HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4801.

Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished” (tikkun.org)

162 points by SingleFounderCo on Jul 27, 2013 | 42 comments

4802.

Opera will use Blink (brucelawson.co.uk)

162 points by mathias on Apr 3, 2013 | 41 comments

4803.

Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free (blog.hackermonthly.com)

162 points by ValentineC on Feb 18, 2013 | 40 comments

4804.

Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament (falkvinge.net)

162 points by tellarin on Apr 28, 2013 | 40 comments

4805.

An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls (rackspace.com)

162 points by grimey27 on May 14, 2013 | 38 comments

4806.

Float Label Pattern (bradfrostweb.com)

162 points by ryanjodonnell on Nov 6, 2013 | 33 comments

4807.

The Story of the Ping Program (ftp.arl.army.mil)

162 points by YAYERKA on Jan 9, 2013 | 28 comments

4808.

Free SVG and PNG Icons Easily Customizable For Games (game-icons.net)

162 points by Hirvesh on Jan 4, 2013 | 26 comments

4809.

How D3 Selections Work (bost.ocks.org)

162 points by jfirebaugh on Apr 26, 2013 | 8 comments

4810.

Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case (eff.org)

162 points by geekam on May 15, 2013 | 7 comments

4811.

Rally in Hong Kong to Support Edward Snowden (facebook.com)

162 points by sethbannon on Jun 13, 2013 | 6 comments

4812.

The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies (mediaite.com)

161 points by skwirl on Jun 13, 2013 | 239 comments

4813.

Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud (thenextweb.com)

161 points by 0x10c0fe11ce on May 6, 2013 | 209 comments

4814.

Go 1.1 beta 1 Released (groups.google.com)

161 points by geetarista on Apr 4, 2013 | 181 comments

4815.

Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen (inputs.io)

161 points by citricsquid on Nov 7, 2013 | 180 comments

4816.

The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz – Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion (volokh.com)

161 points by pdonis on Jan 17, 2013 | 136 comments

4817.

Facts about Wayland vs X (phoronix.com)

161 points by microwise on Jun 7, 2013 | 127 comments

4818.

The declining value of the MS in Computer Science (blog.regehr.org)

161 points by moyix on May 29, 2013 | 124 comments

4819.

Toxic workplace, what do I do? (pastebin.com)

161 points by fingerDevnull on Jun 6, 2013 | 121 comments

4820.

Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web (chimeapp.com)

161 points by trq_ on Feb 6, 2013 | 116 comments

4821.

Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals (mtgox.com)

161 points by citricsquid on Jun 20, 2013 | 112 comments

4822.

Snowden's Dead Man's Switch (schneier.com)

161 points by qubitsam on Jul 18, 2013 | 111 comments

4823.

CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’ (wired.com)

161 points by colmvp on Sep 17, 2013 | 109 comments

4824.

NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry (wired.com)

161 points by Libertatea on Sep 7, 2013 | 107 comments

4825.

FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping (reason.com)

161 points by raverbashing on May 14, 2013 | 106 comments

4826.

Netflix uses FreeBSD 9.0 (signup.netflix.com)

161 points by auvi on Dec 22, 2013 | 94 comments

4827.

Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues (designtaxi.com)

161 points by imwhimsical on Apr 29, 2013 | 92 comments

4828.

One VM to Rule Them All [pdf] (lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at)

161 points by charlestuy on Aug 18, 2013 | 88 comments

4829.

Protean Echo – Fuse All Your Cards into One (getprotean.com)

161 points by X4 on Nov 14, 2013 | 81 comments

4830.

Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think? (regex101.com)

161 points by Lindrian on Jul 20, 2013 | 77 comments