HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4831.

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc (facebook.com)

125 points by r11t on Jan 3, 2011 | 11 comments

4832.

Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement (datastax.com)

125 points by tjake on Oct 17, 2011 | 11 comments

4833.

Early Ritchie Unix Talk [ca. 1972] (cm.bell-labs.com)

125 points by BrandonM on Oct 13, 2011 | 2 comments

4834.

24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody (codinghorror.com)

124 points by angrycoder on Jan 21, 2011 | 112 comments

4835.

Why we’re working our young people too hard (lkd.cc)

124 points by ZenJosh on Nov 16, 2011 | 109 comments

4836.

Brain Gain: The Underground World of Neuroenhancing Drugs (newyorker.com)

124 points by lightcatcher on Nov 27, 2011 | 109 comments

4837.

Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy (venturebeat.com)

124 points by nyellin on Feb 15, 2011 | 96 comments

4838.

IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. (news.cnet.com)

124 points by azazo on Dec 20, 2011 | 90 comments

4839.

Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office (blogs.aljazeera.net)

124 points by jim_h on Feb 10, 2011 | 87 comments

4840.

Financial Times Won't Give Apple A Cut, Drops iOS for Web App (macrumors.com)

124 points by eljaco on Jun 7, 2011 | 87 comments

4841.

Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest (businessweek.com)

124 points by daniel02216 on May 14, 2011 | 79 comments

4842.

At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life - and death (twincities.com)

124 points by michaelfairley on Feb 20, 2011 | 77 comments

4843.

What if P = NP? (cacm.acm.org)

124 points by caustic on Apr 1, 2011 | 74 comments

4844.

The Next Big Language (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

124 points by niyazpk on Jan 26, 2011 | 71 comments

4845.

Portrait of a N00b (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

124 points by nyellin on Nov 13, 2011 | 67 comments

4846.

Why Facebook and Google's Concept of "Real Names" Is Revolutionary (theatlantic.com)

124 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 5, 2011 | 66 comments

4847.

How I Got My Stolen Laptop Back Within 24 Hours Using Prey (dougvs.tumblr.com)

124 points by Dougvs on Sep 7, 2011 | 63 comments

4848.

Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open (marshallk.com)

124 points by tathagatadg on Jul 10, 2011 | 61 comments

4849.

Against UI Chrome (not the browser) (3quarksdaily.com)

124 points by zdw on Feb 7, 2011 | 60 comments

4850.

Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft (talk.maemo.org)

124 points by borism on Feb 13, 2011 | 59 comments

4851.

2011: The Year the Check-in Died (readwriteweb.com)

124 points by mjfern on Apr 13, 2011 | 59 comments

4852.

App.net (app.net)

124 points by sahillavingia on Jul 14, 2011 | 59 comments

4853.

iPad 2: Thoughts from a first time tablet user (paulstamatiou.com)

124 points by PStamatiou on Mar 21, 2011 | 58 comments

4854.

Cluster SSH (OSX) (code.google.com)

124 points by xtacy on Apr 1, 2011 | 58 comments

4855.

A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementations (rondam.blogspot.com)

124 points by lisper on Jun 14, 2011 | 58 comments

4856.

Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? (gettingsmart.com)

124 points by tokenadult on Dec 31, 2011 | 56 comments

4857.

Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010 (reddit.com)

124 points by Aqwis on Jan 3, 2011 | 54 comments

4858.

Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work (joyeur.com)

124 points by lindvall on Apr 24, 2011 | 53 comments

4859.

Questions you should ask your interviewer (talentzoo.com)

124 points by franze on Apr 27, 2011 | 52 comments

4860.

CyanogenMod Adds Support For Revoking And Faking App Permissions on Android (androidpolice.com)

124 points by DanielRibeiro on May 25, 2011 | 52 comments