HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gets First Update, Heads for Second Phase of Launches (techcrunch.com)

127 points by keviv on Oct 9, 2013 | 41 comments

542.

Tesla stock tumbles after Model S catches fire (news.yahoo.com)

126 points by rglovejoy on Oct 3, 2013 | 193 comments

543.

The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (technologyreview.com)

126 points by uladzislau on Oct 25, 2013 | 138 comments

544.

Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people within 1 mile (appsto.re)

126 points by drum on Oct 30, 2013 | 130 comments

545.

On comparing languages, C++ and Go (blog.grok.se)

126 points by abelsson on Oct 5, 2013 | 127 comments

546.

Fix 260 character file name length limitation: Declined (visualstudio.uservoice.com)

126 points by cryptos on Oct 7, 2013 | 102 comments

547.

WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory (whitedb.org)

126 points by majidazimi on Oct 25, 2013 | 78 comments

548.

Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators (techtalk.intersec.com)

126 points by fruneau on Oct 1, 2013 | 61 comments

549.

Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round (nginx.com)

126 points by shad42 on Oct 15, 2013 | 45 comments

550.

Inside GitHub's Super-Lean Management Strategy (fastcolabs.com)

126 points by ollydbg on Oct 19, 2013 | 44 comments

551.

Pixar's Universal Scene Description (graphics.pixar.com)

126 points by gdubs on Oct 15, 2013 | 31 comments

552.

Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home (washingtonpost.com)

126 points by trauco on Oct 15, 2013 | 25 comments

553.

“The real problems are with the back end of the software” (marginalrevolution.com)

125 points by wwilson on Oct 27, 2013 | 148 comments

554.

Stay Put, Young Man (washingtonmonthly.com)

125 points by pg on Oct 17, 2013 | 94 comments

555.

In Firefox 24 and following, mark all versions of Java as unsafe (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

124 points by y0ghur7_xxx on Oct 22, 2013 | 179 comments

556.

“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays (slate.com)

124 points by tokenadult on Oct 25, 2013 | 117 comments

557.

Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise (washingtonpost.com)

124 points by Libertatea on Oct 8, 2013 | 112 comments

558.

Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension to Remove Features (socialfixer.com)

124 points by selmnoo on Oct 6, 2013 | 100 comments

559.

Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance (eff.org)

124 points by erkose on Oct 26, 2013 | 38 comments

560.

How to escape a monster (using calculus) (datagenetics.com)

124 points by ivoflipse on Oct 20, 2013 | 27 comments

561.

Windows 8.1 now available (blogs.windows.com)

123 points by k-mcgrady on Oct 17, 2013 | 147 comments

562.

GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala (github.com)

123 points by hrjet on Oct 4, 2013 | 107 comments

563.

The humble USB cable is part of an electrical revolution (economist.com)

123 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 22, 2013 | 105 comments

564.

The war on drugs is a broken business model (virgin.com)

123 points by jwdunne on Oct 12, 2013 | 104 comments

565.

Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random (schneier.com)

123 points by e1ven on Oct 14, 2013 | 74 comments

566.

LG launches Firefox phone in Brazil (news.cnet.com)

123 points by daleharvey on Oct 23, 2013 | 35 comments

567.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

122 points by whoishiring on Oct 1, 2013 | 180 comments

568.

Trial week: Our hiring secret (sequoiacap.com)

122 points by drusenko on Oct 28, 2013 | 133 comments

569.

iPad Air Review (anandtech.com)

122 points by wittyphrasehere on Oct 30, 2013 | 100 comments

570.

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet (easings.net)

122 points by bpierre on Oct 1, 2013 | 27 comments