HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans (wsj.com)

145 points by rayuela on Dec 14, 2017 | 134 comments

722.

World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland (swissinfo.ch)

145 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 16, 2017 | 56 comments

723.

Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework (truffleframework.com)

145 points by xwvvvvwx on Dec 14, 2017 | 54 comments

724.

Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air (caltech.edu)

145 points by starpilot on Dec 31, 2017 | 44 comments

725.

Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (righto.com)

145 points by fernly on Dec 24, 2017 | 18 comments

726.

Introduction to RAW-sockets [pdf] (tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de)

145 points by lainon on Dec 31, 2017 | 8 comments

727.

SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber (wsj.com)

144 points by coloneltcb on Dec 28, 2017 | 138 comments

728.

A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death (nytimes.com)

144 points by rafaelc on Dec 1, 2017 | 120 comments

729.

Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?

144 points by justaj on Dec 23, 2017 | 103 comments

730.

IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS (eng.lyft.com)

144 points by theatrus2 on Dec 4, 2017 | 56 comments

731.

Rust for Rubyists (matthias-endler.de)

144 points by omn1 on Dec 22, 2017 | 40 comments

732.

Analog For The People: Synth Master Tatsuya Takahashi On Engineering Fun (npr.org)

144 points by jcrabtr on Dec 23, 2017 | 30 comments

733.

Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties (bloomberg.com)

143 points by coloneltcb on Dec 7, 2017 | 215 comments

734.

A preview of the U.S. without pensions (mercurynews.com)

143 points by lnguyen on Dec 24, 2017 | 215 comments

735.

BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Starting with Bitcoin Cash (blog.bitpay.com)

143 points by bitjson on Dec 15, 2017 | 209 comments

736.

Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication (github.com)

143 points by ingve on Dec 10, 2017 | 144 comments

737.

At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment (nytimes.com)

143 points by mrjaeger on Dec 23, 2017 | 100 comments

738.

Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites (fakespot.com)

143 points by throwaway13337 on Dec 30, 2017 | 84 comments

739.

Goldman Traders Are Caught Up in a Bizarre, Tense Hedge Fund Battle (bloomberg.com)

143 points by techolic on Dec 8, 2017 | 55 comments

740.

Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory: Study (neurosciencenews.com)

143 points by prostoalex on Dec 8, 2017 | 41 comments

741.

How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL (m1el.github.io)

143 points by noch on Dec 30, 2017 | 20 comments

742.

Nintendo’s Resurgence (theringer.com)

142 points by angpappas on Dec 11, 2017 | 152 comments

743.

Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013) (rafalcieslak.wordpress.com)

142 points by striking on Dec 4, 2017 | 86 comments

744.

Uber used undercover agents, court letter says (bbc.com)

142 points by cinbun8 on Dec 16, 2017 | 45 comments

745.

Are statecharts the next big UI paradigm? (slideshare.net)

142 points by sktrdie on Dec 2, 2017 | 36 comments

746.

Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Reconsidered (psychiatrictimes.com)

141 points by the-enemy on Dec 1, 2017 | 178 comments

747.

Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring (pedestrianobservations.com)

141 points by Osiris30 on Dec 16, 2017 | 102 comments

748.

Evidence of exponential speed-up in the solution of hard optimization problems? (arxiv.org)