HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1831.

United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care (bobsutton.typepad.com)

242 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 14, 2012 | 188 comments

1832.

“I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer (arstechnica.com)

242 points by chinmoy on Oct 4, 2012 | 130 comments

1833.

Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire (wired.co.uk)

242 points by crm114 on Aug 3, 2012 | 118 comments

1834.

55,000 Twitter passwords leaked (airdemon.net)

242 points by gravitronic on May 8, 2012 | 104 comments

1835.

Glitch Is Closing (glitch.com)

242 points by pretz on Nov 15, 2012 | 104 comments

1836.

Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website (howacarworks.com)

242 points by AlexMuir on Dec 27, 2012 | 104 comments

1837.

Show HN: I built a thing (boxcarsurgery.com)

242 points by zacharydanger on Nov 3, 2012 | 102 comments

1838.

Nomic (en.wikipedia.org)

242 points by eugeniodepalo on Dec 8, 2012 | 84 comments

1839.

The Rise of the New Groupthink (nytimes.com)

242 points by user02138 on Jan 13, 2012 | 80 comments

1840.

Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) (wired.com)

242 points by jurre on Feb 21, 2012 | 66 comments

1841.

A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison (venturebeat.com)

242 points by bane on Jun 15, 2012 | 66 comments

1842.

Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls’ Claim To Own the Interactive Web (wired.com)

242 points by capocani on Feb 9, 2012 | 49 comments

1843.

Indian Government uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97% (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

241 points by Garbage on Mar 13, 2012 | 218 comments

1844.

Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France (washingtonpost.com)

241 points by Flemlord on Mar 4, 2012 | 215 comments

1845.

Apple’s great GPL purge (meta.ath0.com)

241 points by jamesbritt on Feb 7, 2012 | 205 comments

1846.

A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company (mashable.com)

241 points by jpadilla_ on Apr 27, 2012 | 193 comments

1847.

I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone

241 points by redhat on Mar 20, 2012 | 191 comments

1848.

Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% (andrewhy.de)

241 points by dfield on Jun 11, 2012 | 138 comments

1849.

WhatsApp is broken, really broken (fileperms.org)

241 points by espinchi on Sep 14, 2012 | 130 comments

1850.

NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You (wired.com)

241 points by mtgx on Jun 19, 2012 | 93 comments

1851.

$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB (hardkernel.com)

241 points by 6ren on Dec 28, 2012 | 92 comments

1852.

Coding tricks of game developers (dodgycoder.net)

241 points by damian2000 on Feb 11, 2012 | 65 comments

1853.

Announcing Wolfram Alpha Pro (blog.wolframalpha.com)

241 points by cleverjake on Feb 9, 2012 | 53 comments

1854.

GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. (therwp.com)

241 points by emillon on Mar 29, 2012 | 47 comments

1855.

How Reddit ranking algorithms work (amix.dk)

241 points by kopsai on Mar 22, 2012 | 29 comments

1856.

Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers (news.cnet.com)

240 points by dean on May 10, 2012 | 204 comments

1857.

Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times (thenextweb.com)

240 points by ryangilbert on Apr 10, 2012 | 191 comments

1858.

Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome (blogs.adobe.com)

240 points by hotice on Feb 22, 2012 | 184 comments

1859.

‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance (geekwire.com)

240 points by turoczy on Nov 4, 2012 | 155 comments

1860.

NoPassword (nopassword.alexsmolen.com)

240 points by BerislavLopac on Sep 25, 2012 | 145 comments