HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Why Software is Expensive (itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com)

24 points by edw519 on Oct 5, 2009 | 25 comments

1082.

Rich Germans demand higher taxes (news.bbc.co.uk)

24 points by sbt on Oct 23, 2009 | 25 comments

1083.

Cheating for $20: Why collusion and price fixing is difficult to do (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

24 points by cwan on Oct 23, 2009 | 22 comments

1084.

Ask HN: Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? ()

24 points by dejectedstudent on Oct 1, 2009 | 21 comments

1085.

Solving the P-NP Puzzler (nytimes.com)

24 points by peter123 on Oct 7, 2009 | 21 comments

1086.

Why CDC says this year's flu season is "very sobering" (scienceblogs.com)

24 points by cwan on Oct 21, 2009 | 21 comments

1087.

Would a Ratting System Work? (dilbert.com)

24 points by cwan on Oct 10, 2009 | 19 comments

1088.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time": Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (news.bbc.co.uk)

24 points by shaddi on Oct 14, 2009 | 19 comments

1089.

Voting machine source-code leak shows odd subroutines (boingboing.net)

24 points by jv2222 on Oct 21, 2009 | 17 comments

1090.

Brilliant marketing testimonial method you need to test . . . from MSFT? (microsoft.com)

24 points by aresant on Oct 24, 2009 | 17 comments

1091.

Software Patents: A Personal Story (thenoisychannel.com)

24 points by zjj on Oct 4, 2009 | 16 comments

1092.

5 years later, 5 ways that Ubuntu has made Linux more human (arstechnica.com)

24 points by dragonquest on Oct 26, 2009 | 16 comments

1093.

Why Eggs Could Be Getting Harder to Peel (wired.com)

24 points by Shamiq on Oct 16, 2009 | 15 comments

1094.

Electromagnetic black hole (newscientist.com)

24 points by kirubakaran on Oct 15, 2009 | 14 comments

1095.

100 Oldest .COM domain names (whoisd.com)

24 points by AjJi on Oct 18, 2009 | 12 comments

1096.

Britain's Surveillance Society (nytimes.com)

24 points by jseliger on Oct 25, 2009 | 9 comments

1097.

Brian's Functional Brain (blog.bestinclass.dk)

24 points by edw519 on Oct 2, 2009 | 8 comments

1098.

'Magnetic electricity' discovered (news.bbc.co.uk)

24 points by theklub on Oct 14, 2009 | 8 comments

1099.

Yahoo's Site Explorer is pretty amazing (siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com)

24 points by matt1 on Oct 9, 2009 | 7 comments

1100.

Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever (npr.org)

24 points by coglethorpe on Oct 1, 2009 | 6 comments

1101.

Vaccines & Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy (skeptic.com)

24 points by gcheong on Oct 18, 2009 | 6 comments

1102.

Marketing insights from an infomercial consultant (itreallyworks.tv)

24 points by jeffcoat on Oct 22, 2009 | 6 comments

1103.

Advanced Messaging & Routing with AMQP (igvita.com)

24 points by igrigorik on Oct 8, 2009 | 5 comments

1104.

Google Code Now Supports User Clones for Mercurial (googlecode.blogspot.com)

24 points by durin42 on Oct 9, 2009 | 5 comments

1105.

Sweden's Internet Broken by DNS Mistake (royal.pingdom.com)

24 points by mrduncan on Oct 13, 2009 | 5 comments

1106.

John Ousterhout on Startup Decision-Making (stanford.edu)

24 points by olivers on Oct 21, 2009 | 4 comments

1107.

JL's interview with Mark Zuckerberg (~transcript, not word for word) (digital.venturebeat.com)