HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5611.

Freakonomics: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

42 points by cwan on Oct 6, 2009 | 50 comments

5612.

The future of Lisp... (12monkeys.co.uk)

42 points by hassy on Jan 21, 2009 | 47 comments

5613.

Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination (techcrunch.com)

42 points by blackswan on Apr 5, 2009 | 47 comments

5614.

Mistakes we made when naming our computers (lbrandy.com)

42 points by sdfx on Sep 21, 2009 | 46 comments

5615.

The Big Zero (nytimes.com)

42 points by hack_edu on Dec 29, 2009 | 46 comments

5616.

“So...what do you do?" (liveandcode.com)

42 points by edw519 on Sep 3, 2009 | 45 comments

5617.

Ask HN: Why can't I delete my own posts? ()

42 points by onreact-com on Sep 18, 2009 | 43 comments

5618.

Eric Raymond: The sound of empire falling (esr.ibiblio.org)

42 points by ii on Jan 30, 2009 | 42 comments

5619.

The Revolution Will Be Twittered (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)

42 points by jcsalterego on Jun 14, 2009 | 41 comments

5620.

When anonymous attackers went after two Yale law students, they struck back (portfolio.com)

42 points by linhir on Feb 18, 2009 | 39 comments

5621.

Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world (siliconflorist.com)

42 points by markbao on Jul 30, 2009 | 39 comments

5622.

Gruber: Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7 (daringfireball.net)

42 points by harpastum on Oct 15, 2009 | 39 comments

5623.

Mac OS Evolution: From System 1.0 to Snow Leopard (blogof.francescomugnai.com)

42 points by anderzole on Dec 19, 2009 | 39 comments

5624.

Ask HN: Please review our placemarking site - Amidst (amid.st)

42 points by wooster on Apr 14, 2009 | 38 comments

5625.

Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework (engadget.com)

42 points by pmikal on Jul 30, 2009 | 38 comments

5626.

Is 37 Signals Selling Behavioral Targeting Data? (news.ghostery.com)

42 points by dcancel on Sep 30, 2009 | 38 comments

5627.

You (and Joel Spolsky) are tone blind (blog.inklingmarkets.com)

42 points by nate on Nov 10, 2009 | 38 comments

5628.

Ask HN: anyone in SF need a kickass frontend developer?

42 points by geuis on Jan 23, 2009 | 37 comments

5629.

How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps (philip.greenspun.com)

42 points by old-gregg on Feb 3, 2009 | 37 comments

5630.

Apple in talks to buy Twitter for $700m (telegraph.co.uk)

42 points by wheels on May 5, 2009 | 37 comments

5631.

Scott Aaronson tears NKS apart [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)

42 points by pookleblinky on May 16, 2009 | 37 comments

5632.

Start and finish an app in one day (browseology.posterous.com)

42 points by kineticac on Jul 24, 2009 | 37 comments

5633.

RFPs Will Kill Us All (bigbangtechnology.com)

42 points by maxcameron on Oct 27, 2009 | 37 comments

5634.

Nook, Barnes & Noble eBook Reader Announced (barnesandnoble.com)

42 points by phsr on Oct 20, 2009 | 36 comments

5635.

Ask HN: What is your startup's backup policy? ()

42 points by vaksel on Jan 4, 2009 | 35 comments

5636.

Job description written in Ruby (jobs.37signals.com)

42 points by subbu on Sep 10, 2009 | 35 comments

5637.

Coding Horror: Monty Hall, Monty Fall, Monty Crawl (codinghorror.com)

42 points by Anon84 on Jun 22, 2009 | 34 comments

5638.

The Boss - First, $99. Then, Millions. (nytimes.com)

42 points by peter123 on Sep 12, 2009 | 34 comments

5639.

Speculation: Intel Will Buy nVIDIA (cringely.com)

42 points by profquail on Dec 8, 2009 | 34 comments

5640.

In tough times, cocaine dealers have to turn to cold-calling (economist.com)

42 points by cwan on Sep 1, 2009 | 32 comments