HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story (alexisohanian.com)

776 points by mrduncan on Aug 3, 2010 | 83 comments

2.

P ≠ NP (scribd.com)

740 points by zacs on Aug 8, 2010 | 208 comments

3.

Google Kills Wave (googleblog.blogspot.com)

712 points by elfred on Aug 4, 2010 | 237 comments

4.

What Happened to Yahoo (paulgraham.com)

688 points by yagibear on Aug 11, 2010 | 270 comments

5.

My Thoughts on Oracle v Google (blog.headius.com)

606 points by dochtman on Aug 16, 2010 | 82 comments

6.

Why GNU grep is Fast (lists.freebsd.org)

512 points by giu on Aug 23, 2010 | 115 comments

7.

Welcome to the new decade (twitter.com)

486 points by tswicegood on Aug 15, 2010 | 158 comments

8.

A letter to my students (blogs.berkeley.edu)

462 points by sunkan on Aug 25, 2010 | 169 comments

9.

Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (marketwatch.com)

452 points by jbarham on Aug 13, 2010 | 326 comments

10.

"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means." (renaebair.com)

417 points by acangiano on Aug 11, 2010 | 144 comments

11.

Common Programmer Health Problems (sheddingbikes.com)

394 points by GVRV on Aug 8, 2010 | 184 comments

12.

Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph (boingboing.net)

394 points by yanw on Aug 17, 2010 | 73 comments

13.

Rails 3.0: It's ready (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

385 points by steveklabnik on Aug 29, 2010 | 65 comments

14.

Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich (seattle20.com)

383 points by 3d3mon on Aug 13, 2010 | 219 comments

15.

Regrets of the Dying (inspirationandchai.com)

371 points by vijaydev on Aug 29, 2010 | 90 comments

16.

What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. (thestar.com)

369 points by pavs on Aug 29, 2010 | 242 comments

17.

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech (blog.swiftkickonline.com)

360 points by bluesmoon on Aug 4, 2010 | 207 comments

18.

This document is confidential (encrypted.google.com)

358 points by ssclafani on Aug 17, 2010 | 44 comments

19.

Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines (ycombinator.com)

353 points by andreyf on Aug 30, 2010 | 133 comments

20.

Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy (money.cnn.com)

344 points by cwan on Aug 30, 2010 | 93 comments

21.

Apple's attention to detail (floodlite.tumblr.com)

335 points by youngj on Aug 25, 2010 | 259 comments

22.

Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer (youtube.com)

335 points by SandB0x on Aug 24, 2010 | 75 comments

23.

The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave (nucalc.com)

331 points by cavedave on Aug 7, 2010 | 32 comments

24.

Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million (techcrunch.com)

323 points by icey on Aug 24, 2010 | 102 comments

25.

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (matt.might.net)

319 points by jonp on Aug 9, 2010 | 42 comments

26.

Why Free Plans Don’t Work (softwarebyrob.com)

318 points by nsoonhui on Aug 18, 2010 | 114 comments

27.

JQuery Mobile Framework Announced (jquerymobile.com)

312 points by crescendo on Aug 13, 2010 | 55 comments

28.

The Start-up from Hell (jacquesmattheij.com)

295 points by jacquesm on Aug 20, 2010 | 78 comments

29.

Buzz Kill (leoville.com)

290 points by harscoat on Aug 22, 2010 | 82 comments

30.

Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine. (google.com)

281 points by mambodog on Aug 28, 2010 | 74 comments