HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story (lukethomas.com)

244 points by lukethomas on Aug 19, 2012 | 125 comments

1802.

Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B (thenextweb.com)

244 points by goatcurious on Nov 8, 2012 | 125 comments

1803.

Lessons for uncultured web developers (troyhunt.com)

244 points by troyhunt on Sep 10, 2012 | 112 comments

1804.

Torvalds' quote about good programmers (programmers.stackexchange.com)

244 points by lx on Sep 23, 2012 | 104 comments

1805.

Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die. (slog.thestranger.com)

244 points by fixie on Aug 9, 2012 | 88 comments

1806.

Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012 (vijayp.ca)

244 points by fallenhitokiri on Jul 23, 2012 | 84 comments

1807.

Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely” (extremetech.com)

244 points by ukdm on Mar 2, 2012 | 75 comments

1808.

John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset (pcgamer.com)

244 points by otibom on Jun 6, 2012 | 63 comments

1809.

Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00 (amazon.com)

244 points by fmariluis on Sep 1, 2012 | 50 comments

1810.

Show HN: BigVideo.js (dfcb.github.com)

244 points by johnpolacek on Aug 19, 2012 | 48 comments

1811.

Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

243 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2012 | 269 comments

1812.

The Great German Energy Experiment (technologyreview.com)

243 points by pdelgallego on Jun 19, 2012 | 203 comments

1813.

Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming (winningraceconditions.blogspot.com)

243 points by pcwalton on Sep 26, 2012 | 181 comments

1814.

Rob Pike on Object Oriented programming (plus.google.com)

243 points by crawshaw on Nov 14, 2012 | 168 comments

1815.

Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees (theverge.com)

243 points by benjlang on Jan 28, 2012 | 167 comments

1816.

Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show (5by5.tv)

243 points by ehed on May 21, 2012 | 122 comments

1817.

Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site (ucouldfinish.com)

243 points by robertwalsh0 on Aug 3, 2012 | 112 comments

1818.

Facebook explains what's wrong with the mobile web (lists.w3.org)

243 points by patrickaljord on Sep 15, 2012 | 109 comments

1819.

Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it) (blog.mozilla.org)

243 points by spindritf on Oct 29, 2012 | 107 comments

1820.

FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted (nytimes.com)

243 points by andres on Oct 16, 2012 | 96 comments

1821.

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail (rollingstone.com)

243 points by soundsop on Mar 18, 2012 | 90 comments

1822.

Google at GitHub (github.com)

243 points by adambyrtek on Jan 25, 2012 | 85 comments

1823.

At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero (nytimes.com)

243 points by aaronharnly on Apr 27, 2012 | 85 comments

1824.

Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business (sotmclub.com)

243 points by wolfparade on Jun 1, 2012 | 79 comments

1825.

Django's future, and Python 3 (djangoproject.com)

243 points by jimmyjim on Mar 14, 2012 | 75 comments

1826.

Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication (dropbox.com)

243 points by Xyzodiac on Aug 26, 2012 | 74 comments

1827.

Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS (codepen.io)

243 points by michaelkscott on Aug 15, 2012 | 65 comments

1828.

SHA-3 to Be Announced (schneier.com)

243 points by stalled on Sep 24, 2012 | 53 comments

1829.

125th Birthday of Ramanujan (usna.edu)

243 points by vipinsahu on Dec 22, 2012 | 33 comments

1830.

An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface) (marco.org)

242 points by tnorthcutt on Oct 27, 2012 | 240 comments