HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2041.

Ask HN: Why are compensation tiers secret?

43 points by gigatexal on Aug 23, 2017 | 32 comments

2042.

The Extraordinary Nazca Prehistoric Balloon (nott.com)

43 points by cpeterso on Aug 9, 2017 | 13 comments

2043.

Cloudflare uses lava lamps as a random number generator (fastcodesign.com)

43 points by dethi on Aug 18, 2017 | 11 comments

2044.

Will Shortz: A Lifelong Crossword Puzzle Master (nytimes.com)

43 points by fern12 on Aug 7, 2017 | 6 comments

2045.

In China, Facebook Tests the Waters with a Stealth App (nytimes.com)

43 points by tiger3 on Aug 11, 2017 | 6 comments

2046.

Part of a space shuttle landed a rover on Mars (planetary.org)

43 points by sohkamyung on Aug 5, 2017 | 5 comments

2047.

Skiffle Craze: An Interview with Billy Bragg (theparisreview.org)

43 points by tintinnabula on Aug 4, 2017 | 2 comments

2048.

Powerful backdoor found in software used by 100 banks and energy cos (arstechnica.com)

43 points by anthraxstars on Aug 15, 2017 | 1 comments

2049.

Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google's CEO (nytimes.com)

43 points by danmendes on Aug 12, 2017 | 0 comments

2050.

Paul Graham blocked me on Twitter (code.likeagirl.io)

43 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 20, 2017 | 0 comments

2051.

Bitcoin cash mining profits jump (cnbc.com)

42 points by prostoalex on Aug 19, 2017 | 89 comments

2052.

Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack (bloomberg.com)

42 points by doener on Aug 31, 2017 | 68 comments

2053.

Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin suddenly so popular?

42 points by forkLding on Aug 28, 2017 | 59 comments

2054.

Ask HN: Why don't tech job listings include compensation ranges?

42 points by surrey-fringe on Aug 2, 2017 | 51 comments

2055.

The hazy issue of weed and work (bbc.com)

42 points by kawera on Aug 5, 2017 | 51 comments

2056.

Ask HN: Anybody else EC2 issues on us-east-1?

42 points by oliverfriedmann on Aug 2, 2017 | 45 comments

2057.

What scientists think about the biological claims made by a Google employee? (quora.com)

42 points by ebola1717 on Aug 10, 2017 | 45 comments

2058.

Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies?

42 points by gcatalfamo on Aug 30, 2017 | 38 comments

2059.

Launch HN: Mystro (YC S17) – Automation for On-Demand Drivers

42 points by mrajcok on Aug 22, 2017 | 30 comments

2060.

Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System (1990) [pdf] (std.org)

42 points by type0 on Aug 28, 2017 | 27 comments

2061.

Dammit – should I give up on open source in government (mikadosoftware.com)

42 points by lifeisstillgood on Aug 12, 2017 | 21 comments

2062.

Data science on a chromebook (simplystatistics.org)

42 points by simplystats2 on Aug 29, 2017 | 21 comments

2063.

In Vietnam, the Best Education Can Lead to Worse Job Prospects (bloomberg.com)

42 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 21, 2017 | 19 comments

2064.

The smug style in American liberalism [2016 repost time] (vox.com)

42 points by bayonetz on Aug 8, 2017 | 18 comments

2065.

My Second-Hand CS Degree (rexstjohn.com)

42 points by rexstjohn on Aug 20, 2017 | 18 comments

2066.

Early Facebook and Google investor slams them for “aggressive brain hacking” (businessinsider.com)

42 points by unclebucknasty on Aug 9, 2017 | 13 comments

2067.

Codemod – A library to assist with large-scale codebase refactoring (github.com)

42 points by pestkranker on Aug 23, 2017 | 13 comments

2068.

Neural Pinyin-to-Chinese Character Converter (github.com)

42 points by kyubyong on Aug 24, 2017 | 13 comments

2069.

Help Test Docker CE on Raspberry Pi / ARM (github.com)

42 points by alexellisuk on Aug 20, 2017 | 12 comments

2070.

Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes (slatestarcodex.com)

42 points by mpweiher on Aug 2, 2017 | 8 comments