HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

901.

Senate Approves Telco Immunity for Illegal Wiretaps (nytimes.com)

12 points by timr on Jul 9, 2008 | 20 comments

902.

The single assignment cargo cult (tonyarcieri.org)

12 points by nickb on Jul 27, 2008 | 20 comments

903.

Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up (telegraph.co.uk)

12 points by iamelgringo on Jul 7, 2008 | 19 comments

904.

Now is the time to patch those unpatched DNS servers. Details have leaked. (security4all.blogspot.com)

12 points by tlrobinson on Jul 22, 2008 | 19 comments

905.

Hulu a consumer success but still a small business: Est. $12.5-25mm net revs (alleyinsider.com)

12 points by fromedome on Jul 1, 2008 | 18 comments

906.

Sounding black hurts your income; so does sounding southern (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

12 points by emmett on Jul 9, 2008 | 17 comments

907.

The most important ICANN announcement: Introduction of non-Roman character domains (thestandard.com)

12 points by ilamont on Jul 8, 2008 | 16 comments

908.

What's The Safest Seat On An Airplane? (altgate.typepad.com)

12 points by epi0Bauqu on Jul 13, 2008 | 16 comments

909.

Why can't people just accept evidence? (news.bbc.co.uk)

12 points by pierrefar on Jul 8, 2008 | 15 comments

910.

In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China (nytimes.com)

12 points by echair on Jul 14, 2008 | 14 comments

911.

To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos (nobi.typepad.com)

12 points by ksvs on Jul 21, 2008 | 13 comments

912.

RFR: Does blockquoting lead to nastier discussions? ()

12 points by pg on Jul 17, 2008 | 12 comments

913.

Ask HN: Rate My Startup ()

12 points by mooders on Jul 29, 2008 | 12 comments

914.

Dangerous New Chris Anderson Theory: We No Longer Need Logic (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)

12 points by nickb on Jul 1, 2008 | 11 comments

915.

The Problem With Code Folding (codinghorror.com)

12 points by bdfh42 on Jul 7, 2008 | 11 comments

916.

Y Combinator competitor - DreamIt Ventures (cheaprevolution.com)

12 points by myasmine on Jul 10, 2008 | 11 comments

917.

Y2K 2.0: Banking software is not ready to handle Zimbabwe's inflation. (huffingtonpost.com)

12 points by gaika on Jul 30, 2008 | 11 comments

918.

Ask YC: Built a great social media site, but need a recommendation engine. Any ideas? ()

12 points by grag on Jul 3, 2008 | 10 comments

919.

Why were Lisp machines so expensive? ()

12 points by globalrev on Jul 5, 2008 | 10 comments

920.

The death of yearbooks (economist.com)

12 points by wallflower on Jul 9, 2008 | 10 comments

921.

Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt (nytimes.com)

12 points by crocus on Jul 20, 2008 | 9 comments

922.

Apple's next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood (appleinsider.com)

12 points by nickb on Jul 28, 2008 | 9 comments

923.

FFmpeg on Mac OS X How-to (stephenjungels.com)

12 points by garret on Jul 29, 2008 | 9 comments

924.

The difference between a developer and a programmer. (metaphorcrash.blogspot.com)

12 points by edw519 on Jul 1, 2008 | 8 comments

925.

LiquidID: OpenID + Email Aliasing = Less Spam, Safer Logins (readwriteweb.com)

12 points by terpua on Jul 16, 2008 | 7 comments

926.

Online articles lead to rapid scientific consensus, forgotten ideas (arstechnica.com)

12 points by asp742 on Jul 18, 2008 | 7 comments

927.

Pysimpledb - Python Simple Database Access (mikusa.com)

12 points by iamelgringo on Jul 28, 2008 | 7 comments

928.

UFO hacker loses appeal (thesun.co.uk)

12 points by gibsonf1 on Jul 30, 2008 | 7 comments

929.

How not to do customer retention (zagat.com)

12 points by pg on Jul 5, 2008 | 6 comments

930.

A Startup Entrepreneur's Philosophy (eisokant.com)

12 points by eisokant on Jul 20, 2008 | 6 comments