HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad (andrewljohnson.com)

704 points by NoKarmaForMe on Feb 1, 2011 | 45 comments

2.

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results (searchengineland.com)

684 points by illdave on Feb 1, 2011 | 272 comments

3.

Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance (nytimes.com)

596 points by epall on Feb 21, 2011 | 423 comments

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How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup (joncrawford.com)

589 points by eoghan on Feb 11, 2011 | 112 comments

5.

Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code (placekitten.com)

569 points by thehodge on Feb 28, 2011 | 116 comments

6.

Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story) (bugzilla.gnome.org)

543 points by pufuwozu on Feb 27, 2011 | 32 comments

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"You've angered the hive" (arstechnica.com)

521 points by acconrad on Feb 7, 2011 | 214 comments

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Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform" (engadget.com)

513 points by ldayley on Feb 9, 2011 | 196 comments

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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it (googleblog.blogspot.com)

511 points by atularora on Feb 1, 2011 | 196 comments

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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results (googleblog.blogspot.com)

508 points by dannyr on Feb 14, 2011 | 214 comments

11.

I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks (limedaring.com)

490 points by limedaring on Feb 16, 2011 | 120 comments

12.

Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

490 points by JacobAldridge on Feb 2, 2011 | 80 comments

13.

How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

488 points by felixchan on Feb 15, 2011 | 109 comments

14.

I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project. (babyli.st)

485 points by natgordon on Feb 3, 2011 | 179 comments

15.

An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection (blog.readability.com)

478 points by bensummers on Feb 21, 2011 | 199 comments

16.

Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request (github.com)

476 points by HectorRamos on Feb 13, 2011 | 72 comments

17.

Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch (getinPulse.com)

460 points by erohead on Feb 15, 2011 | 143 comments

18.

Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts (isotope.metafizzy.co)

459 points by bkudria on Feb 7, 2011 | 58 comments

19.

Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal (huyng.com)

449 points by siim on Feb 18, 2011 | 118 comments

20.

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price (arstechnica.com)

432 points by steveklabnik on Feb 10, 2011 | 155 comments

21.

Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light (reddit.com)

431 points by danteembermage on Feb 21, 2011 | 222 comments

22.

Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia (reddit.com)

430 points by budu on Feb 14, 2011 | 269 comments

23.

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ (torrentfreak.com)

430 points by Uncle_Sam on Feb 16, 2011 | 152 comments

24.

Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows (nicolasgallagher.com)

426 points by Seldaek on Feb 17, 2011 | 60 comments

25.

Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe (uncontactedtribes.org)

418 points by timf on Feb 4, 2011 | 363 comments

26.

Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine (torvalds-family.blogspot.com)

410 points by brianwillis on Feb 28, 2011 | 132 comments

27.

Solving The Hacker News Problem (al3x.net)

407 points by tianyicui on Feb 22, 2011 | 270 comments

28.

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)

401 points by twidlit on Feb 21, 2011 | 125 comments

29.

HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones) (mikebeauchamp.com)

395 points by ryanf on Feb 13, 2011 | 207 comments

30.

Is IE9 a modern browser? (people.mozilla.com)

378 points by etaty on Feb 15, 2011 | 173 comments