HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8221.

So, Why is Twitter Really Not Using Cassandra to Store Tweets? (highscalability.com)

56 points by helwr on Jul 11, 2010 | 18 comments

8222.

Dremel – Google's tool for analyzing trillion-row tables in seconds [pdf] (sergey.melnix.com)

56 points by alexkon on Dec 29, 2010 | 18 comments

8223.

First Follower idea is all yours (sivers.org)

56 points by jackchristopher on Feb 14, 2010 | 17 comments

8224.

McAfee.com sleeps through its nightmare scenario (blogs.zdnet.com)

56 points by bensummers on Apr 23, 2010 | 17 comments

8225.

The Case for Working With Your Hands (nytimes.com)

56 points by signa11 on May 6, 2010 | 17 comments

8226.

The dirty secret of prototip2 (javascript tooltip) (craigsworks.com)

56 points by moe on Jun 10, 2010 | 17 comments

8227.

Detailed guide to mechanical keyboards (switch types, hysteresis graphs, etc) (overclock.net)

56 points by rw on Jul 22, 2010 | 17 comments

8228.

How to Get a Job at Cloudera (cloudera.com)

56 points by tlipcon on Jul 29, 2010 | 17 comments

8229.

Quirky.com - the Threadless of product design (quirky.com)

56 points by csmeder on Aug 17, 2010 | 17 comments

8230.

Why startups aren’t bothering to go public anymore (realclearmarkets.com)

56 points by cwan on Nov 10, 2010 | 17 comments

8231.

Joyent & Node.js (groups.google.com)

56 points by vamsee on Nov 11, 2010 | 17 comments

8232.

Learn to program in 21 days (comic) (abstrusegoose.com)

56 points by thomas on Mar 12, 2010 | 16 comments

8233.

Techstartu.ps (techstartu.ps)

56 points by michaelfairley on Jun 20, 2010 | 16 comments

8234.

Crazyegg, Visual Website Optimizer, Clicky, and more discounted on AppSumo (appsumo.com)

56 points by michaelfairley on Aug 19, 2010 | 16 comments

8235.

Terminal workflow automation with Terminitor (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)

56 points by jkreeftmeijer on Sep 20, 2010 | 16 comments

8236.

Paper prototyping kit. (uxpin.com)

56 points by Hates_ on Nov 12, 2010 | 16 comments

8237.

Greplin (YC W10) expands team and office (blog.greplin.com)

56 points by rwalker on Dec 6, 2010 | 16 comments

8238.

Using site speed in web search ranking (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)

56 points by mattyb on Apr 9, 2010 | 15 comments

8239.

New programming jargon you coined (stackoverflow.com)

56 points by iamanet on May 23, 2010 | 15 comments

8240.

Instagram sends passwords in plain text

56 points by Juliuso on Nov 13, 2010 | 15 comments

8241.

X-Ray Backscatter Imaging Safety From Basic Principles (compilerbitch.livejournal.com)

56 points by robhu on Nov 21, 2010 | 15 comments

8242.

All your drives are belong to us (blog.fortinet.com)

56 points by crocowhile on Dec 2, 2010 | 15 comments

8243.

SyncPad Node.js Server Revisited (blog.mysyncpad.com)

56 points by roder on Dec 9, 2010 | 15 comments

8244.

I am a neuropsychologist. Ask me (almost) anything. (reddit.com)

56 points by pavs on Jul 11, 2010 | 14 comments

8245.

How to get better at writing (swombat.com)

56 points by swombat on Dec 6, 2010 | 14 comments

8246.

Sorry Bing, Adioso (YC W09) still the only natural language flight search tool (blog.adioso.com)

56 points by nedwin on Dec 15, 2010 | 14 comments

8247.

Open Source Contribution Etiquette (tirania.org)

56 points by rayvega on Dec 31, 2010 | 14 comments

8248.

We are wanderers... - Carl Sagan (youtube.com)

56 points by rblion on Aug 11, 2010 | 13 comments

8249.

SplashID crypto fail (bluebottle.net.au)

56 points by cperciva on Aug 22, 2010 | 13 comments

8250.

Is Complexity Theory On The Brink? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

56 points by wglb on Nov 25, 2010 | 13 comments