HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1711.

Feds to take over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (sfgate.com)

42 points by furiouslol on Sep 6, 2008 | 46 comments

1712.

Ask YC: Do unpopular languages affect acquisition? ()

42 points by bobj on Apr 10, 2008 | 45 comments

1713.

Where are they? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing. (technologyreview.com)

42 points by as on Apr 28, 2008 | 43 comments

1714.

Ask YC: Where to learn web design? ()

42 points by alextp on Jun 25, 2008 | 39 comments

1715.

Smart-people traps (tinygigantic.com)

42 points by senthil_rajasek on Aug 1, 2008 | 38 comments

1716.

What is the minimum budget to promote a site? ()

42 points by Fuca on May 10, 2008 | 36 comments

1717.

Pressflip Founder Quits: “I’m Tired Of The Fight” (techcrunch.com)

42 points by qhoxie on Oct 18, 2008 | 36 comments

1718.

Ask HN: Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? ()

42 points by zacharye on Jul 18, 2008 | 34 comments

1719.

Zed follows up on the search for Matt (zedshaw.com)

42 points by astrec on Oct 31, 2008 | 33 comments

1720.

A Programmer's Dilemma (softwareindustrialization.com)

42 points by gaius on Dec 5, 2008 | 32 comments

1721.

Dead man's switch via email (deadmansswitch.net)

42 points by shard on Sep 17, 2008 | 31 comments

1722.

Dean Kamen (Segway Inventor) Solves the World's Water Problems (blog.wired.com)

42 points by prakash on Apr 15, 2008 | 30 comments

1723.

Scribd is now the largest Rails site on the Internet (using Alexa rankings) (rails100.pbwiki.com)

42 points by michelson01 on Apr 17, 2008 | 30 comments

1724.

The second browser war (economist.com)

42 points by prakash on Sep 4, 2008 | 30 comments

1725.

Massive S3 outage (developer.amazonwebservices.com)

42 points by ptm on Feb 15, 2008 | 29 comments

1726.

Rhinos and Tigers (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

42 points by mqt on Jun 15, 2008 | 29 comments

1727.

Iran missile launch pictures Photshopped (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)

42 points by mhb on Jul 10, 2008 | 29 comments

1728.

Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown (techcrunch.com)

42 points by nickb on Oct 10, 2008 | 29 comments

1729.

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations (newscientist.com)

42 points by bd on Nov 21, 2008 | 27 comments

1730.

The curse of the upvote (unalone.net)

42 points by unalone on Aug 5, 2008 | 26 comments

1731.

Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

42 points by nreece on Aug 19, 2008 | 26 comments

1732.

Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month" (masshightech.com)

42 points by ksvs on Nov 14, 2008 | 26 comments

1733.

K as a Prototyping Language (cs.nyu.edu)

42 points by cubix on Aug 4, 2008 | 25 comments

1734.

They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know (nytimes.com)

42 points by prakash on Mar 9, 2008 | 24 comments

1735.

The Death of Many (If Not Most) Software Patents? (patentlyo.com)

42 points by chrisv on Jul 22, 2008 | 24 comments

1736.

Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real (techcrunch.com)

42 points by jasonlbaptiste on Jul 31, 2008 | 24 comments

1737.

Drop IE6 Support — Give People a Reason to Upgrade (usabilitypost.com)

42 points by ajbatac on Sep 5, 2008 | 24 comments

1738.

If you applied to startup school, please put the same email in your profile ()

42 points by pg on Mar 14, 2008 | 23 comments

1739.

Good News for People who Hate Bad News (calacanis.com)

42 points by qhoxie on Oct 28, 2008 | 23 comments

1740.

The $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme (business.timesonline.co.uk)

42 points by DanielBMarkham on Dec 13, 2008 | 23 comments