HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9421.

V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4 (v8project.blogspot.com)

126 points by okket on Sep 9, 2016 | 19 comments

9422.

Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age (theatlantic.com)

126 points by curtis on Jan 20, 2016 | 18 comments

9423.

The Life Project: British cohort study turns 70 (theguardian.com)

126 points by bootload on Feb 29, 2016 | 18 comments

9424.

The Crime of Speech (eff.org)

126 points by DiabloD3 on Apr 29, 2016 | 18 comments

9425.

Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software (arfon.org)

126 points by simoncoggins on May 6, 2016 | 17 comments

9426.

Big Hex Machine (bighexmachine.github.io)

126 points by 100ideas on Nov 17, 2016 | 17 comments

9427.

Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mitten (decolonialatlas.wordpress.com)

126 points by nkurz on Apr 18, 2016 | 15 comments

9428.

OverEncrypt: going beyond LetsEncrypt's HTTPS security defaults (gist.github.com)

126 points by mapmeld on Nov 30, 2016 | 15 comments

9429.

Improved Techniques for Training GANs – OpenAI's first paper (arxiv.org)

126 points by gwulf on Jun 14, 2016 | 12 comments

9430.

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for all AWS Certifications (gist.github.com)

126 points by anacleto on Jul 31, 2016 | 9 comments

9431.

Google's DeepMind Defeats Lee Se-Dol (theverge.com)

126 points by baoyu on Mar 9, 2016 | 0 comments

9432.

Will minimum wage hikes lead to a huge boost in automation? Only if we're lucky (vox.com)

125 points by frostmatthew on Apr 2, 2016 | 364 comments

9433.

Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners (bbc.co.uk)

125 points by jjp on Nov 10, 2016 | 176 comments

9434.

Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store (blogs.windows.com)

125 points by BogdanMitrache on Sep 15, 2016 | 155 comments

9435.

Why the poor pay more for toilet paper and just about everything else (washingtonpost.com)

125 points by e15ctr0n on Mar 8, 2016 | 154 comments

9436.

I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet (forbes.com)

125 points by r0h1n on May 28, 2016 | 150 comments

9437.

Apple Watch – 6 Months Later, Not That Great (prodissues.com)

125 points by jandll on Jan 30, 2016 | 146 comments

9438.

When city retirement pays better than the job (latimes.com)

125 points by DrScump on Dec 30, 2016 | 146 comments

9439.

Show HN: Watch movies with the freedom to filter (github.com)

125 points by marco1 on Mar 24, 2016 | 143 comments

9440.

Carl Icahn is Betting on a Stock Market Crash (fortune.com)

125 points by yonibot on May 11, 2016 | 139 comments

9441.

Caffeine use disorder (hub.jhu.edu)

125 points by nancybrucheta on Mar 14, 2016 | 138 comments

9442.

No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted (nytimes.com)

125 points by tosseraccount on Jun 2, 2016 | 122 comments

9443.

Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine' (villagevoice.com)

125 points by miraj on Jul 13, 2016 | 119 comments

9444.

A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects (spin.atomicobject.com)

125 points by ingve on Aug 26, 2016 | 115 comments

9445.

Google is not just a platform – It frames, shapes and distorts how we see (theguardian.com)

125 points by CarolineW on Dec 11, 2016 | 114 comments

9446.

The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement (lwn.net)

125 points by corbet on Sep 1, 2016 | 111 comments

9447.

Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout (computerworld.com)

125 points by Jerry2 on Mar 4, 2016 | 106 comments

9448.

Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)

125 points by Katydid on Oct 15, 2016 | 104 comments

9449.

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive (atlasobscura.com)

125 points by Thevet on Oct 8, 2016 | 103 comments

9450.

Guanxi (en.wikipedia.org)

125 points by 5partan on Sep 19, 2016 | 101 comments