HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users. (azarask.in)

491 points by aikoto on May 25, 2010 | 114 comments

2.

_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius (smashingmagazine.com)

382 points by aaronbrethorst on May 15, 2010 | 179 comments

3.

I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

362 points by erikpukinskis on May 11, 2010 | 247 comments

4.

Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards" (techcrunch.com)

360 points by whyleym on May 13, 2010 | 112 comments

5.

Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks (daringfireball.net)

357 points by biafra on May 28, 2010 | 113 comments

6.

Google Prediction API (code.google.com)

355 points by pelle on May 19, 2010 | 81 comments

7.

Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations (eff.org)

340 points by there on May 4, 2010 | 153 comments

8.

Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear (nytimes.com)

325 points by mapleoin on May 17, 2010 | 115 comments

9.

Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched (reclaimprivacy.org)

321 points by mjpizz on May 17, 2010 | 59 comments

10.

How real-world corruption works (reddit.com)

316 points by ssp on May 26, 2010 | 72 comments

11.

Scribd in HTML (scribd.com)

315 points by ZeroGravitas on May 7, 2010 | 104 comments

12.

Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes. (stockcharts.com)

310 points by mnemonicsloth on May 6, 2010 | 263 comments

13.

Perfect email regex finally found (fightingforalostcause.net)

310 points by mildweed on May 28, 2010 | 112 comments

14.

Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats (eu.techcrunch.com)

301 points by bjonathan on May 5, 2010 | 61 comments

15.

Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (techcrunch.com)

299 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 5, 2010 | 120 comments

16.

Play PacMan at google.com Now. (google.com)

298 points by mapleoin on May 21, 2010 | 91 comments

17.

Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried (37signals.com)

296 points by starnix17 on May 17, 2010 | 138 comments

18.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (youtube.com)

293 points by zacharyvoase on May 18, 2010 | 41 comments

19.

What To Do With Your Millions (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

291 points by abstractbill on May 28, 2010 | 89 comments

20.

PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively (geek.com)

281 points by ukdm on May 28, 2010 | 100 comments

21.

'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists (news.bbc.co.uk)

280 points by blogimus on May 20, 2010 | 92 comments

22.

An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009) (nytimes.com)

279 points by shadowsun7 on May 14, 2010 | 53 comments

23.

The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 (x264dev.multimedia.cx)

275 points by DarkShikari on May 19, 2010 | 61 comments

24.

What iPads Did To My Family (chucksblog.emc.com)

270 points by mjfern on May 7, 2010 | 122 comments

25.

Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory (googlecode.blogspot.com)

268 points by boundlessdreamz on May 19, 2010 | 59 comments

26.

Google ditches Windows on security concerns (ft.com)

260 points by martian on May 31, 2010 | 152 comments

27.

Why are the east of cities usually poorer? (thejanuarist.com)

260 points by spxdcz on May 31, 2010 | 99 comments

28.

Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (bsdcan.org)

254 points by cperciva on May 14, 2010 | 130 comments

29.

American Express fails miserably at basic security (timetobleed.com)

252 points by ice799 on May 25, 2010 | 69 comments

30.

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative (wired.com)

250 points by pinstriped_dude on May 8, 2010 | 103 comments