 27, 2016 | 22 comments

502.

System Design Interview Cheatsheet (gist.github.com)

175 points by jsfatigue on Apr 17, 2016 | 14 comments

503.

For life expectancy, money matters (news.harvard.edu)

174 points by jonbaer on Apr 12, 2016 | 164 comments

504.

Study: Students who take notes by hand outperform students who type (wsj.com)

174 points by walterbell on Apr 9, 2016 | 105 comments

505.

The Real Rates of Business Survival (fleximize.com)

174 points by kiriad on Apr 18, 2016 | 69 comments

506.

Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta (wit.ai)

174 points by blandinw on Apr 12, 2016 | 47 comments

507.

Open-Source Recycling (preciousplastic.com)

174 points by pelim on Apr 20, 2016 | 40 comments

508.

A Path to Programming Language Theory (github.com)

174 points by rspivak on Apr 30, 2016 | 35 comments

509.

Why Uber Won (news.greylock.com)

173 points by realdlee on Apr 23, 2016 | 143 comments

510.

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? (2015) (medium.com)

173 points by fforflo on Apr 17, 2016 | 84 comments