HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups (fogcreek.com)

93 points by mhp on Oct 23, 2008 | 48 comments

32.

Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning ()

93 points by chinup on Oct 30, 2008 | 45 comments

33.

How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets (economist.com)

93 points by dangoldin on Oct 31, 2008 | 32 comments

34.

Review my startup - Plura Processing: Web Traffic = Grid Computer (pluraprocessing.com)

91 points by westside1506 on Oct 29, 2008 | 57 comments

35.

Man hand-builds Lamborghini Countach, from scratch, in his own basement (carscoop.blogspot.com)

89 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2008 | 42 comments

36.

Story of Phil Katz (PKZip) (www2.jsonline.com)

89 points by axod on Oct 3, 2008 | 29 comments

37.

Ask YC: How to survive grad school? ()

86 points by grad_student_ on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments

38.

Horrible (randsinrepose.com)

86 points by llimllib on Oct 6, 2008 | 16 comments

39.

Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08) (techcrunch.com)

84 points by dcurtis on Oct 24, 2008 | 13 comments

40.

Obama to eliminate all cap gains taxes for VCs and entrepreneurs

82 points by Alex3917 on Oct 10, 2008 | 91 comments

41.

Elastic Tab Stops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (nickgravgaard.com)

82 points by mojombo on Oct 15, 2008 | 40 comments

42.

Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant (sidsavara.com)

81 points by sidsavara on Oct 1, 2008 | 52 comments

43.

A new approach to the sign up form (huffduffer.com)

81 points by madmotive on Oct 30, 2008 | 46 comments

44.

How Steve Jobs pitches a startup (venturehacks.com)

81 points by paulsb on Oct 20, 2008 | 16 comments

45.

New Ubuntu is out (ubuntu.com)

80 points by bandris on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments

46.

YC got a record number of applications this cycle ()

79 points by pg on Oct 18, 2008 | 60 comments

47.

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom (techcrunch.com)

79 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 10, 2008 | 36 comments

48.

Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football (nytimes.com)

79 points by theoneill on Oct 18, 2008 | 27 comments

49.

Be careful of who you work for (sethgodin.typepad.com)

76 points by bdfh42 on Oct 24, 2008 | 43 comments

50.

Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea?

75 points by bretthoerner on Oct 22, 2008 | 90 comments

51.

India successfully launches first mission to the Moon (news.bbc.co.uk)

75 points by henning on Oct 22, 2008 | 64 comments

52.

Do I Look Like a CEO? (businessweek.com)

75 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 17, 2008 | 27 comments

53.

John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983) (fourmilab.ch)

75 points by bigmac on Oct 31, 2008 | 17 comments

54.

What's your story? Why start Balsamiq? (balsamiq.com)

75 points by aditya on Oct 14, 2008 | 16 comments

55.

CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport. (nb.io)

75 points by tzury on Oct 23, 2008 | 12 comments

56.

How to make money with free software... (pythonide.blogspot.com)

75 points by prakash on Oct 30, 2008 | 12 comments

57.

Python extension for Firefox (pyxpcomext.mozdev.org)

74 points by ii on Oct 13, 2008 | 14 comments

58.

Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the year 2000 should not be a leap year. (www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)

73 points by bdfh42 on Oct 29, 2008 | 19 comments

59.

Apple responds to "I'm a PC" (movies.apple.com)

72 points by andygeers on Oct 20, 2008 | 162 comments

60.

Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users (arvindn.livejournal.com)

72 points by randomwalker on Oct 4, 2008 | 24 comments