HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1261.

Ancient whales were predators not gentle giants (phys.org)

92 points by dnetesn on Aug 30, 2017 | 42 comments

1262.

Software is narrative (infiniteundo.com)

92 points by dhaneshnm on Aug 4, 2017 | 41 comments

1263.

Ask HN: What does deliberate practice look like for computer programming?

92 points by tim_sw on Aug 21, 2017 | 33 comments

1264.

Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy (eff.org)

92 points by kawera on Aug 26, 2017 | 32 comments

1265.

Creating domain-specific languages in Julia using macros (julialang.org)

92 points by ViralBShah on Aug 11, 2017 | 19 comments

1266.

Computational Category Theory (cs.man.ac.uk)

92 points by noch on Aug 4, 2017 | 11 comments

1267.

The Michelson Language (michelson-lang.com)

92 points by bshanks on Aug 21, 2017 | 11 comments

1268.

Tinker with a Neural Network (2016) (playground.tensorflow.org)

92 points by sonabinu on Aug 3, 2017 | 3 comments

1269.

Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent (github.com)

91 points by L29Ah on Aug 18, 2017 | 100 comments

1270.

What Goldman Is Telling Big Money Clients About Bitcoin (bloomberg.com)

91 points by ivorium on Aug 15, 2017 | 89 comments

1271.

North Korea fires missile over Japan (theguardian.com)

91 points by jlipps on Aug 28, 2017 | 77 comments

1272.

A backlash against the herbicide Dicamba (washingtonpost.com)

91 points by a_w on Aug 30, 2017 | 76 comments

1273.

Hand powered drilling tools and machines (lowtechmagazine.com)

91 points by sea6ear on Aug 14, 2017 | 71 comments

1274.

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness (astrobiology.com)

91 points by okket on Aug 22, 2017 | 61 comments

1275.

NetRunner: a web browser catering to powerusers (netrunner.cc)

91 points by mabynogy on Aug 12, 2017 | 51 comments

1276.

Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors (clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu)

91 points by anythingnonidin on Aug 23, 2017 | 39 comments

1277.

Google is losing allies across the political spectrum (arstechnica.com)

91 points by Deinos on Aug 31, 2017 | 36 comments

1278.

Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career (qz.com)

91 points by artsandsci on Aug 1, 2017 | 31 comments

1279.

Interview with Ken Thompson (2011) (drdobbs.com)

91 points by jpelecanos on Aug 28, 2017 | 28 comments

1280.

Forever Labs preserves young stem cells (techcrunch.com)

91 points by janober on Aug 17, 2017 | 18 comments

1281.

LSTM trained on HN (medium.com)

91 points by enkiv2 on Aug 7, 2017 | 13 comments

1282.

Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals (nautil.us)

91 points by dnetesn on Aug 18, 2017 | 0 comments

1283.

Texas Uses More Energy Than Any Other State (texasmonthly.com)

90 points by sremani on Aug 3, 2017 | 136 comments

1284.

Let Forest Fires Burn (nytimes.com)

90 points by mcone on Aug 7, 2017 | 109 comments

1285.

Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life? (nautil.us)

90 points by dnetesn on Aug 23, 2017 | 108 comments

1286.

Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censor Users (dw-news.dreamwidth.org)

90 points by CM30 on Aug 25, 2017 | 104 comments

1287.

Uber, Mired in Corporate Scandals, Sees Uptick in Bookings (nytimes.com)

90 points by carlchenet on Aug 24, 2017 | 93 comments

1288.

Investigating a ten-year-old estimate that “most social programmes don’t work” (80000hours.org)

90 points by NadinevdW on Aug 10, 2017 | 82 comments

1289.

Essential Phone review: An arcane artifact from an unrealized future (theverge.com)

90 points by dhd415 on Aug 18, 2017 | 66 comments

1290.

Launch HN: PullRequest (YC S17) – On-Demand Code Review

90 points by lyal on Aug 17, 2017 | 65 comments