HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)

928 points by dfranke on Jun 3, 2009 | 78 comments

2.

Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong (matasano.com)

258 points by cscott on Jun 3, 2009 | 74 comments

3.

Less, a leaner CSS (lesscss.org)

253 points by cloudhead on Jun 16, 2009 | 85 comments

4.

RIP Michael Jackson (tmz.com)

248 points by jmtame on Jun 25, 2009 | 158 comments

5.

US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a Hacker) (v3.espacenet.com)

239 points by johnnybgoode on Jun 25, 2009 | 58 comments

6.

The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (moserware.com)

236 points by moserware on Jun 10, 2009 | 33 comments

7.

Firefox 3.5 is out (mozilla.com)

234 points by ptn on Jun 30, 2009 | 71 comments

8.

No Hire (github.com)

230 points by raganwald on Jun 26, 2009 | 115 comments

9.

Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers (daringfireball.net)

228 points by dannyr on Jun 15, 2009 | 142 comments

10.

Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head and It Is Ugly (geardiary.com)

208 points by _pius on Jun 22, 2009 | 41 comments

11.

Time Wastes Too Fast (kalman.blogs.nytimes.com)

202 points by mhb on Jun 26, 2009 | 35 comments

12.

Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won) (huffingtonpost.com)

195 points by nhaschka on Jun 9, 2009 | 137 comments

13.

The Zen of HN (github.com)

182 points by mcav on Jun 22, 2009 | 46 comments

14.

Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament (torrentfreak.com)

177 points by mapleoin on Jun 7, 2009 | 54 comments

15.

Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize (netflixprize.com)

174 points by derwiki on Jun 26, 2009 | 29 comments

16.

Astalavista.com hacked, including details (astalavista.com)

171 points by gmazzola on Jun 5, 2009 | 64 comments

17.

Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at (almost.at)

164 points by davidcann on Jun 1, 2009 | 81 comments

18.

Why you need your own company (sivers.org)

161 points by sivers on Jun 10, 2009 | 38 comments

19.

Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser (opera.com)

160 points by mqt on Jun 16, 2009 | 117 comments

20.

Python to get Google-backed speedup (techreport.com)

158 points by mv on Jun 13, 2009 | 69 comments

21.

Things about Web Images I Just Learned (gabrielweinberg.com)

154 points by epi0Bauqu on Jun 16, 2009 | 19 comments

22.

If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006) (timesonline.co.uk)

153 points by revorad on Jun 30, 2009 | 109 comments

23.

The Learjet repo man (salon.com)

153 points by TriinT on Jun 8, 2009 | 49 comments

24.

PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips (groups.google.com)

153 points by hailpixel on Jun 27, 2009 | 39 comments

25.

Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange (siteanalytics.compete.com)

152 points by heed on Jun 17, 2009 | 88 comments

26.

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. (sivers.org)

151 points by sivers on Jun 16, 2009 | 58 comments

27.

The Flimsy Doorknob & The Forgettable Receipt (dustincurtis.com)

142 points by bradgessler on Jun 1, 2009 | 60 comments

28.

On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza A (bunniestudios.com)

142 points by blasdel on Jun 21, 2009 | 28 comments

29.

Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know (catonmat.net)

139 points by pkrumins on Jun 30, 2009 | 76 comments

30.

Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming (maps.org)

139 points by kf on Jun 12, 2009 | 54 comments