HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Ant mega-colony takes over world (news.bbc.co.uk)

90 points by edw519 on Jul 2, 2009 | 36 comments

122.

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics (ycombinator.com)

88 points by rms on Jul 17, 2009 | 37 comments

123.

Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?

87 points by costan on Jul 1, 2009 | 196 comments

124.

Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (codinghorror.com)

87 points by Mintz on Jul 22, 2009 | 46 comments

125.

Dear Mr. Jobs, I have some ideas about how to improve your phone (cooper.com)

87 points by FictiveCameron on Jul 28, 2009 | 38 comments

126.

Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? (blogs.reuters.com)

87 points by hachiya on Jul 6, 2009 | 37 comments

127.

New JDK 7 Feature: Support for Dynamically Typed Languages in the JVM (java.sun.com)

87 points by davatk on Jul 29, 2009 | 15 comments

128.

You will live for longer than 1% of the entire history of human civilization.

86 points by GraffitiTim on Jul 27, 2009 | 65 comments

129.

Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future (nytimes.com)

86 points by carterschonwald on Jul 27, 2009 | 31 comments

130.

Netflix Prize Update: New Team in First Place (deadline tomorrow) (netflixprize.com)

86 points by larryfreeman on Jul 26, 2009 | 23 comments

131.

Fleet: a radically different architecture for computing (galois.com)

86 points by blasdel on Jul 26, 2009 | 13 comments

132.

Could you Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does. (men.style.com)

85 points by browngeek on Jul 22, 2009 | 92 comments

133.

GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released (gnu.org)

85 points by boskom on Jul 30, 2009 | 25 comments

134.

Up and Running With Cassandra (blog.evanweaver.com)

85 points by jcsalterego on Jul 7, 2009 | 7 comments

135.

No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (computerworld.com)

84 points by johns on Jul 2, 2009 | 100 comments

136.

Coding Horror: Code: It's Trivial (codinghorror.com)

84 points by Anon84 on Jul 7, 2009 | 43 comments

137.

The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness (awesomefoundation.org)

84 points by jonpierce on Jul 2, 2009 | 40 comments

138.

Burnout (steveblank.com)

84 points by peter123 on Jul 20, 2009 | 19 comments

139.

SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution (adam.blog.heroku.com)

83 points by fogus on Jul 10, 2009 | 72 comments

140.

Chroma-Hash: a sexy, non-reversible, live visualization of password field input (mattt.github.com)

83 points by bkudria on Jul 29, 2009 | 66 comments

141.

Lisp outside the Box (O'Reilly book) (lisp-book.org)

83 points by RK on Jul 23, 2009 | 34 comments

142.

On "magic", once again (from James Bennet, Django dev) (b-list.org)

83 points by jerf on Jul 23, 2009 | 14 comments

143.

Your Web Service Might Not Be RESTful If… (theamazingrando.com)

82 points by psadauskas on Jul 20, 2009 | 59 comments

144.

Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005) (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

82 points by asciilifeform on Jul 10, 2009 | 46 comments

145.

Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups (b.lesseverything.com)

82 points by lessallan on Jul 7, 2009 | 20 comments

146.

Night owls have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn (theglobeandmail.com)

81 points by soundsop on Jul 13, 2009 | 41 comments

147.

Post-mortem analysis on Google App Engine outage (groups.google.com)

81 points by DocSavage on Jul 9, 2009 | 19 comments

148.

Blue and Green color illusion (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

81 points by shard on Jul 13, 2009 | 10 comments

149.

You're (probably) a federal criminal (foxnews.com)

80 points by a-priori on Jul 24, 2009 | 57 comments

150.

Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone regarding Mono. (tirania.org)

80 points by mdasen on Jul 7, 2009 | 51 comments