HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1171.

Did the Supreme Court Recognize an Innocent Person's Right Not to Be Executed? (writ.news.findlaw.com)

23 points by Anon84 on Aug 26, 2009 | 22 comments

1172.

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs (physorg.com)

23 points by MaysonL on Aug 26, 2009 | 22 comments

1173.

Big Pharma Abusing Patent Laws To Seize And Destroy Legal Indian Generic Drugs (techdirt.com)

23 points by aj on Aug 12, 2009 | 20 comments

1174.

Ask HN: My HN has vanished ()

23 points by salvadors on Aug 27, 2009 | 20 comments

1175.

Securely store passwords with bcrypt (blog.phusion.nl)

23 points by acangiano on Aug 14, 2009 | 19 comments

1176.

D. Crockford on JSON: "An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular" (dzone.com)

23 points by rebtut on Aug 23, 2009 | 19 comments

1177.

The coolest and scariest things coming in the chip industry’s future (venturebeat.com)

23 points by alex_c on Aug 26, 2009 | 19 comments

1178.

Silverlight: Good for Adobe, Bad for Microsoft (bitsandbuzz.com)

23 points by bbuffone on Aug 12, 2009 | 17 comments

1179.

Does the iPhone 3GS constantly pre-cache photographs? (lonelysandwich.com)

23 points by mcantor on Aug 14, 2009 | 16 comments

1180.

Python Library for Google Sets (catonmat.net)

23 points by pkrumins on Aug 13, 2009 | 15 comments

1181.

Quantios is hiring: help reshape the college admission process using data (quantios.com)

23 points by frisco on Aug 21, 2009 | 15 comments

1182.

Copyrighting the English language (fhtr.blogspot.com)

23 points by madboy on Aug 4, 2009 | 14 comments

1183.

China’s growth figures fail to add up (ft.com)

23 points by tokenadult on Aug 5, 2009 | 14 comments

1184.

Serializing Data - JSON vs. Protocol Buffers (4feets.com)

23 points by metachris on Aug 17, 2009 | 13 comments

1185.

The Edge of Reason? - iPhone game developer's trademark battle (eurogamer.net)

23 points by spatulon on Aug 3, 2009 | 13 comments

1186.

Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit (nytimes.com)

23 points by peter123 on Aug 30, 2009 | 13 comments

1187.

The Half Million Dollar Wiener: Rent for Hotdog Stand in NYC? $53K/mo. (slate.com)

23 points by cwan on Aug 17, 2009 | 12 comments

1188.

Pressure-sensitive keyboard (procrastineering.blogspot.com)

23 points by mark_h on Aug 9, 2009 | 12 comments

1189.

Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator (gnu.org)

23 points by 10ren on Aug 25, 2009 | 12 comments

1190.

Tell HN NYC: Hackers & Founders Meetup #4 at Stand Burger (8/27 at 6PM) (anyvite.com)

23 points by daveambrose on Aug 26, 2009 | 12 comments

1191.

Raising Capital: Closing The Deal (slideshare.net)

23 points by waleedka on Aug 26, 2009 | 12 comments

1192.

Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript (infoq.com)

23 points by ben on Aug 27, 2009 | 12 comments

1193.

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (inc.com)

23 points by jacquesm on Aug 5, 2009 | 11 comments

1194.

Opera: Still competing, still growing (Interview with CEO) (npr.org)

23 points by Pistos2 on Aug 7, 2009 | 10 comments

1195.

Human Brain Processing Speed clocked at less than 60 bits/s using Hicks Law (technologyreview.com)

23 points by jonmc12 on Aug 25, 2009 | 10 comments

1196.

HP's Huge Salary Cuts Forcing Out Old EDS Employees (nbcbayarea.com)

23 points by veteran on Aug 5, 2009 | 9 comments

1197.

1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome (arstechnica.com)

23 points by MikeCapone on Aug 10, 2009 | 9 comments

1198.

Phace2Phace ()

23 points by humbling on Aug 20, 2009 | 9 comments

1199.

FluidDB Launches (blogs.fluidinfo.com)

23 points by mcxx on Aug 17, 2009 | 8 comments

1200.

Forum discussion about cracking the TI-83+ key (unitedti.org)

23 points by edw519 on Aug 19, 2009 | 8 comments