HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test (fast.com)

631 points by protomyth on May 18, 2016 | 360 comments

32.

Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB (horizon.io)

606 points by coffeemug on May 17, 2016 | 127 comments

33.

Reason: A new interface to OCaml (facebook.github.io)

603 points by clayallsopp on May 17, 2016 | 287 comments

34.

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu)

592 points by itg on May 19, 2016 | 268 comments

35.

Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)

584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 | 248 comments

36.

Google Home (home.google.com)

577 points by stuartmemo on May 18, 2016 | 457 comments

37.

Alan Kay's reading list (squeakland.org)

575 points by drjohnson on May 30, 2016 | 168 comments

38.

Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area (sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)

573 points by randomname2 on May 14, 2016 | 276 comments

39.

Inside Palantir (buzzfeed.com)

569 points by JimDash2145 on May 6, 2016 | 307 comments

40.

Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand (youtube.com)

566 points by CameronBanga on May 25, 2016 | 71 comments

41.

OxyContin's 12-hour problem (static.latimes.com)

565 points by sergeant3 on May 7, 2016 | 359 comments

42.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

553 points by whoishiring on May 2, 2016 | 936 comments

43.

New GNU Emacs website (gnu.org)

547 points by rvern on May 8, 2016 | 229 comments

44.

Firebase expands to become a unified app platform (firebase.googleblog.com)

530 points by Nemant on May 18, 2016 | 204 comments

45.

“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers” (reddit.com)

521 points by Hjugo on May 9, 2016 | 257 comments

46.

React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp (fullstackreact.com)

521 points by jashmenn on May 26, 2016 | 245 comments

47.

PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS (akorotkov.github.io)

521 points by lneves on May 9, 2016 | 210 comments

48.

A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript (github.com)

517 points by oori on May 14, 2016 | 186 comments

49.

JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 (chromium.googlesource.com)

509 points by onestone on May 17, 2016 | 217 comments

50.

CryEngine out on GitHub (github.com)

506 points by lentil_soup on May 24, 2016 | 257 comments

51.

Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur (techcrunch.com)

501 points by coloneltcb on May 25, 2016 | 398 comments

52.

Blocklist of all Facebook domains (github.com)

499 points by temp on May 28, 2016 | 142 comments

53.

The void left by the parallel port (medium.com)

496 points by OakNinja on May 5, 2016 | 144 comments

54.

Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area (mercurynews.com)

494 points by akg_67 on May 12, 2016 | 342 comments

55.

30 years later, QBasic is still the best (nicolasbize.com)

493 points by bubblicious on May 5, 2016 | 299 comments

56.

IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (rogerschank.com)

481 points by Jerry2 on May 23, 2016 | 173 comments

57.

The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do (backchannel.com)

479 points by dwaxe on May 31, 2016 | 253 comments

58.

Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP (posteriorscience.net)

478 points by brunoc on May 4, 2016 | 232 comments

59.

Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick (imagetragick.com)

478 points by nthitz on May 3, 2016 | 230 comments

60.

Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview (clojure.org)

474 points by SCdF on May 23, 2016 | 153 comments