HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

How a spare server turned into Twitpic, the $1.5M+ a year startup (mixergy.com)

85 points by merrick33 on Jan 14, 2010 | 59 comments

242.

Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language (newyorker.com)

85 points by nwatson on Jan 6, 2010 | 39 comments

243.

NPR's 404 Page (npr.org)

85 points by WingForward on Jan 18, 2010 | 29 comments

244.

Stop restricting my password - Help these sites get better security. (weakpasswords.org)

84 points by dinkumator on Jan 22, 2010 | 60 comments

245.

Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web (gigaom.com)

84 points by hshah on Jan 30, 2010 | 56 comments

246.

HN long term change (jacquesmattheij.com)

84 points by jacquesm on Jan 12, 2010 | 54 comments

247.

Bup 0.01: It backs things up (apenwarr.ca)

84 points by blasdel on Jan 4, 2010 | 14 comments

248.

Rails and Merb Merge Update: Rails Core (engineyard.com)

84 points by wifelette on Jan 22, 2010 | 3 comments

249.

14 Megapixel, Six Monitor Ubuntu Karmic Setup (blog.jasonmorton.com)

83 points by abscondment on Jan 29, 2010 | 74 comments

250.

Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International (techcrunch.com)

83 points by rms on Jan 23, 2010 | 52 comments

251.

Things I'm not allowed to do anymore (dadhacker.com)

83 points by cubicle67 on Jan 9, 2010 | 46 comments

252.

Why I prefer no tabs in source code (adamspiers.org)

83 points by miles on Jan 17, 2010 | 33 comments

253.

MSNBOT must die (blogs.perl.org)

83 points by alrex021 on Jan 15, 2010 | 31 comments

254.

Schneier on Security: Technology Shouldn't Give Big Brother a Head Start (schneier.com)

83 points by stakent on Jan 24, 2010 | 2 comments

255.

Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea. (writing.bryanwoods4e.com)

82 points by bryanwoods on Jan 14, 2010 | 72 comments

256.

Researcher Sam Roweis took his own life last night. Here's one of his lectures. (videolectures.net)

82 points by raganwald on Jan 13, 2010 | 55 comments

257.

Fraser Speirs's iPad commentary: Future Shock (speirs.org)

82 points by cpr on Jan 29, 2010 | 39 comments

258.

The Guantánamo "Suicides": A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle (harpers.org)

82 points by dantheman on Jan 19, 2010 | 37 comments

259.

50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year (att.net)

82 points by malvosenior on Jan 2, 2010 | 34 comments

260.

Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com)

82 points by fjabre on Jan 27, 2010 | 25 comments

261.

A gentle introduction to Lisp (cs.cmu.edu)

82 points by nkh on Jan 26, 2010 | 16 comments

262.

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke (wired.com)

82 points by benl on Jan 3, 2010 | 1 comments

263.

WSJ Jumps the Shark (ritholtz.com)

81 points by tortilla on Jan 22, 2010 | 67 comments

264.

Windows hole discovered after 17 years (h-online.com)

81 points by dragonquest on Jan 20, 2010 | 27 comments

265.

The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages (scientificamerican.com)

80 points by fogus on Jan 21, 2010 | 71 comments

266.

Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested (boston.com)

80 points by ilamont on Jan 12, 2010 | 58 comments

267.

Obama: Patent office's system is 'embarrassing' (thehill.com)

80 points by bensummers on Jan 15, 2010 | 29 comments

268.

Vote for Barbie to be a computer engineer (Encourage diversity) (barbie.com)

80 points by mad44 on Jan 11, 2010 | 25 comments

269.

Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (psg.com)

80 points by b-man on Jan 5, 2010 | 9 comments

270.

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' (timesonline.co.uk)

79 points by chaostheory on Jan 4, 2010 | 71 comments