HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. (bellard.org)

1820 points by neopanz on May 17, 2011 | 239 comments

2.

TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement (acko.net)

1056 points by pimeys on May 18, 2011 | 200 comments

3.

Osama bin Laden Is Dead (nytimes.com)

924 points by ssclafani on May 2, 2011 | 430 comments

4.

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google (techcrunch.com)

779 points by linuxnow on May 12, 2011 | 142 comments

5.

This Guy Has My MacBook (thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com)

741 points by bkaid on May 31, 2011 | 411 comments

6.

Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress (dsc.discovery.com)

667 points by goldins on May 13, 2011 | 207 comments

7.

How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company (davegooden.com)

654 points by cabinguy on May 31, 2011 | 186 comments

8.

Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad (tweetlibrary.com)

638 points by Osiris on May 2, 2011 | 101 comments

9.

Poll: Should HN display comment scores?

611 points by pg on May 29, 2011 | 280 comments

10.

The Last Post (penmachine.com)

604 points by gtzi on May 4, 2011 | 61 comments

11.

John Resig joins the Khan Academy (ejohn.org)

585 points by jasonrr on May 3, 2011 | 73 comments

12.

LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things (throwingfire.com)

559 points by thirsteh on May 8, 2011 | 82 comments

13.

Cool, but obscure Unix tools (kkovacs.eu)

534 points by larelli on May 20, 2011 | 120 comments

14.

You can increase your intelligence (scientificamerican.com)

519 points by bootload on May 19, 2011 | 132 comments

15.

Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25 (geek.com)

518 points by bluesmoon on May 5, 2011 | 91 comments

16.

Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves (singularityhub.com)

486 points by kkleiner on May 12, 2011 | 205 comments

17.

My daughter was first sued in the womb (ftrain.com)

477 points by henning on May 16, 2011 | 67 comments

18.

Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure (newsroom.intel.com)

470 points by brewski on May 4, 2011 | 101 comments

19.

"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday (edweissman.com)

467 points by edw519 on May 19, 2011 | 62 comments

20.

Why should anyone ever use a Google API again? (googlecode.blogspot.com)

463 points by bauchidgw on May 27, 2011 | 180 comments

21.

Google Chrome Hacked? (vupen.com)

450 points by vinhboy on May 9, 2011 | 210 comments

22.

Chromebook (google.com)

446 points by atularora on May 11, 2011 | 307 comments

23.

Top Programming Fonts (hivelogic.com)

439 points by fogus on May 25, 2011 | 165 comments

24.

Poll: Do you support software patents?

429 points by robryan on May 16, 2011 | 303 comments

25.

Loren wants to work at Airbnb (lorenburton.com)

423 points by guynamedloren on May 30, 2011 | 105 comments

26.

Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion (online.wsj.com)

421 points by riordan on May 10, 2011 | 271 comments

27.

The Ballmer Days Are Over (brooksreview.net)

420 points by showngo on May 12, 2011 | 212 comments

28.

Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (smashingmagazine.com)

416 points by cwan on May 5, 2011 | 175 comments

29.

Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? (cnn.com)

413 points by marcinw on May 23, 2011 | 412 comments

30.

Startups Are Hard (blog.jazzychad.net)

410 points by tlb on May 2, 2011 | 111 comments