HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

10231.

Vitter's reservoir sampling algorithm D: randomly selecting unique items (getkerf.wordpress.com)

117 points by colinprince on Apr 4, 2016 | 74 comments

10232.

Why aren't PGP and SSH keys popular as a second factor for authentication? (security.stackexchange.com)

117 points by verandaguy on Jun 17, 2016 | 73 comments

10233.

Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world? (astronomy.com)

117 points by benbreen on Oct 26, 2016 | 73 comments

10234.

The Strange and Sudden Disappearance of a Coding Bootcamp Founder (inc.com)

117 points by drewsing on Oct 19, 2016 | 72 comments

10235.

Why Are Medical Ultrasound Systems So Inexpensive? (liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com)

117 points by skybrian on Dec 22, 2016 | 71 comments

10236.

Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9 (blogs.oracle.com)

117 points by nikanj on Jan 27, 2016 | 68 comments

10237.

How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants (newyorker.com)

117 points by taylorbuley on Sep 12, 2016 | 66 comments

10238.

WHO Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Weed-Killer Documents (scientificamerican.com)

117 points by okket on Oct 26, 2016 | 63 comments

10239.

An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale (engineering.semantics3.com)

117 points by mirceasoaica on Aug 2, 2016 | 59 comments

10240.

The Frozen Banana Republic (2014) (modernfarmer.com)

117 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 29, 2016 | 59 comments

10241.

Headphone and Amp Impedance (2011) (nwavguy.blogspot.com)

117 points by pmoriarty on Jan 23, 2016 | 57 comments

10242.

Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux debacle (arstechnica.com)

117 points by bpierre on Jun 21, 2016 | 57 comments

10243.

Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs (virtualizationpractice.com)

117 points by kungfudoi on Aug 11, 2016 | 57 comments

10244.

Crocker's rules (wiki.lesswrong.com)

117 points by Tomte on Nov 5, 2016 | 54 comments

10245.

A hunt for the government's oldest computer (muckrock.com)

117 points by mrweasel on Feb 26, 2016 | 51 comments

10246.

What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (2008) (ozlabs.org)

117 points by JoshTriplett on Jun 2, 2016 | 51 comments

10247.

When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ (nytimes.com)

117 points by bcaulfield on Nov 29, 2016 | 50 comments

10248.

Not Every Drop of a Person’s Blood Is the Same, a Study Says (nytimes.com)

117 points by hampelm on Feb 24, 2016 | 47 comments

10249.

Tor Users Might Soon Have a Way to Avoid Those Annoying CAPTCHAs (motherboard.vice.com)

117 points by walterbell on Oct 1, 2016 | 47 comments

10250.

A 25-Year-Old Turning a Profit Selling Pencils (bloomberg.com)

117 points by ca98am79 on Apr 13, 2016 | 46 comments

10251.

Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team (plus.google.com)

117 points by IvarTheHomeless on Dec 27, 2016 | 46 comments

10252.

Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process (bjoernkw.com)

117 points by BjoernKW on Apr 3, 2016 | 45 comments

10253.

72 Hours of Pwnage: A Paranoid N00b Goes to Def Con (motherboard.vice.com)

117 points by pieter1976 on Aug 19, 2016 | 45 comments

10254.

It’s a-me: How Super Mario became a global cultural icon (economist.com)

117 points by brandur on Dec 28, 2016 | 45 comments

10255.

Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items (bittorrent.org)

117 points by sktrdie on Aug 9, 2016 | 44 comments

10256.

A practical guide for learning meditation through the art of gaming (qz.com)

117 points by prostoalex on Dec 2, 2016 | 42 comments

10257.

How to Set Up and Deploy to a 1000-Node Docker Swarm (blog.nimbleci.com)

117 points by emmetogrady on Aug 17, 2016 | 41 comments

10258.

Rebol vs. Lisp Macros (blog.hostilefork.com)

117 points by vanderZwan on Apr 28, 2016 | 38 comments

10259.

How a Pillar of German Banking Lost Its Way (spiegel.de)

117 points by fforflo on Nov 26, 2016 | 38 comments

10260.

How Scams Worked in the 1800s (npr.org)

117 points by brahmwg on Apr 10, 2016 | 37 comments