HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

Perl 5 Is Dying (use.perl.org)

39 points by zvikara on Dec 3, 2008 | 88 comments

1952.

Poll: How late do you stay up?

39 points by Raphael on Aug 21, 2008 | 68 comments

1953.

Ask YComb: Should I quit to do a startup during a recession?

39 points by eventhough on Jan 21, 2008 | 64 comments

1954.

When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition (news.cnet.com)

39 points by nickb on Jul 28, 2008 | 62 comments

1955.

Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" (roughtype.com)

39 points by bdfh42 on Oct 27, 2008 | 62 comments

1956.

Coding Without Comments (codinghorror.com)

39 points by ajbatac on Jul 25, 2008 | 57 comments

1957.

The Death of the Relational Database (whydoeseverythingsuck.com)

39 points by pius on Mar 26, 2008 | 56 comments

1958.

Laid-Off Tech Worker Kills 3 in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

39 points by Mistone on Nov 15, 2008 | 56 comments

1959.

Want to live a long life? Run (reuters.com)

39 points by pavel on Aug 12, 2008 | 54 comments

1960.

Strange Maps: Did you realize Africa is this big? (strangemaps.wordpress.com)

39 points by mattjaynes on Nov 17, 2008 | 51 comments

1961.

Why the lucky stiff Wikipedia entry page to be deleted (en.wikipedia.org)

39 points by raju on Jun 13, 2008 | 50 comments

1962.

Followup on ERP Thread: How I Plan To Do ERP

39 points by edw519 on Feb 13, 2008 | 49 comments

1963.

Does Gödel Matter? (slate.com)

39 points by mlLK on Dec 22, 2008 | 48 comments

1964.

We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here (codinghorror.com)

39 points by raganwald on Apr 10, 2008 | 47 comments

1965.

Why I hate Flash (haineault.com)

39 points by muriithi on Apr 15, 2008 | 43 comments

1966.

Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP (symworld.com)

39 points by aggieben on Aug 25, 2008 | 41 comments

1967.

Xobni launches 4 partnerships that will change Outlook forever (xobni.com)

39 points by brezina on Nov 19, 2008 | 40 comments

1968.

TBray Response: Sun Should Stop Sucking (kirkwylie.blogspot.com)

39 points by soundsop on Nov 26, 2008 | 37 comments

1969.

Bobby Fischer dead at 64 (cnn.com)

39 points by terpua on Jan 18, 2008 | 36 comments

1970.

Biographicon (YC Startup) Wants To Be Wikipedia For The Non-Notable Masses (techcrunch.com)

39 points by mqt on Mar 2, 2008 | 34 comments

1971.

Rails is 100% magic with 0% design (groups.google.com)

39 points by twism on Jan 21, 2008 | 33 comments

1972.

Our idea of success is all messed up (carsonified.com)

39 points by danw on Apr 28, 2008 | 33 comments

1973.

Dumb people don't know they are dumb. Is there a simple explanation for this? (overcomingbias.com)

39 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 17, 2008 | 32 comments

1974.

Ruby Isn't Fun Anymore (adam.blog.heroku.com)

39 points by qhoxie on Nov 20, 2008 | 32 comments

1975.

I quit (emadibrahim.com)

39 points by eibrahim on Mar 21, 2008 | 31 comments

1976.

Computer Random vs. True Random : See the difference in how random numbers are generated. (boallen.com)

39 points by e1ven on May 20, 2008 | 31 comments

1977.

Ask YC: Why the excitement over XMPP on the backend? ()

39 points by gstar on Jul 31, 2008 | 31 comments

1978.

Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever (readwriteweb.com)

39 points by qhoxie on Nov 4, 2008 | 30 comments

1979.

WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality (online.wsj.com)

39 points by ckinnan on Dec 15, 2008 | 30 comments

1980.

Show and Tell YC: Built a webapp in ~14 hours (tweetsnap.com)

39 points by aupajo on Jul 6, 2008 | 29 comments