HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

World’s first hummingbird-like unmanned aircraft system takes flight (gizmag.com)

42 points by joetek on Feb 18, 2011 | 7 comments

1202.

Looking for an AOL contact to help rescue older browsers (jwz.org)

42 points by AndrewDucker on Feb 5, 2011 | 4 comments

1203.

Startup Toolbox - Follow up to "HN: We’re creating a “Startup toolbox”. (thestartupfoundry.com)

42 points by g0atbutt on Feb 19, 2011 | 4 comments

1204.

San Diego: Join us for Hacker News meetup #14 (Fri 2/25) (anyvite.com)

42 points by ericabiz on Feb 24, 2011 | 4 comments

1205.

Why You Need To Start A Startup (jasonlbaptiste.com)

42 points by aundumla on Feb 8, 2011 | 2 comments

1206.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages [pdf] (flownet.com)

42 points by uros643 on Feb 21, 2011 | 2 comments

1207.

A tour of the Clojure landscape (lispnyc.org)

42 points by joubert on Feb 13, 2011 | 1 comments

1208.

XML: Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always kill babies (thurn.ca)

41 points by jancona on Feb 19, 2011 | 58 comments

1209.

10.7 Lion drops support for PowerPC applications (9to5mac.com)

41 points by bep on Feb 27, 2011 | 50 comments

1210.

A word about résumés. (atalasoft.com)

41 points by ggualberto on Feb 18, 2011 | 36 comments

1211.

How should I get started with programming? Which language should I learn first? (marco.org)

41 points by barredo on Feb 2, 2011 | 34 comments

1212.

Apple 'Safe Deposit Box' Patent Revealed Ahead of Mac OS X Lion (macrumors.com)

41 points by anderzole on Feb 20, 2011 | 33 comments

1213.

Show HN: Space Gremlin, my christmas project just accepted for the Mac App Store (spacegremlinapp.com)

41 points by seanalltogether on Feb 7, 2011 | 32 comments

1214.

Did launching a web startup become 10x cheaper between 1998 and 2011? (christophjanz.blogspot.com)

41 points by chrija on Feb 25, 2011 | 26 comments

1215.

Nvidia announces CUDA 4.0 (pressroom.nvidia.com)

41 points by m0nastic on Feb 28, 2011 | 26 comments

1216.

Watson: The Confusion over an Airport Clue (asmarterplanet.com)

41 points by bgurupra on Feb 16, 2011 | 19 comments

1217.

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs (isolani.co.uk)

41 points by tswicegood on Feb 8, 2011 | 14 comments

1218.

What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB (gigaom.com)

41 points by solipsist on Feb 23, 2011 | 13 comments

1219.

OO Design Principles Compilation (mmiika.wordpress.com)

41 points by DanielRibeiro on Feb 27, 2011 | 13 comments

1220.

Paulina Sygulska on: How to network effectively (swombat.com)

41 points by jerome_etienne on Feb 24, 2011 | 11 comments

1221.

IndexTank, a New Startup Offers Hosted Search as a Service (gigaom.com)

41 points by nachopg on Feb 15, 2011 | 9 comments

1222.

Wittgenstein for programmers (hxa.name)

41 points by bkudria on Feb 19, 2011 | 7 comments

1223.

An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 3 - Binding a Collection to a View (liquidmedia.ca)

41 points by n_time on Feb 17, 2011 | 6 comments

1224.

Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block (mudge.github.com)

41 points by mudgemeister on Feb 5, 2011 | 4 comments

1225.

Million Song Dataset of audio metadata (labrosa.ee.columbia.edu)

41 points by cf on Feb 11, 2011 | 4 comments

1226.

Robert Haas: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 2: VACUUM vs. Purge (rhaas.blogspot.com)

41 points by rhaas on Feb 2, 2011 | 2 comments

1227.

How does Etsy manage development and operations? (quora.com)

41 points by dclaysmith on Feb 11, 2011 | 1 comments

1228.

Why Does College Cost So Much? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

40 points by mhb on Feb 19, 2011 | 61 comments

1229.

Why text messages are limited to 160 characters (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

40 points by bootload on Feb 7, 2011 | 51 comments

1230.

Hashbang URIs Aren't as Bad as You Think (mtrpcic.net)

40 points by reynolds on Feb 17, 2011 | 44 comments