HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data (datawrangling.com)

88 points by pskomoroch on Aug 24, 2009 | 16 comments

1502.

MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock (blog.everyblock.com)

88 points by rmanocha on Aug 17, 2009 | 15 comments

1503.

The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks (dataspora.com)

88 points by dhotson on May 28, 2009 | 12 comments

1504.

Has Bell Invented a "Telegraph Killer"? (mcsweeneys.net)

88 points by blasdel on Nov 23, 2009 | 8 comments

1505.

Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?

87 points by costan on Jul 1, 2009 | 196 comments

1506.

Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?

87 points by andr on May 25, 2009 | 129 comments

1507.

How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? (37signals.com)

87 points by zaveri on Mar 9, 2009 | 81 comments

1508.

The inconvenient truth about malaria (spectator.co.uk)

87 points by jrmurad on Dec 15, 2009 | 77 comments

1509.

The 17x17 challenge. "Worth $289.00. This is not a joke." (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

87 points by sp332 on Nov 30, 2009 | 72 comments

1510.

The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals (american.com)

87 points by JacobAldridge on Aug 3, 2009 | 70 comments

1511.

Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning (blog.wired.com)

87 points by peter123 on Feb 26, 2009 | 67 comments

1512.

Bertrand Russell, "On Sales Resistance" (cscs.umich.edu)

87 points by cousin_it on Sep 8, 2009 | 65 comments

1513.

Ask HN: Getting users ()

87 points by vaksel on Oct 25, 2009 | 64 comments

1514.

How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job (savingadvice.com)

87 points by pj on Apr 24, 2009 | 60 comments

1515.

Admitting that Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (prog21.dadgum.com)

87 points by iamelgringo on Jun 16, 2009 | 60 comments

1516.

Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions (apple.com)

87 points by tvon on Aug 21, 2009 | 59 comments

1517.

Isildur1 and the week that changed online poker (blogs.cardrunners.com)

87 points by jskopek on Nov 21, 2009 | 59 comments

1518.

Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you drop patent litigation (desire2learn.com)

87 points by paulgb on Apr 3, 2009 | 55 comments

1519.

Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports (jgc.org)

87 points by jgrahamc on Aug 5, 2009 | 54 comments

1520.

Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers (codinghorror.com)

87 points by Mintz on Jul 22, 2009 | 46 comments

1521.

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History (alternet.org)

87 points by rms on Oct 4, 2009 | 46 comments

1522.

Dear Mr. Jobs, I have some ideas about how to improve your phone (cooper.com)

87 points by FictiveCameron on Jul 28, 2009 | 38 comments

1523.

Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? (blogs.reuters.com)

87 points by hachiya on Jul 6, 2009 | 37 comments

1524.

How Plentyoffish Conquered Online Dating (Hint: Its Founder Works Just One Hour a Day) (inc.com)

87 points by bd on Jan 8, 2009 | 36 comments

1525.

Why Introverts Can Make The Best Leaders (forbes.com)

87 points by nathanh on Dec 5, 2009 | 35 comments

1526.

WPA cracker in the cloud (wpacracker.com)

87 points by mcxx on Dec 7, 2009 | 30 comments

1527.

Dealing with impossible crises - Relentless resourcefulness at work (danieltenner.com)

87 points by tomh- on Apr 8, 2009 | 22 comments

1528.

Japanese Teenage Boy Improved Ruby 1.9 Performance By Up To 63% (yokolet.blogspot.com)