HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

Context Free - a program that generates images from written instructions (contextfreeart.org)

82 points by Garbage on Jan 29, 2012 | 11 comments

872.

The Big List of Game Postmortems - from indie to AAA (pixelprospector.com)

82 points by speednoise on Jan 15, 2012 | 8 comments

873.

The top 20 HTML5 games (netmagazine.com)

82 points by olind on Jan 24, 2012 | 7 comments

874.

HBO to Netflix: We’re taking our ball & going home (venturebeat.com)

81 points by timjahn on Jan 5, 2012 | 87 comments

875.

The Critics Rave... for Microsoft? (nytimes.com)

81 points by rkon on Jan 7, 2012 | 68 comments

876.

Show HN: Glider, a better email client (glider.io)

81 points by cj on Jan 27, 2012 | 53 comments

877.

Shutting Down My Site (patdryburgh.com)

81 points by patdryburgh on Jan 1, 2012 | 50 comments

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Hollywood fights Internet protests with... TV ad, billboard, radio spot (arstechnica.com)

81 points by evo_9 on Jan 19, 2012 | 45 comments

879.

The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form (physics.info)

81 points by carlos on Jan 14, 2012 | 37 comments

880.

Negotiating a Job Offer with a Company (blog.interviewstreet.com)

81 points by mikeinterviewst on Jan 23, 2012 | 36 comments

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Google demotes Chrome in search results over pay-for-post promo (news.cnet.com)

81 points by ed2417 on Jan 4, 2012 | 36 comments

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Stephen Wolfram on a .data TLD (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

81 points by LisaG on Jan 10, 2012 | 35 comments

883.

Duck Programming (unspace.ca)

81 points by raganwald on Jan 9, 2012 | 34 comments

884.

Summify acquired by Twitter (blog.summify.com)

81 points by domino on Jan 19, 2012 | 26 comments

885.

Data Mining: Finding Similar Items and Users (bionicspirit.com)

81 points by bad_user on Jan 16, 2012 | 20 comments

886.

Why the Vasa sank: Lessons learned (faculty.up.edu)

81 points by ams6110 on Jan 1, 2012 | 16 comments

887.

Jaws: HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library (jawsjs.com)

80 points by ukdm on Jan 6, 2012 | 21 comments

888.

Allwinner A10: A GPL-compliant computer for $15 (freesoftwaremagazine.com)

80 points by bodski on Jan 12, 2012 | 15 comments

889.

Working Group assembling to discuss HTTP/2.0 (lists.w3.org)

80 points by metabrew on Jan 24, 2012 | 14 comments

890.

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia To Go Completely Dark on Wednesday (for SOPA) (pandodaily.com)

80 points by pitdesi on Jan 16, 2012 | 3 comments

891.

Could Coding Become the Next Mass Profession? (also.roybahat.com)

79 points by zds on Jan 4, 2012 | 101 comments

892.

Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

79 points by robg on Jan 20, 2012 | 65 comments

893.

Why SQL server was never ported to Unix (hal2020.com)

79 points by progga on Jan 15, 2012 | 47 comments

894.

Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control (nytimes.com)

79 points by mhb on Jan 25, 2012 | 46 comments

895.

Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 additions, 15,896 deletions) (github.com)

79 points by jashkenas on Jan 5, 2012 | 46 comments

896.

Official PHP site will have a new design (prototype.php.net)

79 points by Tomek_ on Jan 18, 2012 | 45 comments

897.

Don't return null; use a tail call (joelneely.wordpress.com)

79 points by ranit8 on Jan 10, 2012 | 42 comments

898.

IBM creates 9nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon (extremetech.com)