HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

You are the nth person alive on earth (bbc.co.uk)

134 points by snaveint on Oct 27, 2011 | 57 comments

482.

How My Lifestyle Business Became a Startup (faso.com)

134 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 12, 2011 | 30 comments

483.

Why the iPhone 5 never arrived (blog.deg.io)

133 points by philipDS on Oct 5, 2011 | 118 comments

484.

The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants (theatlantic.com)

133 points by mshafrir on Oct 14, 2011 | 44 comments

485.

US government dictates Swedish copyright laws (falkvinge.net)

133 points by moeffju on Oct 6, 2011 | 39 comments

486.

Twilio launches in Europe (twilio.com)

133 points by swombat on Oct 26, 2011 | 39 comments

487.

Hiding your data in plain sight: USB hardware hiding (thice.nl)

133 points by chaosmachine on Oct 8, 2011 | 29 comments

488.

Linux From Scratch 7 Released (linuxfromscratch.org)

133 points by kia on Oct 29, 2011 | 27 comments

489.

I helped drive Adobe's acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi. AMA

132 points by kberger on Oct 3, 2011 | 66 comments

490.

The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play (thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com)

132 points by llambda on Oct 21, 2011 | 49 comments

491.

The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users (blog.canonical.com)

132 points by rlpb on Oct 28, 2011 | 45 comments

492.

It's not too late to learn how to code (jeanhsu.com)

132 points by tylerneylon on Oct 17, 2011 | 39 comments

493.

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009) (infoq.com)

132 points by jaredsohn on Oct 24, 2011 | 3 comments

494.

Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language (neverworkintheory.org)

131 points by j_baker on Oct 24, 2011 | 53 comments

495.

Diggnation to End in December (nytimes.com)

131 points by ssclafani on Oct 3, 2011 | 38 comments

496.

Is Tumblr a bot fest? (svenduplic.com)

131 points by ofca on Oct 22, 2011 | 33 comments

497.

Bletchley Park wins £4.6m grant (bbc.co.uk)

131 points by fakelvis on Oct 5, 2011 | 24 comments

498.

8-bit touchscreen ebook reader (rossum.posterous.com)

131 points by micampe on Oct 9, 2011 | 17 comments

499.

A Tour of Go (go-tour.appspot.com)

131 points by mhd on Oct 4, 2011 | 15 comments

500.

Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics (blog.cloudant.com)

130 points by cloudant on Oct 12, 2011 | 252 comments

501.

Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Ice Cream Sandwich (thisismynext.com)

130 points by turing on Oct 19, 2011 | 48 comments

502.

Badass JS is back (badassjs.com)

130 points by devongovett on Oct 24, 2011 | 5 comments

503.

Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller (businessweek.com)

129 points by aab1d on Oct 28, 2011 | 91 comments

504.

IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS (apple.com)

129 points by dchest on Oct 19, 2011 | 89 comments

505.

GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression (blog.vivekhaldar.com)

129 points by mef on Oct 25, 2011 | 82 comments

506.

Assault by GC (marcgravell.blogspot.com)

129 points by lnmx on Oct 24, 2011 | 68 comments

507.

Akamai close to being acquired by Google (reuters.com)

129 points by scommab on Oct 12, 2011 | 43 comments

508.

New, Bigger HN RSS Feed (ycombinator.com)

129 points by pg on Oct 5, 2011 | 34 comments

509.

How to Make Easy & Flexible Star Ratings (nerds.airbnb.com)

129 points by Airbnb-Nerds on Oct 14, 2011 | 34 comments

510.

What kind of buddhist was Steve Jobs, really? (blogs.plos.org)

128 points by larve on Oct 29, 2011 | 65 comments