HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Why Adwords Won’t Work For Social Networks (mattmaroon.com)

9 points by twampss on May 28, 2009 | 0 comments

1982.

Long-distance brain waves focus attention (web.mit.edu)

9 points by robg on May 30, 2009 | 0 comments

1983.

The CEO of Cocaine, Inc. (men.style.com)

9 points by Ennis on May 3, 2009 | -1 comments

1984.

Richard Dawkins' rage of reason (cosmosmagazine.com)

8 points by rglovejoy on May 15, 2009 | 36 comments

1985.

In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth (nytimes.com)

8 points by robg on May 19, 2009 | 32 comments

1986.

H1B restrictions would choke US of talent (hindustantimes.com)

8 points by nreece on May 30, 2009 | 30 comments

1987.

Ask HN: C vs C++

8 points by rumpelstiltskin on May 26, 2009 | 22 comments

1988.

The Great Skills Mismatch: Wall Street Quants Thumb Their Nose at Tech Startups (businessweek.com)

8 points by peter123 on May 6, 2009 | 19 comments

1989.

Ask HN: help needed on VM placement algorithm

8 points by kuvkir on May 12, 2009 | 19 comments

1990.

Free To Use. Pay To Play. (techcrunch.com)

8 points by vaksel on May 24, 2009 | 16 comments

1991.

ChunkHost offering free xen vps for beta testers (chunkhost.com)

8 points by chunkhost on May 6, 2009 | 16 comments

1992.

Ask HN: How does free compete with paid? ()

8 points by ecaron on May 14, 2009 | 16 comments

1993.

Girls dominate Canada science fair; boys don't show up (theglobeandmail.com)

8 points by sethg on May 15, 2009 | 14 comments

1994.

Ok HN, You Were Right. Unpaid Internships Are Wrong ()

8 points by physcab on May 29, 2009 | 14 comments

1995.

Does the Universe Have a Purpose? (templeton.org)

8 points by frisco on May 2, 2009 | 13 comments

1996.

Why is Microsoft helping OS X by encouraging people to buy game consoles? ()

8 points by amichail on May 3, 2009 | 13 comments

1997.

Wolfram Alpha will fail for the same reason that Microsoft failed at search. ()

8 points by amichail on May 17, 2009 | 13 comments

1998.

Ask HN: Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News? ()

8 points by amichail on May 23, 2009 | 13 comments

1999.

If I could ask only one job interview question (asserttrue.blogspot.com)

8 points by techdog on May 3, 2009 | 12 comments

2000.

Ask HN: Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? ()

8 points by bemmu on May 8, 2009 | 12 comments

2001.

Ask HN: mass-manufacture plastic

8 points by dobloon on May 26, 2009 | 12 comments

2002.

Ask HN: A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? ()

8 points by starnix17 on May 10, 2009 | 11 comments

2003.

Ask HN: Should I create an API for iTunes apps? ()

8 points by MichaelApproved on May 13, 2009 | 11 comments

2004.

Remind HN: New York City HN Meetup today at 6pm (free beers) ()

8 points by shafqat on May 6, 2009 | 9 comments

2005.

Steve Jobs allowed to tear down his home (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com)

8 points by brk on May 14, 2009 | 9 comments

2006.

Ask HN: The Hacker News effect ()

8 points by piers on May 9, 2009 | 8 comments

2007.

Subversion: LDAP integration using Apache (suryasuravarapu.com)

8 points by ssuravarapu on May 13, 2009 | 8 comments

2008.

Ask HN: IEEE membership. Is it worth it? ()

8 points by Jakob on May 20, 2009 | 7 comments

2009.

Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications (eon.businesswire.com)

8 points by abl on May 3, 2009 | 7 comments

2010.

How Microsoft BizSpark Is Doing With Startups, and How It Can Do Better (xconomy.com)

8 points by gthuang on May 11, 2009 | 7 comments