HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6511.

OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower (github.com)

131 points by danso on Dec 29, 2013 | 41 comments

6512.

How blind people use Instagram [video] (kottke.org)

131 points by Charlesmigli on Jan 4, 2013 | 35 comments

6513.

CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings' Next Target (sandiego6.com)

131 points by San_Diegian on Aug 12, 2013 | 35 comments

6514.

UN Committee Approves Text Titled ‘Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’ (un.org)

131 points by salient on Nov 27, 2013 | 35 comments

6515.

Bank of America whistle-blower: “We were told to lie” (salon.com)

131 points by rpm4321 on Jun 18, 2013 | 33 comments

6516.

If You Want to Raise Prices, Tell a Better Story (blogs.hbr.org)

131 points by nvk on Aug 6, 2013 | 31 comments

6517.

Deis: Open Source PaaS based on Docker, Chef, and Heroku Buildpacks (deis.io)

131 points by nickstinemates on Aug 6, 2013 | 28 comments

6518.

Sprite Cow – Generate CSS for sprite sheets (spritecow.com)

131 points by wiradikusuma on Dec 2, 2013 | 27 comments

6519.

How are websites making money? (slideshare.net)

131 points by lesterbuck on Feb 20, 2013 | 23 comments

6520.

F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales (research.google.com)

131 points by alec on Aug 27, 2013 | 23 comments

6521.

Build your own summary tool (thetokenizer.com)

131 points by shlomib on Apr 28, 2013 | 22 comments

6522.

Introduction to NumPy (python-course.eu)

131 points by sebg on Feb 5, 2013 | 21 comments

6523.

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter (nytimes.com)

131 points by wallflower on Oct 9, 2013 | 17 comments

6524.

When to Sell Your Company (medium.com)

131 points by fraqed on Feb 21, 2013 | 16 comments

6525.

MOV is Turing Complete [pdf] (cl.cam.ac.uk)

131 points by AndrewDucker on Sep 1, 2013 | 15 comments

6526.

Google, Apple and Facebook Outright Deny They’re Helping the NSA Mine Data (allthingsd.com)

131 points by ghshephard on Jun 7, 2013 | 14 comments

6527.

Distributed systems for fun and profit (book.mixu.net)

131 points by austengary on Sep 17, 2013 | 14 comments

6528.

R 3.0.0 Released (r-project.org)

131 points by surajgupta on Apr 3, 2013 | 13 comments

6529.

Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte (igvita.com)

131 points by igrigorik on Dec 16, 2013 | 12 comments

6530.

The Feynman File (2005) (discovermagazine.com)

131 points by kitcar on May 5, 2013 | 9 comments

6531.

CallDay.org by StopWatchingUs: Call your representatives about NSA surveillance (callday.org)

131 points by sinak on Jun 18, 2013 | 3 comments

6532.

The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat (rollingstone.com)

130 points by jjxavier on Dec 10, 2013 | 210 comments

6533.

Why is there only one Elon Musk? (blog.paintbottle.com)

130 points by jnp on Apr 9, 2013 | 171 comments

6534.

"Instead of cures for cancer we got Angry Birds" (peternixey.com)

130 points by buro9 on Jul 30, 2013 | 158 comments

6535.

The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) (stroustrup.com)

130 points by lispython on May 12, 2013 | 152 comments

6536.

AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television (qz.com)

130 points by boh on Aug 13, 2013 | 134 comments

6537.

Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives (penny-arcade.com)

130 points by cobrausn on Jul 29, 2013 | 129 comments

6538.

Luna delivers your packages when you're home for the night (useluna.com)

130 points by joshclemence on Dec 3, 2013 | 122 comments

6539.

Why You Need To Work For A Big Company (onstartups.com)

130 points by codegeek on Jul 16, 2013 | 113 comments

6540.

Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 (blogs.msdn.com)

130 points by novaleaf on Aug 7, 2013 | 109 comments