HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Millions in Asia still on Windows XP (visual.ly)

46 points by ssreeniv on Oct 11, 2013 | 56 comments

1502.

Consultants vs. Employees: The Real Costs (inthebackforty.com)

46 points by nerded on Oct 21, 2013 | 56 comments

1503.

Why Your Professors Suck (zacharyernst.blogspot.com)

46 points by prostoalex on Oct 26, 2013 | 56 comments

1504.

The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading (wired.com)

46 points by Oletros on Oct 2, 2013 | 54 comments

1505.

A 23andMe Patent (blog.23andme.com)

46 points by maverick2 on Oct 3, 2013 | 49 comments

1506.

V8 performance can beat C sometimes (benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org)

46 points by pmelendez on Oct 11, 2013 | 35 comments

1507.

Open access: The true cost of science publishing (nature.com)

46 points by georgecmu on Oct 13, 2013 | 28 comments

1508.

How to make homework more fun: Matlab to Ruby (coderwall.com)

46 points by bitsweet on Oct 7, 2013 | 25 comments

1509.

Will Nintendo sue? (github.com)

46 points by pearjuice on Oct 20, 2013 | 22 comments

1510.

Paying Money To Save It And Doing More With Less (brianbrunner.com)

46 points by bbrunner on Oct 25, 2013 | 18 comments

1511.

Kicksend + Walmart: Order Prints for Pickup at 3,800+ Walmart Stores (blog.kicksend.com)

46 points by dko on Oct 31, 2013 | 16 comments

1512.

How Bill Gross’ GoTo.com inspired the AdWords business model (slate.com)

46 points by rpm4321 on Oct 14, 2013 | 12 comments

1513.

Why we use Balanced for payments (blog.apixchange.com)

46 points by jsonne on Oct 1, 2013 | 11 comments

1514.

TogetherJS as a Postmodern Programming Tool (ianbicking.org)

46 points by ianbicking on Oct 31, 2013 | 11 comments

1515.

Freeze date and Freeze Policy for Debian Jessie (lists.debian.org)

46 points by slashdotaccount on Oct 13, 2013 | 9 comments

1516.

Marketing Your Personal Projects [video] (discovermeteor.com)

46 points by sgdesign on Oct 29, 2013 | 5 comments

1517.

Panorama's (YC S13) advice for first time founders and YC applicants (blog.ycombinator.com)

46 points by katm on Oct 28, 2013 | 3 comments

1518.

Annual Income and Cost of Living for BART Employees (sxywu.github.io)

45 points by sxywu on Oct 13, 2013 | 80 comments

1519.

Microsoft's Surface 2 will replace paper manuals on all Delta aircraft (techspot.com)

45 points by jamesbritt on Oct 1, 2013 | 75 comments

1520.

FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million in Bitcoins From Ross Ulbricht (forbes.com)

45 points by tjaerv on Oct 25, 2013 | 71 comments

1521.

Encouraging interviewees to say “I don’t know” improves performance (morehappy.me)

45 points by dncrane on Oct 9, 2013 | 70 comments

1522.

Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans (nytimes.com)

45 points by hudibras on Oct 2, 2013 | 63 comments

1523.

‘Sitting is the new smoking’ (venturebeat.com)

45 points by w1ntermute on Oct 8, 2013 | 61 comments

1524.

Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage (forbes.com)

45 points by blurpin on Oct 21, 2013 | 54 comments

1525.

Archive of all Silk Road forum posts attributed to Dread Pirate Roberts (rossulbricht.org)

45 points by tjaerv on Oct 7, 2013 | 52 comments

1526.

The growing irrelevance of Google Search (movingfulcrum.tumblr.com)

45 points by pdeva1 on Oct 14, 2013 | 51 comments

1527.

Airbnb makes small admission on tax issue, saying its hosts should pay (sfbg.com)

45 points by yapcguy on Oct 6, 2013 | 49 comments

1528.

It’s not just the iPhone 5S — the 5C sensors aren’t accurate either (venturebeat.com)

45 points by 0cool on Oct 8, 2013 | 49 comments

1529.

Tumblr: ‘It Was the Biggest Game of Chicken I’ve Ever Seen.’ (nymag.com)

45 points by cpymchn on Oct 1, 2013 | 48 comments

1530.

Microsoft Office is killing Google Apps and anemic iWorks (blogs.computerworld.com)

45 points by pgralla on Oct 31, 2013 | 47 comments