HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6961.

Which reads faster, Chinese or English? (persquaremile.com)

94 points by nameless_noob on Dec 22, 2011 | 83 comments

6962.

No more desktop Linux systems in the German Foreign Office (h-online.com)

94 points by bjonathan on Feb 21, 2011 | 80 comments

6963.

Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant (scientificamerican.com)

94 points by gommm on Mar 13, 2011 | 77 comments

6964.

25% of Yale goes to Consulting, Finance (yaledailynews.com)

94 points by jrosenblatt on Oct 3, 2011 | 76 comments

6965.

Why we built a 40TB photo server in-house instead of using S3 (tech.oyster.com)

94 points by benhoyt on Dec 23, 2011 | 74 comments

6966.

The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other (io9.com)

94 points by DanielRibeiro on May 12, 2011 | 67 comments

6967.

Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC (searchyc.com)

94 points by stevenj on Jun 1, 2011 | 64 comments

6968.

Bitcoin trojan caught in the wild (symantec.com)

94 points by mike_esspe on Jun 16, 2011 | 64 comments

6969.

In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of Top 1,000 Protesters (wired.com)

94 points by d0ne on Jul 27, 2011 | 64 comments

6970.

Cisco To Shut Down Flip Video Business; Will Give Pink Slips To 550 Employees (techcrunch.com)

94 points by bossjones on Apr 12, 2011 | 63 comments

6971.

Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?" (atroundtable.com)

94 points by josh_miller on Sep 29, 2011 | 59 comments

6972.

Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion (crunchgear.com)

94 points by nikhilpandit on Mar 24, 2011 | 56 comments

6973.

Tell HN: Breakup Notifier is now Crush Notifier (blog.crushnotifier.com)

94 points by theli0nheart on Feb 26, 2011 | 52 comments

6974.

Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated (theatlantic.com)

94 points by ctide on Apr 20, 2011 | 52 comments

6975.

Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries' Radical New Theory (wired.com)

94 points by Liu on Sep 9, 2011 | 52 comments

6976.

WhiteyPaint Turns Walls Into Whiteboards Without Cramping Your Wallpaper’s Style (techcrunch.com)

94 points by jasonwilk on Nov 4, 2011 | 52 comments

6977.

Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed (longtermtips.tumblr.com)

94 points by toktosunov on Jun 3, 2011 | 51 comments

6978.

Show HN: Laminated Bus Schedules (chrisnorstrom.com)

94 points by ChrisNorstrom on Jul 16, 2011 | 51 comments

6979.

Google+: A few big improvements before the New Year (googleblog.blogspot.com)

94 points by nidennet on Dec 19, 2011 | 51 comments

6980.

"Erase and rewind": Thoughts on the BBC's plans to delete 172 websites (adactio.com)

94 points by spxdcz on Feb 7, 2011 | 49 comments

6981.

One of the richest cities in China with a regime that borders on anarchism (reason.com)

94 points by dmix on Nov 26, 2011 | 49 comments

6982.

Coffee Joulies: Kickstarter project keeps your coffee at the right temperature (kickstarter.com)

94 points by tlrobinson on Mar 31, 2011 | 48 comments

6983.

Lack of regulation is the main reason for huge success of the web (gq-magazine.co.uk)

94 points by emmanuelory on Mar 3, 2011 | 47 comments

6984.

Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED (adafruit.com)

94 points by aitor on Jun 18, 2011 | 47 comments

6985.

Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and others join forces to bring down Android (dailytech.com)

94 points by cryptoz on Jul 12, 2011 | 47 comments

6986.

Introducing Play 2.0 (playframework.org)

94 points by dabeeeenster on Sep 7, 2011 | 47 comments

6987.

Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

94 points by evilchelu on Jan 21, 2011 | 46 comments

6988.

IPad in Business: St. Louis Urgent Cares (apple.com)

94 points by pg on Sep 19, 2011 | 46 comments

6989.

10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud (networkworld.com)

94 points by jbrodkin on Apr 6, 2011 | 44 comments

6990.

"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante" (github.com)

94 points by vrish88 on Jan 12, 2011 | 43 comments