HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6781.

Why your brain just can't remember that word (btw bilingualism makes it harder) (newscientist.com)

37 points by amichail on Jun 9, 2009 | 26 comments

6782.

Is P=NP an Ill Posed Problem? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

37 points by michael_nielsen on Jul 3, 2009 | 26 comments

6783.

Bad Design in Star Wars (blogs.amctv.com)

37 points by fogus on Aug 20, 2009 | 26 comments

6784.

Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk (canol.wordpress.com)

37 points by fogus on Oct 5, 2009 | 26 comments

6785.

Oscar best picture changed from single vote to full preferential ranking (carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com)

37 points by huangm on Dec 20, 2009 | 26 comments

6786.

Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It (readwriteweb.com)

37 points by Anon84 on May 19, 2009 | 25 comments

6787.

Ten Things Twitter is Not (seldo.com)

37 points by seldo on May 6, 2009 | 25 comments

6788.

EFF: Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay (eff.org)

37 points by uriel on Jul 1, 2009 | 25 comments

6789.

Laptop security while crossing borders (schneier.com)

37 points by mbrubeck on Jul 15, 2009 | 25 comments

6790.

De Beers profits fall 92% (ft.com)

37 points by stuffthatmatter on Jul 24, 2009 | 25 comments

6791.

General Motors declares bankruptcy (guardian.co.uk)

37 points by ksvs on Jun 1, 2009 | 24 comments

6792.

Why New Yorkers Last Longer (nymag.com)

37 points by robg on Jul 14, 2009 | 24 comments

6793.

Goldman's 42 $100MM+ Trading Days In Q2 (just 2 days of trading losses) (zerohedge.com)

37 points by tortilla on Aug 5, 2009 | 24 comments

6794.

Ask HN: Asking for a raise

37 points by timmaah on Aug 27, 2009 | 24 comments

6795.

Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter (techradar.com)

37 points by mun411 on Dec 3, 2009 | 24 comments

6796.

New Amazon EC2 competitor - SoftLayer launches CloudLayer (softlayer.com)

37 points by sadiq on May 6, 2009 | 23 comments

6797.

Linus - I'm a bastard Speech (2000) (lwn.net)

37 points by vinutheraj on Sep 14, 2009 | 23 comments

6798.

Need icons for filetypes? Hotlink from stdicon.com (blogrium.wordpress.com)

37 points by progrium on Dec 13, 2009 | 23 comments

6799.

Ask HN: Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? ()

37 points by alrex021 on May 21, 2009 | 22 comments

6800.

Weak U.S. 5-year debt auction raises worries (reuters.com)

37 points by stuffthatmatter on Jul 29, 2009 | 22 comments

6801.

Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big data munging language (anyall.org)

37 points by blasdel on Sep 10, 2009 | 22 comments

6802.

Remember the strop (37signals.com)

37 points by twampss on Feb 2, 2009 | 21 comments

6803.

Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun (groklaw.net)

37 points by sadiq on Jun 20, 2009 | 21 comments

6804.

What do we need to get on Ruby 1.9? (yehudakatz.com)

37 points by _pius on Jul 18, 2009 | 21 comments

6805.

If you hate all of the unoriginal design blogs, this post is for you (briancray.com)

37 points by briancray on Aug 12, 2009 | 21 comments

6806.

John Carmack interview on bringing Quake Live to browsers (multiplayerblog.mtv.com)

37 points by ilamont on Feb 26, 2009 | 20 comments

6807.

Tell HN: Starting afresh ()

37 points by zeedotme on Jun 2, 2009 | 20 comments

6808.

Ikea Catalog's Move to the Verdana Font Angers Fans of Futura (nytimes.com)

37 points by ojbyrne on Sep 6, 2009 | 20 comments

6809.

Fast inverse square root (en.wikipedia.org)

37 points by r11t on Oct 22, 2009 | 20 comments

6810.

Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today (joeydevilla.com)

37 points by r11t on Jan 1, 2009 | 19 comments