HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Deny This, Last.fm (techcrunch.com)

312 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 23, 2009 | 68 comments

2.

A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)

303 points by toddc on May 8, 2009 | 14 comments

3.

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old (news.ycombinator.com)

300 points by pg on May 13, 2009 | 107 comments

4.

My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org)

251 points by sivers on May 27, 2009 | 44 comments

5.

Is There Anything Good About Men? (denisdutton.com)

232 points by Zarathu on May 2, 2009 | 88 comments

6.

How to Teach a Child to Argue (figarospeech.com)

217 points by dsil on May 29, 2009 | 54 comments

7.

Hacker News Disease (mattmaroon.com)

215 points by sant0sk1 on May 1, 2009 | 104 comments

8.

PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms (autonlab.org)

197 points by coconutrandom on May 14, 2009 | 7 comments

9.

Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned (miltonglaser.com)

194 points by ivankirigin on May 4, 2009 | 33 comments

10.

Can you trust 37signals with your password? (jgc.org)

189 points by l0stman on May 2, 2009 | 130 comments

11.

Don’t! The secret of self-control (newyorker.com)

186 points by alextp on May 11, 2009 | 69 comments

12.

My Personal Credit Crisis (nytimes.com)

185 points by cake on May 15, 2009 | 201 comments

13.

Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives (inc.com)

185 points by wyday on May 5, 2009 | 79 comments

14.

Why it's expensive to be poor (washingtonpost.com)

183 points by tialys on May 20, 2009 | 194 comments

15.

The speed, size and dependability of programming languages (gmarceau.qc.ca)

176 points by trjordan on May 31, 2009 | 56 comments

16.

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005) (zedshaw.com)

174 points by vaksel on May 26, 2009 | 116 comments

17.

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. (techcrunch.com)

169 points by blazamos on May 28, 2009 | 99 comments

18.

The night I met Einstein (akshar.co.in)

167 points by dfield on May 2, 2009 | 39 comments

19.

How to Be Persuasive (moskalyuk.com)

160 points by mixmax on May 17, 2009 | 26 comments

20.

Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires (wired.com)

159 points by naish on May 28, 2009 | 53 comments

21.

The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)

157 points by silentbicycle on May 4, 2009 | 124 comments

22.

How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) (messynotebook.com)

155 points by thomanil on May 29, 2009 | 41 comments

23.

"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail." (support.microsoft.com)

155 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 | 29 comments

24.

Curing Python's Neglect (zedshaw.com)

149 points by twampss on May 29, 2009 | 91 comments

25.

The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up) (tom.preston-werner.com)

147 points by mojombo on May 18, 2009 | 20 comments

26.

Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?

145 points by auston on May 1, 2009 | 119 comments

27.

The Ultimate Lock Picker (wired.com)

144 points by simonb on May 30, 2009 | 14 comments

28.

Oh Yeah? Where's Your Patches Zed? (zedshaw.com)

140 points by inklesspen on May 30, 2009 | 100 comments

29.

Clojure 1.0 Released (groups.google.com)

139 points by drewr on May 4, 2009 | 31 comments

30.

Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer (gist.github.com)

137 points by aditya on May 6, 2009 | 19 comments