HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

991.

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari – How data will destroy human freedom (theguardian.com)

100 points by jordn on Aug 31, 2016 | 29 comments

992.

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall (computerhistory.org)

100 points by EvanAnderson on Aug 3, 2016 | 27 comments

993.

Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 1 (engineering.pinterest.com)

100 points by samber on Aug 11, 2016 | 26 comments

994.

Charles 4 (blog.xk72.com)

100 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 21, 2016 | 26 comments

995.

NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA (frankdenneman.nl)

100 points by wila on Aug 14, 2016 | 16 comments

996.

My Letter to the Tor Project (oneeyedman.net)

100 points by Kristine1975 on Aug 17, 2016 | 16 comments

997.

SizeCoding.org: creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs (sizecoding.org)

100 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2016 | 15 comments

998.

Information, Physics and Computation (2009) (web.stanford.edu)

100 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Aug 17, 2016 | 14 comments

999.

Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (2008) (smuglispweeny.blogspot.com)

99 points by bootload on Aug 1, 2016 | 157 comments

1000.

Are we really so modern? (newyorker.com)

99 points by beeandapenguin on Aug 30, 2016 | 153 comments

1001.

Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world (thesmartset.com)

99 points by jonathansizz on Aug 12, 2016 | 123 comments

1002.

How connected car tech is eroding personal privacy (bbc.com)

99 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2016 | 96 comments

1003.

Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and feelings are “right” (businessinsider.com)

99 points by jrs235 on Aug 23, 2016 | 67 comments

1004.

YC Office Hours in 11 Countries This Fall (blog.ycombinator.com)

99 points by kevin on Aug 11, 2016 | 36 comments

1005.

40-Thread Xeon PC Build for Less Than the Price of a Broadwell-E Core I7 (techspot.com)

99 points by Fjolsvith on Aug 8, 2016 | 32 comments

1006.

Librevault: Open source zero-knowledge peer-to-peer file sync (librevault.com)

99 points by im_dario on Aug 10, 2016 | 30 comments

1007.

Mobile eCommerce: Product Details (uxplanet.org)

99 points by babich on Aug 21, 2016 | 28 comments

1008.

Concurrent Haskell in the real world (stackbuilders.com)

99 points by jpvillaisaza on Aug 2, 2016 | 18 comments

1009.

Show HN: Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus (text.sourcegraph.com)

99 points by gonedo on Aug 16, 2016 | 18 comments

1010.

Making Rust Fly with MIR [video] (air.mozilla.org)

99 points by bluejekyll on Aug 5, 2016 | 11 comments

1011.

Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues (techcrunch.com)

98 points by kenbaylor on Aug 9, 2016 | 89 comments

1012.

Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (2000) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

98 points by donquichotte on Aug 9, 2016 | 72 comments

1013.

List of languages by time of extinction (en.wikipedia.org)

98 points by sndean on Aug 20, 2016 | 68 comments

1014.

How Mathematicians Cut Cake (priceonomics.com)

98 points by jonbaer on Aug 30, 2016 | 43 comments

1015.

The super-recognisers of Scotland Yard (newstatesman.com)

98 points by pepys on Aug 4, 2016 | 39 comments

1016.

Linear regression (eli.thegreenplace.net)

98 points by ingve on Aug 9, 2016 | 37 comments

1017.

How Home Loans Have Changed since 2000 (zillow.com)

97 points by bradleybuda on Aug 15, 2016 | 115 comments

1018.

Acetaminophen use in pregnancy linked to child's behavioral problems (latimes.com)

97 points by erdevs on Aug 15, 2016 | 84 comments

1019.

Four Big Banks to Create a New Digital Currency for Inter-Bank Transactions (news.bitcoin.com)

97 points by minamisan on Aug 24, 2016 | 61 comments

1020.

HTTP/2 makes media loading 3–15 times faster on mobile (medium.com)

97 points by 0x7fffffff on Aug 14, 2016 | 54 comments