HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

Ask HN: I’m not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives?

68 points by throwaway_acct on Dec 27, 2012 | 66 comments

872.

No, Linux won't be easy to run on a Microsoft Surface (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

68 points by Garbage on Dec 30, 2012 | 64 comments

873.

Ask HN: Who is meeting up? (December 2012)

68 points by whoishiring on Dec 1, 2012 | 61 comments

874.

UX Idea: Real Turn-by-Turn Navigation (kyrobeshay.com)

68 points by ziyadb on Dec 13, 2012 | 41 comments

875.

Ron Conway steps back as Y Combinator cuts team funding (news.cnet.com)

68 points by pizu on Dec 10, 2012 | 38 comments

876.

The concept of antifragility: Shockingly Happy (williampeng.com)

68 points by grosen on Dec 24, 2012 | 36 comments

877.

Icons for Web and Other Businesses (davidmatthias.typepad.com)

68 points by dmkov on Dec 2, 2012 | 23 comments

878.

Scala 2.9 vs 2.10 Performance (markehammons.wordpress.com)

68 points by bertzzie on Dec 2, 2012 | 20 comments

879.

Let's Build NSMutableArray (mikeash.com)

68 points by jamesjyu on Dec 10, 2012 | 20 comments

880.

The solitaire encryption algorithm (1999) (schneier.com)

68 points by MindTwister on Dec 11, 2012 | 16 comments

881.

New Official Facebook Poke iOS Application (itunes.apple.com)

67 points by remi on Dec 21, 2012 | 58 comments

882.

Programming Languages - Hammer Principle (hammerprinciple.com)

67 points by jfaucett on Dec 16, 2012 | 54 comments

883.

Ask HN: I want to build a cable company. How would I get started?

67 points by jayzalowitz on Dec 9, 2012 | 52 comments

884.

Android Overtakes Apple in Australia (theage.com.au)

67 points by nreece on Dec 12, 2012 | 47 comments

885.

Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition (theatlantic.com)

67 points by speednoise on Dec 18, 2012 | 42 comments

886.

Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains” (thecodingbrain.wordpress.com)

67 points by btian on Dec 17, 2012 | 39 comments

887.

Rebuilding Facebook for Android (facebook.com)

67 points by nileshd on Dec 13, 2012 | 34 comments

888.

Marc Andreessen: Not every startup should be a Lean Startup or embrace the pivot (gigaom.com)

67 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 4, 2012 | 32 comments

889.

GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance (lwn.net)

67 points by jmillikin on Dec 22, 2012 | 28 comments

890.

Android's Google Now services headed for Chrome, too (news.cnet.com)

67 points by Pr0 on Dec 8, 2012 | 24 comments

891.

Why I Love Balanced (whit537.org)

67 points by whit537 on Dec 5, 2012 | 23 comments

892.

Playable Mario Game as a blog background (blog.nihilogic.dk)

67 points by old_sound on Dec 4, 2012 | 20 comments

893.

Kicksend (YC S11) partners with Target/CVS/Walgreens to launch "Print to Family" (blog.kicksend.com)

67 points by skyfallsin on Dec 5, 2012 | 6 comments

894.

How do we tell truths that might hurt? (E. Dijkstra, 1975) (cs.utexas.edu)

66 points by Luyt on Dec 15, 2012 | 67 comments

895.

Where the logic hides in rails apps (gammons.github.com)

66 points by dogas on Dec 23, 2012 | 55 comments

896.

Page speed really does matter (gigpeppers.com)

66 points by gingerjoos on Dec 27, 2012 | 52 comments

897.

Photography’s Third Act (dcurt.is)

66 points by jordanbrown on Dec 20, 2012 | 48 comments

898.

CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript (coffeekup.org)

66 points by jonny_eh on Dec 27, 2012 | 41 comments

899.

The Flickr API is a national treasure (threads2.scripting.com)

66 points by davewiner on Dec 16, 2012 | 34 comments

900.

Knowledge workers are bad at working – and what to do about it (calnewport.com)

66 points by michaelochurch on Dec 19, 2012 | 32 comments