HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.

532 points by pg on Jan 31, 2009 | 137 comments

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Some things need to change (techcrunch.com)

287 points by zhyder on Jan 28, 2009 | 204 comments

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A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough... (radian.org)

224 points by jdnier on Jan 8, 2009 | 51 comments

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Why Google Employees Quit (techcrunch.com)

202 points by peter123 on Jan 18, 2009 | 98 comments

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How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008 (pseudocoder.com)

190 points by hbien on Jan 7, 2009 | 60 comments

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Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks (inc.com)

188 points by twampss on Jan 14, 2009 | 84 comments

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Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George (friendfeed.com)

188 points by brlewis on Jan 25, 2009 | 77 comments

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How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage (userscape.com)

185 points by matthewking on Jan 29, 2009 | 65 comments

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The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective (semyon.com)

185 points by prakash on Jan 14, 2009 | 60 comments

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Potion - a little fast OO language by _why (github.com)

183 points by arockwell on Jan 8, 2009 | 55 comments

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The 37signals Effect (lbrandy.com)

171 points by wheels on Jan 19, 2009 | 75 comments

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Taming Perfectionism (defmacro.org)

170 points by apgwoz on Jan 27, 2009 | 39 comments

13.

Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it

164 points by pclark on Jan 30, 2009 | 53 comments

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Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins (ibm.com)

162 points by jaspertheghost on Jan 15, 2009 | 53 comments

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Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence (blogs.wsj.com)

159 points by bootload on Jan 14, 2009 | 107 comments

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YHackers: Click that "New" link

157 points by bprater on Jan 22, 2009 | 59 comments

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Working from Home: Why It Sucks (geeksinboston.com)

156 points by shimon on Jan 26, 2009 | 101 comments

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Steve Jobs speaks out about his health (apple.com)

153 points by spif on Jan 5, 2009 | 91 comments

19.

Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like? (upload.wikimedia.org)

151 points by makimaki on Jan 20, 2009 | 46 comments

20.

Starting this summer, YC will be in California year-round (ycombinator.com)

150 points by pg on Jan 22, 2009 | 101 comments

21.

Congratulations PG on the coming child ()

149 points by trickjarrett on Jan 22, 2009 | 52 comments

22.

Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week) (blog.penelopetrunk.com)

146 points by AlexeyMK on Jan 9, 2009 | 72 comments

23.

Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

144 points by paul on Jan 22, 2009 | 29 comments

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How to Choose Chart Types (pic) (flickr.com)

143 points by nickb on Jan 24, 2009 | 12 comments

25.

My Git Workflow (gweezlebur.com)

142 points by PStamatiou on Jan 20, 2009 | 25 comments

26.

Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry (blog.dreamhost.com)

139 points by jadence on Jan 13, 2009 | 49 comments

27.

Advice from a once burnt-out programmer (miketec.org)

136 points by anuraggoel on Jan 11, 2009 | 52 comments

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How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget (gamedev.net)

134 points by frisco on Jan 17, 2009 | 51 comments

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Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar (frisnit.com)

134 points by theoneill on Jan 6, 2009 | 27 comments

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Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org)

134 points by signa11 on Jan 27, 2009 | 23 comments