HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Planetary Resources wants you to be an asteroid mining intern (venturebeat.com)

74 points by jfdimark on Oct 1, 2012 | 12 comments

842.

Interview with Robert Houdart, author of the world's strongest chess engine (chessbase.com)

74 points by mbrubeck on Oct 31, 2012 | 11 comments

843.

French Entrepreneurs Revolt (mondaynote.com)

73 points by Cbasedlifeform on Oct 9, 2012 | 80 comments

844.

Reasons not to buy from Amazon (stallman.org)

73 points by denzil_correa on Oct 13, 2012 | 77 comments

845.

Regulatory Hacks (cdixon.org)

73 points by zachh on Oct 10, 2012 | 57 comments

846.

Tonnes of iron dumped off B.C.'s coast (vancouversun.com)

73 points by koski on Oct 16, 2012 | 49 comments

847.

The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter (techcrunch.com)

73 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 8, 2012 | 26 comments

848.

Postgres 9.2 highlight: JSON data type (michael.otacoo.com)

73 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 15, 2012 | 24 comments

849.

Dwolla launches MassPay - Free Bulk Payments (blog.dwolla.com)

73 points by mschonfeld on Oct 22, 2012 | 23 comments

850.

Two years of Quicklisp (blog.quicklisp.org)

73 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2012 | 21 comments

851.

The Sorry State of C++ Portability (jeffwofford.com)

72 points by pertinhower on Oct 24, 2012 | 100 comments

852.

Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New (mozilla.org)

72 points by lforrest on Oct 9, 2012 | 81 comments

853.

More trouble for Color: shareholders and board vote to wind down company (venturebeat.com)

72 points by waterlesscloud on Oct 17, 2012 | 68 comments

854.

Has AMD's Clock Run Out? (blog.thirdyearmba.com)

72 points by dlevine on Oct 23, 2012 | 59 comments

855.

Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped (mashable.com)

72 points by kine on Oct 25, 2012 | 57 comments

856.

The science behind how your productivity is chosen by what you eat (blog.bufferapp.com)

72 points by LeonW on Oct 18, 2012 | 53 comments

857.

There's only one exchange rate (transferwise.com)

72 points by tomazstolfa on Oct 25, 2012 | 47 comments

858.

Google Tag Manager (google.com)

72 points by hartard on Oct 1, 2012 | 39 comments

859.

Crowdfunded research into how amphetamines work (rockethub.com)

72 points by bmahmood on Oct 30, 2012 | 39 comments

860.

Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK (github.com)

72 points by mmahemoff on Oct 16, 2012 | 30 comments

861.

Lone packet cripples telco networks (scmagazine.com.au)

72 points by maskofsanity on Oct 12, 2012 | 16 comments

862.

The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive (extremetech.com)

72 points by mrsebastian on Oct 14, 2012 | 9 comments

863.

Yandex Browser (browser.yandex.com)

71 points by mmahemoff on Oct 1, 2012 | 81 comments

864.

ThinkPad Design: Spirit and Essence (viewer.zmags.com)

71 points by Adrock on Oct 7, 2012 | 76 comments

865.

Conflagration: Zynga’s OMGPOP acquisition torched nearly $500,000 a day (thenextweb.com)

71 points by tylerlh on Oct 5, 2012 | 65 comments

866.

The rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names (bbc.co.uk)

71 points by jofo25 on Oct 18, 2012 | 50 comments

867.

Reforming the Patent System Toward a Minimalist System (becker-posner-blog.com)

71 points by phenylene on Oct 1, 2012 | 42 comments

868.

Internap evacuates LGA datacenter (pastebin.com)

71 points by brokentone on Oct 30, 2012 | 37 comments

869.

The one million tweet map (onemilliontweetmap.com)

71 points by thibaut_barrere on Oct 25, 2012 | 34 comments

870.

Uiji.js is jQuery in reverse (aakilfernandes.com)

71 points by aakilfernandes on Oct 20, 2012 | 33 comments