HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13621.

Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts (outsideonline.com)

98 points by sergeant3 on May 5, 2017 | 91 comments

13622.

Return of the city-state (aeon.co)

98 points by miraj on Sep 7, 2017 | 91 comments

13623.

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006) (research.googleblog.com)

98 points by rargulati on Aug 1, 2017 | 86 comments

13624.

Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS was illegal, UK data regulator rules (businessinsider.com)

98 points by antr on Jul 3, 2017 | 85 comments

13625.

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017 (nobelprize.org)

98 points by aq3cn on Oct 9, 2017 | 80 comments

13626.

When Will AWS Move Up the Stack to Real Applications? (nextplatform.com)

98 points by rokhayakebe on Mar 30, 2017 | 79 comments

13627.

FedEx vs. UPS: opposing models in the delivery business raise questions (2004) (braunconsulting.com)

98 points by dluan on Sep 20, 2017 | 79 comments

13628.

Is Facebook capable of adapting to the world it created? (nytimes.com)

98 points by zelias on Apr 25, 2017 | 77 comments

13629.

Sous Vide startup Anova gets acquired by Electrolux (techcrunch.com)

98 points by lxm on Feb 6, 2017 | 76 comments

13630.

Assassin's Creed Origins is crippling gamers' CPUs due to anti-piracy DRM (theinquirer.net)

98 points by bluesilver07 on Oct 31, 2017 | 76 comments

13631.

Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land (news.nationalgeographic.com)

98 points by brakmic on Dec 9, 2017 | 75 comments

13632.

Launching Today: CircleCI 2.0 Reaches General Availability (circleci.com)

98 points by ssemmaprise on Jul 11, 2017 | 72 comments

13633.

Psychopathy: A new clinical approach offers hope (theatlantic.com)

98 points by kposehn on May 17, 2017 | 69 comments

13634.

Enabling the F4 key in macOS (boinkor.net)

98 points by mmastrac on Nov 24, 2017 | 68 comments

13635.

Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

98 points by inapis on Feb 11, 2017 | 67 comments

13636.

Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition?

98 points by seattle_spring on Mar 8, 2017 | 66 comments

13637.

First Support for a Physics Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)

98 points by robinhouston on Jul 26, 2017 | 66 comments

13638.

A Theory of Jerks (2014) (aeon.co)

98 points by hownottowrite on Aug 11, 2017 | 63 comments

13639.

The Japanese Origins of Modern Fine Dining (eater.com)

98 points by lnguyen on Sep 8, 2017 | 63 comments

13640.

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014) (arxiv.org)

98 points by adamnemecek on Jun 15, 2017 | 61 comments

13641.

What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer (copygrammer.com)

98 points by peace01 on Aug 1, 2017 | 57 comments

13642.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker (thebaffler.com)

98 points by kawera on Dec 29, 2017 | 57 comments

13643.

Mylan’s EpiPen price hike was a scheme to stifle competition, rival claims (arstechnica.com)

98 points by CoolGuySteve on Apr 26, 2017 | 54 comments

13644.

CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traffic Re-Routing Tool (hothardware.com)

98 points by kumaranvpl on Jul 4, 2017 | 54 comments

13645.

J.C. Penney’s troubles are reflected in satellite images of its parking lots (theoutline.com)

98 points by jonbaer on Feb 28, 2017 | 51 comments

13646.

Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (2014) (theconversation.com)

98 points by pepys on Nov 5, 2017 | 51 comments

13647.

Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Unprotected AWS S3 Bucket (gizmodo.com)

98 points by danso on May 31, 2017 | 50 comments

13648.

Who is Anthony Levandowski, and why is Google suing him? (theguardian.com)

98 points by defenestration on Feb 25, 2017 | 49 comments

13649.

Luther's World: Understanding the man who was the powerhouse of the Reformation (weeklystandard.com)

98 points by pepys on May 8, 2017 | 49 comments

13650.

Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier (github.com)

98 points by loppers92 on May 27, 2017 | 49 comments