HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

All eight women disqualified for throwing badminton matches (nbcolympics.com)

31 points by repsieximo on Aug 2, 2012 | 47 comments

1772.

The "Taken Username Effect" on Twitter (diegobasch.com)

31 points by diego on Aug 1, 2012 | 46 comments

1773.

The Well Dressed Coder (7regentlane.com)

31 points by spicerunner on Aug 25, 2012 | 45 comments

1774.

Show HN: I'm bootstrapping my company and this is my first product. Thoughts? (myminutesapp.com)

31 points by ktusznio on Aug 28, 2012 | 44 comments

1775.

Passwords, Backups and a false sense of security (blog.julieng.me)

31 points by eliaskg on Aug 4, 2012 | 31 comments

1776.

The Bain Capital Files (avc.com)

31 points by stevewillensky on Aug 29, 2012 | 30 comments

1777.

The hidden cost of Google App Engine (spotbloq.blogspot.de)

31 points by ComNik on Aug 19, 2012 | 22 comments

1778.

Invention (kevinlawler.com)

31 points by silentbicycle on Aug 10, 2012 | 21 comments

1779.

Rails is a Ghetto (2008) (web.archive.org)

31 points by teffen on Aug 22, 2012 | 20 comments

1780.

Helm: Open Source Real Time Discussions (indiegogo.com)

31 points by frankwiles on Aug 23, 2012 | 20 comments

1781.

2 years of the Hacker News London meetup (coderholic.com)

31 points by coderholic on Aug 15, 2012 | 17 comments

1782.

Raising Money After Bubble 2.0 (dty.me)

31 points by stevewillensky on Aug 17, 2012 | 17 comments

1783.

Solar 'poster boy' startup may be forced out of business (cnn.com)

31 points by kjhughes on Aug 23, 2012 | 17 comments

1784.

New Facebook Engineering campus (facebook.com)

31 points by zacharytamas on Aug 24, 2012 | 16 comments

1785.

500 Startups Snaps Up LatAm Startup Accelerator Mexican.VC (techcrunch.com)

31 points by niico on Aug 7, 2012 | 14 comments

1786.

Ex-Google executive's new venture helps students avoid corporate life (reuters.com)

31 points by bhavin on Aug 8, 2012 | 14 comments

1787.

Trekking the Road from SPDY to HTTP/2 in Firefox (bitsup.blogspot.com)

31 points by patrickmcmanus on Aug 6, 2012 | 13 comments

1788.

Show HN: Klaviyo - a new kind of CRM (not just for sales) (klaviyo.com)

31 points by edhallen on Aug 28, 2012 | 10 comments

1789.

Testing is Bullshit - a manifesto (circleci.com)

31 points by pbiggar on Aug 14, 2012 | 9 comments

1790.

How a Philips light bulb uses blue LEDs to produce white light (extremetech.com)

31 points by maxko87 on Aug 27, 2012 | 9 comments

1791.

Ask HN: Anyone raised money and wish you didn't? ()

31 points by trueneverland on Aug 11, 2012 | 8 comments

1792.

Chezjj: Itinerant Hackers, Scientists, Cylons (chezjj.com)

31 points by azat_co on Aug 23, 2012 | 8 comments

1793.

TokBox embraces WebRTC to give developers access to Flash-free video chat (gigaom.com)

31 points by janineyoong on Aug 7, 2012 | 7 comments

1794.

SocketStream 0.3 released (groups.google.com)

31 points by buster on Aug 2, 2012 | 5 comments

1795.

Spend the 3 day weekend hacking big data - win $1000 cash + other prizes (commoncrawl.org)

31 points by LisaG on Aug 30, 2012 | 4 comments

1796.

MetaQuery, A declarative responsive breakpoint syntax. Defined in [HTML, CSS] (github.com)

31 points by benschwarz on Aug 1, 2012 | 3 comments

1797.

Cassandra Summit 2012 - Slides and Videos (datastax.com)

31 points by tylerhobbs on Aug 21, 2012 | 2 comments

1798.

California state legislature approves Location Privacy Act (arstechnica.com)

31 points by iProject on Aug 23, 2012 | 2 comments

1799.

BigCalc (YC S12) Makes Hadoop Easier for High Frequency Trading Firms (techcrunch.com)

31 points by irunbackwards on Aug 22, 2012 | 1 comments

1800.

Bootstrapping a Software Company (klhess.com)

31 points by porter on Aug 30, 2012 | 1 comments