HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple (finance.yahoo.com)

1667 points by taylorbuley on Aug 24, 2011 | 305 comments

2.

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion (techcrunch.com)

1214 points by iamben on Aug 15, 2011 | 369 comments

3.

Twitter Bootstrap (twitter.github.com)

1047 points by d0vs on Aug 19, 2011 | 108 comments

4.

Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code (codecademy.com)

787 points by zds on Aug 18, 2011 | 232 comments

5.

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot (meta.slashdot.org)

784 points by SandB0x on Aug 25, 2011 | 143 comments

6.

United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P (reuters.com)

769 points by tshtf on Aug 6, 2011 | 497 comments

7.

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody (seldo.tumblr.com)

742 points by wyclif on Aug 29, 2011 | 326 comments

8.

Jonathan's Card (jonathanstark.com)

726 points by ams1 on Aug 7, 2011 | 219 comments

9.

An iOS Developer Takes on Android (nfarina.com)

720 points by nfarina on Aug 1, 2011 | 116 comments

10.

Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

650 points by DevX101 on Aug 20, 2011 | 98 comments

11.

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence (inhabitat.com)

649 points by jedwhite on Aug 19, 2011 | 142 comments

12.

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter) (blogs.wsj.com)

641 points by hunterowens on Aug 24, 2011 | 65 comments

13.

How Browsers Work (html5rocks.com)

633 points by martius on Aug 17, 2011 | 36 comments

14.

Icon Ambulance (plus.google.com)

622 points by sgk284 on Aug 25, 2011 | 87 comments

15.

If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?

618 points by throwaway37 on Aug 24, 2011 | 265 comments

16.

The Patent Pledge (paulgraham.com)

618 points by anateus on Aug 31, 2011 | 194 comments

17.

That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story. (startribune.com)

616 points by there on Aug 3, 2011 | 286 comments

18.

Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich (nytimes.com)

605 points by asanwal on Aug 15, 2011 | 336 comments

19.

Learn Vim Progressively (yannesposito.com)

605 points by yogsototh on Aug 29, 2011 | 113 comments

20.

SICP is Under Attack (vedantk.tumblr.com)

570 points by vedantk on Aug 3, 2011 | 196 comments

21.

Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News (hnlike.com)

568 points by sbashyal on Aug 28, 2011 | 65 comments

22.

Dear procrastinator

560 points by edo on Aug 15, 2011 | 139 comments

23.

Spin.js, a pure JS spinner (fgnass.github.com)

548 points by michokest on Aug 18, 2011 | 66 comments

24.

Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal (stabyourself.net)

544 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 29, 2011 | 29 comments

25.

I am nothing (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

520 points by dwynings on Aug 20, 2011 | 125 comments

26.

Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free (see.stanford.edu)

517 points by cpfohl on Aug 16, 2011 | 55 comments

27.

Why Arabic is Terrific (idlewords.com)

504 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2011 | 236 comments

28.

Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode. (blogs.technet.com)

487 points by bensummers on Aug 11, 2011 | 122 comments

29.

5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk (amazon.co.uk)

470 points by nwest on Aug 9, 2011 | 150 comments

30.

WebGL Water Simulation (madebyevan.com)

463 points by devongovett on Aug 14, 2011 | 85 comments