HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6001.

Why AI is a dangerous dream - interview with Noel Sharkey (newscientist.com)

40 points by limist on Sep 4, 2009 | 77 comments

6002.

Ask HN: What industry needs technical innovation?

40 points by nategraves on Oct 20, 2009 | 74 comments

6003.

Study: Old Age Begins at 27 (telegraph.co.uk)

40 points by DanielBMarkham on Mar 15, 2009 | 72 comments

6004.

Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths? (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

40 points by cwan on Aug 28, 2009 | 71 comments

6005.

Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your websites? ()

40 points by techiferous on Nov 1, 2009 | 71 comments

6006.

The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails (business.theatlantic.com)

40 points by Perceval on Nov 25, 2009 | 69 comments

6007.

On being an AI in a box (rondam.blogspot.com)

40 points by lisper on Dec 7, 2009 | 62 comments

6008.

Ask HN: Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com (venmo.com)

40 points by keltecp11 on Nov 18, 2009 | 60 comments

6009.

Break into my email: get $10,000. Here is my username and password. (strongwebmail.com)

40 points by zeedotme on Jun 2, 2009 | 59 comments

6010.

Ask HN: Haiku?

40 points by PebblesRox on Aug 23, 2009 | 58 comments

6011.

Ask HN: What are your goals for your startups in 2010?

40 points by vaksel on Dec 24, 2009 | 58 comments

6012.

Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News? (nytimes.com)

40 points by robg on Jan 12, 2009 | 54 comments

6013.

The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook. (slate.com)

40 points by robg on Jan 30, 2009 | 53 comments

6014.

Student Arrested for Jailbreaking Game Consoles (wired.com)

40 points by MicahWedemeyer on Aug 4, 2009 | 53 comments

6015.

Personal Cell Phone Jammer, $27.41 (dealextreme.com)

40 points by frisco on Aug 18, 2009 | 52 comments

6016.

Ask HN: How to deal with SYN FLOOD and extortion

40 points by xal on Mar 24, 2009 | 50 comments

6017.

New IE8 marketing materials (microsoft.com)

40 points by noodle on Jun 18, 2009 | 50 comments

6018.

Write? Write. Sleep? Sleep. Read? Read. Don't fight it. (sivers.org)

40 points by lucumo on Sep 17, 2009 | 50 comments

6019.

HN top-100 sorted by karma per day (spreadsheets.google.com)

40 points by matthodan on Oct 4, 2009 | 50 comments

6020.

Poll: How much do you bill per hour?

40 points by quellhorst on Apr 9, 2009 | 47 comments

6021.

20+ hour outage due to EC2/EBS on BitBucket (bitbucket.org)

40 points by zx on Oct 3, 2009 | 47 comments

6022.

Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product (seekingalpha.com)

40 points by Flemlord on Jul 26, 2009 | 45 comments

6023.

ASK HN: I'm lost -- need direction

40 points by selfemploy on Oct 11, 2009 | 44 comments

6024.

The Real AIG Scandal (thebigmoney.com)

40 points by dpapathanasiou on Mar 17, 2009 | 43 comments

6025.

Switched from Subversion to Git (concise-software.blogspot.com)

40 points by stuff4ben on Aug 16, 2009 | 43 comments

6026.

Ask YC: Favorite blogs?

40 points by unalone on Jan 30, 2009 | 40 comments

6027.

Ask HN: project ideas for a noob

40 points by kunqiana on May 9, 2009 | 40 comments

6028.

Ask HN: Review my project: SitesInCommon (alpha.sitesincommon.com)

40 points by natrius on Jun 5, 2009 | 40 comments

6029.

Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net ()

40 points by matclayton on Aug 20, 2009 | 40 comments

6030.

Useful command-line scripts for web developers (or anyone else really) (blog.emson.co.uk)

40 points by emson on Jun 5, 2009 | 39 comments