HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB (highscalability.com)

118 points by Anon84 on May 21, 2012 | 86 comments

512.

Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? (inc.com)

118 points by aaronbrethorst on May 1, 2012 | 83 comments

513.

How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button (techcrunch.com)

118 points by richoakley on May 18, 2012 | 33 comments

514.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the Eurovision Song Contest (mewo2.github.com)

118 points by rouli on May 23, 2012 | 14 comments

515.

Thiel on 60 minutes (cbsnews.com)

117 points by justhw on May 21, 2012 | 88 comments

516.

Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript (appjs.org)

117 points by elliotlai on May 12, 2012 | 65 comments

517.

When Rob Pike first met rms (commandcenter.blogspot.se)

117 points by willvarfar on May 12, 2012 | 53 comments

518.

How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)

117 points by bad_alloc on May 21, 2012 | 43 comments

519.

Stand up for Julian Assange before it's too late (wlcentral.org)

117 points by Garbage on May 28, 2012 | 39 comments

520.

Oracle loses on fair use; Only rangeCheck left (w/o new trial) (theverge.com)

117 points by fpgeek on May 10, 2012 | 36 comments

521.

Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight (newscientist.com)

117 points by nkoren on May 26, 2012 | 32 comments

522.

DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript (int3.github.com)

117 points by gmac on May 1, 2012 | 30 comments

523.

(Some) ORM haters do get it (revision-zero.org)

116 points by blambeau on May 14, 2012 | 105 comments

524.

On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data (businessweek.com)

116 points by gaisturiz on May 11, 2012 | 89 comments

525.

Opa replaces Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL with one unified language. (opalang.org)

116 points by bobrenjc93 on May 5, 2012 | 86 comments

526.

A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius (elezea.com)

116 points by pascal07 on May 9, 2012 | 46 comments

527.

How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming (websocket.org)

116 points by SkyMarshal on May 27, 2012 | 41 comments

528.

EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more (jan.wildeboer.net)

116 points by jwildeboer on May 2, 2012 | 40 comments

529.

Kickstarter hides failure (misener.org)

115 points by misener on May 24, 2012 | 84 comments

530.

Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase (forbes.com)

115 points by jcc80 on May 6, 2012 | 67 comments

531.

From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz (nytimes.com)

115 points by kanamekun on May 20, 2012 | 54 comments

532.

Fixie.js - Automatic filler content for HTML documents. (fixiejs.com)

115 points by zacharytamas on May 3, 2012 | 38 comments

533.

Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy (reddit.com)

115 points by DiabloD3 on May 6, 2012 | 21 comments

534.

TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical (apenwarr.ca)

115 points by soundsop on May 9, 2012 | 20 comments

535.

2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today (theglobeandmail.com)

114 points by joeyespo on May 11, 2012 | 106 comments

536.

Google, I've had enough. How about a Compromise? (ninjasandrobots.com)

114 points by hawke on May 10, 2012 | 93 comments

537.

Old Farts Know How to Code (nick.typepad.com)

114 points by breischl on May 24, 2012 | 71 comments

538.

Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack (mikkolehtinen.com)

114 points by kosmikko on May 25, 2012 | 61 comments

539.

Dr. Koop and The Bubble (dcurt.is)

114 points by johns on May 25, 2012 | 39 comments

540.

The Lazy Man's URL Parsing (joezimjs.com)

114 points by joezimjs on May 7, 2012 | 23 comments