HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner (theintercept.com)

146 points by r721 on Aug 15, 2016 | 58 comments

632.

Throughput vs. Latency and Lock-Free vs. Wait-Free (concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)

146 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2016 | 31 comments

633.

Too Poor to Afford the Internet (nytimes.com)

145 points by danso on Aug 12, 2016 | 149 comments

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Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed (tampabay.com)

145 points by paulpauper on Aug 3, 2016 | 109 comments

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FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband (theverge.com)

145 points by jonbaer on Aug 11, 2016 | 87 comments

636.

Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com)

145 points by mkane848 on Aug 1, 2016 | 58 comments

637.

Show HN: Neural network trained to generate GitHub repository names (colinmorris.github.io)

145 points by halfeatenscone on Aug 2, 2016 | 49 comments

638.

Zen Stories (nkanaev.github.io)

145 points by nkanaev on Aug 23, 2016 | 44 comments

639.

JetBrains IDE Remote Code Execution and Local File Disclosure (blog.saynotolinux.com)

145 points by mandatory on Aug 15, 2016 | 33 comments

640.

DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language (arxiv.org)

145 points by nicklo on Aug 11, 2016 | 21 comments

641.

A Street Map of New York City in the 1800s (techinsider.io)

145 points by kawera on Aug 9, 2016 | 17 comments

642.

Learning from Ada (monkeysnatchbanana.com)

144 points by rspivak on Aug 21, 2016 | 99 comments

643.

Playing with Syntax (stevelosh.com)

144 points by jsnell on Aug 20, 2016 | 93 comments

644.

How We Designed Our Interview Process (blog.readme.io)

144 points by gkoberger on Aug 25, 2016 | 79 comments

645.

Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open (arstechnica.co.uk)

144 points by Deinos on Aug 11, 2016 | 2 comments

646.

How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington (politico.com)

143 points by hownottowrite on Aug 14, 2016 | 108 comments

647.

Building Your First Atom Plugin (github.com)

143 points by apetresc on Aug 22, 2016 | 58 comments

648.

What’s New with “The Rust Programming Language”? (words.steveklabnik.com)

143 points by doppp on Aug 15, 2016 | 50 comments

649.

Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M (recode.net)

143 points by flinner on Aug 9, 2016 | 43 comments

650.

Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation (ghostinthecode.net)

143 points by jharsman on Aug 18, 2016 | 23 comments

651.

Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger (huffingtonpost.com)

142 points by helloworld on Aug 17, 2016 | 343 comments

652.

Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac (git-fork.com)

142 points by adamnemecek on Aug 29, 2016 | 103 comments

653.

The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think (atlasobscura.com)

142 points by samclemens on Aug 24, 2016 | 72 comments

654.

The Amiga Boing Ball Explained (amiga.lychesis.net)

142 points by doener on Aug 21, 2016 | 56 comments

655.

Why lack of confidence can make you a better programmer (codewithoutrules.com)

142 points by itamarst on Aug 3, 2016 | 53 comments

656.

Remove PG_ZERO and zeroidle (page-zeroing) entirely (lists.dragonflybsd.org)

142 points by protomyth on Aug 4, 2016 | 45 comments

657.

Sublime Enhanced (github.com)

142 points by shagabutdinov on Aug 1, 2016 | 0 comments

658.

“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network” (theguardian.com)

141 points by scandox on Aug 3, 2016 | 134 comments

659.

CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism (troyhunt.com)

141 points by jgrahamc on Aug 30, 2016 | 114 comments

660.

Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages (erlang-solutions.com)

141 points by andradinu on Aug 10, 2016 | 55 comments