HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Living root bridges (atlasobscura.com)

72 points by ambulatorybird on Aug 24, 2009 | 15 comments

242.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study (people.csail.mit.edu)

72 points by rms on Aug 11, 2009 | 14 comments

243.

thesixtyone (YC W09) is hiring software engineers (thesixtyone.com)

72 points by JMiao on Aug 24, 2009 | 0 comments

244.

Nassim Taleb (Black Swan) open letter to David Cameron (guardian.co.uk)

71 points by keven on Aug 18, 2009 | 64 comments

245.

YCRFS 1: The Future of Journalism (ycombinator.com)

71 points by suvike on Aug 16, 2009 | 57 comments

246.

Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp (wordoid.com)

71 points by op on Aug 2, 2009 | 49 comments

247.

In which I switch on a 30 year old computer and it just works (jgc.org)

71 points by jgrahamc on Aug 9, 2009 | 28 comments

248.

Icon Driven Development on the App Store- how we make $350/day without marketing (spreadsong.com)

71 points by colinplamondon on Aug 6, 2009 | 19 comments

249.

Android Market Sales data: pitiful $64/day for a Top 5 app (larvalabs.com)

70 points by adamhowell on Aug 31, 2009 | 58 comments

250.

The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get (newsless.org)

70 points by joshwa on Aug 21, 2009 | 11 comments

251.

WikiLeaks published secret information about Icelandic meltdown (icelandweatherreport.com)

70 points by edw519 on Aug 2, 2009 | 8 comments

252.

When less is more (economist.com)

69 points by yan on Aug 14, 2009 | 27 comments

253.

King of the Apple geeks: Gruber as one-man media company (businessinsider.com)

69 points by adamhowell on Aug 10, 2009 | 24 comments

254.

Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6 (cnn.com)

69 points by drusenko on Aug 6, 2009 | 11 comments

255.

4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook (thenextweb.com)

68 points by mgcreed on Aug 22, 2009 | 117 comments

256.

Call for a Better Web (callforabetterweb.org)

68 points by markup on Aug 18, 2009 | 65 comments

257.

Review: Vibram Five Fingers Classic (crunchgear.com)

68 points by edw519 on Aug 10, 2009 | 53 comments

258.

What's on an airline baggage tag? (jgc.org)

68 points by jgrahamc on Aug 7, 2009 | 20 comments

259.

Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard (wired.com)

68 points by naish on Aug 19, 2009 | 12 comments

260.

Cat Parasite Affects Everything We Feel and Do (abcnews.go.com)

67 points by mattmaroon on Aug 27, 2009 | 46 comments

261.

Women Prefer Poaching (overcomingbias.com)

67 points by rams on Aug 12, 2009 | 39 comments

262.

Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3 (pcpro.co.uk)

67 points by jedliu on Aug 27, 2009 | 32 comments

263.

The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for User Experience Design (johnnyholland.org)

67 points by Yrlec on Aug 18, 2009 | 29 comments

264.

Being poor at modeling is essential to OOP (comment on LtU) (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

67 points by blasdel on Aug 25, 2009 | 22 comments

265.

'Dynamic' assembler with GC (zedshaw.com)

67 points by spooneybarger on Aug 21, 2009 | 19 comments

266.

John Carmack on keeping id small (kotaku.com)

67 points by swilliams on Aug 17, 2009 | 11 comments

267.

YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality (techcrunch.com)

67 points by siong1987 on Aug 14, 2009 | 11 comments

268.

Robot hand ties knots, dribbles a ball, and uses tweezers (video) (hizook.com)

67 points by byrneseyeview on Aug 23, 2009 | 7 comments

269.

Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro (appleinsider.com)

66 points by peter123 on Aug 11, 2009 | 65 comments

270.

A Flowchart for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (jeannr.tumblr.com)

66 points by Nervetattoo on Aug 19, 2009 | 37 comments