HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Code's Worst Enemy (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

125 points by mqt on Dec 19, 2007 | 43 comments

2.

We didn't start the Fire (2.0) (youtube.com)

103 points by raghus on Dec 4, 2007 | 57 comments

3.

Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language] (zedshaw.com)

94 points by raju on Dec 31, 2007 | 68 comments

4.

Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1 (joelonsoftware.com)

73 points by gensym on Dec 3, 2007 | 36 comments

5.

Evan Williams: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea (evhead.com)

70 points by staunch on Dec 17, 2007 | 23 comments

6.

Success [pic] (surreality.info)

64 points by papersmith on Dec 14, 2007 | 13 comments

7.

Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards? (37signals.com)

61 points by dawie on Dec 28, 2007 | 10 comments

8.

The Dictatorship of Talent (nytimes.com)

59 points by robg on Dec 6, 2007 | 60 comments

9.

Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30) (youtube.com)

59 points by SwellJoe on Dec 12, 2007 | 12 comments

10.

AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze (techcrunch.com)

58 points by terpua on Dec 12, 2007 | 36 comments

11.

Man, weather.com really sucks. I bet I could make a better one in a day. (forecaster.ws)

57 points by carpal on Dec 30, 2007 | 48 comments

12.

Paul Buchheit: Is there more to life than money? (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

54 points by karthikv on Dec 10, 2007 | 54 comments

13.

Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 2 (joelonsoftware.com)

54 points by mqt on Dec 4, 2007 | 18 comments

14.

Start-Up sells solar panels that are cheaper than coal power (nytimes.com)

53 points by iamelgringo on Dec 19, 2007 | 22 comments

15.

The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu)

51 points by akkartik on Dec 26, 2007 | 76 comments

16.

Please Don't Steal My Focus (codinghorror.com)

51 points by german on Dec 5, 2007 | 13 comments

17.

Rails 2.0 Released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

50 points by carpal on Dec 7, 2007 | 14 comments

18.

Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet (google-code-updates.blogspot.com)

50 points by terpua on Dec 6, 2007 | 11 comments

19.

Something new for the New Year: SearchYC.com (searchyc.com)

48 points by chengmi on Dec 31, 2007 | 22 comments

20.

"The Most Complex Piece of Engineering Known to Man" (groups.google.com)

48 points by jsomers on Dec 16, 2007 | 21 comments

21.

What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race (newyorker.com)

47 points by papersmith on Dec 10, 2007 | 73 comments

22.

Cheer YC: Happy Holidays!

47 points by iamelgringo on Dec 24, 2007 | 32 comments

23.

Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham (slightlynew.blogspot.com)

47 points by lsb on Dec 2, 2007 | 16 comments

24.

Daily WTF: ITAPPMONROBOT (thedailywtf.com)

47 points by nickb on Dec 18, 2007 | 10 comments

25.

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote (youtube.com)

46 points by nickb on Dec 13, 2007 | 18 comments

26.

Steve Jobs At Home in 1982 (digitaljournalist.org)

45 points by mqt on Dec 14, 2007 | 19 comments

27.

Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Living (thepokerchronicles.com)

44 points by rms on Dec 3, 2007 | 60 comments

28.

Ask YC: Will there really always be room for more successful web startups? ()

44 points by rontr on Dec 13, 2007 | 58 comments

29.

Stress impairs cognitive functions - The loss of those functions can explain why programming is hard (the-programmers-stone.com)

44 points by nickb on Dec 8, 2007 | 32 comments

30.

Amazon SimpleDB Goes Beta (informationweek.com)

44 points by blader on Dec 14, 2007 | 29 comments