HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

How Banks Could Control Gun Sales If Washington Won’t (nytimes.com)

34 points by jonwachob91 on Feb 20, 2018 | 73 comments

2012.

China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley (economist.com)

34 points by nopinsight on Feb 17, 2018 | 48 comments

2013.

Ask HN: What is your 'end game'? What kind of life are you striving to live?

34 points by rblion on Feb 20, 2018 | 46 comments

2014.

One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline (securityweek.com)

34 points by thg on Feb 7, 2018 | 40 comments

2015.

Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf] (tylermoore.utulsa.edu)

34 points by gwern on Feb 9, 2018 | 40 comments

2016.

Why Young Americans Are Having Less Sex (politico.com)

34 points by randomname2 on Feb 9, 2018 | 35 comments

2017.

When you don't pay your web developer (greentouchlandscapers.com)

34 points by mark-ruwt on Feb 7, 2018 | 31 comments

2018.

Ask HN: Does increasing our life expectancy save or cost money?

34 points by aniijbod on Feb 17, 2018 | 24 comments

2019.

What If Men and Women Skied Against Each Other in the Olympics? (fivethirtyeight.com)

34 points by hw on Feb 15, 2018 | 22 comments

2020.

Asian elephants have different personality traits (phys.org)

34 points by dnetesn on Feb 22, 2018 | 21 comments

2021.

"Break and Enter dropbox" attack with Amazon Key (smartlock and smartcam combo) (twitter.com)

34 points by dsr12 on Feb 5, 2018 | 14 comments

2022.

Batch Normalization for deep networks (rohanvarma.me)

34 points by rvarma on Feb 22, 2018 | 12 comments

2023.

Ask HN: How to take back my attention and discipline?

34 points by waqa on Feb 21, 2018 | 11 comments

2024.

The Risks Digest (catless.ncl.ac.uk)

34 points by nz on Feb 13, 2018 | 9 comments

2025.

No telecommuting allowed: Why is Google investing billions in office buildings? (zdnet.com)

34 points by kimsk112 on Feb 8, 2018 | 7 comments

2026.

Nitrates and Ammonium (bigideas.network)

34 points by DyslexicAtheist on Feb 18, 2018 | 6 comments

2027.

Critical thinking and why you shouldn’t listen to Martin Fowler (medium.com)

34 points by dudeinahat on Feb 1, 2018 | 4 comments

2028.

A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

34 points by benaadams on Feb 6, 2018 | 4 comments

2029.

Mysterious origin of domesticated horses ‘turned upside down' by DNA analysis (independent.co.uk)

34 points by fanf2 on Feb 23, 2018 | 4 comments

2030.

ATT loses years-long quest to cripple FTC authority over telecoms (arstechnica.com)

34 points by rosser on Feb 26, 2018 | 4 comments

2031.

Show HN: Transfer, easy transfer learning for image classification (github.com)

34 points by msochor on Feb 1, 2018 | 3 comments

2032.

Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD (youtube.com)

34 points by pjmlp on Feb 10, 2018 | 3 comments

2033.

War in the Womb (2014) (aeon.co)

34 points by DoreenMichele on Feb 26, 2018 | 3 comments

2034.

A Brief History of Private Money and Crypto (cryptocurrentsblog.com)

34 points by Shah256ofSF on Feb 18, 2018 | 2 comments

2035.

A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting (2009) (arxiv.org)

34 points by networked on Feb 3, 2018 | 1 comments

2036.

SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe (wsj.com)

34 points by vertoc on Feb 28, 2018 | 1 comments

2037.

Citizen Thiel (nzherald.co.nz)

34 points by flashfive on Feb 2, 2018 | 0 comments

2038.

Cryonics Myths (alcor.org)

33 points by apsec112 on Feb 10, 2018 | 54 comments

2039.

Stealing from Self-Checkouts (theatlantic.com)

33 points by prostoalex on Feb 2, 2018 | 44 comments

2040.

Ask HN: Best web framework in 2018

33 points by k120 on Feb 8, 2018 | 39 comments