HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket (businessweek.com)

47 points by kitcar on Dec 14, 2012 | 16 comments

1202.

The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (arstechnica.com)

47 points by thealphanerd on Dec 26, 2012 | 16 comments

1203.

What are Google's long-term plans for Google App Engine? ()

47 points by rnc000 on Dec 22, 2012 | 15 comments

1204.

How to escape a sinking helicopter (popularmechanics.com)

47 points by genystartup on Dec 23, 2012 | 12 comments

1205.

HackPad is expanding its reach, maybe even to the White House (pandodaily.com)

47 points by kunle on Dec 1, 2012 | 7 comments

1206.

US patent lawsuits now dominated by 'trolls' (reuters.com)

46 points by kjhughes on Dec 11, 2012 | 57 comments

1207.

Live Picture: Software that was way ahead of its time (pixiq.com)

46 points by yottoy on Dec 25, 2012 | 57 comments

1208.

Blue-collar knowledge workers will save the economy (seldo.com)

46 points by luu on Dec 22, 2012 | 54 comments

1209.

Last.fm Radio to be killed off in most countries next month (thenextweb.com)

46 points by revorad on Dec 13, 2012 | 48 comments

1210.

Compostable all-natural water filters (kickstarter.com)

46 points by zachallia on Dec 4, 2012 | 47 comments

1211.

Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution (hub.startuprev.com)

46 points by jqueryin on Dec 4, 2012 | 43 comments

1212.

Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of all power by 2030 (theregister.co.uk)

46 points by iProject on Dec 15, 2012 | 42 comments

1213.

Why I Recommend Against Hackety Hack (inventwithpython.com)

46 points by AlSweigart on Dec 28, 2012 | 39 comments

1214.

Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration (techcrunch.com)

46 points by ssclafani on Dec 5, 2012 | 36 comments

1215.

Kotlin: statically typed programming language that compiles to JVM & JavaScript (kotlin.jetbrains.org)

46 points by amarsahinovic on Dec 29, 2012 | 33 comments

1216.

Private By Default (tbray.org)

46 points by graue on Dec 3, 2012 | 28 comments

1217.

Plenty Of Zip Codes For Form Auto-Completion (zippopotam.us)

46 points by gulbrandr on Dec 4, 2012 | 26 comments

1218.

Explaining coder's block to non-coders (tommy.authpad.com)

46 points by tomasien on Dec 7, 2012 | 26 comments

1219.

Saturn’s Strange Hexagon (universetoday.com)

46 points by tagawa on Dec 23, 2012 | 19 comments

1220.

The best web and mobile fonts of 2012 (venturebeat.com)

46 points by treskot on Dec 26, 2012 | 15 comments

1221.

Apple rolls out new status page for Services, Stores and iCloud (apple.com)

46 points by derpenxyne on Dec 13, 2012 | 12 comments

1222.

What is Reactive Demand Programming? (github.com)

46 points by kenhty on Dec 3, 2012 | 7 comments

1223.

Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas (gist.github.com)

45 points by slasaus on Dec 26, 2012 | 86 comments

1224.

Show HN: Solving a very old problem — passwords (clef.io)

45 points by brennenHN on Dec 26, 2012 | 82 comments

1225.

The great California Exodus (manhattan-institute.org)

45 points by flavio87 on Dec 28, 2012 | 67 comments

1226.

Eric Schmidt: How We Outrace the Robots (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

45 points by moistgorilla on Dec 13, 2012 | 61 comments

1227.

Why Solar Installations Cost More in the U.S. than in Germany (technologyreview.com)

45 points by iProject on Dec 27, 2012 | 55 comments

1228.

Why does this C program compile? (stackoverflow.com)

45 points by manojlds on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments

1229.

Kurzweil Responds: Don't Underestimate the Singularity (2011) (technologyreview.com)

45 points by llambda on Dec 15, 2012 | 49 comments

1230.

Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control? (neverworkintheory.org)

45 points by gruseom on Dec 17, 2012 | 46 comments