HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices (bbc.co.uk)

372 points by gadders on Nov 6, 2017 | 331 comments

1952.

Pistol sights (yarchive.net)

372 points by luu on Jun 13, 2017 | 323 comments

1953.

SpaceX BFR [video] (youtube.com)

372 points by mulcahey on Sep 29, 2017 | 270 comments

1954.

In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone (2015) (citylab.com)

372 points by lighttower on Dec 17, 2017 | 240 comments

1955.

Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting (recode.net)

372 points by fluxic on Mar 19, 2017 | 227 comments

1956.

My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded (medium.com)

372 points by zepolen on Feb 27, 2017 | 216 comments

1957.

Japan eyes startup visa program (asia.nikkei.com)

372 points by benguild on Dec 8, 2017 | 213 comments

1958.

Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50% (w3techs.com)

372 points by MarionG on Apr 10, 2017 | 183 comments

1959.

Good at programming competitions does not equal good on the job [video] (catonmat.net)

372 points by jpn on Jul 7, 2017 | 166 comments

1960.

Show HN: Snips is a AI Voice Assistant platform 100% on-device and private (snips.ai)

372 points by oulipo on Jun 15, 2017 | 129 comments

1961.

Interesting commands for the Linux shell (lopezferrando.com)

372 points by victorlf on Sep 14, 2017 | 129 comments

1962.

Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 (blog.wizsec.jp)

372 points by pcorey on Jul 26, 2017 | 91 comments

1963.

Material Design Color Tool (material.io)

372 points by kiyanwang on Apr 11, 2017 | 88 comments

1964.

Masaya Nakamura, Japanese arcade pioneer, has died (bloomberg.com)

372 points by jrwan on Jan 30, 2017 | 80 comments

1965.

Effective Tensorflow (github.com)

372 points by adamnemecek on Aug 13, 2017 | 49 comments

1966.

How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf] (blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca)

372 points by jdale27 on Apr 29, 2017 | 40 comments

1967.

Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS (foxbusiness.com)

371 points by _jhhe on Jun 21, 2017 | 389 comments

1968.

How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook (pagefair.com)

371 points by cpeterso on Aug 30, 2017 | 346 comments

1969.

Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month (bloomberg.com)

371 points by discombobulate on Jul 17, 2017 | 317 comments

1970.

An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds (statnews.com)

371 points by anarbadalov on Oct 13, 2017 | 273 comments

1971.

HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs (engadget.com)

371 points by artsandsci on Nov 28, 2017 | 247 comments

1972.

Why isn't there a Google for the law? (openlawlib.org)

371 points by vqc on Jan 2, 2017 | 214 comments

1973.

All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux (zdnet.com)

371 points by doener on Nov 15, 2017 | 188 comments

1974.

Audacity 2.2.0 Released (audacityteam.org)

371 points by conductor on Nov 3, 2017 | 146 comments

1975.

Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year (wdc.com)

371 points by deepnotderp on Nov 28, 2017 | 145 comments

1976.

Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo (driverless.id)

371 points by paul on Jan 28, 2017 | 143 comments

1977.

2D Syntax (docs.racket-lang.org)

371 points by mr_tyzic on Jun 28, 2017 | 86 comments

1978.

Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure (news.mit.edu)

371 points by edwinksl on Jun 22, 2017 | 48 comments

1979.

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web (medium.com)

370 points by jaffathecake on Jul 27, 2017 | 443 comments

1980.

Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit (bloomberg.com)

370 points by kbyatnal on Oct 27, 2017 | 234 comments