HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

571.

Why There Are So Many Ties in Swimming (regressing.deadspin.com)

156 points by azylman on Aug 13, 2016 | 54 comments

572.

A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx (techblog.netflix.com)

156 points by babak_ap on Aug 29, 2016 | 54 comments

573.

How to allocate memory (geocar.sdf1.org)

156 points by ksherlock on Aug 26, 2016 | 45 comments

574.

Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning (nytimes.com)

155 points by fuzzythinker on Aug 24, 2016 | 173 comments

575.

LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux (blog.documentfoundation.org)

155 points by okket on Aug 3, 2016 | 148 comments

576.

Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)

155 points by runesoerensen on Aug 23, 2016 | 125 comments

577.

Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project

154 points by fairpx on Aug 27, 2016 | 59 comments

578.

Born to Rest (harvardmagazine.com)

153 points by paulpauper on Aug 30, 2016 | 149 comments

579.

The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities (schneier.com)

153 points by gexos on Aug 26, 2016 | 82 comments

580.

Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s (ghacks.net)

153 points by onion2k on Aug 4, 2016 | 81 comments

581.

DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash (usatoday.com)

153 points by tantalor on Aug 11, 2016 | 73 comments

582.

The Relation of Toxoplasma Infection and Sexual Attraction to Fear, Danger, Pain (evp.sagepub.com)

153 points by omnibrain on Aug 22, 2016 | 49 comments

583.

IPv6 Support for Amazon S3 (aws.amazon.com)

153 points by agwa on Aug 11, 2016 | 48 comments

584.

Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications (solid.mit.edu)

153 points by edwinjm on Aug 13, 2016 | 46 comments

585.

iOS 10 to Feature Stronger “Limit Ad Tracking” Control (fpf.org)

153 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 | 43 comments

586.

DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with malicious proof of work (usenix.org)

153 points by kwantam on Aug 11, 2016 | 37 comments

587.

The story of how WoSign gave me an SSL certificate for GitHub (schrauger.com)

153 points by schrauger on Aug 31, 2016 | 25 comments

588.

Text to Image Synthesis Using Thought Vectors (github.com)

153 points by piyush8311 on Aug 26, 2016 | 21 comments

589.

Ecological Wealth of Nations (footprintnetwork.org)

152 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 | 131 comments

590.

Motivational Incongruence and Well-Being at the Workplace (journal.frontiersin.org)

152 points by rjdevereux on Aug 14, 2016 | 86 comments

591.

Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (slate.com)

152 points by yurisagalov on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments

592.

90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley (qz.com)

152 points by cpeterso on Aug 29, 2016 | 79 comments

593.

How foreign governments spy using PowerPoint and Twitter (washingtonpost.com)

152 points by peter_tonoli on Aug 2, 2016 | 76 comments

594.

SVG 2 new features (github.com)

152 points by okket on Aug 14, 2016 | 72 comments

595.

A Container Is a Function Call (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)

152 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2016 | 67 comments

596.

Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check (antipope.org)

151 points by cstross on Aug 20, 2016 | 195 comments

597.

The War on Cash (thelongandshort.org)

151 points by Gigamouse on Aug 20, 2016 | 152 comments

598.

Decommissioning Otto (hashicorp.com)

151 points by zhenjl on Aug 20, 2016 | 96 comments

599.

Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?

151 points by maxencecornet on Aug 12, 2016 | 86 comments

600.

Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old (nature.com)

151 points by okket on Aug 11, 2016 | 25 comments