HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

601.

In the Shadow of John McCarthy (blog.fogus.me)

101 points by llambda on Nov 3, 2011 | 3 comments

602.

Racism and Meritocracy (techcrunch.com)

100 points by Jarred on Nov 19, 2011 | 117 comments

603.

Something Disintegrates at a Burger King (tweetagewasteland.com)

100 points by davepell on Nov 10, 2011 | 90 comments

604.

MongoDB and Riak, In Context (and an apology) (seancribbs.com)

100 points by luigi on Nov 7, 2011 | 25 comments

605.

Manufacturing bombshell: AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC (extremetech.com)

100 points by DigiHound on Nov 22, 2011 | 24 comments

606.

Python Koans: Learn Python by making tests pass (bitbucket.org)

100 points by makmanalp on Nov 28, 2011 | 9 comments

607.

The Tyranny of Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)

99 points by yummyfajitas on Nov 7, 2011 | 135 comments

608.

Stross: Klout violates UK privacy laws. (antipope.org)

99 points by tsellon on Nov 7, 2011 | 61 comments

609.

Creativity doesn't need a muse. It needs a drill sergeant. (inc.com)

99 points by da5e on Nov 4, 2011 | 54 comments

610.

House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Industry Concerns About SOPA (techdirt.com)

99 points by d0ne on Nov 15, 2011 | 35 comments

611.

Khan Academy Gets 5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a School (hackeducation.com)

99 points by apievangelist on Nov 6, 2011 | 31 comments

612.

Introducing (Unofficial) GitHub Buttons (markdotto.com)

99 points by dwynings on Nov 27, 2011 | 12 comments

613.

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) (nytimes.com)

98 points by tysone on Nov 4, 2011 | 152 comments

614.

The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds? (futureoftheinternet.org)

98 points by pauljonas on Nov 30, 2011 | 123 comments

615.

The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game (programmingzen.com)

98 points by acangiano on Nov 10, 2011 | 73 comments

616.

Kendo UI is out of beta (kendoui.com)

98 points by tnajdek on Nov 30, 2011 | 51 comments

617.

Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password (threatpost.com)

98 points by 01PH on Nov 21, 2011 | 44 comments

618.

NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github (github.com)

98 points by _mnjb on Nov 26, 2011 | 36 comments

619.

WeekendHacker (weekendhacker.net)

98 points by heelhook on Nov 15, 2011 | 25 comments

620.

Enabling & using WebGL on iOS 4.2+ (atnan.com)

98 points by atnan on Nov 3, 2011 | 22 comments

621.

Programming languages cannot be copyrighted, says senior EU court adviser (itworld.com)

98 points by abennett on Nov 29, 2011 | 15 comments

622.

X86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered (plus.google.com)

97 points by andrewmunn on Nov 29, 2011 | 78 comments

623.

I Accidentally Deleted All Our Data (taylor.fausak.me)

97 points by taylorfausak on Nov 18, 2011 | 74 comments

624.

Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS (9to5mac.com)

97 points by Anon84 on Nov 12, 2011 | 73 comments

625.

HTML5 2D gaming performance analysis: Canvas 2D vs. WebGL vs. C++ (scirra.com)

97 points by AshleysBrain on Nov 18, 2011 | 61 comments

626.

Linus Torvalds: Locked Down Technologies Lose in the End (mashable.com)

97 points by RyanMcGreal on Nov 18, 2011 | 52 comments

627.

China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections (forbes.com)

97 points by bdr on Nov 21, 2011 | 45 comments

628.

Forward Secrecy for Google HTTPS (imperialviolet.org)

97 points by dpeck on Nov 22, 2011 | 19 comments

629.

Who else is behind SOPA? (blog.dentcat.com)

97 points by oxplot on Nov 18, 2011 | 13 comments

630.

Linus Torvalds creates G+ page for Linux release announcements (plus.google.com)

97 points by davidhollander on Nov 9, 2011 | 6 comments