HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

781.

What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? (nymag.com)

321 points by gamble on May 9, 2011 | 207 comments

782.

Node.js has jumped the shark (unlimitednovelty.com)

321 points by bascule on Oct 4, 2011 | 126 comments

783.

GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam (rentzsch.tumblr.com)

321 points by dchest on Jul 11, 2011 | 119 comments

784.

How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? (monbiot.com)

321 points by sasvari on Aug 30, 2011 | 84 comments

785.

Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. (thinkoutsidein.com)

321 points by csmajorfive on Jul 13, 2011 | 80 comments

786.

Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes (donothingfor2minutes.com)

320 points by christophe971 on Jan 20, 2011 | 205 comments

787.

Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript (github.com)

320 points by bjonathan on Apr 13, 2011 | 199 comments

788.

Thunderbolt (apple.com)

320 points by arnemart on Feb 24, 2011 | 197 comments

789.

4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong (readwriteweb.com)

320 points by jonmwords on Oct 18, 2011 | 151 comments

790.

You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations) (blog.jamiemurai.com)

320 points by jammur on Feb 25, 2011 | 109 comments

791.

Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (blogs.msdn.com)

320 points by cabacon on Sep 21, 2011 | 43 comments

792.

JQuery 1.6 released (blog.jquery.com)

320 points by potomak on May 3, 2011 | 41 comments

793.

Create a Robot Image from any text string (RoboHash.org)

319 points by e1ven on Jul 8, 2011 | 101 comments

794.

The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication (stackoverflow.com)

319 points by moonlighter on Aug 8, 2011 | 54 comments

795.

Estimate your English vocabulary size (testyourvocab.com)

318 points by mike_esspe on Jul 17, 2011 | 311 comments

796.

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade (theregister.co.uk)

318 points by Jach on Jun 14, 2011 | 167 comments

797.

Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search (googleblog.blogspot.com)

318 points by thisisblurry on Oct 14, 2011 | 144 comments

798.

Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb (ft.com)

318 points by arghnoname on Jul 29, 2011 | 138 comments

799.

A letter from _why (aberant.tumblr.com)

318 points by fakelvis on Aug 23, 2011 | 96 comments

800.

Chrome has transcended version numbers (codinghorror.com)

318 points by AndrewDucker on May 23, 2011 | 86 comments

801.

Watch other people code (castingcode.tv)

318 points by jgeralnik on Sep 14, 2011 | 84 comments

802.

Why you can't hire (startupboy.com)

318 points by csmajorfive on Dec 13, 2011 | 72 comments

803.

White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit (technologyreview.com)

318 points by bane on Sep 24, 2011 | 70 comments

804.

SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5 (engineering.slideshare.net)

318 points by siddhant on Sep 27, 2011 | 55 comments

805.

New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit" (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

318 points by cwan on Jan 2, 2011 | 47 comments

806.

How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch (blog.meloncard.com)

317 points by Trindaz on Oct 31, 2011 | 209 comments

807.

Nokia Plan B (nokiaplanb.com)

317 points by wybo on Feb 14, 2011 | 174 comments

808.

Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World (online.wsj.com)

317 points by tewks on Aug 20, 2011 | 91 comments

809.

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder (gutenberg.org)

317 points by hornokplease on Sep 7, 2011 | 32 comments

810.

Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate (pastebin.com)

316 points by koenigdavidmj on Aug 29, 2011 | 184 comments