HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them (nationalgeographic.com)

61 points by mcone on Aug 20, 2017 | 0 comments

1712.

The Electric-Bike Conundrum (newyorker.com)

60 points by jseliger on Aug 18, 2017 | 126 comments

1713.

Where did wealthy inventor live in 1991? California’s taxman wants to know (sacbee.com)

60 points by HoppedUpMenace on Aug 28, 2017 | 89 comments

1714.

Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (mobile.nytimes.com)

60 points by Overtonwindow on Aug 25, 2017 | 88 comments

1715.

Google and ProPublica team up to build a national hate crime database (techcrunch.com)

60 points by mcone on Aug 18, 2017 | 78 comments

1716.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs [video] (infoq.com)

60 points by tosh on Aug 31, 2017 | 69 comments

1717.

North American Object Storage Service Impact (documentation.meraki.com)

60 points by mlosapio on Aug 6, 2017 | 58 comments

1718.

The sea was never blue (aeon.co)

60 points by prismatic on Aug 1, 2017 | 53 comments

1719.

The fired Google engineer wrote his memo after he went to a 'shaming' programme (uk.businessinsider.com)

60 points by IsaakTech on Aug 9, 2017 | 47 comments

1720.

A Game You Can Control with Your Mind (nytimes.com)

60 points by carlchenet on Aug 28, 2017 | 44 comments

1721.

Stratis Storage Software Design [pdf] (stratis-storage.github.io)

60 points by zx2c4 on Aug 2, 2017 | 33 comments

1722.

Intel CEO Resigns from Trump's Manufacturing Council (bloomberg.com)

60 points by rekwah on Aug 15, 2017 | 32 comments

1723.

Supernova’s messy birth casts doubt on reliability of astronomical yardstick (nature.com)

60 points by okket on Aug 20, 2017 | 18 comments

1724.

F*EX (fex.belwue.de)

60 points by Tomte on Aug 12, 2017 | 16 comments

1725.

The dwarfs of our vocabulary (blog.oup.com)

60 points by Petiver on Aug 15, 2017 | 16 comments

1726.

Lego railway and through a house and garden [video] (youtube.com)

60 points by Tomte on Aug 27, 2017 | 15 comments

1727.

Giving up on Venture Capital raising (linkedin.com)

60 points by naskwo on Aug 14, 2017 | 14 comments

1728.

A Brief History of Gnome [pdf] (blogs.gnome.org)

60 points by avian on Aug 7, 2017 | 12 comments

1729.

Flattening Combinators: Surviving Without Parentheses [pdf] (westpoint.edu)

60 points by mpweiher on Aug 18, 2017 | 9 comments

1730.

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? (theguardian.com)

60 points by akg_67 on Aug 14, 2017 | 5 comments

1731.

The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo (theatlantic.com)

60 points by doener on Aug 9, 2017 | 3 comments

1732.

ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence Is Not Free Speech (aclunc.org)

59 points by jdp23 on Aug 17, 2017 | 145 comments

1733.

Baby Boomers Who Won't Sell Are Dominating the Housing Market (bloomberg.com)

59 points by SQL2219 on Aug 8, 2017 | 99 comments

1734.

A Farewell to Go (churchwood.at)

59 points by Hates_ on Aug 9, 2017 | 83 comments

1735.

German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org (dw.com)

59 points by mdekkers on Aug 25, 2017 | 80 comments

1736.

Ask HN: How much do you save in the SF Bay Area with $120k salary?

59 points by symbolepro on Aug 24, 2017 | 71 comments

1737.

The qmail security guarantee (cr.yp.to)

59 points by rishabhd on Aug 27, 2017 | 70 comments

1738.

Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty in US (bbc.co.uk)

59 points by 0xbadf00d on Aug 14, 2017 | 52 comments

1739.

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart (nytimes.com)

59 points by mathieutd on Aug 8, 2017 | 46 comments

1740.

A Striking Rise in Serious Allergy Cases (wsj.com)

59 points by jpelecanos on Aug 23, 2017 | 29 comments