HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (reuters.com)

397 points by petethomas on Apr 10, 2017 | 353 comments

1682.

Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating (nytimes.com)

397 points by veidr on Dec 6, 2017 | 285 comments

1683.

Can sleep deprivation cure depression? (nytimes.com)

397 points by hvo on Mar 11, 2017 | 212 comments

1684.

Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight (techcrunch.com)

397 points by petergatsby on Apr 27, 2017 | 201 comments

1685.

The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking (motherboard.vice.com)

397 points by artsandsci on Mar 21, 2017 | 177 comments

1686.

Secret docs reveal: an FBI with vast hidden powers (theintercept.com)

397 points by cylo on Jan 31, 2017 | 167 comments

1687.

Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

397 points by discreditable on Jan 26, 2017 | 160 comments

1688.

Esoteric programming paradigms (ybrikman.com)

397 points by SlyShy on May 1, 2017 | 148 comments

1689.

How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video] (youtube.com)

397 points by nostrademons on Apr 12, 2017 | 133 comments

1690.

My Journey to a Better Language Learning System (chatterbug.com)

397 points by troydavis on Oct 19, 2017 | 130 comments

1691.

Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions (techiedelight.quora.com)

397 points by adamnemecek on Apr 16, 2017 | 103 comments

1692.

Vladimir Voevodsky has died (ias.edu)

397 points by slbenfica on Oct 1, 2017 | 89 comments

1693.

Blockchains explained visually (part 1 of 2) (unwttng.com)

397 points by unwttng on Oct 18, 2017 | 45 comments

1694.

Open Source Datasets (deepmind.com)

397 points by amberj on Jun 15, 2017 | 28 comments

1695.

Apple’s 2016 in review (chuqui.com)

396 points by mef on Jan 3, 2017 | 385 comments

1696.

US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile (dailyxtra.com)

396 points by rublev on Feb 22, 2017 | 376 comments

1697.

Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills (wsj.com)

396 points by guildwriter on Jun 6, 2017 | 311 comments

1698.

Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf] (berkshirehathaway.com)

396 points by grellas on Feb 25, 2017 | 310 comments

1699.

Data Structures for Coding Interviews (interviewcake.com)

396 points by sharjeelsayed on Aug 1, 2017 | 229 comments

1700.

Equihax (krypt3ia.wordpress.com)

396 points by mzs on Sep 14, 2017 | 202 comments

1701.

Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs (cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

396 points by bussetta on Oct 17, 2017 | 153 comments

1702.

Racing for Realism (renderman.pixar.com)

396 points by mariuz on Dec 21, 2017 | 150 comments

1703.

The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free (nytimes.com)

396 points by brudgers on Feb 7, 2017 | 97 comments

1704.

Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js (robinwieruch.de)

396 points by rwieruch on Dec 5, 2017 | 72 comments

1705.

CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research (web.stanford.edu)

396 points by nafizh on Mar 3, 2017 | 29 comments

1706.

GitHub was down (status.github.com)

395 points by bithavoc on Jul 31, 2017 | 241 comments

1707.

Android permissions and hypocrisy (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

395 points by robin_reala on Jan 23, 2017 | 240 comments

1708.

Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community (blog.ffwll.ch)

395 points by okket on Aug 9, 2017 | 236 comments

1709.

Build Yourself a Redux (zapier.com)

395 points by jdeal on May 5, 2017 | 155 comments

1710.

Show HN: The best time to visit any city

395 points by ignostic on Aug 22, 2017 | 118 comments