HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Scientists find 3.7B-year-old fossil, oldest yet (phys.org)

136 points by Cozumel on Aug 31, 2016 | 39 comments

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The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity (nature.com)

136 points by danielmorozoff on Aug 6, 2016 | 34 comments

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NSA's Puzzle Periodical (nsa.gov)

135 points by edgartaor on Aug 22, 2016 | 67 comments

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Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college (arstechnica.com)

135 points by chewymouse on Aug 15, 2016 | 66 comments

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Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL (erkaman.github.io)

135 points by erkaman on Aug 17, 2016 | 57 comments

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How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (2005) (gamasutra.com)

135 points by erickhill on Aug 11, 2016 | 48 comments

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Cjdns: a secure non-anonymous P2P network (github.com)

135 points by crasm on Aug 9, 2016 | 34 comments

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The One Second Dash (ridiculousfish.com)

135 points by dmit on Aug 24, 2016 | 18 comments

699.

Compile Go programs 7x faster (github.com)

135 points by squanching on Aug 10, 2016 | 0 comments

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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (tools.cisco.com)

134 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2016 | 127 comments

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Having attained middle-income status, Vietnam aims higher (economist.com)

134 points by velodrome on Aug 23, 2016 | 92 comments

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Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come (economist.com)

134 points by mdani on Aug 6, 2016 | 87 comments

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In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab (nytimes.com)

134 points by dconrad on Aug 3, 2016 | 74 comments

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FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation (transition.fcc.gov)

134 points by pentago on Aug 1, 2016 | 67 comments

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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All (priceonomics.com)

134 points by adventured on Aug 14, 2016 | 52 comments

706.

Trollala – Fight patent trolls by banding together confidentially (trollala.com)

134 points by ideaphore on Aug 24, 2016 | 37 comments

707.

Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music (maraoz.com)

134 points by dacm on Aug 21, 2016 | 32 comments

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Frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server to the internet (github.com)

134 points by fatedier on Aug 12, 2016 | 29 comments

709.

Overselling A.D.H.D. (nytimes.com)

133 points by okket on Aug 23, 2016 | 218 comments

710.

Dropbox prompts password resets (dropbox.com)

133 points by borski on Aug 26, 2016 | 75 comments

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A molecule called ‘Sandman’ could help solve the ‘mystery of sleep’ (washingtonpost.com)

133 points by chriskanan on Aug 5, 2016 | 62 comments

712.

Quake's Lighting Model: Surface Caching (1996) (bluesnews.com)

133 points by panic on Aug 7, 2016 | 46 comments

713.

Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer? (philippe.bourgau.net)

132 points by philou on Aug 2, 2016 | 148 comments

714.

Ask HN: Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?

132 points by peruvian on Aug 12, 2016 | 146 comments

715.

FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Clear Ads (bloomberg.com)

132 points by lnguyen on Aug 5, 2016 | 110 comments

716.

This Is Your Life, Brought to You by Private Equity (nytimes.com)

132 points by tysone on Aug 1, 2016 | 108 comments

717.

Why I Live in IRC (2015) (aaronparecki.com)

132 points by dm on Aug 11, 2016 | 83 comments

718.

A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype (arxiv.org)

132 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 17, 2016 | 59 comments

719.

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) (cs.princeton.edu)

132 points by _acme on Aug 1, 2016 | 34 comments

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R: text analysis of Trump’s tweets (r-bloggers.com)

132 points by ingve on Aug 10, 2016 | 12 comments