HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things (paulgraham.com)

173 points by Darmani on Feb 16, 2008 | 118 comments

2.

Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote (blogs.zdnet.com)

142 points by thorax on Feb 22, 2008 | 26 comments

3.

PG on trolls (paulgraham.com)

137 points by sharpshoot on Feb 16, 2008 | 183 comments

4.

News.YC open-sourced (arclanguage.org)

127 points by pg on Feb 25, 2008 | 20 comments

5.

Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

125 points by pg on Feb 7, 2008 | 154 comments

6.

Learning Math

122 points by dwaters on Feb 3, 2008 | 74 comments

7.

Joel: How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army (inc.com)

95 points by luccastera on Feb 28, 2008 | 23 comments

8.

The importance of launching early and staying alive (david.weebly.com)

92 points by drusenko on Feb 26, 2008 | 29 comments

9.

The most important thing to understand about new products and startups (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

92 points by dfens on Feb 17, 2008 | 26 comments

10.

Don't Become a Scientist. (wuphys.wustl.edu)

83 points by aneesh on Feb 23, 2008 | 91 comments

11.

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo (news.yahoo.com)

82 points by surya on Feb 1, 2008 | 80 comments

12.

How do you learn?

79 points by abstractbill on Feb 5, 2008 | 54 comments

13.

Git is the next Unix (advogato.org)

79 points by oxyona on Feb 2, 2008 | 19 comments

14.

Ask News.YC: How to re-motivate yourself?

75 points by qwestion on Feb 22, 2008 | 42 comments

15.

How I lost my faith (in Lisp) (groups.google.com)

72 points by bootload on Feb 1, 2008 | 97 comments

16.

This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize (wired.com)

70 points by elq on Feb 28, 2008 | 24 comments

17.

So You Hacked Our Site!? (thedailywtf.com)

70 points by muriithi on Feb 29, 2008 | 22 comments

18.

Arc Ported to JavaScript (halogen.note.amherst.edu)

69 points by rms on Feb 7, 2008 | 23 comments

19.

Do it Fucking Now. (seoblackhat.com)

68 points by ajbatac on Feb 22, 2008 | 30 comments

20.

Why a School Banned Legos (rethinkingschools.org)

64 points by kirubakaran on Feb 20, 2008 | 90 comments

21.

Portrait of a N00b (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

63 points by elq on Feb 11, 2008 | 30 comments

22.

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) (joelonsoftware.com)

60 points by unfoldedorigami on Feb 19, 2008 | 20 comments

23.

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? (csmonitor.com)

59 points by alaskamiller on Feb 14, 2008 | 60 comments

24.

Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08) (techcrunch.com)

59 points by danielha on Feb 7, 2008 | 35 comments

25.

Bill Gates demos Xobni (gaborcselle.com)

59 points by gaborcselle on Feb 11, 2008 | 32 comments

26.

Notes From a Meeting with Warren Buffett (undergroundvalue.blogspot.com)

59 points by hhm on Feb 26, 2008 | 30 comments

27.

Hot or Not acquired for 20 million (techcrunch.com)

59 points by johnrob on Feb 12, 2008 | 23 comments

28.

Yahoo Board To Reject Microsoft Offer (online.wsj.com)

58 points by kirubakaran on Feb 9, 2008 | 44 comments

29.

TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08) (techcrunch.com)

57 points by jamiequint on Feb 10, 2008 | 53 comments

30.

Good code, bad code. The only truth. [comic] (osnews.com)

56 points by hollywoodcole on Feb 5, 2008 | 21 comments