HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16231.

A Windows Defender bug was so gaping its PoC exploit had to be encrypted (arstechnica.com)

79 points by xbmcuser on Jun 27, 2017 | 38 comments

16232.

A large satellite appears to be falling apart in geostationary orbit (arstechnica.com)

79 points by robin_reala on Jul 2, 2017 | 38 comments

16233.

Doing things the wrong way to get the right result (madebymany.com)

79 points by zgryw on Jun 8, 2017 | 37 comments

16234.

ZeroMe – Decentralized Microblogging on ZeroNet (bluishcoder.co.nz)

79 points by doublec on Oct 13, 2017 | 37 comments

16235.

An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (2011) [pdf] (projects.csail.mit.edu)

79 points by lainon on Jan 17, 2017 | 36 comments

16236.

Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth” in a post-truth world (blog.ably.io)

79 points by kiyanwang on Mar 19, 2017 | 35 comments

16237.

Don't use deep learning when your data isn't that big (simplystatistics.org)

79 points by simplystats2 on May 31, 2017 | 35 comments

16238.

The legacies of 1917 (eurozine.com)

79 points by lermontov on Dec 1, 2017 | 35 comments

16239.

Revert the GitHub dark header (github.com)

79 points by derosul on Feb 10, 2017 | 34 comments

16240.

Show HN: Appster – Free Bootstrap 4 App Landing Page Template (wireddots.com)

79 points by attacomsian on Aug 17, 2017 | 34 comments

16241.

Show HN: JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript (github.com)

79 points by reaal on Oct 23, 2017 | 34 comments

16242.

Melown – 3D mapping implementation in JS, smooth and silent (melown.com)

79 points by tomslavkovsky on Feb 3, 2017 | 33 comments

16243.

The HARC First Year Report (harc.ycr.org)

79 points by fniephaus on Oct 26, 2017 | 33 comments

16244.

Windows DRM Files Used to Decloak Tor Browser Users (bleepingcomputer.com)

79 points by edgarvm on Feb 3, 2017 | 32 comments

16245.

Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees (npr.org)

79 points by lettersdigits on May 29, 2017 | 32 comments

16246.

ParTcl – a micro Tcl implementation (github.com)

79 points by panic on Feb 18, 2017 | 31 comments

16247.

Clones of the Apple II (tedium.co)

79 points by jamesbowman on May 5, 2017 | 31 comments

16248.

Estimating a nuclear blast with bits of paper (dannen.com)

79 points by secretsinger on Jun 4, 2017 | 31 comments

16249.

Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast is still impossible in Kafka (the-paper-trail.org)

79 points by 68c12c16 on Jul 29, 2017 | 31 comments

16250.

Reusable and type-safe options for Go APIs (derekchiang.com)

79 points by derekchiang on Oct 22, 2017 | 31 comments

16251.

Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood (nytimes.com)

79 points by gerbilly on Mar 18, 2017 | 30 comments

16252.

Ways to Invoke a Function in JavaScript (gist.github.com)

79 points by sr2 on Jun 18, 2017 | 30 comments

16253.

A two-button mechanical keyboard that types ASCII values, one bit at a time (github.com)

79 points by pavel_lishin on Apr 19, 2017 | 29 comments

16254.

When Government Rules by Software, Citizens Are Left in the Dark (wired.com)

79 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 17, 2017 | 29 comments

16255.

Creating Web Traffic “Out of Thin Air” (buzzfeed.com)

79 points by pulisse on Dec 13, 2017 | 29 comments

16256.

Nostalgia for Now (wilsonquarterly.com)

79 points by pepys on Jan 25, 2017 | 28 comments

16257.

Ask HN: HN censoring Facebook licencing controversy?

79 points by Mayzie on Aug 19, 2017 | 28 comments

16258.

How efficiently does Morse code encode letters? (johndcook.com)

79 points by CarolineW on Feb 23, 2017 | 27 comments

16259.

An overlooked statistical concept shows why it’s so hard to beat a benchmark (bloomberg.com)

79 points by bookbild on Apr 10, 2017 | 27 comments

16260.

Russian Vending Machine Sells Fake Instagram Likes (motherboard.vice.com)

79 points by walterbell on Jun 11, 2017 | 27 comments