HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012) (harmful.cat-v.org)

624 points by behnamoh on Aug 22, 2016 | 552 comments

32.

Optimism (github.com)

617 points by finnigja on Aug 16, 2016 | 160 comments

33.

Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam (medium.com)

615 points by davezatch on Aug 22, 2016 | 240 comments

34.

Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss (codewithoutrules.com)

605 points by itamarst on Aug 19, 2016 | 296 comments

35.

Everyone is quitting (sites.google.com)

599 points by po1nter on Aug 10, 2016 | 327 comments

36.

Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service (wsj.com)

596 points by coloneltcb on Aug 30, 2016 | 461 comments

37.

The Myth of RAM (2014) (ilikebigbits.com)

593 points by ddlatham on Aug 29, 2016 | 277 comments

38.

Writing Less Code (heydonworks.com)

583 points by fiatjaf on Aug 17, 2016 | 200 comments

39.

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (aeon.co)

563 points by tbrownaw on Aug 11, 2016 | 318 comments

40.

Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets (academictorrents.com)

552 points by iamjeff on Aug 29, 2016 | 95 comments

41.

Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe (juliareda.eu)

547 points by jrepin on Aug 30, 2016 | 174 comments

42.

Go 1.7 is released (blog.golang.org)

545 points by techietim on Aug 15, 2016 | 133 comments

43.

Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (blog.codeship.com)

544 points by yranadive on Aug 4, 2016 | 429 comments

44.

“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?” (whatsapp.com)

539 points by SnaKeZ on Aug 25, 2016 | 308 comments

45.

“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” (backchannel.com)

536 points by warp on Aug 8, 2016 | 211 comments

46.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)

534 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2016 | 941 comments

47.

Grokking Deep Learning (iamtrask.github.io)

530 points by williamtrask on Aug 18, 2016 | 112 comments

48.

Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) (tranquilmonkey.com)

525 points by zeeshanm on Aug 29, 2016 | 257 comments

49.

What Great Listeners Actually Do (hbr.org)

521 points by wallflower on Aug 17, 2016 | 198 comments

50.

Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1 (johnwittenauer.net)

520 points by jdwittenauer on Aug 12, 2016 | 62 comments

51.

Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS (prototypefund.de)

512 points by haraball on Aug 1, 2016 | 150 comments

52.

Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git (medium.com)

508 points by ahl on Aug 2, 2016 | 167 comments

53.

A few HTML tips (hacks.mozilla.org)

501 points by nachtigall on Aug 24, 2016 | 174 comments

54.

Fighting Cancer (hintjens.com)

497 points by egorst on Aug 22, 2016 | 148 comments

55.

I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation (hackernoon.com)

494 points by signa11 on Aug 9, 2016 | 307 comments

56.

Docker not ready for primetime (blog.goodstuff.im)

490 points by erlend_sh on Aug 28, 2016 | 281 comments

57.

Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum (okigiveup.net)

483 points by keso on Aug 8, 2016 | 380 comments

58.

How to listen when you disagree (urbanconfessional.org)

483 points by taheris on Aug 4, 2016 | 180 comments

59.

This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley (medium.com)

480 points by jaytaylor on Aug 16, 2016 | 173 comments

60.

Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers (theverge.com)

479 points by doener on Aug 7, 2016 | 437 comments