HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool (realdanlyons.com)

1319 points by smacktoward on Feb 13, 2012 | 195 comments

2.

Farewell Stack Exchange (codinghorror.com)

1233 points by dko on Feb 6, 2012 | 213 comments

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Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive (metafilter.com)

928 points by blatherard on Feb 18, 2012 | 315 comments

4.

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers (mclov.in)

834 points by iamclovin on Feb 7, 2012 | 267 comments

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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic. (shwood.squarespace.com)

797 points by Sukotto on Feb 15, 2012 | 63 comments

6.

Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter (twitter.github.com)

773 points by uptown on Feb 1, 2012 | 158 comments

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Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours (edweissman.com)

699 points by joshuacc on Feb 3, 2012 | 157 comments

8.

Ubuntu for Android (ubuntu.com)

698 points by dave1010uk on Feb 21, 2012 | 171 comments

9.

ASCII interactive fluid animation (nkwiatek.com)

663 points by wlll on Feb 8, 2012 | 66 comments

10.

Handwriting to LaTeX maths (webdemo.visionobjects.com)

652 points by yannis on Feb 2, 2012 | 88 comments

11.

Producer vs. Consumer (reddit.com)

647 points by stevenkovar on Feb 5, 2012 | 64 comments

12.

Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew (kennethreitz.com)

646 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 16, 2012 | 103 comments

13.

TV is broken (minimalmac.com)

635 points by rkudeshi on Feb 24, 2012 | 258 comments

14.

I have a bad feeling about this (raganwald.posterous.com)

629 points by llambda on Feb 9, 2012 | 179 comments

15.

The myth of the eight-hour sleep (bbc.co.uk)

607 points by gps408 on Feb 22, 2012 | 161 comments

16.

Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content (jotform.net)

605 points by Maxious on Feb 16, 2012 | 236 comments

17.

Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com)

602 points by stevengg on Feb 25, 2012 | 36 comments

18.

Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) (dywypi.org)

593 points by akheron on Feb 13, 2012 | 321 comments

19.

Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever (martinkool.com)

593 points by mrtnkl on Feb 14, 2012 | 45 comments

20.

Right versus pragmatic (marco.org)

568 points by zdw on Feb 25, 2012 | 162 comments

21.

What I've Learned About Smart People. (tmac721.tumblr.com)

552 points by tmacwilliam on Feb 12, 2012 | 172 comments

22.

Raspberri PI Release Announcement (raspberrypi.org)

543 points by aespinoza on Feb 29, 2012 | 255 comments

23.

"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem (theunderstatement.com)

542 points by degusta on Feb 22, 2012 | 268 comments

24.

Online Python Tutor (people.csail.mit.edu)

538 points by llambda on Feb 19, 2012 | 45 comments

25.

We are sorry (blog.path.com)

533 points by revorad on Feb 8, 2012 | 211 comments

26.

Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books (hackershelf.com)

532 points by okal on Feb 14, 2012 | 121 comments

27.

Did You Hear We Got Osama? (roshfu.com)

524 points by choxi on Feb 17, 2012 | 204 comments

28.

US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination (volokh.com)

518 points by zach on Feb 24, 2012 | 113 comments

29.

Hacking Hacker News (joelgrus.com)

503 points by hexis on Feb 17, 2012 | 82 comments

30.

Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing (julialang.org)

499 points by jemeshsu on Feb 18, 2012 | 190 comments