HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880) (fourmilab.ch)

227 points by eru on Sep 20, 2008 | 56 comments

2.

Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

221 points by prakash on Sep 22, 2008 | 0 comments

3.

Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? (duckduckgo.com)

186 points by epi0Bauqu on Sep 25, 2008 | 138 comments

4.

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project (blogoscoped.com)

173 points by nickb on Sep 1, 2008 | 108 comments

5.

I'm out, baby

164 points by palish on Sep 11, 2008 | 99 comments

6.

The Google Chrome download link is live. (google.com)

153 points by ptm on Sep 2, 2008 | 177 comments

7.

Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) (blog.getdropbox.com)

144 points by dhouston on Sep 11, 2008 | 80 comments

8.

Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

140 points by scumola on Sep 9, 2008 | 120 comments

9.

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer (cnn.com)

139 points by gibsonf1 on Sep 30, 2008 | 84 comments

10.

Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week (sidsavara.com)

135 points by colinplamondon on Sep 23, 2008 | 73 comments

11.

Django 1.0 is finally here (code.djangoproject.com)

132 points by zain on Sep 3, 2008 | 20 comments

12.

$700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets (msnbc.msn.com)

130 points by kirse on Sep 29, 2008 | 189 comments

13.

A guy tries to find the origins of a Windows desktop image (vanityfair.com)

129 points by marketer on Sep 1, 2008 | 15 comments

14.

How My Start-Up Failed (stanfordalumni.org)

128 points by parenthesis on Sep 14, 2008 | 61 comments

15.

Obama is RESTful (idolhands.com)

127 points by bradgessler on Sep 8, 2008 | 48 comments

16.

The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car) (detailingworld.co.uk)

127 points by daniel-cussen on Sep 5, 2008 | 37 comments

17.

App Store: I'm out (speirs.org)

123 points by joshstaiger on Sep 13, 2008 | 78 comments

18.

Making money twice (37signals.com)

120 points by brm on Sep 23, 2008 | 36 comments

19.

How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town (gourmet.com)

117 points by antiform on Sep 29, 2008 | 41 comments

20.

10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill. (tenthousandcents.com)

115 points by shafqat on Sep 24, 2008 | 48 comments

21.

The best description of the fed bailout (angrybear.blogspot.com)

114 points by myth_drannon on Sep 23, 2008 | 24 comments

22.

Lehman going bankrupt. Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)

110 points by furiouslol on Sep 14, 2008 | 85 comments

23.

"Why I Hate Django" - DjangoCon 2008 Keynote by Cal Henderson [vid] (uk.youtube.com)

107 points by danw on Sep 16, 2008 | 24 comments

24.

How To Become An Open-Source Contractor (emiller.info)

103 points by antiform on Sep 30, 2008 | 15 comments

25.

Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk (iamelgringo.blogspot.com)

102 points by rms on Sep 9, 2008 | 39 comments

26.

Jason Fried - 10 Things We've Learned at 37Signals (krisjordan.com)

102 points by KrisJordan on Sep 17, 2008 | 28 comments

27.

Cloud computing is a trap, says Stallman (guardian.co.uk)

99 points by razorburn on Sep 29, 2008 | 70 comments

28.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? (hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com)