HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1561.

Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (2015) (medium.com)

56 points by Tomte on Feb 13, 2017 | 13 comments

1562.

Biologists find cave life that may be 50k years old (phys.org)

56 points by dnetesn on Feb 18, 2017 | 12 comments

1563.

Legislation to stop US border agents from demanding passwords is on the way (techcrunch.com)

56 points by JoshTriplett on Feb 21, 2017 | 12 comments

1564.

The History of Asphalt (asphaltpavement.org)

56 points by ChuckMcM on Feb 5, 2017 | 11 comments

1565.

Good Plain English: The problem with writing manuals (harpers.org)

56 points by lermontov on Feb 20, 2017 | 11 comments

1566.

Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren't Comforting (bloomberg.com)

56 points by ohjeez on Feb 17, 2017 | 9 comments

1567.

Drew Houston on How to Build the Future [video] (blog.ycombinator.com)

56 points by craigcannon on Feb 23, 2017 | 4 comments

1568.

A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming (utcc.utoronto.ca)

55 points by zeveb on Feb 7, 2017 | 59 comments

1569.

The Future of Neuromorphic Computing (newyorker.com)

55 points by anthotny on Feb 15, 2017 | 56 comments

1570.

I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened (2015) (telegraph.co.uk)

55 points by thomyorkie on Feb 19, 2017 | 38 comments

1571.

You can build a laptop out of open source components if you want a bad laptop (theverge.com)

55 points by Tomte on Feb 4, 2017 | 34 comments

1572.

$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr (joshtronic.com)

55 points by knes on Feb 18, 2017 | 30 comments

1573.

The Untold Secrets of Grand Central Terminal (bloomberg.com)

55 points by ayanai on Feb 23, 2017 | 20 comments

1574.

Miller v5.0.0: Autodetected line-endings, in-place mode, user-defined functions (github.com)

55 points by john_kerl on Feb 28, 2017 | 20 comments

1575.

Liquid – A Language Integrated Quantum Operations Simulator (stationq.github.io)

55 points by pizza on Feb 9, 2017 | 19 comments

1576.

Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer (bloomberg.com)

55 points by SQL2219 on Feb 21, 2017 | 16 comments

1577.

Analyzing Your Google Search History with Rakam (blog.rakam.io)

55 points by nurkhz on Feb 24, 2017 | 14 comments

1578.

How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State (yesmagazine.org)

55 points by mathoff on Feb 19, 2017 | 11 comments

1579.

The Cool Cam (2007) (thedailywtf.com)

55 points by sytringy05 on Feb 21, 2017 | 11 comments

1580.

Descartes Labs opens its geospatial analysis engine (techcrunch.com)

55 points by boulos on Feb 6, 2017 | 7 comments

1581.

Design Patterns for Humans – An ultra-simplified explanation (github.com)

55 points by sdomino on Feb 18, 2017 | 7 comments

1582.

Who pollinates the daffodils? (2011) (honeybeesuite.com)

55 points by jdleesmiller on Feb 27, 2017 | 2 comments

1583.

Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You More Fit (nytimes.com)

54 points by DiabloD3 on Feb 22, 2017 | 54 comments

1584.

Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)

54 points by amitmittal1993 on Feb 16, 2017 | 50 comments

1585.

The multiprocessing module in Python (linuxramb.blogspot.com)

54 points by chachram on Feb 3, 2017 | 46 comments

1586.

Supporting civic engagement with paid time off (fauna.com)

54 points by jchrisa on Feb 1, 2017 | 39 comments

1587.

Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and key-value stores (github.com)

54 points by viebel on Feb 6, 2017 | 35 comments

1588.

How Silicon Valley Is Trying to Hack Its Way into a Longer Life (time.com)

54 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 18, 2017 | 25 comments

1589.

Martian Immigration Nightmare (zarkonnen.itch.io)

54 points by tomjakubowski on Feb 1, 2017 | 15 comments

1590.

White House Bars CNN, NY Times, Politico, LA Times and BuzzFeed from Brief Access (reuters.com)

54 points by anw on Feb 24, 2017 | 9 comments