HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

10621.

Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age (dailygrail.com)

128 points by blacksqr on Jun 8, 2017 | 101 comments

10622.

Our company’s remote work system failed (medium.com)

128 points by janeboo on Feb 15, 2017 | 98 comments

10623.

Windows 7, not XP, was the reason WCry spread so widely (arstechnica.com)

128 points by daenney on May 21, 2017 | 96 comments

10624.

WebAssembly, an executable format for the web (blog.octo.com)

128 points by arnoooooo on Dec 11, 2017 | 93 comments

10625.

Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class (mobile.nytimes.com)

128 points by tuxguy on Apr 8, 2017 | 88 comments

10626.

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com)

128 points by eludwig on Aug 3, 2017 | 85 comments

10627.

China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars (thedrive.com)

128 points by ourmandave on Dec 18, 2017 | 85 comments

10628.

Facebook’s Virtual Reality Foray Derided as ‘Fanciful Story’ (bloomberg.com)

128 points by euroclydon on Jan 10, 2017 | 84 comments

10629.

Announcing gopass – A 'pass' compatible password manager for teams (justwatch.com)

128 points by MetalMatze on Feb 2, 2017 | 80 comments

10630.

Optimizing React Rendering (flexport.engineering)

128 points by dounan on May 25, 2017 | 77 comments

10631.

Programmers Should Automate More (shubhamjain.co)

128 points by shubhamjain on May 12, 2017 | 75 comments

10632.

The Cost Center Trap (leanessays.com)

128 points by nikolasavic on Nov 20, 2017 | 73 comments

10633.

PAAS Comparison – Dokku vs. Flynn vs. Deis vs. Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm (jancarloviray.com)

128 points by wilsonfiifi on Jun 11, 2017 | 72 comments

10634.

Asus Prime X370-PRO specs suggest AMD Ryzen processors may support ECC memory (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

128 points by en on Feb 20, 2017 | 65 comments

10635.

Abacus use can boost math skills (kottke.org)

128 points by Osiris30 on Mar 8, 2017 | 65 comments

10636.

It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way (sciencemag.org)

128 points by nonbel on Jul 26, 2017 | 65 comments

10637.

New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material (aclu.org)

128 points by ColinWright on Jun 25, 2017 | 64 comments

10638.

Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8 (spectrum.ieee.org)

128 points by retSava on Oct 31, 2017 | 64 comments

10639.

Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available (blog.heroku.com)

128 points by petercooper on May 18, 2017 | 63 comments

10640.

Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released (blog.diasporafoundation.org)

128 points by chtfn on Aug 20, 2017 | 62 comments

10641.

Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots (msn.com)

128 points by gopalakrishnans on Mar 11, 2017 | 61 comments

10642.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died (theguardian.com)

128 points by lermontov on Apr 2, 2017 | 61 comments

10643.

Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005 (typewritten.org)

128 points by pavlov on Dec 20, 2017 | 58 comments

10644.

The Future of RethinkDB (changelog.com)

128 points by williamstein on Nov 3, 2017 | 56 comments

10645.

Koomey's law (en.wikipedia.org)

128 points by shpx on Mar 31, 2017 | 55 comments

10646.

Desktop Metal gets $115M in funding to deliver metal 3D printing (techcrunch.com)

128 points by vswar on Jul 18, 2017 | 55 comments

10647.

Casually removing root files (ervinb.github.io)

128 points by ervinb on Aug 16, 2017 | 55 comments

10648.

IBM pitched Watson as a revolution in cancer care, but it’s nowhere close (statnews.com)

128 points by notlob on Sep 6, 2017 | 52 comments

10649.

Babies who get more cuddles have their genetics changed for years, study shows (sciencealert.com)

128 points by ALee on Dec 2, 2017 | 47 comments

10650.

What really happened in the Christmas truce of 1914? (bbc.co.uk)

128 points by jstewartmobile on Dec 25, 2017 | 47 comments