HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1831.

What things cost in ancient Rome (forumancientcoins.com)

80 points by pg on Feb 8, 2009 | 45 comments

1832.

The Physiology of Willpower: Linking Blood Glucose to Self-Control (psr.sagepub.com)

80 points by asciilifeform on Jun 17, 2009 | 45 comments

1833.

Designers should be arbiters of truth - Mr. X of American Airlines (dustincurtis.com)

80 points by whalesalad on Dec 8, 2009 | 45 comments

1834.

Stop being a productivity nerd, and chill out (feint.me)

80 points by feint on Dec 22, 2009 | 45 comments

1835.

Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (aws.typepad.com)

80 points by jeffbarr on Mar 12, 2009 | 40 comments

1836.

Macbook Hacker Charlie Miller: "I have a new campaign. It's called No More Free Bugs." (blogs.zdnet.com)

80 points by tptacek on Mar 20, 2009 | 39 comments

1837.

Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip? (apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)

80 points by DavidSJ on Jul 9, 2009 | 39 comments

1838.

Ask HN: Equity for a first employee

80 points by newdle on Dec 2, 2009 | 38 comments

1839.

Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’ (daringfireball.net)

80 points by seldo on Dec 22, 2009 | 38 comments

1840.

When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission (2006) (dig.csail.mit.edu)

80 points by vaksel on Feb 7, 2009 | 37 comments

1841.

Greetings (techcrunch.com)

80 points by sinzone on Sep 20, 2009 | 35 comments

1842.

“I made the first animated ‘under construction’ icon” (metafilter.com)

80 points by robin_reala on Oct 15, 2009 | 35 comments

1843.

Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case (getuncommon.com)

80 points by mattking on Dec 16, 2009 | 35 comments

1844.

Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)

80 points by martincmartin on Sep 12, 2009 | 34 comments

1845.

How cities hurt your brain (boston.com)

80 points by iamelgringo on Jan 4, 2009 | 32 comments

1846.

Lies, Maths, And Health Insurance (tauntermedia.com)

80 points by winanga on Aug 3, 2009 | 31 comments

1847.

Tesla Model S Unveiled (boston.com)

80 points by martythemaniak on Mar 26, 2009 | 30 comments

1848.

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all (independent.co.uk)

80 points by winanga on Apr 29, 2009 | 29 comments

1849.

Tips for recruiting great developers (improvingsoftware.com)

80 points by ArturSoler on Sep 30, 2009 | 27 comments

1850.

How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included) (andrewchenblog.com)

80 points by prakash on Jan 19, 2009 | 26 comments

1851.

Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console (aws.typepad.com)

80 points by timf on Jan 9, 2009 | 25 comments

1852.

Nginx module to turn it into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server. (github.com)

80 points by labria on Oct 16, 2009 | 25 comments

1853.

How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage of sales) (37signals.com)

80 points by brm on Jan 28, 2009 | 23 comments

1854.

The next generation of mirrors (newscientist.com)

80 points by sanj on Feb 24, 2009 | 23 comments

1855.

Rails 2.3: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

80 points by sant0sk1 on Mar 16, 2009 | 22 comments

1856.

The story of Mel (1983) (pbm.com)

80 points by vaksel on Jun 29, 2009 | 22 comments

1857.

Rip: Ruby's Intelligent Packaging (hellorip.com)

80 points by sant0sk1 on Jun 11, 2009 | 21 comments

1858.

Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework (leadthinking.com)

80 points by maccman on Aug 4, 2009 | 19 comments

1859.

Doug Lenat – I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha (semanticuniverse.com)

80 points by programnature on Mar 10, 2009 | 17 comments

1860.

WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08) (alertdebugging.com)

80 points by boucher on Apr 29, 2009 | 16 comments