HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

USC doctoral student unravels ‘tin whisker’ mystery (sc.edu)

75 points by brianl on Dec 9, 2012 | 15 comments

812.

Why Lisp? 3 answers (mattknox.com)

74 points by fogus on Dec 11, 2012 | 76 comments

813.

Tim Cook's Freshman Year (businessweek.com)

74 points by JoeCortopassi on Dec 6, 2012 | 70 comments

814.

Ads may come to Instagram (slate.com)

74 points by jalanco on Dec 13, 2012 | 53 comments

815.

Firefox OS challenges the closed mobile ecosystems (comoyo.github.com)

74 points by dagingaa on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments

816.

Show HN: a distraction-free Markdown editor (pencil.asleepysamurai.com)

74 points by chaosprophet on Dec 8, 2012 | 46 comments

817.

The Product Manager's Lament (linkedin.com)

74 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 28, 2012 | 43 comments

818.

Fay: a subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript (fay-lang.org)

74 points by sadiq on Dec 31, 2012 | 27 comments

819.

BBC Micro on an FPGA (mikestirling.co.uk)

74 points by jacquesm on Dec 17, 2012 | 20 comments

820.

Nvidia Display Driver Service Exploit (pastebin.com)

74 points by idiamin on Dec 25, 2012 | 3 comments

821.

DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation (motherjones.com)

74 points by 01PH on Dec 2, 2012 | 0 comments

822.

Why C++ is back (devbug.tumblr.com)

73 points by devbug on Dec 2, 2012 | 72 comments

823.

4Chan Accepts Bitcoin (4chan.org)

73 points by doublextremevil on Dec 13, 2012 | 42 comments

824.

Show HN: the app that powers our order fulfillment warehouse (plusbryan.com)

73 points by plusbryan on Dec 11, 2012 | 22 comments

825.

SDK published for Ouya - Apache 2.0 licensed (ouya.tv)

73 points by jonny_eh on Dec 28, 2012 | 21 comments

826.

The Future of Ruby (nathany.com)

73 points by kylefox on Dec 17, 2012 | 16 comments

827.

Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace — the first computer programmer (blog.vox.io)

73 points by tomazstolfa on Dec 10, 2012 | 15 comments

828.

Anatomy of a knockout (chris-granger.com)

73 points by ibdknox on Dec 12, 2012 | 15 comments

829.

Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington? (reason.com)

72 points by mtgx on Dec 29, 2012 | 103 comments

830.

Is Facebook down? (facebook.com)

72 points by acron0 on Dec 10, 2012 | 90 comments

831.

Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs (zdnet.com)

72 points by KeepTalking on Dec 3, 2012 | 71 comments

832.

Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old (launchside.com)

72 points by colbyaley on Dec 14, 2012 | 67 comments

833.

Auto Insurance Comparison Startup Leaky Launches Nationally, Raises $670K (techcrunch.com)

72 points by jasontraff on Dec 5, 2012 | 41 comments

834.

Understanding map, filter, and fold (dev.gd)

72 points by biesnecker on Dec 24, 2012 | 38 comments

835.

How to Destroy an Arduino (ruggedcircuits.com)

72 points by harrydoukas on Dec 8, 2012 | 30 comments

836.

The Organism Will Do What It Pleases (codinghorror.com)

72 points by stalled on Dec 1, 2012 | 18 comments

837.

D3, Conceptually - Lesson 2 (code.hazzens.com)

72 points by hazzen on Dec 4, 2012 | 9 comments

838.

Anti-Portfolio (bvp.com)

72 points by kjhughes on Dec 5, 2012 | 9 comments

839.

Stop building apps no one wants (launchsky.com)

71 points by vlokshin on Dec 5, 2012 | 140 comments

840.

Exynos based quad-core developer boards, starting at $69 (hardkernel.com)

71 points by sharmajai on Dec 2, 2012 | 50 comments