HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Rate Limits (letsencrypt.org)

175 points by beardicus on Aug 17, 2016 | 115 comments

482.

Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that erases your partition table (classicshell.net)

175 points by megalomaniac443 on Aug 3, 2016 | 105 comments

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Microsoft, Sony, and others still use illegal warranty-void-if-removed stickers (extremetech.com)

175 points by doener on Aug 7, 2016 | 55 comments

484.

How Nextdoor reduced racist posts (fusion.net)

174 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 26, 2016 | 155 comments

485.

SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch (theverge.com)

174 points by molecule on Aug 14, 2016 | 55 comments

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The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes (stactivist.com)

173 points by azuajef on Aug 1, 2016 | 194 comments

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Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results” (arstechnica.com)

173 points by Tomte on Aug 19, 2016 | 94 comments

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All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta (techcrunch.com)

173 points by smb06 on Aug 19, 2016 | 74 comments

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Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) (reactor-core.org)

173 points by MichaelAO on Aug 30, 2016 | 66 comments

490.

Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smartphone Case (pubpub.org)

173 points by elijahparker on Aug 26, 2016 | 62 comments

491.

Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi (bbc.com)

172 points by yitchelle on Aug 26, 2016 | 130 comments

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The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)

172 points by walterbell on Aug 28, 2016 | 78 comments

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Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy (github.com)

172 points by sdispater on Aug 16, 2016 | 73 comments

494.

Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2015) (camdavidsonpilon.github.io)

172 points by dacm on Aug 21, 2016 | 10 comments

495.

Are Index Funds Eating the World? (blogs.wsj.com)

171 points by petethomas on Aug 26, 2016 | 156 comments

496.

How to make Slack less bad for you (robertheaton.com)

171 points by hardmath123 on Aug 25, 2016 | 138 comments

497.

Organisms might be quantum machines (bbc.com)

171 points by mouzogu on Aug 18, 2016 | 119 comments

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New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long (news.mit.edu)

171 points by SergeAx on Aug 19, 2016 | 107 comments

499.

Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms (dannas.github.io)

171 points by dannas on Aug 27, 2016 | 105 comments

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Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’ (nature.com)

171 points by philip1209 on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments

501.

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (nand2tetris.org)

171 points by josh-wrale on Aug 22, 2016 | 26 comments

502.

Uber's Failure in Japan (disruptingjapan.com)

170 points by jmadsen on Aug 27, 2016 | 135 comments

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US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system (bbc.co.uk)

170 points by dcminter on Aug 18, 2016 | 133 comments

504.

Your battery status may be used to track you online (theguardian.com)

170 points by randomname2 on Aug 2, 2016 | 98 comments

505.

Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software (nasa.github.io)

170 points by taylorbuley on Aug 22, 2016 | 14 comments

506.

China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech (nytimes.com)

169 points by nstj on Aug 3, 2016 | 199 comments

507.

Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation (bloomberg.com)

169 points by tekacs on Aug 6, 2016 | 171 comments

508.

Purely Functional Linux with NixOS [video] (begriffs.com)

169 points by begriffs on Aug 8, 2016 | 142 comments

509.

Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io)

169 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 93 comments

510.

Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next? (backblaze.com)

169 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2016 | 75 comments