HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Observatory by Mozilla – automated website security testing tool (observatory.mozilla.org)

61 points by chuckharmston on Aug 25, 2016 | 11 comments

1502.

Why some trees evolved to live underground (2014) (bbc.com)

61 points by hyperpallium on Aug 31, 2016 | 6 comments

1503.

Performance Improvements for FreeBSD Kernel Debugging (backtrace.io)

61 points by sbahra on Aug 25, 2016 | 2 comments

1504.

Deep Learning with Keras: EuroScipy 2016 Tutorial (github.com)

61 points by fchollet on Aug 25, 2016 | 1 comments

1505.

The Internet Should Be a Public Good (jacobinmag.com)

60 points by borkborkbork on Aug 31, 2016 | 108 comments

1506.

Facebook rolls out code to nullify Adblock Plus’ workaround (techcrunch.com)

60 points by MrJagil on Aug 12, 2016 | 80 comments

1507.

Can Facebook really make ads unblockable? (freedom-to-tinker.com)

60 points by Irishsteve on Aug 15, 2016 | 80 comments

1508.

Show HN: Auto install npm dependencies as you code (npmjs.com)

60 points by siddharthkp on Aug 8, 2016 | 77 comments

1509.

Cortana: The spy in Windows 10 (computerworld.com)

60 points by CrankyBear on Aug 15, 2016 | 71 comments

1510.

Housing Plans in California & New York face resistance from construction unions (wsj.com)

60 points by jseliger on Aug 29, 2016 | 66 comments

1511.

Bay Area Politicians Strangling the Region's Key Industry (reason.com)

60 points by apsec112 on Aug 27, 2016 | 58 comments

1512.

A Visual History of Which Countries Have Dominated the Summer Olympics (nytimes.com)

60 points by prawn on Aug 10, 2016 | 56 comments

1513.

The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet (nature.com)

60 points by okket on Aug 10, 2016 | 53 comments

1514.

The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998) (home.earthlink.net)

60 points by shawndumas on Aug 30, 2016 | 53 comments

1515.

Ask HN: Developers – How did you learn to say NO?

60 points by ninja_to_be on Aug 5, 2016 | 52 comments

1516.

How contactless cards are still vulnerable to relay attack (benthamsgaze.org)

60 points by ivank on Aug 4, 2016 | 48 comments

1517.

Fedora 25 to Run Wayland by Default (phoronix.com)

60 points by XzetaU8 on Aug 21, 2016 | 28 comments

1518.

Lessons Learned While Building Microservices (blog.runnable.com)

60 points by sundip on Aug 30, 2016 | 25 comments

1519.

World's Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria (smithsonianmag.com)

60 points by ranit on Aug 12, 2016 | 18 comments

1520.

How fair are your dice? (arstechnica.co.uk)

60 points by sohkamyung on Aug 29, 2016 | 14 comments

1521.

A Journal of the Plague Year: Daniel Defoe's Account of the Great Plague of 1665 (gutenberg.org)

60 points by gerbilly on Aug 16, 2016 | 11 comments

1522.

Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia (gopher.floodgap.com)

60 points by vmorgulis on Aug 14, 2016 | 10 comments

1523.

Double Arm Transplant Surgery (statnews.com)

60 points by aabaker99 on Aug 23, 2016 | 9 comments

1524.

Announcing InfluxDB, Telegraf, Kapacitor and Enterprise 1.0 RC1 (influxdata.com)

60 points by runesoerensen on Aug 23, 2016 | 9 comments

1525.

Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels (rubenfiszel.github.io)

60 points by rubenfiszel on Aug 25, 2016 | 9 comments

1526.

UC Berkeley Launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (news.berkeley.edu)

60 points by apsec112 on Aug 29, 2016 | 5 comments

1527.

Meet Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app for everyone (googleblog.blogspot.com)

60 points by runesoerensen on Aug 16, 2016 | 4 comments

1528.

Compilation and Hyperthreading (blog.regehr.org)

60 points by ingve on Aug 24, 2016 | 1 comments

1529.

Walking a mile is 3x more expensive than driving, from a fuel perspective (datadriventhoughts.com)

59 points by qvorak on Aug 9, 2016 | 92 comments

1530.

Can mythbusters like Snopes.com keep up in a post-truth era? (theguardian.com)

59 points by ca98am79 on Aug 3, 2016 | 77 comments