HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (ted.com)

160 points by qeek on Aug 13, 2009 | 29 comments

32.

Why I'm Quitting Gmail (archlinux.me)

158 points by etherealG on Aug 24, 2009 | 61 comments

33.

Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? (dvorak.org)

157 points by chanux on Aug 12, 2009 | 89 comments

34.

Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring (daringfireball.net)

157 points by Oompa on Aug 6, 2009 | 88 comments

35.

Self-Enforcing Protocols (schneier.com)

156 points by gthank on Aug 11, 2009 | 56 comments

36.

$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story (license.icopyright.net)

154 points by mcantelon on Aug 2, 2009 | 66 comments

37.

Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?

152 points by gsaines on Aug 22, 2009 | 78 comments

38.

Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics (en.wikipedia.org)

152 points by waldrews on Aug 28, 2009 | 17 comments

39.

-= sequoia capital =- (tlrobinson.net)

150 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 19, 2009 | 45 comments

40.

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds (gizmodo.com)

149 points by jedliu on Aug 27, 2009 | 49 comments

41.

Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599 (jetblue.com)

146 points by rufo on Aug 12, 2009 | 79 comments

42.

SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down (snaptalent.com)

146 points by dannyr on Aug 17, 2009 | 47 comments

43.

How not to die (paulgraham.com)

145 points by swombat on Aug 17, 2009 | 47 comments

44.

Sprezzatura (sivers.org)

145 points by nreece on Aug 30, 2009 | 26 comments

45.

Starting a Bank (ma.tt)

144 points by ionfish on Aug 21, 2009 | 65 comments

46.

Why AT&T Killed Google Voice (online.wsj.com)

144 points by mjfern on Aug 19, 2009 | 50 comments

47.

The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix (slideshare.net)

144 points by male_salmon on Aug 4, 2009 | 46 comments

48.

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed (blog.friendfeed.com)

143 points by Pistos2 on Aug 10, 2009 | 8 comments

49.

Python Debugging Techniques (aymanh.com)

141 points by edw519 on Aug 31, 2009 | 19 comments

50.

Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias (blog.asmartbear.com)

140 points by yarapavan on Aug 17, 2009 | 36 comments

51.

The Hacker Survey (spreadsheets.google.com)

139 points by tialys on Aug 25, 2009 | 61 comments

52.

IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language (zakwilson.posterous.com)

139 points by Zak on Aug 4, 2009 | 53 comments

53.

How FlightCaster (YC S09) was built (RoR + JVM + Clojure + Hadoop) (groups.google.com)

137 points by zemariamm on Aug 19, 2009 | 29 comments

54.

Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think. (yourworldoftext.com)

136 points by bdr on Aug 4, 2009 | 71 comments

55.

MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI (menuetos.net)

133 points by rw on Aug 20, 2009 | 45 comments

56.

Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006) (seedmagazine.com)

133 points by randomwalker on Aug 24, 2009 | 19 comments

57.

What makes Erlang so great (clickcaster.com)

133 points by pj on Aug 20, 2009 | 6 comments

58.

Let's Abolish High School (youthrights.net)

132 points by absconditus on Aug 11, 2009 | 113 comments

59.

Why Can't Gmail Search? (designbygravity.wordpress.com)

131 points by cschanck on Aug 24, 2009 | 85 comments

60.

_why: "Goodbye until I can shake this." (mislav.uniqpath.com)

130 points by luigi on Aug 20, 2009 | 50 comments