HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Bill Gates is offering the first $2B for renewable energy (emphasisms.com)

42 points by abledon on Oct 1, 2017 | 4 comments

2012.

Return to the Source (cipht.net)

42 points by katee on Oct 7, 2017 | 4 comments

2013.

Survey of CPU Caches (meribold.github.io)

42 points by signa11 on Oct 21, 2017 | 2 comments

2014.

Real world machine learning at Jane Street (blog.janestreet.com)

42 points by astdb on Oct 26, 2017 | 2 comments

2015.

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation (cosmosmagazine.com)

42 points by pmcpinto on Oct 2, 2017 | 0 comments

2016.

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency (brainpickings.org)

42 points by imartin2k on Oct 9, 2017 | 0 comments

2017.

Oral History of John Backus (2006) [video] (youtube.com)

42 points by jpelecanos on Oct 29, 2017 | 0 comments

2018.

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender (nytimes.com)

42 points by djug on Oct 30, 2017 | 0 comments

2019.

UK government calls out Whatsapp for enabling criminals to communicate in secret (techcrunch.com)

41 points by chatmasta on Oct 5, 2017 | 73 comments

2020.

Why Johnny Can't Code Good [video] (youtube.com)

41 points by coolsunglasses on Oct 13, 2017 | 70 comments

2021.

Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet (akitaonrails.com)

41 points by castlegloom on Oct 14, 2017 | 61 comments

2022.

Why the Piloted Flight Speed Record Hasn’t Been Broken in 50 Years (motherboard.vice.com)

41 points by smollett on Oct 19, 2017 | 51 comments

2023.

Boy Scouts Announce They Will Accept Girls (nytimes.com)

41 points by votepaunchy on Oct 11, 2017 | 44 comments

2024.

Passing the torch (lobste.rs)

41 points by laurent123456 on Oct 2, 2017 | 39 comments

2025.

Former Equifax CEO says breach boiled down to one person not doing their job (techcrunch.com)

41 points by orange_county on Oct 3, 2017 | 34 comments

2026.

Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner (nytimes.com)

41 points by Firebrand on Oct 1, 2017 | 33 comments

2027.

El Faro Sinking – full report [pdf] (media.defense.gov)

41 points by mojomark on Oct 25, 2017 | 32 comments

2028.

Dell XPS 13, one year later (bit-101.com)

41 points by ingve on Oct 6, 2017 | 30 comments

2029.

Why restaurants hate Grubhub/Seamless (tribecacitizen.com)

41 points by Mitchhhs on Oct 9, 2017 | 28 comments

2030.

Killing ants with nuclear weapons (drewdevault.com)

41 points by colinprince on Oct 19, 2017 | 28 comments

2031.

Outlawry, Supervillians, and Modern Law (2010) (lawandthemultiverse.com)

41 points by Mz on Oct 29, 2017 | 26 comments

2032.

Galileo and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide (2014) (thonyc.wordpress.com)

41 points by Hooke on Oct 2, 2017 | 22 comments

2033.

Update on Google’s Secretive Startup Calico Labs (longevityfacts.com)

41 points by apsec112 on Oct 19, 2017 | 20 comments

2034.

DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) (wired.com)

41 points by jpelecanos on Oct 2, 2017 | 18 comments

2035.

Publicly credit your employees (superted.io)

41 points by superted on Oct 20, 2017 | 18 comments

2036.

Ex-Google exec: Sun may be setting on Silicon Valley (axios.com)

41 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 19, 2017 | 13 comments

2037.

Winnie-the-Pooh brought joy to readers, but misery to the Milnes (economist.com)

41 points by sohkamyung on Oct 3, 2017 | 12 comments

2038.

Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor (github.com)

41 points by raw23 on Oct 8, 2017 | 11 comments

2039.

Ask HN: How to find better clients as a two-person remote dev team?

41 points by person_number_8 on Oct 22, 2017 | 11 comments

2040.

Startup Outcome Misled Advertisers with Manipulated Information, Sources Say (wsj.com)

41 points by coloneltcb on Oct 12, 2017 | 10 comments