HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

The insanity of defense spending, and a lesson about policy illiteracy (giantrobotlasers.com)

14 points by ivankirigin on Aug 4, 2009 | 8 comments

1772.

How Spellcheckers Work (pcplus.co.uk)

14 points by pj on Aug 6, 2009 | 8 comments

1773.

Responses from The Oil Drum to Michael Lynch's NYT essay on Peak Oil (theoildrum.com)

14 points by RyanMcGreal on Aug 25, 2009 | 8 comments

1774.

Are Algorithms the Magic Bullet? (calebelston.com)

14 points by Tygerdave on Aug 31, 2009 | 8 comments

1775.

Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

14 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2009 | 7 comments

1776.

A Soldier’s Eye in the Sky (nytimes.com)

14 points by robg on Aug 12, 2009 | 7 comments

1777.

Tell HN: Read the FAQ before submitting ()

14 points by makecheck on Aug 14, 2009 | 7 comments

1778.

Astronaut Koichi Wakata didn't change underwear for a month (timesonline.co.uk)

14 points by emontero1 on Aug 1, 2009 | 6 comments

1779.

In Search of Moon Trees (science.nasa.gov)

14 points by gnosis on Aug 18, 2009 | 6 comments

1780.

DARPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): Topics (acq.osd.mil)

14 points by phugoid on Aug 6, 2009 | 6 comments

1781.

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History (nytimes.com)

14 points by newacc on Aug 9, 2009 | 6 comments

1782.

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? (readwriteweb.com)

14 points by edw519 on Aug 12, 2009 | 6 comments

1783.

Python 3to2: Go check it out. (jessenoller.com)

14 points by blasdel on Aug 28, 2009 | 6 comments

1784.

Taobao.com Online Market Flourishes in China (nytimes.com)

14 points by mjfern on Aug 10, 2009 | 5 comments

1785.

The Weinstein brothers are flailing. Why? Lack of focus. (nytimes.com)

14 points by adamhowell on Aug 16, 2009 | 4 comments

1786.

IPhone 3D Texture Mapped City: Paris [video] (digitalurban.blogspot.com)

14 points by kirubakaran on Aug 7, 2009 | 4 comments

1787.

Facebook Flips The Switch On Real-Time Search, Goes After Twitter Where It Hurts (techcrunch.com)

14 points by vaksel on Aug 10, 2009 | 4 comments

1788.

How iPhone's GPU works (or why it sucks)? [large video] (media.assembly.org)

14 points by dirtyaura on Aug 11, 2009 | 4 comments

1789.

Apple finally enters the world’s biggest mobile market: China (mobilecrunch.com)

14 points by peter123 on Aug 27, 2009 | 4 comments

1790.

What Google Engineers Are Building in Seattle (xconomy.com)

14 points by gthuang on Aug 28, 2009 | 4 comments

1791.

AWS Managment Console Now Has Amazon CloudWatch Support (And Pretty Graphs) (aws.typepad.com)

14 points by jeffbarr on Aug 31, 2009 | 4 comments

1792.

NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Quantum Computers (nist.gov)

14 points by ca98am79 on Aug 9, 2009 | 3 comments

1793.

VC-backed company valuations continue to fall in Silicon Valley (fenwick.com)

14 points by cwan on Aug 11, 2009 | 3 comments

1794.

This September, OLED no longer "three to five years away" (arstechnica.com)

14 points by blasdel on Aug 14, 2009 | 3 comments

1795.

Under No Circumstances Should You Not Solve A Real Problem (thefailingpoint.com)

14 points by tommy_mcclung on Aug 27, 2009 | 3 comments

1796.

Google Analytics Blog: An API Integration To Measure Significant Change (analytics.blogspot.com)

14 points by avibryant on Aug 28, 2009 | 3 comments

1797.

DNA computer 'answers questions' (news.bbc.co.uk)

14 points by edw519 on Aug 6, 2009 | 2 comments

1798.

VMware Buys SpringSource for $362 million (sdtimes.com)

14 points by VonGuard on Aug 10, 2009 | 2 comments

1799.

EngineYard announces the winners of their programming contest (engineyard.com)

14 points by profquail on Aug 12, 2009 | 2 comments

1800.

Malware Turns Software Compilers into Virus Breeders (wired.com)

14 points by edw519 on Aug 22, 2009 | 2 comments