HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

Larry Wall: On programming languages (perl.com)

6 points by iamelgringo on Dec 11, 2007 | 2 comments

602.

Paint.NET gets ripped off - Freeware Authors: Beware of "Backspaceware" (blog.getpaint.net)

6 points by nickb on Dec 16, 2007 | 2 comments

603.

Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms (washingtonpost.com)

6 points by rms on Dec 17, 2007 | 2 comments

604.

Schneier: Never use it (MS has added RNG that could have an NSA backdoor into Vista). (schneier.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 18, 2007 | 2 comments

605.

Amazing new 3D face detection technology from Japan (vid) (youtube.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 27, 2007 | 2 comments

606.

Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought (pcworld.com)

6 points by garbowza on Dec 3, 2007 | 1 comments

607.

Facebook Founder Finds He Wants Some Privacy (nytimes.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 3, 2007 | 1 comments

608.

Wireless keyboards easily cracked (hackaday.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 3, 2007 | 1 comments

609.

Sanity check: The 10 biggest technology belly flops of 2007 (blogs.techrepublic.com.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 3, 2007 | 1 comments

610.

Scientists Get Rare Look at Dinosaur Soft Tissue (washingtonpost.com)

6 points by ingenium on Dec 3, 2007 | 1 comments

611.

Many GMail accounts being mysteriously disabled (groups.google.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 7, 2007 | 1 comments

612.

Zooomr - Conquering The World (From Japan) (jp.blognation.com)

6 points by raghus on Dec 10, 2007 | 1 comments

613.

Monsters of the Programming World (blogoscoped.com)

6 points by iamelgringo on Dec 11, 2007 | 1 comments

614.

Finance app Buxfer gets some iPhone love (buxfer.com)

6 points by ashu on Dec 13, 2007 | 1 comments

615.

Computer knowledge 'undervalued' (news.bbc.co.uk)

6 points by nickb on Dec 14, 2007 | 1 comments

616.

Facebook suing Ontario porn firm (thestar.com)

6 points by raja on Dec 16, 2007 | 1 comments

617.

Facebook in 30 years (pic) (valleywag.com)

6 points by transburgh on Dec 17, 2007 | 1 comments

618.

The most meaningful 404 *ever* (un-america.com)

6 points by sharehouse on Dec 22, 2007 | 1 comments

619.

The Semicolon Wars (Language wars and Lisp) (americanscientist.org)

6 points by nickb on Dec 28, 2007 | 1 comments

620.

Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep... (wired.com)

6 points by gscott on Dec 28, 2007 | 1 comments

621.

Flatland: A romance of many dimensions (geom.uiuc.edu)

6 points by rms on Dec 3, 2007 | 0 comments

622.

Arrow of Time FAQ (cosmicvariance.com)

6 points by hhm on Dec 3, 2007 | 0 comments

623.

Ruby VM Benchmarks: YARV (Ruby 1.9) vs JRuby vs.. (antoniocangiano.com)

6 points by DocSavage on Dec 4, 2007 | 0 comments

624.

Facebook tracks users even when they're logged out, and without telling them! (correntewire.com)

6 points by nickb on Dec 4, 2007 | 0 comments

625.

MPAA's University wiretapping product taken down for violating copyright (boingboing.net)

6 points by nickb on Dec 4, 2007 | 0 comments

626.

"An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory" (using Lisp), by Greg Chaitin (cs.auckland.ac.nz)

6 points by hhm on Dec 5, 2007 | 0 comments

627.

iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 (slashdotdash.net)