HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy) (nukemanbill.blogspot.com)

220 points by rob on Aug 1, 2008 | 42 comments

2.

Start a side project, says GitHub founder (gist.github.com)

210 points by aditya on Aug 20, 2008 | 40 comments

3.

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs (techcrunch.com)

156 points by danielrhodes on Aug 13, 2008 | 45 comments

4.

Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software (aaronsw.com)

148 points by mqt on Aug 22, 2008 | 48 comments

5.

A Fundraising Survival Guide (paulgraham.com)

145 points by mqt on Aug 8, 2008 | 94 comments

6.

The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides (www-tech.mit.edu)

144 points by pius on Aug 9, 2008 | 60 comments

7.

Javascript injection on HN (move mouse to the [Y] menu bar on this user page) (news.ycombinator.com)

140 points by brfox on Aug 21, 2008 | 34 comments

8.

Calvin and Jobs (comic) (farm4.static.flickr.com)

132 points by nickb on Aug 2, 2008 | 28 comments

9.

Series AA Documents Back Online (ycombinator.com)

130 points by pg on Aug 21, 2008 | 23 comments

10.

Business Requirements are Bullshit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

116 points by mqt on Aug 12, 2008 | 84 comments

11.

The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue) (sethgodin.typepad.com)

114 points by yangyang42 on Aug 10, 2008 | 37 comments

12.

For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time (online.wsj.com)

113 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 13, 2008 | 139 comments

13.

What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey (academicbiz.typepad.com)

110 points by markbao on Aug 8, 2008 | 64 comments

14.

Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece (msnbc.msn.com)

110 points by nickb on Aug 23, 2008 | 18 comments

15.

The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google? (slate.com)

103 points by gabrielroth on Aug 14, 2008 | 55 comments

16.

Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things... (twitter.com)

97 points by gaika on Aug 8, 2008 | 60 comments

17.

Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits? (lispy.wordpress.com)

95 points by raganwald on Aug 25, 2008 | 67 comments

18.

One Inviolable Rule (mattmaroon.com)

94 points by marketer on Aug 27, 2008 | 105 comments

19.

Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows (shoooes.net)

91 points by alex_c on Aug 14, 2008 | 22 comments

20.

JParallax - Javascript parallax effect (webdev.stephband.info)

91 points by dhotson on Aug 28, 2008 | 20 comments

21.

Part-time apps developers getting rich (9to5mac.com)

90 points by asp742 on Aug 1, 2008 | 50 comments

22.

The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC (mattmazur.com)

90 points by matt1 on Aug 8, 2008 | 50 comments

23.

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage (amazon.com)

90 points by tortilla on Aug 21, 2008 | 34 comments

24.

Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube. (voltagecreative.com)

89 points by wmeredith on Aug 20, 2008 | 31 comments

25.

Hacking the Nobel Prize Medals

85 points by sanj on Aug 30, 2008 | 24 comments

26.

Last.fm Blog: Quality Control (blog.last.fm)

85 points by alex_c on Aug 1, 2008 | 18 comments

27.

Reddit vs Hacker News traffic (xach.com)

84 points by zachbeane on Aug 3, 2008 | 20 comments

28.

The Trolls Among Us (nytimes.com)

83 points by Alex3917 on Aug 1, 2008 | 98 comments

29.

Fuck the VCs (taptaptap.com)

83 points by tortilla on Aug 27, 2008 | 57 comments

30.

Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument (wired.com)

83 points by smanek on Aug 21, 2008 | 37 comments