HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million) (siteanalytics.compete.com)

99 points by pg on Jan 30, 2009 | 83 comments

62.

Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)

99 points by gaika on Jan 18, 2009 | 80 comments

63.

Overnight success takes a long time (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

98 points by peter123 on Jan 4, 2009 | 47 comments

64.

My NSA polygraph experiences (antipolygraph.org)

98 points by peter123 on Jan 10, 2009 | 46 comments

65.

Teen goalie designs pads to trick shots (boston.com)

96 points by nickb on Jan 26, 2009 | 41 comments

66.

Ma.gnolia.com crashes hard -- no backups? (ma.gnolia.com)

95 points by eli on Jan 30, 2009 | 77 comments

67.

Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?

94 points by rogercosseboom on Jan 26, 2009 | 181 comments

68.

Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything (jessicamah.com)

94 points by astrec on Jan 21, 2009 | 61 comments

69.

If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Kill Yourself (guardian.co.uk)

93 points by riklomas on Jan 28, 2009 | 156 comments

70.

Failure (possibleprobable.com)

93 points by comatose_kid on Jan 13, 2009 | 31 comments

71.

SICP in PDF from MIT (web.mit.edu)

93 points by michael_dorfman on Jan 20, 2009 | 22 comments

72.

What Should I Do with My Life, Now? (fastcompany.com)

92 points by raju on Jan 15, 2009 | 16 comments

73.

Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together?

91 points by chrisconley on Jan 10, 2009 | 58 comments

74.

Dive into Python 3 (diveintopython3.org)

91 points by prakash on Jan 26, 2009 | 21 comments

75.

A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.)

90 points by grandalf on Jan 11, 2009 | 175 comments

76.

Open-plan offices are making workers sick (news.com.au)

90 points by astrec on Jan 13, 2009 | 71 comments

77.

Burstsort: Fastest known algorithm to sort large set of strings (goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au)

90 points by Xichekolas on Jan 22, 2009 | 24 comments

78.

A guide to GNU Screen (redhatmagazine.com)

90 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 8, 2009 | 23 comments

79.

John Resig dissects the neural network javascript OCR captcha code (ejohn.org)

90 points by mark_h on Jan 24, 2009 | 14 comments

80.

A little secret that will make the world fall apart (alumnit.ca)

89 points by soundsop on Jan 28, 2009 | 113 comments

81.

TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B (techcrunch.com)

89 points by dcurtis on Jan 19, 2009 | 76 comments

82.

Water-lensed eyeglasses offer promise of sight for millions (core77.com)

89 points by indiejade on Jan 3, 2009 | 22 comments

83.

Understanding Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root (betterexplained.com)

88 points by ed on Jan 4, 2009 | 23 comments

84.

How Plentyoffish Conquered Online Dating (Hint: Its Founder Works Just One Hour a Day) (inc.com)

87 points by bd on Jan 8, 2009 | 36 comments

85.

Hungry start-ups (Anyvite & TicketStumbler) on a drastic diet (ft.com)

86 points by fallentimes on Jan 20, 2009 | 56 comments

86.

Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL (arstechnica.com)

86 points by icefox on Jan 14, 2009 | 18 comments

87.

Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?

85 points by pg on Jan 11, 2009 | 194 comments

88.

Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account (altgate.com)

85 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 12, 2009 | 78 comments

89.

Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants (joelonsoftware.com)

85 points by tptacek on Jan 3, 2009 | 35 comments

90.

Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation (sciam.com)

84 points by robg on Jan 30, 2009 | 52 comments