HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Still Face experiment: What happens when a mother shows no response to a child? (youtube.com)

135 points by codexon on Mar 16, 2010 | 58 comments

2012.

Groupon in Retrospect (posiescafe.com)

135 points by morisy on Sep 16, 2010 | 54 comments

2013.

I broke textCAPTCHA with Python (textcaptchabreaker.appspot.com)

135 points by Xk on Nov 12, 2010 | 54 comments

2014.

A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (bkent.net)

135 points by b-man on Aug 1, 2010 | 50 comments

2015.

Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's (money.cnn.com)

135 points by jakarta on Aug 24, 2010 | 50 comments

2016.

Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect (techcrunch.com)

135 points by bwaldorf on Oct 20, 2010 | 50 comments

2017.

NASA resets computer, repairs data corruption on Voyager 2 interstellar probe (jpl.nasa.gov)

135 points by terra_t on Jun 24, 2010 | 48 comments

2018.

Rails 3.0: Release candidate (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

135 points by mrduncan on Jul 26, 2010 | 46 comments

2019.

Ask HN: Best resources to learn SEO?

135 points by msencenb on Sep 9, 2010 | 46 comments

2020.

Rewriting pixels to add new features to closed-source software (cs.washington.edu)

135 points by chaosmachine on Apr 2, 2010 | 40 comments

2021.

Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization Framework (bijansabet.com)

135 points by sayemm on Sep 22, 2010 | 40 comments

2022.

Main GNU source repository server compromised (savannah.gnu.org)

135 points by there on Nov 30, 2010 | 39 comments

2023.

Charles Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway): Elementary Worldly Wisdom (ycombinator.com)

135 points by apu on May 9, 2010 | 24 comments

2024.

PostgreSQL 9.0b1 with built-in replication support (developer.postgresql.org)

135 points by andrevoget on May 3, 2010 | 23 comments

2025.

Ask HN: Typical Startup or Abuse?

134 points by datawalke on Jun 20, 2010 | 166 comments

2026.

An Open Letter to Wired Magazine: We're breaking up (tech.cindyroyal.net)

134 points by tswicegood on Nov 11, 2010 | 127 comments

2027.

Scientist who cured type I Diabetes in mice was denied funding for human trials (columbiaspectator.com)

134 points by bpick on Jun 27, 2010 | 122 comments

2028.

How we buy plane tickets and why it's ruining air travel (blog.flightcaster.com)

134 points by jaf12duke on Jul 26, 2010 | 122 comments

2029.

The Non-Programming Programmer (codinghorror.com)

134 points by alexandros on Feb 22, 2010 | 121 comments

2030.

Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult (codinghorror.com)

134 points by Anon84 on Oct 23, 2010 | 108 comments

2031.

"How hard can it be to implement?" (answers.37signals.com)

134 points by adamhowell on Sep 8, 2010 | 97 comments

2032.

Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Apple?

134 points by mmatey on Nov 24, 2010 | 91 comments

2033.

Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?" (gstatic.com)

134 points by antimatter15 on Dec 21, 2010 | 90 comments

2034.

Engineering Is Not Science (spectrum.ieee.org)

134 points by naish on Dec 9, 2010 | 76 comments

2035.

Here's why you should not buy a Drobo (jan.rychter.com)

134 points by jwr on Jun 18, 2010 | 72 comments

2036.

Are you rich? If so, how did you get there? (reddit.com)

134 points by scrrr on Aug 17, 2010 | 70 comments

2037.

XHP: A New Way to Write PHP (from Facebook) (facebook.com)

134 points by ashu on Feb 10, 2010 | 67 comments

2038.

Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud (notepad.cc)

134 points by jacobbijani on Jun 17, 2010 | 67 comments

2039.

I Almost Got a Job on 37Signals Job Board (datawalke.com)

134 points by datawalke on Jun 28, 2010 | 67 comments

2040.

Rise of the telepresence robots (edition.cnn.com)

134 points by dman on Jul 30, 2010 | 60 comments