HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

How tiny Portugal beat the Chinese Empire in the race to control the seas (unenumerated.blogspot.com)

5 points by bokonist on Feb 16, 2009 | 1 comments

1802.

Polyvore - Fashion freaks rejoice, you're a part of the web too (lostthetech.com)

5 points by holdenpage on Feb 16, 2009 | 1 comments

1803.

Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000 (techcrunch.com)

5 points by vaksel on Feb 17, 2009 | 1 comments

1804.

JQuery Case Study: How WordPress uses jQuery & jQuery UI (reynoldsftw.com)

5 points by mootymoots on Feb 17, 2009 | 1 comments

1805.

The economic crisis prompts an outbreak of politeness in business (economist.com)

5 points by daviday on Feb 17, 2009 | 1 comments

1806.

Harvard Narcissists With MBAs Killed Wall Street (bloomberg.com)

5 points by lnguyen on Feb 18, 2009 | 1 comments

1807.

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - The McKinsey Quarterly (mckinseyquarterly.com)

5 points by kirpekar on Feb 18, 2009 | 1 comments

1808.

IBM delivers broadband over power lines (technologizer.com)

5 points by technologizer on Feb 20, 2009 | 1 comments

1809.

Uncyclopedia explains why Lisp is so elegant (uncyclopedia.wikia.com)

5 points by critic on Feb 20, 2009 | 1 comments

1810.

The Latest Thing They're Smoking in Pipes on College Campuses: Tobacco (online.wsj.com)

5 points by peter123 on Feb 20, 2009 | 1 comments

1811.

TCP, Hold the Congestion Control? (lynnesblog.telemuse.net)

5 points by iamwil on Feb 21, 2009 | 1 comments

1812.

Stimulus Spend Data Coming via Feeds (readwriteweb.com)

5 points by babyshake on Feb 22, 2009 | 1 comments

1813.

Microsoft wants refund from some laid off workers (news.cnet.com)

5 points by edgefield on Feb 22, 2009 | 1 comments

1814.

Orange: data mining framework C++/Python (ailab.si)

5 points by samueladam on Feb 23, 2009 | 1 comments

1815.

GNU Bash 4.0 released with some new features (idev.in)

5 points by kanny96 on Feb 24, 2009 | 1 comments

1816.

Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 (crave.cnet.co.uk)

5 points by edgefield on Feb 25, 2009 | 1 comments

1817.

Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data (meet AWS Public Data Sets) (readwriteweb.com)

5 points by markup on Feb 25, 2009 | 1 comments

1818.

Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces (webdesignerdepot.com)

5 points by nreece on Feb 26, 2009 | 1 comments

1819.

Spotify, the music industry's smiling assassin (launchlab.co.uk)

5 points by Danmatt on Feb 26, 2009 | 1 comments

1820.

Microsoft plays with small, sleepy servers (theregister.co.uk)

5 points by vaksel on Feb 26, 2009 | 1 comments

1821.

Mike Turner's Do-It-Yourself 95 MPG AeroCivic (Slideshow) (treehugger.com)

5 points by MikeCapone on Feb 26, 2009 | 1 comments

1822.

Intro to Clojure - 80 min screencast for non-Lispers (vid) (youtube.com)

5 points by nickb on Feb 27, 2009 | 0 comments

1823.

Yellow Is the New Green (nytimes.com)

5 points by robg on Feb 27, 2009 | 0 comments

1824.

Hash Table with Preemptive Bloom Filter (mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com)

5 points by bdr on Feb 27, 2009 | 0 comments

1825.

How to get gigapixel photos from a cheap digicam (newscientist.com)

5 points by MaysonL on Feb 27, 2009 | 0 comments

1826.

Amazon Backs Off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

5 points by RK on Feb 28, 2009 | 0 comments

1827.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized (vimeo.com)

5 points by jwickett on Feb 28, 2009 | 0 comments

1828.

Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity (smarterware.org)

5 points by ddelony on Feb 28, 2009 | 0 comments

1829.

Eiffel goodies for Pascal programmers (blog.tetrack.com)

5 points by Tihy on Feb 1, 2009 | 0 comments

1830.

Thoughts On The Economics Of Giving It Away (onstartups.com)

5 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 1, 2009 | 0 comments