HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)

650 points by tarunkotia on Jul 21, 2010 | 191 comments

2.

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com)

611 points by msg on Jul 6, 2010 | 127 comments

3.

Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

487 points by rimantas on Jul 28, 2010 | 126 comments

4.

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com)

470 points by j_baker on Jul 26, 2010 | 269 comments

5.

How to Lose Time and Money (paulgraham.com)

467 points by michael_nielsen on Jul 6, 2010 | 175 comments

6.

Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?

441 points by photon_off on Jul 22, 2010 | 202 comments

7.

Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm (sites.google.com)

429 points by willvarfar on Jul 8, 2010 | 147 comments

8.

How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer (salon.com)

428 points by georgecmu on Jul 20, 2010 | 210 comments

9.

Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police (abcnews.go.com)

398 points by mikecane on Jul 20, 2010 | 114 comments

10.

One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen (vimeo.com)

377 points by jmillerinc on Jul 20, 2010 | 49 comments

11.

Will it optimize? (ridiculousfish.com)

357 points by mark_h on Jul 23, 2010 | 59 comments

12.

My loss (sivers.org)

348 points by grep on Jul 3, 2010 | 105 comments

13.

I assume I'm below average (sivers.org)

340 points by mahipal on Jul 2, 2010 | 106 comments

14.

Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for education (crunchgear.com)

325 points by yanw on Jul 26, 2010 | 85 comments

15.

Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million (googleblog.blogspot.com)

316 points by alec on Jul 1, 2010 | 121 comments

16.

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50 (techcrunch.com)

314 points by dwynings on Jul 6, 2010 | 46 comments

17.

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong (yehudakatz.com)

309 points by mattyb on Jul 29, 2010 | 208 comments

18.

I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web) (catonmat.net)

299 points by pkrumins on Jul 21, 2010 | 103 comments

19.

Too many laws, too many prisoners (economist.com)

293 points by gruseom on Jul 23, 2010 | 167 comments

20.

What's wrong with 1975 programming (varnish-cache.org)

293 points by dchest on Jul 28, 2010 | 115 comments

21.

Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions. (blog.reddit.com)

285 points by abstractbill on Jul 29, 2010 | 257 comments

22.

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 (effectgames.com)

284 points by jhuckaby on Jul 25, 2010 | 51 comments

23.

Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?

277 points by resdirector on Jul 13, 2010 | 174 comments

24.

Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator (resultsjunkies.com)

274 points by paulsingh on Jul 30, 2010 | 54 comments

25.

Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours (sale.sitepoint.com)

273 points by superduper on Jul 11, 2010 | 60 comments

26.

Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? (nicholasjohnpatrick.com)

268 points by icey on Jul 4, 2010 | 168 comments

27.

Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S. (eff.org)

266 points by isamuel on Jul 26, 2010 | 35 comments

28.

My experiment with smart drugs (2008) (johannhari.com)

264 points by pw on Jul 17, 2010 | 142 comments

29.

A prescient footnote (blog.oddhead.com)

261 points by jplewicke on Jul 15, 2010 | 79 comments

30.

World War II was totally unrealistic (squid314.livejournal.com)

255 points by goodside on Jul 12, 2010 | 152 comments