HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Western civilization runs on the mainframe (fosspatents.blogspot.com)

154 points by a2tech on Aug 2, 2010 | 149 comments

1502.

Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself (innerdaemon.wordpress.com)

154 points by larryrubin on Apr 11, 2010 | 110 comments

1503.

Google closes Issue 9 (code.google.com)

154 points by cosgroveb on Oct 11, 2010 | 106 comments

1504.

IPhone =/= Debian app (lwn.net)

154 points by telemachos on Jun 18, 2010 | 78 comments

1505.

Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview) (youtube.com)

154 points by zeedotme on Aug 25, 2010 | 71 comments

1506.

Was the Wheel of Fortune One Letter Solve Really a Miracle? (esquire.com)

154 points by DanielN on Nov 10, 2010 | 69 comments

1507.

Database development mistakes made by application developers (stackoverflow.com)

154 points by phalien on Dec 13, 2010 | 69 comments

1508.

S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage (supersimplestorageservice.com)

154 points by ulvund on May 19, 2010 | 67 comments

1509.

Mongo DB is web scale (xtranormal.com)

154 points by roder on Aug 26, 2010 | 65 comments

1510.

Need a Job? Build Something Cool.

154 points by kfarzaneh on Sep 10, 2010 | 63 comments

1511.

The Truth about California: It's actually saving the rest of the USA (marketwatch.com)

154 points by ENOTTY on Nov 29, 2010 | 56 comments

1512.

How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking (stackoverflow.com)

154 points by fogus on Dec 27, 2010 | 52 comments

1513.

Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux (opendotdotdot.blogspot.com)

154 points by bensummers on Dec 27, 2010 | 45 comments

1514.

Yacc is dead (arxiv.org)

154 points by benblack on Nov 28, 2010 | 44 comments

1515.

Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot. (fieggen.com)

154 points by sahaj on Jan 19, 2010 | 41 comments

1516.

Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase) (googleblog.blogspot.com)

154 points by aschobel on Jul 16, 2010 | 40 comments

1517.

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code (whitehouse.gov)

154 points by Anon84 on Apr 21, 2010 | 39 comments

1518.

Kevin Rose is killing the DiggBar (about.digg.com)

154 points by adamhowell on Apr 6, 2010 | 35 comments

1519.

Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter" (fastcompany.com)

154 points by zoowar on Dec 14, 2010 | 35 comments

1520.

Facebook iPhone app takes OSS code without attribution (developers.enormego.com)

154 points by basil on Aug 20, 2010 | 34 comments

1521.

LaTeX coffee stains (hanno-rein.de)

154 points by shard on Nov 20, 2010 | 17 comments

1522.

A few git tips you didn't know about (mislav.uniqpath.com)

154 points by mtodd on Jul 24, 2010 | 7 comments

1523.

'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' (daringfireball.net)

153 points by aaronbrethorst on Jun 17, 2010 | 187 comments

1524.

Trouble with Diaspora (blog.steveklabnik.com)

153 points by brettbender on Sep 17, 2010 | 161 comments

1525.

Google URL shortener available to the public (goo.gl)

153 points by stevefink on Sep 30, 2010 | 120 comments

1526.

Google goes "evil" (huffingtonpost.com)

153 points by mcantelon on Aug 9, 2010 | 88 comments

1527.

"We've read your code" (blog.jgc.org)

153 points by jgrahamc on Sep 20, 2010 | 82 comments

1528.

Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP) (reddit.com)