HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1351.

RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer (retrothing.com)

280 points by microtherion on Oct 8, 2012 | 64 comments

1352.

Show HN: Script Excel with Python (ironspread.com)

280 points by karamazov on Jun 8, 2012 | 61 comments

1353.

What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea (pfinn.net)

280 points by route3 on Dec 16, 2012 | 54 comments

1354.

Show HN: Interactive SICP (xuanji.appspot.com)

280 points by zodiac on Dec 2, 2012 | 51 comments

1355.

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech (washingtonpost.com)

279 points by vonmoltke on Oct 15, 2012 | 274 comments

1356.

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

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

1357.

The Caging of America (newyorker.com)

279 points by davux on Mar 11, 2012 | 219 comments

1358.

Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code” (github.com)

279 points by sferik on Apr 15, 2012 | 192 comments

1359.

Facebook, I want my friends back (dangerousminds.net)

279 points by vospeweb on Oct 24, 2012 | 186 comments

1360.

Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning (research.google.com)

279 points by marshallp on Jun 22, 2012 | 183 comments

1361.

I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit (blog.hartleybrody.com)

279 points by hartleybrody on Dec 9, 2012 | 172 comments

1362.

Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $37.58 (sec.gov)

279 points by bond on May 23, 2012 | 169 comments

1363.

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

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

1364.

Sleepbox (sleepbox.com)

279 points by damian2000 on Aug 18, 2012 | 142 comments

1365.

The coming civil war over general purpose computing (boingboing.net)

279 points by Create on Aug 26, 2012 | 98 comments

1366.

The Pirate Bay in the cloud (thepiratebay.se)

279 points by ponyous on Oct 17, 2012 | 68 comments

1367.

Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)

279 points by mikeyk on Apr 5, 2012 | 53 comments

1368.

"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem (motherjones.com)

278 points by addabjork on Apr 26, 2012 | 362 comments

1369.

Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins (webcast.web.cern.ch)

278 points by Rickasaurus on Jul 4, 2012 | 211 comments

1370.

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success (theatlantic.com)

278 points by dirtyaura on Jan 2, 2012 | 186 comments

1371.

Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012 (kalzumeus.com)

278 points by Sujan on Dec 29, 2012 | 129 comments

1372.

Pickadate.js (github.com)

278 points by electic on Nov 20, 2012 | 125 comments

1373.

Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally (techdirt.com)

278 points by chaostheory on Mar 28, 2012 | 77 comments

1374.

"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story (terrybisson.com)

278 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 3, 2012 | 62 comments

1375.

PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps (corner.squareup.com)

278 points by wlue on Aug 30, 2012 | 44 comments

1376.

Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals (lists.w3.org)

277 points by cgbystrom on Jul 17, 2012 | 136 comments

1377.

Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts (pocketables.com)