HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

What to know when your car is melted by 7,500 pounds of slime eels (theverge.com)

42 points by xbmcuser on Jul 14, 2017 | 27 comments

1952.

Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

42 points by yuhong on Jul 26, 2017 | 26 comments

1953.

Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)

42 points by Tomte on Jul 3, 2017 | 20 comments

1954.

Ahead-Of-time (AOT) Compiler Designed for Ruby (github.com)

42 points by ksec on Jul 16, 2017 | 16 comments

1955.

The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emails Next Year (motherboard.vice.com)

42 points by IsaakTech on Jul 7, 2017 | 13 comments

1956.

Ask HN: How do you version control your neural nets?

42 points by mlejva on Jul 16, 2017 | 13 comments

1957.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (smithsonianmag.com)

42 points by mpweiher on Jul 7, 2017 | 10 comments

1958.

An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children’s Books (hyperallergic.com)

42 points by lermontov on Jul 13, 2017 | 5 comments

1959.

Verizon admits to throttling video in apparent violation of net neutrality (theverge.com)

42 points by Bedon292 on Jul 21, 2017 | 4 comments

1960.

Antonio Ropero has died (translate.google.com)

42 points by notspanishflu on Jul 13, 2017 | 2 comments

1961.

Six security vulnerabilities from a year of HackerOne (flexport.engineering)

42 points by nestlequ1k on Jul 18, 2017 | 2 comments

1962.

Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, and Netflix called to testify on net neutrality (arstechnica.com)

42 points by Ph4nt0m on Jul 25, 2017 | 2 comments

1963.

Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals (eelis.net)

42 points by grimgrin on Jul 13, 2017 | 1 comments

1964.

How Much Should Expectation Drive Science? (cosmos.nautil.us)

42 points by urahara on Jul 9, 2017 | 0 comments

1965.

Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, dies (bbc.co.uk)

42 points by sjcsjc on Jul 15, 2017 | 0 comments

1966.

Homebrew 1.3.0 (brew.sh)

42 points by mikemcquaid on Jul 31, 2017 | 0 comments

1967.

Visa to Pay Restaurants to Stop Taking Cash (wsj.com)

41 points by prostoalex on Jul 12, 2017 | 87 comments

1968.

Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization’ (amp.timeinc.net)

41 points by wei_jok on Jul 16, 2017 | 84 comments

1969.

Why are all my friends buying an overhyped digital currency? (theoutline.com)

41 points by gk1 on Jul 24, 2017 | 80 comments

1970.

Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?

41 points by zatkin on Jul 26, 2017 | 80 comments

1971.

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Jefferson’s Monticello (nbcnews.com)

41 points by Mz on Jul 4, 2017 | 58 comments

1972.

Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons (blog.mindorks.com)

41 points by vjs3 on Jul 18, 2017 | 53 comments

1973.

How Facebook has used Instagram to beat Snapchat (cnbc.com)

41 points by IsaakTech on Jul 13, 2017 | 50 comments

1974.

How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple’s New Headquarters (wsj.com)

41 points by breck on Jul 26, 2017 | 31 comments

1975.

6 Reasons Why I Am Done with AirBnB as a Renter (donewithairbnb.wordpress.com)

41 points by graniter on Jul 25, 2017 | 29 comments

1976.

Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

41 points by kashifzaidi1 on Jul 12, 2017 | 27 comments

1977.

Searching for fast complex numbers in C99 and C++ (medium.com)

41 points by ingve on Jul 18, 2017 | 20 comments

1978.

Only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming (washingtonpost.com)

41 points by drallison on Jul 31, 2017 | 16 comments

1979.

“If your whole business relies on us, you might want to pick a different one”

41 points by gonchs on Jul 11, 2017 | 15 comments

1980.

AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It? (fastcodesign.com)

41 points by jumpkickhit on Jul 16, 2017 | 15 comments