HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. (ycombinator.com)

2060 points by dzlobin on Jan 20, 2012 | 665 comments

2.

Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor (tumblr.amitgupta.com)

1179 points by nwest on Jan 18, 2012 | 100 comments

3.

PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute (regretsy.com)

988 points by tfe on Jan 3, 2012 | 289 comments

4.

Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA (thenextweb.com)

951 points by minecraftman on Jan 16, 2012 | 192 comments

5.

Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA (blog.reddit.com)

922 points by lindowe on Jan 10, 2012 | 150 comments

6.

Why I'm a Pirate (ploum.net)

857 points by tbassetto on Jan 18, 2012 | 514 comments

7.

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split (lists.busybox.net)

857 points by sciurus on Jan 27, 2012 | 151 comments

8.

Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

772 points by zitterbewegung on Jan 11, 2012 | 281 comments

9.

Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result (iheartchaos.com)

754 points by kenver on Jan 26, 2012 | 90 comments

10.

Google, what were you thinking? (blog.mocality.co.ke)

751 points by swombat on Jan 13, 2012 | 143 comments

11.

The Five Stages of Hosting (blog.pinboard.in)

747 points by stilist on Jan 30, 2012 | 179 comments

12.

Richard Stallman Was Right All Along (osnews.com)

731 points by thomholwerda on Jan 2, 2012 | 226 comments

13.

No New Accounts Today

718 points by pg on Jan 18, 2012 | 94 comments

14.

Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up (plus.google.com)

709 points by johnthedebs on Jan 21, 2012 | 172 comments

15.

Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy (online.wsj.com)

698 points by waitwhat on Jan 19, 2012 | 337 comments

16.

A simple guide for getting started with git (rogerdudler.github.com)

665 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 9, 2012 | 129 comments

17.

What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies? (aaronklein.com)

663 points by aaronklein on Jan 29, 2012 | 112 comments

18.

How to nap (boston.com)

647 points by ozzzy on Jan 10, 2012 | 133 comments

19.

Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers (37signals.com)

605 points by teaspoon on Jan 5, 2012 | 423 comments

20.

Schlep Blindness (paulgraham.com)

604 points by anateus on Jan 14, 2012 | 181 comments

21.

Stop SOAP (stopsoap.com)

598 points by llambda on Jan 18, 2012 | 67 comments

22.

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com)

596 points by llambda on Jan 23, 2012 | 193 comments

23.

Waking up at 5am to code (mattgreer.org)

594 points by city41 on Jan 23, 2012 | 198 comments

24.

Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations (github.com)

594 points by ramanujam on Jan 1, 2012 | 65 comments

25.

This is why I don't give you a job (andorjakab.blog.hu)

588 points by fourspace on Jan 7, 2012 | 529 comments

26.

Congressman blacks out his official .gov website (blumenauer.house.gov)

587 points by sethbannon on Jan 18, 2012 | 38 comments

27.

Maddox - I hope SOPA passes (maddox.xmission.com)

569 points by CWIZO on Jan 19, 2012 | 198 comments

28.

The next SOPA (marco.org)

558 points by dpkendal on Jan 20, 2012 | 165 comments

29.

Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope (cuttherope.ie)

556 points by jkbr on Jan 10, 2012 | 124 comments

30.

Cars kill cities (progressivetransit.wordpress.com)

553 points by ajju on Jan 26, 2012 | 336 comments