HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue (forums.glitchcity.info)

145 points by jackhammer2022 on Nov 30, 2013 | 24 comments

482.

Qubit survives record 39 minutes at room temperature (cbc.ca)

145 points by parondea on Nov 15, 2013 | 21 comments

483.

How statically linked programs run on Linux (eli.thegreenplace.net)

145 points by ptype on Nov 17, 2013 | 17 comments

484.

The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995) (nytimes.com)

144 points by kitcar on Nov 12, 2013 | 71 comments

485.

Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the “Surveillance Internet” (technologyreview.com)

144 points by kshatrea on Nov 8, 2013 | 46 comments

486.

Linkedin's Response to My "Phishing with Intro" Post (jordan-wright.github.io)

144 points by jwcrux on Nov 1, 2013 | 46 comments

487.

Breakout in 30 lines of JavaScript (jsfiddle.net)

144 points by aves on Nov 18, 2013 | 44 comments

488.

Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money (reason.com)

143 points by thejteam on Nov 27, 2013 | 260 comments

489.

Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites private medical details (thestar.com)

143 points by slantyyz on Nov 28, 2013 | 85 comments

490.

There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work (lessaccounting.com)

143 points by thibaut_barrere on Nov 6, 2013 | 44 comments

491.

Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players (robotgame.org)

142 points by _g2lm on Nov 1, 2013 | 98 comments

492.

HTML: font color=”red” becomes green (jsfiddle.net)

142 points by lucb1e on Nov 29, 2013 | 92 comments

493.

XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing (news.rapgenius.com)

142 points by sugnid on Nov 4, 2013 | 75 comments

494.

Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python (stavros.io)

142 points by StavrosK on Nov 4, 2013 | 48 comments

495.

Valgrind Release 3.9.0 (valgrind.org)

142 points by conductor on Nov 4, 2013 | 34 comments

496.

How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (righto.com)

142 points by pmarin on Nov 18, 2013 | 7 comments

497.

Building an invalid string in Python 2.x (gist.github.com)

141 points by bmease on Nov 21, 2013 | 34 comments

498.

16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up (heavensgate.com)

140 points by standeven on Nov 23, 2013 | 103 comments

499.

Moscow subway sells free tickets for 30 sit-ups (english.pravda.ru)

140 points by vladgur on Nov 10, 2013 | 80 comments

500.

The plot against France (nytimes.com)

140 points by galactus on Nov 12, 2013 | 80 comments

501.

Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland (allthingsd.com)

140 points by Anon84 on Nov 21, 2013 | 68 comments

502.

Preferred number (en.wikipedia.org)

140 points by RhysU on Nov 8, 2013 | 16 comments

503.

Yahoos Bristle at Mayer’s New QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs” (allthingsd.com)

139 points by johnjlocke on Nov 8, 2013 | 148 comments

504.

Everpix is Shutting Down (everpix.com)

139 points by uptown on Nov 5, 2013 | 89 comments

505.

The secret world of cargo ships (theweek.com)

138 points by danso on Nov 11, 2013 | 102 comments

506.

Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties? (businessinsider.com)

138 points by jonathansizz on Nov 6, 2013 | 82 comments

507.

If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run? (blogs.msdn.com)

138 points by luu on Nov 3, 2013 | 79 comments

508.

OS X LevelDB Corruption Bounty: 10.00 BTC + 200.2 LTC (bitcointalk.org)

138 points by cypherpunks01 on Nov 25, 2013 | 53 comments

509.

How to make fake data look meaningful (danbirken.com)

138 points by birken on Nov 20, 2013 | 41 comments

510.

Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Years Ago (thisiscolossal.com)

138 points by nzp on Nov 5, 2013 | 39 comments