HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales (torrentfreak.com)

47 points by vaksel on Oct 11, 2009 | 23 comments

482.

Why the 80-20 Rule is Wrong (blog.davidwurtz.com)

47 points by xal on Oct 3, 2009 | 22 comments

483.

Plan To Build Giant Floating Airport Off California Coast (infrastructurist.com)

47 points by randomwalker on Oct 24, 2009 | 21 comments

484.

A Conversation with Sergey Brin (techcrunch.com)

47 points by bastian on Oct 7, 2009 | 18 comments

485.

15% price cut in EC2 instances, effective Nov 1 (aws.amazon.com)

47 points by cperciva on Oct 27, 2009 | 16 comments

486.

The Calorie-Restriction Experiment (nytimes.com)

47 points by ars on Oct 14, 2009 | 11 comments

487.

A/B Testing to Increase User Engagement (blog.mixpanel.com)

47 points by trefn on Oct 28, 2009 | 5 comments

488.

Cascade - a web framework for Clojure by Tapestry author (github.com)

47 points by mindaugas on Oct 5, 2009 | 2 comments

489.

The High Price of Being a Gay Couple (nytimes.com)

47 points by MikeCapone on Oct 4, 2009 | 0 comments

490.

Ask HN: Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring (wasitup.com)

46 points by uggedal on Oct 17, 2009 | 71 comments

491.

Ask HN: What are your best resume tips?

46 points by tocomment on Oct 26, 2009 | 58 comments

492.

Java is dead, but you'll learn to love it (muckandbrass.com)

46 points by fogus on Oct 1, 2009 | 53 comments

493.

Ask HN: What are your failures? ()

46 points by jeromec on Oct 11, 2009 | 44 comments

494.

Non-web startups, anyone is doing these?

46 points by apr on Oct 9, 2009 | 41 comments

495.

Matt Cutts 30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software (mattcutts.com)

46 points by tshtf on Oct 4, 2009 | 38 comments

496.

Play Sierra On-Line games in your browser (with added multiplayer) (sarien.net)

46 points by jeff18 on Oct 8, 2009 | 30 comments

497.

Billionaire (Sergey Brin) Aids Charity That Aided Him (nytimes.com)

46 points by Technophilis on Oct 25, 2009 | 29 comments

498.

Dean Kamen's Robot Arm (wired.com)

46 points by kingkawn on Oct 16, 2009 | 23 comments

499.

Out of LSD? Just 15 Minutes of Sensory Deprivation Triggers Hallucinations (wired.com)

46 points by mshafrir on Oct 22, 2009 | 21 comments

500.

iRobot Develops a Hyperelastic Morphing Robot (jwz.livejournal.com)

46 points by lupin_sansei on Oct 14, 2009 | 18 comments

501.

Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing short stories (en.wikipedia.org)

46 points by kf on Oct 8, 2009 | 14 comments

502.

Underestimated UI techniques: Morphing (paulbakaus.com)

46 points by sandaru1 on Oct 19, 2009 | 11 comments

503.

How The Pursuit of Truth Led Me To Selling Viagra (icir.org)

46 points by dedalus on Oct 25, 2009 | 4 comments

504.

MIT helicopter uses lasers to navigate indoors (blog.makezine.com)

46 points by prat on Oct 17, 2009 | 3 comments

505.

Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop (amazon.com)

45 points by goodside on Oct 7, 2009 | 44 comments

506.

The Human Body Is Built for Distance (nytimes.com)

45 points by tokenadult on Oct 27, 2009 | 34 comments

507.

There’s nowhere to hide if your name trends on Twitter. Is there, Trafigura? (uk.techcrunch.com)