HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Dream to Reality: How I Quit My Day Job (thinksimplenow.com)

12 points by terpua on Aug 21, 2008 | 11 comments

812.

Handling Human Error in the Datacenter (spiteful.com)

12 points by slackerIII on Aug 11, 2008 | 10 comments

813.

What not to do as a technical recruiter (baglady.dreamhosters.com)

12 points by xynny on Aug 12, 2008 | 10 comments

814.

Michael Phelps, the billion dollar man? (reuters.com)

12 points by pavel on Aug 14, 2008 | 10 comments

815.

They sold the startup, then bought it back.. (footytips.com.au) (smallbusiness.theage.com.au)

12 points by whatusername on Aug 22, 2008 | 10 comments

816.

Startups: How to Compete Against the Big Boys for Qualified Job Candidates (hrworld.com)

12 points by psogle on Aug 26, 2008 | 10 comments

817.

Ronco Spray-On Usability (2004) (daringfireball.net)

12 points by ksvs on Aug 7, 2008 | 9 comments

818.

Ryanair blocks bookings made through screenscraping. (news.bbc.co.uk)

12 points by babul on Aug 8, 2008 | 9 comments

819.

Microsoft worried over .NET fragmentation (sdtimes.com)

12 points by bdfh42 on Aug 11, 2008 | 9 comments

820.

How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov (slate.com)

12 points by robg on Aug 16, 2008 | 9 comments

821.

15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times (webjackalope.com)

12 points by bazookaaa on Aug 18, 2008 | 8 comments

822.

How we learned to cheat at online poker: a story of software security (cigital.com)

12 points by henning on Aug 27, 2008 | 8 comments

823.

Aging, Evolution and the "developmental drift" (dailygalaxy.com)

12 points by mariorz on Aug 14, 2008 | 7 comments

824.

Destroying happiness (sethgodin.typepad.com)

12 points by nreece on Aug 20, 2008 | 7 comments

825.

Interval sequences in Common Lisp (ahefner.livejournal.com)

12 points by nickb on Aug 20, 2008 | 5 comments

826.

Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite (sciencedaily.com)

12 points by gasull on Aug 24, 2008 | 5 comments

827.

Interactive graphic of 10k music lyrics for body parts across genres (fleshmap.com)

12 points by robg on Aug 27, 2008 | 5 comments

828.

Orwell diaries (orwelldiaries.wordpress.com)

12 points by d0mine on Aug 9, 2008 | 4 comments

829.

RIAA foiled by "innocent infringement" defense (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)

12 points by echair on Aug 10, 2008 | 4 comments

830.

Hilarious web 2.0 spoof pitch. User-Generated Sandwiches: Breadless.com (kadavy.net)

12 points by kadavy on Aug 18, 2008 | 4 comments

831.

Python Universal GUI (tkinter, wxwidgets, winforms with shoes-like syntax) (wiki.alcidesfonseca.com)

12 points by Alcides on Aug 22, 2008 | 4 comments

832.

23andMe for Free: The Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative (thinkgene.com)

12 points by motoko on Aug 26, 2008 | 4 comments

833.

Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader (catonmat.net)

12 points by ajbatac on Aug 29, 2008 | 4 comments

834.

Twitter will kick themselves for missing this (scripting.com)

12 points by bootload on Aug 4, 2008 | 3 comments

835.

So you're a startup news junkie? Startuply Social Newswire with Slinkset (news.startuply.com)

12 points by LukeG on Aug 9, 2008 | 3 comments

836.

CAPTCHAs work—for digitizing old, damaged texts, manuscripts (arstechnica.com)

12 points by nickb on Aug 14, 2008 | 3 comments

837.

Startup Fundraising According to Paul Graham (instigatorblog.com)

12 points by moses1400 on Aug 18, 2008 | 3 comments

838.

Google launches white space offensive with new web site (arstechnica.com)

12 points by jonnytran on Aug 19, 2008 | 3 comments

839.

Lessons from a Startup Acquisition (gigaom.com)

12 points by profgubler on Aug 24, 2008 | 3 comments

840.

F.C.C. Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage (nytimes.com)

12 points by robg on Aug 2, 2008 | 2 comments