HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7981.

The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming (computerhistory.org)

143 points by protomyth on Mar 21, 2016 | 113 comments

7982.

Viber adds end-to-end encryption (techcrunch.com)

143 points by subliminalpanda on Apr 19, 2016 | 110 comments

7983.

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

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

7984.

Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetBrains (jetbrains.com)

143 points by aphextron on Oct 31, 2016 | 91 comments

7985.

GitHub was down (status.github.com)

143 points by vickyonit on Jul 28, 2016 | 89 comments

7986.

How to access the Darknet. The safe way (torgeek.pw)

143 points by herbst on Jan 12, 2016 | 88 comments

7987.

Ask HN: Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?

143 points by Man_On_the_Moon on Oct 2, 2016 | 86 comments

7988.

String types in Rust (andrewbrinker.github.io)

143 points by steveklabnik on Mar 28, 2016 | 85 comments

7989.

Habits of cell phone usage and sperm quality (rbmojournal.com)

143 points by pwm on Feb 4, 2016 | 84 comments

7990.

The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person (recode.net)

143 points by sagivo on Sep 17, 2016 | 79 comments

7991.

Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com (whatmoji.com)

143 points by nk- on May 24, 2016 | 76 comments

7992.

RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes (tools.ietf.org)

143 points by tosh on Feb 20, 2016 | 74 comments

7993.

Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds (arstechnica.com)

143 points by shawndumas on Jul 14, 2016 | 69 comments

7994.

Show HN: Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit (gist.github.com)

143 points by Arinerron on Oct 27, 2016 | 67 comments

7995.

Microsoft wins $927M Pentagon contract (defense.gov)

143 points by richardboegli on Dec 21, 2016 | 66 comments

7996.

Lessons learned while protecting Gmail (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

143 points by hektik on Mar 29, 2016 | 65 comments

7997.

The Piracy Box Sellers and YouTube Promoters Are Killing Kodi (kodi.tv)

143 points by ftclausen on Jun 27, 2016 | 59 comments

7998.

Flock, fast and free team messenger (flock.co)

143 points by chang2301 on Nov 17, 2016 | 59 comments

7999.

U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security (reuters.com)

143 points by pgoggijr on Apr 14, 2016 | 58 comments

8000.

Building Your First Atom Plugin (github.com)

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

8001.

Godot game engine reaches 2.0 (godotengine.org)

143 points by nunodonato on Feb 23, 2016 | 57 comments

8002.

Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster (sciencealert.com)

143 points by davidiach on Feb 9, 2016 | 55 comments

8003.

How Generalised Problems Kill Startups (medium.dave-bailey.com)

143 points by davesuperman on Oct 25, 2016 | 55 comments

8004.

SeaHash: Explained (ticki.github.io)

143 points by bretthoerner on Dec 9, 2016 | 55 comments

8005.

DoomRL Open Source Release (github.com)

143 points by mariuz on Dec 7, 2016 | 54 comments

8006.

Time crystals might exist after all (phys.org)

143 points by dnetesn on Sep 11, 2016 | 53 comments

8007.

Ask HN: A spammer is spoofing my email address; what do I do?

143 points by hellofunk on Mar 31, 2016 | 50 comments

8008.

JavaScript Performance Updates in Microsoft Edge and Chakra (blogs.windows.com)

143 points by hellojs on Jun 22, 2016 | 50 comments

8009.

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

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

8010.

Tiny-dnn – A C++11 implementation of deep learning (github.com)

143 points by chang2301 on Nov 30, 2016 | 49 comments