HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble (kalkis-research.com)

295 points by skuas on May 4, 2016 | 188 comments

212.

Nigerians Dominate Scrabble Tournaments Using Five-Letter Word Strategy (wsj.com)

295 points by vincentbarr on May 22, 2016 | 80 comments

213.

How Intel missed the smartphone market (mondaynote.com)

292 points by JeremyMorgan on May 16, 2016 | 195 comments

214.

Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit (blog.docker.com)

292 points by samber on May 18, 2016 | 37 comments

215.

Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security (nytimes.com)

291 points by hvo on May 2, 2016 | 494 comments

216.

Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan (news.softpedia.com)

291 points by akehrer on May 7, 2016 | 204 comments

217.

Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry (jasonshen.com)

291 points by jasonshen on May 30, 2016 | 115 comments

218.

9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded (twitter.com)

291 points by zdw on May 1, 2016 | 101 comments

219.

I'm a fucking webmaster (justinjackson.ca)

291 points by fredrivett on May 12, 2016 | 67 comments

220.

Universal.css (github.com)

289 points by jchampem on May 23, 2016 | 112 comments

221.

So You Wanna Buy a Telescope: Advice for Beginners (2015) (scopereviews.com)

289 points by Tomte on May 22, 2016 | 97 comments

222.

Open-Sourcing Twitter Heron (blog.twitter.com)

289 points by samber on May 25, 2016 | 63 comments

223.

Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable (washingtonpost.com)

288 points by whyenot on May 3, 2016 | 136 comments

224.

Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo (nytimes.com)

288 points by interconnector on May 16, 2016 | 130 comments

225.

Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? (news10.com)

287 points by how-about-this on May 25, 2016 | 239 comments

226.

Top developers can have a life outside coding (belenalbeza.com)

287 points by sidcool on May 21, 2016 | 234 comments

227.

AWS IoT Button (aws.amazon.com)

285 points by vasinov on May 12, 2016 | 137 comments

228.

FBI Harassment (blog.patternsinthevoid.net)

284 points by tga_d on May 4, 2016 | 228 comments

229.

Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard (googleblog.blogspot.com)

284 points by crb on May 12, 2016 | 84 comments

230.

Nvidia CEO: We'll be solving VR immersion problems for the next 20 years (trustedreviews.com)

283 points by dmmalam on May 31, 2016 | 147 comments

231.

Rails 5.0.0.rc1 (github.com)

283 points by bdcravens on May 6, 2016 | 138 comments

232.

Craig Wright's signature is worthless (reddit.com)

283 points by apsec112 on May 2, 2016 | 46 comments

233.

Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (2014) [pdf] (rbcs-us.com)

282 points by pmoriarty on May 30, 2016 | 280 comments

234.

An industry that helps Chinese cheat their way into and through US colleges (reuters.com)

281 points by okket on May 25, 2016 | 318 comments

235.

Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser (justsecurity.org)

281 points by throwaway2016a on May 2, 2016 | 120 comments

236.

Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels (theregister.co.uk)

281 points by tbrock on May 11, 2016 | 78 comments

237.

Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming (aboveavalon.com)

280 points by rstocker99 on May 12, 2016 | 263 comments

238.

One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats (backblaze.com)

279 points by thejosh on May 17, 2016 | 135 comments

239.

ZFS lands in Debian contrib (tracker.debian.org)

278 points by turrini on May 14, 2016 | 184 comments

240.

Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore (linkedin.com)

276 points by nkurz on May 18, 2016 | 255 comments