HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

Why are we all moving away from Apple? (akitaonrails.com)

93 points by akitaonrails on Jan 12, 2017 | 137 comments

1232.

What science says about naming in programming (felienne.com)

93 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 8, 2017 | 117 comments

1233.

California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine (theguardian.com)

93 points by setra on Jan 11, 2017 | 100 comments

1234.

Why was the Zimmerman Telegram so important? (bbc.com)

93 points by sohkamyung on Jan 17, 2017 | 80 comments

1235.

Public universities have “really lost our focus” (hechingerreport.org)

93 points by taylorbuley on Jan 10, 2017 | 77 comments

1236.

Improving TrueOS: OpenRC (trueos.org)

93 points by protomyth on Jan 21, 2017 | 38 comments

1237.

Emergence (emergence.maxcooper.net)

93 points by ghosh on Jan 18, 2017 | 20 comments

1238.

.NET Core WebSockets – Cross-Platform WebSockets From DMZ to API - Service Zone (github.com)

93 points by gencebay on Jan 5, 2017 | 17 comments

1239.

Scientists Find Brain Hormone That Triggers Fat Burning (scripps.edu)

93 points by baalcat on Jan 28, 2017 | 16 comments

1240.

iPhone at ten: the revolution continues (apple.com)

92 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 9, 2017 | 187 comments

1241.

Plan to restrict highly skilled foreign workers could be a boon for India (washingtonpost.com)

92 points by stablemap on Jan 8, 2017 | 129 comments

1242.

What Chinese students go through to get into top American universities (2016) (1843magazine.com)

92 points by chethiya on Jan 26, 2017 | 101 comments

1243.

“Genderless nipples” account throwing off Instagram's algorithm (papermag.com)

92 points by ors on Jan 16, 2017 | 72 comments

1244.

Ask HN: What a 2nd tier college student must do to be at par with the best?

92 points by amandavinci on Jan 13, 2017 | 66 comments

1245.

Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?

92 points by raykanani99 on Jan 23, 2017 | 46 comments

1246.

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, for Process and Bad for Software Product (arxiv.org)

92 points by ingve on Jan 31, 2017 | 40 comments

1247.

The merging of machine capability and human consciousness is already happening (wired.co.uk)

92 points by Adambeachnau on Jan 29, 2017 | 28 comments

1248.

A Curated List of Software Engineering Blogs (github.com)

92 points by titomc on Jan 20, 2017 | 17 comments

1249.

Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning (spectrum.ieee.org)

92 points by jonbaer on Jan 1, 2017 | 16 comments

1250.

The “Faster Zombies” blog post (richg42.blogspot.com)

92 points by BuuQu9hu on Jan 5, 2017 | 15 comments

1251.

A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S (mercurynews.com)

91 points by akras14 on Jan 18, 2017 | 159 comments

1252.

Organ donation becomes opt-out in France (theguardian.com)

91 points by MaysonL on Jan 2, 2017 | 123 comments

1253.

Seagate will bring a 16TB hard drive to market within 18 months (techspot.com)

91 points by doener on Jan 27, 2017 | 111 comments

1254.

Amazon to Create 100,000 New Jobs in U.S. In Next 18 Months (bloomberg.com)

91 points by devy on Jan 12, 2017 | 98 comments

1255.

President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016 (arcgis.com)

91 points by espek07 on Jan 16, 2017 | 90 comments

1256.

Attention Federal Employees: If You See Something, Leak Something (theintercept.com)

91 points by saycheese on Jan 21, 2017 | 66 comments

1257.

mJS – A new approach to embedded scripting (mongoose-iot.com)

91 points by dimonomid on Jan 25, 2017 | 60 comments

1258.

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying (theguardian.com)

91 points by diodorus on Jan 28, 2017 | 28 comments

1259.

Graphene’s sleeping superconductivity awakens (cam.ac.uk)

91 points by jonbaer on Jan 20, 2017 | 21 comments

1260.

Moral panic over fake news hides the real enemy – the digital giants (theguardian.com)

90 points by clydethefrog on Jan 8, 2017 | 129 comments