HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No. (techcrunch.com)

233 points by csmajorfive on Jul 21, 2011 | 113 comments

1622.

Goodbye Facebook (theaboutness.com)

233 points by nicholalexander on Jan 18, 2011 | 109 comments

1623.

The coffeeshop fallacy (thestartuptoolkit.com)

233 points by robfitz on Oct 20, 2011 | 96 comments

1624.

What percentage of people are alive today? (1000memories.com)

233 points by jonathanbgood on May 9, 2011 | 91 comments

1625.

PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting (morepypy.blogspot.com)

233 points by Scriptor on Aug 2, 2011 | 76 comments

1626.

Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?

233 points by bigethan on Aug 22, 2011 | 67 comments

1627.

The Day I Saw Van Gogh’s Genius in a New Light (asada0.tumblr.com)

233 points by dicemoose on Dec 12, 2011 | 65 comments

1628.

Pixel Perfect map of china (gz.o.cn)

233 points by daleharvey on Mar 3, 2011 | 62 comments

1629.

Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro (railscasts.com)

233 points by illdave on Oct 3, 2011 | 61 comments

1630.

Mozilla tells DHS: we won't help you censor the Internet (boingboing.net)

233 points by miraj on May 6, 2011 | 41 comments

1631.

The diagnosis (boingboing.net)

233 points by danso on Dec 9, 2011 | 39 comments

1632.

Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days (edition.cnn.com)

232 points by tokenadult on Dec 29, 2011 | 164 comments

1633.

Groupon files for IPO (blogs.wsj.com)

232 points by 44Aman on Jun 2, 2011 | 153 comments

1634.

A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices) (infotrope.net)

232 points by ajdecon on Jul 24, 2011 | 140 comments

1635.

Goodbye, shitty "Car extends Vehicle" object-orientation tutorial (lists.canonical.org)

232 points by sebkomianos on Aug 22, 2011 | 128 comments

1636.

ORM is an anti-pattern (seldo.com)

232 points by ExpiredLink on Sep 17, 2011 | 128 comments

1637.

Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled." (hanselman.com)

232 points by darrenkopp on Aug 12, 2011 | 100 comments

1638.

Show HN: PickHealthInsurance.com (pickhealthinsurance.com)

232 points by gurgeous on Sep 13, 2011 | 99 comments

1639.

How to improve your programming skills (antoarts.com)

232 points by antoarts on Jun 30, 2011 | 89 comments

1640.

LevelDB: a fast and lightweight key/value database library (code.google.com)

232 points by adulau on May 8, 2011 | 79 comments

1641.

Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work (cbsnews.com)

232 points by petsos on Feb 26, 2011 | 74 comments

1642.

Google Engineer: What I learned in the war (postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)

232 points by andrewvalish on Nov 11, 2011 | 73 comments

1643.

Create - A new kind of web editing interface (createjs.org)

232 points by spaetzel on Dec 12, 2011 | 70 comments

1644.

Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? (talentdevelop.com)

232 points by rblion on Aug 14, 2011 | 58 comments

1645.

IBM's infamous "Black Team" (t3.org)

232 points by shawndumas on Apr 21, 2011 | 51 comments

1646.

Apple's stock under Jobs: from $10 to $400 (money.cnn.com)

232 points by rblion on Oct 6, 2011 | 9 comments

1647.

The True Cost of Commuting (mrmoneymustache.com)

231 points by joelhooks on Oct 10, 2011 | 173 comments

1648.

Tarsnap critical security bug (daemonology.net)

231 points by spuz on Jan 18, 2011 | 124 comments

1649.

Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core (shiftyjelly.wordpress.com)

231 points by markfenton on Aug 2, 2011 | 94 comments

1650.

Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold (gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com)

231 points by CWIZO on May 24, 2011 | 84 comments