HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

The Great A.I. Awakening (nytimes.com)

166 points by m15i on Dec 16, 2016 | 139 comments

602.

On Digital Minimalism (calnewport.com)

166 points by 0x54MUR41 on Dec 18, 2016 | 71 comments

603.

Operational calculus on programming spaces and generalized tensor networks (arxiv.org)

166 points by hcarvalhoalves on Dec 29, 2016 | 50 comments

604.

What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (1999) (gamasutra.com)

166 points by dpeck on Dec 29, 2016 | 24 comments

605.

Getting Started with Tokio (lukesteensen.com)

166 points by lukes386 on Dec 24, 2016 | 21 comments

606.

A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (2004) [pdf] (cs.bham.ac.uk)

166 points by kumaranvpl on Dec 7, 2016 | 18 comments

607.

A Fortran Web Framework (fortran.io)

165 points by da02 on Dec 21, 2016 | 112 comments

608.

GitHub Pages – Usage Limits (help.github.com)

165 points by carlchenet on Dec 21, 2016 | 95 comments

609.

1.4B records from “Have I been pwned” for analysis (troyhunt.com)

165 points by runesoerensen on Dec 5, 2016 | 37 comments

610.

Reducing the maximum latency of a bound buffer in Erlang (theerlangelist.com)

165 points by red_bikeshed on Dec 19, 2016 | 26 comments

611.

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013) (osnews.com)

165 points by type0 on Dec 16, 2016 | 18 comments

612.

An American airline wins the right to weigh passengers on its Samoan route (economist.com)

164 points by nether on Dec 28, 2016 | 218 comments

613.

Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future (titus-stahl.de)

164 points by Borating on Dec 22, 2016 | 174 comments

614.

French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours (theguardian.com)

164 points by DLay on Dec 31, 2016 | 137 comments

615.

Ask HN: Switching from developer to project manager. What to keep in mind?

164 points by alaaf on Dec 30, 2016 | 103 comments

616.

Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet [video] (bloomberg.com)

164 points by bilifuduo on Dec 5, 2016 | 76 comments

617.

Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997) (mars.nasa.gov)

164 points by Lukas_Skywalker on Dec 4, 2016 | 56 comments

618.

Hans Rosling doesn’t consider himself an optimist or pessimist but ‘possibilist’ (nature.com)

164 points by devnonymous on Dec 17, 2016 | 44 comments

619.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Becoming a Secret Travel Agent [video] (media.ccc.de)

163 points by based2 on Dec 31, 2016 | 31 comments

620.

Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It (backchannel.com)

162 points by steven on Dec 19, 2016 | 287 comments

621.

Valve fined for poor customer service (technicality.io)

162 points by eelliott on Dec 28, 2016 | 223 comments

622.

Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs? (centauri-dreams.org)

162 points by blater on Dec 30, 2016 | 94 comments

623.

Rails 5.0.1 has been released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

162 points by CoachRufus87 on Dec 21, 2016 | 55 comments

624.

Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript (feederio.com)

162 points by Chesco_ on Dec 25, 2016 | 55 comments

625.

Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory” (terrytao.wordpress.com)

162 points by aburan28 on Dec 3, 2016 | 37 comments

626.

Ask HN: Thinking of moving to Europe from USA

161 points by alexhakawy on Dec 31, 2016 | 226 comments

627.

Why numbering should start at zero (1982) (cs.utexas.edu)

161 points by feynma on Dec 15, 2016 | 216 comments

628.

Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity (medium.com)

161 points by whiddershins on Dec 27, 2016 | 82 comments

629.

Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game (mooistudios.com)

161 points by swannodette on Dec 19, 2016 | 76 comments

630.

Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks (businessinsider.de)

161 points by juanito on Dec 4, 2016 | 36 comments