HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

_why is no more (twitter.com)

558 points by Jeremysr on Aug 19, 2009 | 399 comments

2.

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms (snopes.com)

364 points by chaostheory on Aug 5, 2009 | 79 comments

3.

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com)

359 points by beambot on Aug 28, 2009 | 159 comments

4.

Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games (gamasutra.com)

330 points by e1ven on Aug 20, 2009 | 45 comments

5.

Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net)

327 points by ajg1977 on Aug 5, 2009 | 80 comments

6.

Eulogy to _why (ejohn.org)

318 points by jcsalterego on Aug 19, 2009 | 92 comments

7.

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (techcrunch.com)

279 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 10, 2009 | 82 comments

8.

Signs that you're a bad programmer (sites.google.com)

273 points by clawrencewenham on Aug 7, 2009 | 121 comments

9.

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley (paulgraham.com)

264 points by albertcardona on Aug 31, 2009 | 107 comments

10.

So long, and thanks for all the fish (tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com)

245 points by ivankirigin on Aug 21, 2009 | 93 comments

11.

You're a little company, now act like one (blog.asmartbear.com)

240 points by lrm242 on Aug 31, 2009 | 53 comments

12.

Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic (trafficwaves.org)

237 points by Mintz on Aug 25, 2009 | 146 comments

13.

Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

202 points by qhoxie on Aug 12, 2009 | 227 comments

14.

Please don't use hnreputation ()

199 points by pg on Aug 27, 2009 | 82 comments

15.

How I explained REST to my wife (tomayko.com)

199 points by mrlebowski on Aug 14, 2009 | 57 comments

16.

Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors (apple.com)

199 points by sdfx on Aug 3, 2009 | 47 comments

17.

R.I.P. Les Paul (news.yahoo.com)

196 points by jamesbritt on Aug 13, 2009 | 34 comments

18.

YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6 (deals.venturebeat.com)

187 points by drusenko on Aug 4, 2009 | 110 comments

19.

999999999999999 - 999999999999997 (google.com)

185 points by unalone on Aug 24, 2009 | 101 comments

20.

Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews (courses.csail.mit.edu)

185 points by mindhacker on Aug 25, 2009 | 41 comments

21.

Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good (learnyousomeerlang.com)

184 points by paulgb on Aug 18, 2009 | 30 comments

22.

Thousands call for Turing apology (news.bbc.co.uk)

177 points by jsmcgd on Aug 31, 2009 | 97 comments

23.

The Fall of Hacking

176 points by noname123 on Aug 14, 2009 | 112 comments

24.

A New Experiment: The RFS (ycombinator.com)

175 points by pg on Aug 16, 2009 | 57 comments

25.

Folding Plug System (minkyu.co.uk)

174 points by r7000 on Aug 24, 2009 | 33 comments

26.

The Android Opportunity (daringfireball.net)

173 points by superjohan on Aug 17, 2009 | 136 comments

27.

Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions (jpf.github.com)

171 points by jf on Aug 6, 2009 | 99 comments

28.

How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night (wisebread.com)

169 points by jmonegro on Aug 3, 2009 | 40 comments

29.

How American Health Care Killed My Father (theatlantic.com)

166 points by mhb on Aug 13, 2009 | 105 comments

30.

Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead (davecaolo.com)

160 points by henning on Aug 12, 2009 | 113 comments