HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls.. (olark.com)

268 points by bcx on Aug 15, 2011 | 89 comments

122.

HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released (html5boilerplate.com)

267 points by necolas on Aug 10, 2011 | 28 comments

123.

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com)

267 points by llambda on Aug 18, 2011 | 24 comments

124.

The future Firefox UI (people.mozilla.com)

264 points by paulrouget on Aug 1, 2011 | 185 comments

125.

The Mother of All Interview Questions (raganwald.posterous.com)

263 points by raganwald on Aug 2, 2011 | 128 comments

126.

Heroku for Java (blog.heroku.com)

263 points by adamwiggins on Aug 25, 2011 | 70 comments

127.

Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage (status.aws.amazon.com)

260 points by bradly on Aug 9, 2011 | 141 comments

128.

My experience with a 'negative review' scammer. (westiseast.co.uk)

260 points by westiseast on Aug 2, 2011 | 78 comments

129.

Google releases Games for Google+ (googleblog.blogspot.com)

259 points by skorgu on Aug 11, 2011 | 95 comments

130.

15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing lengths dance together (sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)

258 points by SandB0x on Aug 27, 2011 | 25 comments

131.

Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies (news.softpedia.com)

255 points by itg on Aug 11, 2011 | 86 comments

132.

VimConf (vimconf.org)

255 points by flippingbits on Aug 30, 2011 | 51 comments

133.

How to put your logo in a QR code (hackaday.com)

255 points by xd on Aug 12, 2011 | 50 comments

134.

What's a Closure? (nathansjslessons.appspot.com)

254 points by gulbrandr on Aug 5, 2011 | 57 comments

135.

SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November (hosted.ap.org)

253 points by gibsonf1 on Aug 16, 2011 | 57 comments

136.

Why GNU grep is fast (lists.freebsd.org)

253 points by ColinWright on Aug 8, 2011 | 43 comments

137.

Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement (github.com)

251 points by vamsee on Aug 11, 2011 | 112 comments

138.

The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good (theatlantic.com)

247 points by dimm on Aug 2, 2011 | 72 comments

139.

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad (newyorker.com)

245 points by AngryParsley on Aug 1, 2011 | 140 comments

140.

Death to the 'noreply' mailbox (josscrowcroft.com)

244 points by josscrowcroft on Aug 11, 2011 | 87 comments

141.

How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) (garry.posterous.com)

244 points by ryannielsen on Aug 31, 2011 | 65 comments

142.

I'm a phony. Are you? (hanselman.com)

244 points by icey on Aug 17, 2011 | 62 comments

143.

PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation (morepypy.blogspot.com)

244 points by jparise on Aug 18, 2011 | 54 comments

144.

Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki (eriwen.com)

243 points by caustic on Aug 22, 2011 | 136 comments

145.

NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space (space.com)

241 points by ssclafani on Aug 9, 2011 | 87 comments

146.

Top Gear caught faking another electric car "failure" (guardian.co.uk)

237 points by raganwald on Aug 7, 2011 | 123 comments

147.

Perlis Languages (blog.fogus.me)

236 points by pepijndevos on Aug 14, 2011 | 35 comments

148.

Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up (geek.com)

235 points by 11031a on Aug 23, 2011 | 150 comments

149.

The quick website launch checklist (newsletter.agiliq.com)

235 points by shabda on Aug 14, 2011 | 44 comments

150.

Algorithms to enhance or transform images (scriptol.com)

235 points by scriptproof on Aug 12, 2011 | 38 comments