HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5011.

Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets (theguardian.com)

157 points by pwg on Aug 27, 2013 | 141 comments

5012.

Why Nobody Should Use Rails (blog.bensigelman.org)

157 points by mwcampbell on Aug 6, 2013 | 133 comments

5013.

Listen to AOL’s CEO Fire Employee in Conference Call With 1,000 people (slate.com)

157 points by wikiburner on Aug 12, 2013 | 125 comments

5014.

LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Customers Affected (allthingsd.com)

157 points by dcu on Apr 26, 2013 | 120 comments

5015.

What is a Full Stack developer? (2012) (laurencegellert.com)

157 points by mark_nsx on Jun 3, 2013 | 120 comments

5016.

Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors (gigaom.com)

157 points by gmatty on Aug 4, 2013 | 118 comments

5017.

Click here, save a life, for real (salon.com)

157 points by pg on Sep 13, 2013 | 116 comments

5018.

Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts (herculesandtheumpire.com)

157 points by danso on Aug 27, 2013 | 111 comments

5019.

Is This The Future of The Airline Website? (f-i.com)

157 points by ahmadss on Jul 23, 2013 | 107 comments

5020.

You don’t have to feel guilty for oversleeping (42floors.com)

157 points by kdivvela on May 7, 2013 | 106 comments

5021.

Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video] (twitch.tv)

157 points by n1c on Dec 14, 2013 | 101 comments

5022.

Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too (moshebildner.wordpress.com)

157 points by mbildner on Sep 23, 2013 | 98 comments

5023.

Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet (sfgate.com)

157 points by auctiontheory on Sep 17, 2013 | 97 comments

5024.

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)

157 points by yammesicka on Sep 19, 2013 | 95 comments

5025.

Yours in distress, Alan (lettersofnote.com)

157 points by llambda on Jun 7, 2013 | 90 comments

5026.

SQL Injection Galore (github.com)

157 points by ericmathison on Aug 5, 2013 | 86 comments

5027.

How A Used Bottle Becomes A New Bottle, In 6 Gifs (npr.org)

157 points by jellyksong on Jun 20, 2013 | 85 comments

5028.

Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web (blog.mozilla.org)

157 points by praxxis on Nov 6, 2013 | 77 comments

5029.

Trampolines in JavaScript (raganwald.com)

157 points by austengary on Sep 6, 2013 | 72 comments

5030.

JSFuck – Write any JavaScript with 6 Characters: []()!+ (jsfuck.com)

157 points by lukashed on Sep 13, 2013 | 71 comments

5031.

Freelan - an open-source, multi-platform, peer-to-peer VPN software (freelan.org)

157 points by bowyakka on Sep 29, 2013 | 68 comments

5032.

How I Earned A Lot More on Projects by Changing My Pricing Strategy (sixrevisions.com)

157 points by jggube on Jul 19, 2013 | 66 comments

5033.

A history of the Amiga, part 1: Genesis (arstechnica.com)

157 points by ot on Nov 25, 2013 | 66 comments

5034.

Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You (wired.com)

157 points by prostoalex on Nov 20, 2013 | 63 comments

5035.

SkiFree in the Browser (basicallydan.github.com)

157 points by basicallydan on Feb 19, 2013 | 61 comments

5036.

Numenta releases brain-derived learning algorithm package NuPIC (numenta.org)

157 points by gfodor on Jun 3, 2013 | 59 comments

5037.

UK porn filter to also block "extremist narrative"? (publications.parliament.uk)

157 points by salient on Nov 26, 2013 | 57 comments

5038.

A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam (pike.psu.edu)

157 points by DK007 on Jan 30, 2013 | 54 comments

5039.

Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in the world, in 11 sizes (github.com)

157 points by robinhood on Sep 27, 2013 | 51 comments

5040.

Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE (software.intel.com)

157 points by moonlighter on Dec 26, 2013 | 51 comments