HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

“It's The Future” (circleci.com)

1323 points by knowbody on Aug 17, 2016 | 521 comments

2.

The Dropbox hack is real (troyhunt.com)

1313 points by joshschreuder on Aug 31, 2016 | 539 comments

3.

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup (medium.com)

1311 points by davidkhess on Aug 29, 2016 | 558 comments

4.

Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)

1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 | 285 comments

5.

PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (azure.microsoft.com)

1217 points by platz on Aug 18, 2016 | 760 comments

6.

Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay (nytimes.com)

1195 points by OhHeyItsE on Aug 2, 2016 | 760 comments

7.

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star (eso.org)

1187 points by Thorondor on Aug 24, 2016 | 427 comments

8.

NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender (citizenlab.org)

1055 points by dropalltables on Aug 25, 2016 | 242 comments

9.

Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration (mewo2.com)

1004 points by mewo2 on Aug 10, 2016 | 64 comments

10.

Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money (indiehackers.com)

971 points by csallen on Aug 11, 2016 | 184 comments

11.

Japanese writing system basics (candyjapan.com)

961 points by bemmu on Aug 20, 2016 | 338 comments

12.

Zero-cost futures in Rust (aturon.github.io)

930 points by steveklabnik on Aug 11, 2016 | 337 comments

13.

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons (washingtonpost.com)

859 points by okket on Aug 18, 2016 | 358 comments

14.

Web Scraping in 2016 (franciskim.co)

852 points by franciskim on Aug 23, 2016 | 387 comments

15.

This JPEG is also a webpage (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

833 points by cocoflunchy on Aug 10, 2016 | 226 comments

16.

The Cuban CDN (blog.cloudflare.com)

832 points by shdon on Aug 19, 2016 | 136 comments

17.

Seymour Papert has died (media.mit.edu)

820 points by j4mie on Aug 1, 2016 | 137 comments

18.

Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard (code.facebook.com)

819 points by jamesgpearce on Aug 31, 2016 | 156 comments

19.

Nasa just made all its research available online for free (independent.co.uk)

776 points by signa11 on Aug 20, 2016 | 49 comments

20.

What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (mcmansionhell.tumblr.com)

758 points by jseliger on Aug 14, 2016 | 519 comments

21.

How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015) (syntheti.cc)

751 points by pvsukale3 on Aug 29, 2016 | 340 comments

22.

Page Dewarping (mzucker.github.io)

743 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 18, 2016 | 70 comments

23.

Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (megaprocessor.com)

731 points by diymaker on Aug 19, 2016 | 88 comments

24.

Machine Learning and Ketosis (github.com)

706 points by ddv on Aug 12, 2016 | 295 comments

25.

Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs (lkml.org)

701 points by demiol on Aug 16, 2016 | 127 comments

26.

Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (cpbotha.net)

649 points by cpbotha on Aug 8, 2016 | 365 comments

27.

Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?

648 points by jdmoreira on Aug 13, 2016 | 299 comments

28.

Hello from Orkut (orkut.com)

643 points by shardul111 on Aug 5, 2016 | 323 comments

29.

Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment (alpha.trycarbide.com)

628 points by antimatter15 on Aug 24, 2016 | 136 comments

30.

What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone (medium.com)

625 points by walterbell on Aug 3, 2016 | 212 comments