HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4801.

Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches (vancouversun.com)

125 points by kevruger on Mar 12, 2011 | 45 comments

4802.

The plumber programmer (johndcook.com)

125 points by ColinWright on Nov 15, 2011 | 42 comments

4803.

So Who Really Owns Facebook? (Chart) (thenextweb.com)

125 points by domino on Jan 12, 2011 | 40 comments

4804.

Usefulness of inventing programming languages (emilis.github.com)

125 points by emilis_info on Apr 26, 2011 | 40 comments

4805.

40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week (media.pragprog.com)

125 points by ben1040 on Aug 8, 2011 | 38 comments

4806.

Microsoft security tools nuking Chrome browser (zdnet.com)

125 points by FrancescoRizzi on Sep 30, 2011 | 38 comments

4807.

Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook (businessweek.com)

125 points by rhartsock on Feb 24, 2011 | 37 comments

4808.

Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds (blogs.forbes.com)

125 points by rosser on Aug 7, 2011 | 37 comments

4809.

A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking (aws.typepad.com)

125 points by jeffbarr on Mar 15, 2011 | 34 comments

4810.

Looking for a Place to Die (nytimes.com)

125 points by JacobAldridge on Dec 23, 2011 | 34 comments

4811.

Eclipse Orion (eclipse.org)

125 points by d_c on May 23, 2011 | 33 comments

4812.

The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective (arstechnica.com)

125 points by fogus on Jun 28, 2011 | 32 comments

4813.

Introduction to sed (catonmat.net)

125 points by pkrumins on Oct 7, 2011 | 31 comments

4814.

Bitcoin iOS app open sourced (github.com)

125 points by milkshakes on May 8, 2011 | 30 comments

4815.

'Cree.py' Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person's Physical Location (ilektrojohn.github.com)

125 points by ssclafani on Mar 30, 2011 | 29 comments

4816.

Collusion: A browser addon to demo how websites track you online (collusion.toolness.org)

125 points by abhinavsharma on Jul 8, 2011 | 28 comments

4817.

Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing (catonmat.net)

125 points by cleverjake on Oct 24, 2011 | 28 comments

4818.

HTML5 MP3 Player - Plays local files and parses ID3 tags (antimatter15.github.com)

125 points by antimatter15 on Mar 27, 2011 | 27 comments

4819.

Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now? (analytics.blogspot.com)

125 points by dpurp on Sep 29, 2011 | 25 comments

4820.

Man places his genome in public domain, on Github (manu.sporny.org)

125 points by metabrew on Feb 12, 2011 | 24 comments

4821.

Introducing Google JS Test (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

125 points by cleverjake on Sep 29, 2011 | 24 comments

4822.

Hacker Newsletter (hackernewsletter.com)

125 points by duck on Apr 28, 2011 | 23 comments

4823.

Become Efficient or Die: The Story of BackType (YC S08) (slideshare.net)

125 points by nathanmarz on Mar 28, 2011 | 21 comments

4824.

Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up too late (arstechnica.com)

125 points by shawndumas on Apr 28, 2011 | 21 comments

4825.

YC Interview Advice From a Guy Who Got An Interview and Didn’t Get Accepted (plus.google.com)

125 points by nhashem on Nov 11, 2011 | 21 comments

4826.

Dynamic Periodic Table (ptable.com)

125 points by mhb on Nov 5, 2011 | 20 comments

4827.

Tilt-Shift Using CSS (lab.simurai.com)

125 points by mikecane on Oct 4, 2011 | 16 comments

4828.

MPAA Costs Hollywood More Than US BitTorrent Piracy (torrentfreak.com)

125 points by lomegor on Nov 23, 2011 | 16 comments

4829.

Profiling Go Programs (blog.golang.org)

125 points by skymt on Jun 24, 2011 | 15 comments

4830.

Make your startup ridiculously easy to write about. Put together a press pack (thestartupfoundry.com)

125 points by g0atbutt on Mar 18, 2011 | 14 comments