HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Congrats to PG on getting hitched (twitter.com)

228 points by champion on Jun 1, 2008 | 95 comments

2.

Diary of a Failed Startup (diffle-history.blogspot.com)

224 points by nostrademons on Jun 23, 2008 | 34 comments

3.

Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit. (blog.reddit.com)

168 points by icey on Jun 18, 2008 | 66 comments

4.

Done, and Gets Things Smart (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

137 points by dill_day on Jun 17, 2008 | 65 comments

5.

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org)

131 points by nreece on Jun 23, 2008 | 69 comments

6.

How to sell your software for $20,000 (nukemanbill.blogspot.com)

125 points by rob on Jun 27, 2008 | 55 comments

7.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)

116 points by nickb on Jun 25, 2008 | 89 comments

8.

Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members (rocksolidarcade.com)

115 points by rms on Jun 16, 2008 | 82 comments

9.

This is what your customers think of asking for their email password (codinghorror.com)

111 points by raganwald on Jun 5, 2008 | 59 comments

10.

17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush) (cpd.ogi.edu)

108 points by eventhough on Jun 19, 2008 | 21 comments

11.

Scaling Fast (lukasbiewald.com)

107 points by luccastera on Jun 4, 2008 | 16 comments

12.

I'm not sure who this Oleg person is, but he sure has some cool links on his site. (okmij.org)

106 points by coglethorpe on Jun 25, 2008 | 6 comments

13.

How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates (inc.com)

104 points by prakash on Jun 26, 2008 | 52 comments

14.

Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension (splitbrain.org)

99 points by gaika on Jun 26, 2008 | 19 comments

15.

Reddit's Ranking Algorithm (redflavor.com)

97 points by michael_dorfman on Jun 29, 2008 | 34 comments

16.

The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes. (theatlantic.com)

93 points by theoneill on Jun 17, 2008 | 57 comments

17.

Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and all your work thrown away? (blog.shlang.com)

91 points by gaika on Jun 19, 2008 | 54 comments

18.

Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell (goosh.org)

91 points by bomberstudios on Jun 2, 2008 | 35 comments

19.

Things I've learned from running a business (ie: Don't do what I did) (episteme.arstechnica.com)

89 points by mrkurt on Jun 18, 2008 | 15 comments

20.

Code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization. (vis.cs.ucdavis.edu)

86 points by acangiano on Jun 13, 2008 | 19 comments

21.

Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

85 points by gaika on Jun 25, 2008 | 31 comments

22.

Powerset's Erlang-based clustering technology is now open source (github.com)

85 points by quellhorst on Jun 5, 2008 | 11 comments

23.

A kind reminder to the community: please (re)read the HN guidelines (ycombinator.com)

84 points by notkarmawhore on Jun 16, 2008 | 32 comments

24.

Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity (techcrunch.com)

81 points by ptm on Jun 28, 2008 | 32 comments

25.

George Carlin dies at 71 (msnbc.msn.com)

78 points by andreyf on Jun 23, 2008 | 35 comments

26.

Nassim Taleb's Top 10 Life Tips (ben.casnocha.com)

78 points by neilc on Jun 6, 2008 | 23 comments

27.

Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee (cnn.com)

77 points by nirmal on Jun 4, 2008 | 125 comments

28.

It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup (37signals.com)

77 points by comatose_kid on Jun 11, 2008 | 46 comments

29.

How I hacked Digg (phoboslab.org)

77 points by sant0sk1 on Jun 4, 2008 | 34 comments

30.

Programmer Competency Matrix (indiangeek.net)

77 points by spydez on Jun 30, 2008 | 33 comments