HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

How Google Builds Its Maps (theatlantic.com)

281 points by bcrawl on Sep 6, 2012 | 109 comments

92.

Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) (orel.li)

280 points by zemo on Sep 14, 2012 | 195 comments

93.

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) (theatlantic.com)

279 points by olalonde on Sep 18, 2012 | 225 comments

94.

The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle (kickstarter.com)

279 points by zachallia on Sep 11, 2012 | 164 comments

95.

Things I've quit doing at my desk (justinjackson.ca)

277 points by mijustin on Sep 16, 2012 | 96 comments

96.

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies (thenextweb.com)

277 points by hornokplease on Sep 20, 2012 | 85 comments

97.

Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter (news.stanford.edu)

277 points by ukdm on Sep 9, 2012 | 62 comments

98.

Fog of World (fogofworld.com)

274 points by olliwang on Sep 29, 2012 | 157 comments

99.

The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral. (coexist.thexx.info)

274 points by eliaskg on Sep 11, 2012 | 80 comments

100.

iOS 6 Breaks the App Store (pixiteapps.com)

272 points by Mazer23 on Sep 20, 2012 | 123 comments

101.

How I Learned to Defrag My Brain (alexhillman.com)

271 points by alexknowshtml on Sep 10, 2012 | 83 comments

102.

PostgreSQL 9.2 released (postgresql.org)

271 points by lest on Sep 10, 2012 | 77 comments

103.

Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac (zachholman.com)

271 points by lysol on Sep 20, 2012 | 58 comments

104.

I feel I am building a new Google Wave (pivory.com)

270 points by cheshirecat on Sep 10, 2012 | 98 comments

105.

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia (torrentfreak.com)

270 points by subsystem on Sep 5, 2012 | 79 comments

106.

Makerbot announces new 3D printer: Replicator 2 (makerbot.com)

266 points by iamwil on Sep 19, 2012 | 147 comments

107.

Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer (thegatesnotes.com)

266 points by clbrook on Sep 15, 2012 | 96 comments

108.

iPhone 5 (apple.com)

264 points by CoachRufus87 on Sep 12, 2012 | 482 comments

109.

iPad and Linode: 1 Year Later (yieldthought.com)

262 points by moconnor on Sep 19, 2012 | 117 comments

110.

Realtime Three.js Coding (mrdoob.com)

261 points by franze on Sep 5, 2012 | 37 comments

111.

Skeuomorphism (skeu.it)

260 points by speednoise on Sep 10, 2012 | 101 comments

112.

Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database (research.google.com)

258 points by SriniK on Sep 15, 2012 | 55 comments

113.

Dan Weinreb passed away (xconomy.com)

258 points by pyb on Sep 7, 2012 | 24 comments

114.

So I Made A Mashup, And Then… (stevestreza.com)

257 points by craigkerstiens on Sep 8, 2012 | 98 comments

115.

Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use? (battellemedia.com)

256 points by rkudeshi on Sep 14, 2012 | 255 comments

116.

Analysis of bank PIN numbers (datagenetics.com)

255 points by dangoldin on Sep 17, 2012 | 111 comments

117.

Firefox turns 10 years old today (Phoenix v0.1) (mozilla.org)

255 points by mburns on Sep 23, 2012 | 45 comments

118.

What's a $4000 Suit Worth? (nytimes.com)

252 points by gphil on Sep 4, 2012 | 187 comments

119.

Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)

251 points by swombat on Sep 17, 2012 | 145 comments

120.

Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL exploit coming? (chromiumcodereview.appspot.com)

250 points by EwanToo on Sep 12, 2012 | 132 comments