HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009 (arstechnica.com)

77 points by mhansen on Aug 3, 2009 | 46 comments

1982.

Why PHP really won (alan.dipert.org)

77 points by wooby on Jan 16, 2009 | 45 comments

1983.

Jeff Bezos apologizes for 1984-Kindle debacle (amazon.com)

77 points by blazamos on Jul 23, 2009 | 43 comments

1984.

Scientists extract images directly from brain (2008) (pinktentacle.com)

77 points by theforay on Jul 7, 2009 | 41 comments

1985.

Portrait of a Noob (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

77 points by ptn on Dec 22, 2009 | 41 comments

1986.

Kindle 2 Fails Man's Drop Test, Forces Amazon To Pay Him $400 (consumerist.com)

77 points by yan on Oct 20, 2009 | 40 comments

1987.

How to recognise a good programmer (2007) (inter-sections.net)

77 points by j_baker on Dec 15, 2009 | 40 comments

1988.

How to destroy the earth (qntm.org)

77 points by joss82 on Dec 16, 2009 | 35 comments

1989.

Why Java exceptions are slow (and Common Lisp conditions aren't) (groups.google.com)

77 points by mdasen on Jan 17, 2009 | 34 comments

1990.

How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates (philip.greenspun.com)

77 points by r11t on Apr 9, 2009 | 31 comments

1991.

Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down. (chronicle.com)

77 points by msie on Apr 27, 2009 | 30 comments

1992.

Tell HN: We just launched GeoAPI.com (read/write geo API) (geoapi.com)

77 points by mariusae on Nov 12, 2009 | 30 comments

1993.

Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo (360cities.net)

77 points by dabent on Dec 18, 2009 | 29 comments

1994.

Shazam: not magic after all (blog.revolution-computing.com)

77 points by mariorz on Oct 29, 2009 | 28 comments

1995.

Linode adds datacenter in Europe (blog.linode.com)

77 points by drewr on Dec 7, 2009 | 27 comments

1996.

Alex Payne — Fever and the Future of Feed Readers (al3x.net)

77 points by GVRV on Jul 19, 2009 | 25 comments

1997.

HN Member on Frontpage of Today's NY Times (nytimes.com)

77 points by breck on Mar 14, 2009 | 23 comments

1998.

If you find yourself competing with the Internet, find a way out. (scripting.com)

77 points by olefoo on Jul 21, 2009 | 23 comments

1999.

Symptoms of Successful Entrepreneurs (chrysbader.com)

77 points by chrysb on Nov 11, 2009 | 23 comments

2000.

LaTeX based chat (mathim.com)

77 points by chromophore on Sep 23, 2009 | 22 comments

2001.

Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09) (infoq.com)

77 points by zemariamm on Aug 21, 2009 | 19 comments

2002.

I was an Ambassador and Taken Hostage by Militants (whattofix.com)

77 points by DanielBMarkham on Sep 8, 2009 | 18 comments

2003.

Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism (lesswrong.com)

77 points by revorad on Apr 21, 2009 | 12 comments

2004.

Your Google profile is now also an OpenId (techcrunch.com)

77 points by anigbrowl on Nov 25, 2009 | 12 comments

2005.

JQuery Plugin: Facebook Style Tokenizing Input Box (loopj.com)

77 points by foobar2k on May 5, 2009 | 9 comments

2006.

An Arc REPL online (dabuttonfactory.com)

77 points by palsecam on Aug 26, 2009 | 9 comments

2007.

FlightCaster merges its statistical-learning code into Incanter (incanter-blog.org)