HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Ask HN : What would you do if you had to switch to a "manual" job?

43 points by dan_sim on Jul 24, 2009 | 165 comments

482.

When Debtors Decide to Default (nytimes.com)

43 points by cwan on Jul 27, 2009 | 47 comments

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"Self-esteem has gone up in the United States; achievement has not." (incharacter.org)

43 points by robg on Jul 2, 2009 | 37 comments

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India creating new identity card system for 1.2Bn people (economist.com)

43 points by haasted on Jul 4, 2009 | 35 comments

485.

Modrails outperforms Mongrel (statsheet.com)

43 points by johnbb on Jul 15, 2009 | 28 comments

486.

Work and Meaning: View from a Senior HP Manager (theonda.org)

43 points by replicatorblog on Jul 4, 2009 | 27 comments

487.

How celebrities stay famous regardless of talent (newscientist.com)

43 points by robg on Jul 3, 2009 | 21 comments

488.

Project AT&T - 4chan responds (s6.invisionfree.com)

43 points by andreyf on Jul 27, 2009 | 21 comments

489.

The New Joblessness (nytimes.com)

43 points by quizbiz on Jul 26, 2009 | 20 comments

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Winning team's approach to EY's SHA-1 contest (Fast GPU cluster, not the cloud) (win.tue.nl)

43 points by olivers on Jul 22, 2009 | 18 comments

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Is This Your Brain On God? (npr.org)

43 points by onreact-com on Jul 29, 2009 | 18 comments

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Goldman Sachs might have been doing $100m a day by sniffing the NYSE (dailykos.com)

43 points by cl3m on Jul 9, 2009 | 16 comments

493.

Zappos CEO Wanted To Stay Independent, Sequoia Wanted Liquidity (pehub.com)

43 points by trs90 on Jul 23, 2009 | 14 comments

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India's school for the poor but gifted (thenational.ae)

43 points by kafkacrazy on Jul 26, 2009 | 14 comments

495.

Somali Pirate Economics (wired.com)

43 points by tc on Jul 27, 2009 | 14 comments

496.

The Pure programming language (code.google.com)

43 points by mbrubeck on Jul 24, 2009 | 12 comments

497.

Ning Exposed - Tech Company Scams its Clients (chartingstocks.net)

43 points by marksutherland on Jul 6, 2009 | 11 comments

498.

CAPTCHAs' Effect on Conversion Rates (seomoz.org)

43 points by epi0Bauqu on Jul 17, 2009 | 9 comments

499.

Skepticism about beautiful people having more daughters. (stat.columbia.edu)

43 points by lliiffee on Jul 27, 2009 | 9 comments

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JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like (techcrunch.com)

43 points by RWilson on Jul 30, 2009 | 8 comments

501.

Armed Bear Common Lisp actively developed (abcl-dev.blogspot.com)

43 points by stefano on Jul 12, 2009 | 0 comments

502.

Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world (siliconflorist.com)

42 points by markbao on Jul 30, 2009 | 39 comments

503.

Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework (engadget.com)

42 points by pmikal on Jul 30, 2009 | 38 comments

504.

Start and finish an app in one day (browseology.posterous.com)

42 points by kineticac on Jul 24, 2009 | 37 comments

505.

Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" (dailygalaxy.com)

42 points by mixmax on Jul 3, 2009 | 31 comments

506.

Much Ado About IE6 (blog.digg.com)

42 points by Nycto on Jul 10, 2009 | 27 comments

507.

The Spiritual Center Of the Earth (1999) (sfgate.com)

42 points by mariorz on Jul 11, 2009 | 26 comments

508.

Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations (technologyreview.com)

42 points by Anon84 on Jul 6, 2009 | 25 comments

509.

Ask HN: What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? ()

42 points by manvsmachine on Jul 12, 2009 | 25 comments

510.

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API (techcrunch.com)

42 points by vaksel on Jul 6, 2009 | 16 comments