HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8011.

Hacker Pwns Police Cruiser and Lives to Tell the Tale (theregister.co.uk)

84 points by TheloniusPhunk on May 3, 2011 | 36 comments

8012.

Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web (groups.google.com)

84 points by robin_reala on Jul 25, 2011 | 36 comments

8013.

The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective (allthingsd.com)

84 points by apu on Nov 30, 2011 | 36 comments

8014.

Google Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox (blog.directededge.com)

84 points by wheels on Jan 6, 2011 | 35 comments

8015.

Lisp-based OSes (linuxfinances.info)

84 points by fogus on Feb 8, 2011 | 35 comments

8016.

How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters (arstechnica.com)

84 points by shawndumas on Apr 20, 2011 | 35 comments

8017.

A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search (theatlantic.com)

84 points by nbj914 on Jul 22, 2011 | 35 comments

8018.

The code injected to steal passwords in Tunisia (blog.jgc.org)

84 points by abraham on Jan 24, 2011 | 34 comments

8019.

The scoop on reCAPTCHA founder's new startup Duolingo. (tedxcmu.com)

84 points by gregg1982 on Apr 26, 2011 | 34 comments

8020.

We have a real-time API and we're not afraid to use it. Are you? (ducksboard.com)

84 points by wulczer on Oct 31, 2011 | 34 comments

8021.

Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods (techcrunch.com)

84 points by transburgh on Feb 9, 2011 | 33 comments

8022.

ZX81: Small black box of computing desire (bbc.co.uk)

84 points by Peroni on Mar 11, 2011 | 33 comments

8023.

Why HTTP Streaming? (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

84 points by ab9 on Apr 18, 2011 | 33 comments

8024.

The racial performance gap explained (method.ac)

84 points by duopixel on Jul 28, 2011 | 33 comments

8025.

How to deal with a relentless spammer, a WePay April Fools’ special (wepay.com)

84 points by zopticity on Apr 1, 2011 | 32 comments

8026.

How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? (economist.com)

84 points by asifjamil on Aug 13, 2011 | 31 comments

8027.

The real HTML5 boilerplate (csswizardry.com)

84 points by chaosmachine on Feb 20, 2011 | 30 comments

8028.

Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice (h-online.com)

84 points by Tsiolkovsky on Jul 7, 2011 | 30 comments

8029.

Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins (blog.begriffsschrift.com)

84 points by begriffs on Nov 12, 2011 | 30 comments

8030.

The one slide your startup should never have in its deck. (poorbuthappy.com)

84 points by petervandijck on Jun 12, 2011 | 29 comments

8031.

Weapons of Mass Assignment: Patio11 on Diaspora (queue.acm.org)

84 points by michael_dorfman on Apr 27, 2011 | 28 comments

8032.

Making beautiful forms; Square and Recurly (functionsource.com)

84 points by colinprince on Sep 4, 2011 | 28 comments

8033.

Kicksend (YC S11) Grabs $1.8M From True Ventures For Dead Simple File Sharing (techcrunch.com)

84 points by skyfallsin on Nov 3, 2011 | 28 comments

8034.

Error Codes or Exceptions? Why is Reliable Software So Hard? (damienkatz.net)

84 points by troels on May 30, 2011 | 27 comments

8035.

An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident (docs.google.com)

84 points by Tom_Chippendale on Apr 6, 2011 | 25 comments

8036.

Open letter to FB from protest leaders in macedonia. (protestira.me)

84 points by Gabriel_Martin on Jun 17, 2011 | 25 comments

8037.

Password cracking, mining, and GPUs (erratasec.blogspot.com)

84 points by d0ne on Jun 26, 2011 | 25 comments

8038.

Google: 'At scale, everything breaks' (zdnet.co.uk)

84 points by ca98am79 on Jun 23, 2011 | 24 comments

8039.

DHTML5 (dhtml5.com)

84 points by jgv on Jan 18, 2011 | 23 comments

8040.

J.K. Rowling's Next Chapter: A Transfiguration Spell on the Publishing Industry (readwriteweb.com)

84 points by carusen on Jun 24, 2011 | 23 comments