HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8491.

Evolved virtual creatures (evolutionary programming, 1994) (archive.org)

31 points by derwiki on Oct 16, 2009 | 16 comments

8492.

New Skate-Sharpening Method Takes Hockey by Storm (nytimes.com)

31 points by ojbyrne on Nov 2, 2009 | 16 comments

8493.

Rate my startup: Socialmod - take the pain out of UGC moderation (socialmod.com)

31 points by maccman on May 27, 2009 | 15 comments

8494.

What Gladwell is Missing: Institutional Memory (billmill.org)

31 points by llimllib on May 31, 2009 | 15 comments

8495.

Threads, slow and buggy (and.org)

31 points by uriel on Jun 3, 2009 | 15 comments

8496.

No Need to Change It (thedailywtf.com)

31 points by edw519 on Aug 1, 2009 | 15 comments

8497.

Making physical music worth buying: CD case includes theremin-like instrument (gizmodo.com)

31 points by endtime on Aug 30, 2009 | 15 comments

8498.

How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers (pcpro.co.uk)

31 points by edw519 on Sep 5, 2009 | 15 comments

8499.

Chat with the 17 year old hacker who hacked my blog (thenextweb.com)

31 points by Zilioum on Dec 20, 2009 | 15 comments

8500.

Dodgeball Shuttered By Google, Its Co-Creator Promises To Clone It (alleyinsider.com)

31 points by bdotdub on Jan 15, 2009 | 14 comments

8501.

Microsoft Kills Flight Simulator, Fires Entire Dev Team (gamasutra.com)

31 points by joshwa on Feb 5, 2009 | 14 comments

8502.

What "web 2.0" really means -- and why "web 3.0" will never come (blog.diegodoval.com)

31 points by prakash on Feb 22, 2009 | 14 comments

8503.

The end of the free lunch - again (economist.com)

31 points by mixmax on Mar 19, 2009 | 14 comments

8504.

Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever) (nytimes.com)

31 points by villageidiot on May 25, 2009 | 14 comments

8505.

Why Google won't create the next Twitter or Facebook or Posterous (scobleizer.posterous.com)

31 points by rams on Sep 1, 2009 | 14 comments

8506.

Illinois's so-called tech leaders have failed the state (sachinagarwal.com)

31 points by brandnewlow on Sep 17, 2009 | 14 comments

8507.

WebMynd (YC 08) launches RedesignGoogle Contest. (techcrunch.com)

31 points by rokhayakebe on Sep 20, 2009 | 14 comments

8508.

Sun Labs Lively Kernel, Smalltalk like programming using JavaScript (research.sun.com)

31 points by jacquesm on Oct 9, 2009 | 14 comments

8509.

Ubuntu's Encrypted Home Directory: A Canonical Approach to Data Privacy (linux-mag.com)

31 points by linuxmag on Oct 22, 2009 | 14 comments

8510.

2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off (seobook.com)

31 points by stakent on Nov 30, 2009 | 14 comments

8511.

How To Turn Customers Into Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

31 points by vaksel on Feb 28, 2009 | 13 comments

8512.

Startup cofounder lives with his website users (crashtheinauguration.com)

31 points by brianchesky on Jan 12, 2009 | 13 comments

8513.

Microsoft Files Suit: Linux Violates Our Patents (businessinsider.com)

31 points by escapade on Feb 25, 2009 | 13 comments

8514.

We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage (guardian.co.uk)

31 points by ph0rque on May 19, 2009 | 13 comments

8515.

IPhone Dev Team releases 3.0 Jailbreak and more. (blog.iphone-dev.org)

31 points by Oompa on Jun 19, 2009 | 13 comments

8516.

Your 'Big Idea' Sucks (techdrawl.com)

31 points by Oompa on Aug 2, 2009 | 13 comments

8517.

America's sex laws: unjust and ineffective (economist.com)

31 points by daviday on Aug 8, 2009 | 13 comments

8518.

The poor man’s Bash Tab-completion (paksoy.net)

31 points by mustpax on Aug 9, 2009 | 13 comments

8519.

Indie Software Security: A ~12-Step Program (chargen.matasano.com)

31 points by tptacek on Sep 24, 2009 | 13 comments

8520.

Horrifically bad software demo becomes performance art (arstechnica.com)

31 points by blasdel on Sep 26, 2009 | 13 comments