HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2581.

Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion (business.timesonline.co.uk)

34 points by nickb on Nov 30, 2008 | 13 comments

2582.

Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own (aliciapatterson.org)

34 points by petercooper on Dec 13, 2008 | 13 comments

2583.

Scheme in Commercial Web Application Development [PDF] (untyped.com)

34 points by dt on Jan 28, 2008 | 12 comments

2584.

Widescreen Monitors Can Save Companies $8,600 Per Employee, Per Year (cio.com)

34 points by AZA43 on Mar 11, 2008 | 12 comments

2585.

Bellkor breaks 9% improvement in the Netflix Challenge (as of 4/1) (netflixprize.com)

34 points by dkasper on Apr 7, 2008 | 12 comments

2586.

Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards" (arstechnica.com)

34 points by joshwa on Aug 5, 2008 | 12 comments

2587.

You keep using that word “distributed”… (avdi.org)

34 points by Harkins on Oct 8, 2008 | 12 comments

2588.

Posterous launches easy post tagging via email (blog.posterous.com)

34 points by a4agarwal on Oct 22, 2008 | 12 comments

2589.

How To Learn Lisp (pchristensen.com)

34 points by muriithi on Mar 4, 2008 | 11 comments

2590.

Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking a Decision (online.wsj.com)

34 points by cmcginnis on Jun 28, 2008 | 11 comments

2591.

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top (dumblittleman.com)

34 points by Mystalic on Jul 8, 2008 | 11 comments

2592.

Why are mouse sensors in the middle of the mouse? (jonathanhedley.com)

34 points by nickb on Jul 19, 2008 | 11 comments

2593.

Real-time tracking of human eyes using a webcam (codeproject.com)

34 points by soundsop on Aug 27, 2008 | 11 comments

2594.

The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity (schneier.com)

34 points by tomh on Sep 18, 2008 | 11 comments

2595.

Don't Copy a Design — Steal It (usabilitypost.com)

34 points by puns on Aug 21, 2008 | 10 comments

2596.

Gogle - Google Search (check the Google logo at the end of the page) (google.com)

34 points by gasull on Sep 5, 2008 | 10 comments

2597.

Eight Myths of Erlang Performance (erlang.org)

34 points by qhoxie on Oct 9, 2008 | 10 comments

2598.

Ask YC: What are the best ways to market bootstrapped apps? ()

34 points by pjharrin on Nov 2, 2008 | 10 comments

2599.

Google’s Operating System Arrives - But Not From Google (sitepoint.com)

34 points by astrec on Dec 1, 2008 | 10 comments

2600.

A Plan for Scams: A proposal to put 419 scammers out of business for good (dfranke.us)

34 points by dfranke on Apr 1, 2008 | 9 comments

2601.

Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com)

34 points by Bluem00 on Apr 7, 2008 | 9 comments

2602.

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (www1.idc.ac.il)

34 points by olavk on May 31, 2008 | 9 comments

2603.

The Pirates Can't Be Stopped (portfolio.com)

34 points by raganwald on Jul 31, 2008 | 9 comments

2604.

Jack Thompson Disbarred (kotaku.com)

34 points by noodle on Sep 25, 2008 | 9 comments

2605.

Some Unix Tricks (blog.transmit.net)

34 points by kirubakaran on Oct 10, 2008 | 9 comments

2606.

The Rails Myths (loudthinking.com)

34 points by ashleytowers on Nov 13, 2008 | 9 comments

2607.

Arc Lisp to C compiler (github.com)

34 points by bootload on Apr 4, 2008 | 8 comments

2608.

End of the Blog (williampatry.blogspot.com)

34 points by nickb on Aug 3, 2008 | 8 comments

2609.

Rush is a replacement for the Unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax (rush.heroku.com)

34 points by pius on Feb 22, 2008 | 7 comments

2610.

Mod_js: Server-side JavaScript (modjs.org)

34 points by mcxx on Apr 17, 2008 | 7 comments