HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1171.

What is the truth behind "9 out of 10 startups fail"? (quora.com)

44 points by wh-uws on Apr 16, 2011 | 17 comments

1172.

Why Even Ron Conway Couldn’t Persuade Me To Move To Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)

44 points by thankuz on Apr 7, 2011 | 16 comments

1173.

Turning windows into powerplants (web.mit.edu)

44 points by ph0rque on Apr 20, 2011 | 16 comments

1174.

Earth as a nuclear furnace (geothermal heat is mostly from radioactive decay) (en.wikipedia.org)

44 points by iwwr on Apr 3, 2011 | 14 comments

1175.

Y Combinator Success Leads To Copycats, Incubator Raiders (blogs.wsj.com)

44 points by huckle on Apr 25, 2011 | 14 comments

1176.

The world simplest impossible problem (pdf) (mathworks.com)

44 points by helwr on Apr 21, 2011 | 12 comments

1177.

Programming Contests, Algorithms, and the Real World Steven Skiena (cs.sunysb.edu)

44 points by thenicepostr on Apr 13, 2011 | 11 comments

1178.

The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment (broadcast.oreilly.com)

44 points by turoczy on Apr 23, 2011 | 8 comments

1179.

Some technical details on Watson (ibm.com)

44 points by nl on Apr 20, 2011 | 5 comments

1180.

Google admits Android 'both open and closed' (theregister.co.uk)

43 points by barista on Apr 13, 2011 | 55 comments

1181.

Android vs. iOS Growth (asymco.com)

43 points by raganesh on Apr 18, 2011 | 45 comments

1182.

List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup (kevinohashi.com)

43 points by ohashi on Apr 16, 2011 | 32 comments

1183.

What it's like to join a startup in Japan (mygengo.com)

43 points by Klonoar on Apr 21, 2011 | 29 comments

1184.

There are two kinds of people in the world (cdixon.org)

43 points by peter123 on Apr 27, 2011 | 28 comments

1185.

Microsoft breaks own world record for IE nonsense (theregister.co.uk)

43 points by Garbage on Apr 15, 2011 | 26 comments

1186.

Internet Explorer, WebGL and a Return to the Bad Old Days (readwriteweb.com)

43 points by ph0rque on Apr 17, 2011 | 24 comments

1187.

The fallen Aussie tycoon who aced poker giants for FBI, to beat life behind bars (brisbanetimes.com.au)

43 points by JacobAldridge on Apr 18, 2011 | 20 comments

1188.

Node.js 0.4.5 Released w/ many bug fixes (blog.nodejs.org)

43 points by chapel on Apr 2, 2011 | 19 comments

1189.

Thoughts About Sparrow UI (tumblr.charaveldesign.com)

43 points by mynameisraj on Apr 18, 2011 | 19 comments

1190.

TIOBE language popularity absurdity (accidentalidad.wordpress.com)

43 points by fogus on Apr 8, 2011 | 16 comments

1191.

A drug dealer on economists' theories about drug dealing (npr.org)

43 points by trustfundbaby on Apr 19, 2011 | 13 comments

1192.

Extending WiFi to one mile, thanks to empty TV channels (arstechnica.com)

43 points by abraham on Apr 26, 2011 | 12 comments

1193.

Show HN: crawl a website and store it in S3 from your browser (github.com)

43 points by spullara on Apr 30, 2011 | 12 comments

1194.

Firmin, a JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions (extralogical.net)

43 points by ionfish on Apr 4, 2011 | 11 comments

1195.

Ask HN: Does anyone else misread the 'time since comment' as karma now? ()

43 points by kaisdavis on Apr 16, 2011 | 11 comments

1196.

How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 cloud-pocalypse (xenon.stanford.edu)

43 points by esilverberg2 on Apr 23, 2011 | 10 comments

1197.

How to Build an Effective Startup Press Kit (sprouter.com)

43 points by erin_bury on Apr 8, 2011 | 7 comments

1198.

Three.js - Javascript 3D Engine (github.com)

43 points by coderdude on Apr 12, 2011 | 7 comments

1199.

TED talk about "Open Science" debate TEDxWaterloo (wired.com)

43 points by ramynassar on Apr 8, 2011 | 5 comments

1200.

How To Pull Off A Killer Demo Day Presentation (onstartups.com)

43 points by jasonlbaptiste on Apr 25, 2011 | 5 comments