HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2971.

Why do programmers write apps and then make them free (programmers.stackexchange.com)

168 points by awa on Feb 6, 2011 | 111 comments

2972.

HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap" (seclists.org)

168 points by desigooner on Mar 12, 2011 | 101 comments

2973.

Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU implementations of echo.c (gist.github.com)

168 points by dchest on Jul 19, 2011 | 86 comments

2974.

Anonymous hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, US military contractor, 90k logins dumped (thepiratebay.org)

168 points by JonnieCache on Jul 11, 2011 | 82 comments

2975.

Be Safe, Break the Law (marginalrevolution.com)

168 points by cwan on Sep 22, 2011 | 79 comments

2976.

RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases (extremetech.com)

168 points by mrsebastian on Nov 16, 2011 | 76 comments

2977.

Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension (blog.arpitnext.com)

168 points by arpitnext on Aug 18, 2011 | 73 comments

2978.

Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps (troyhunt.com)

168 points by troyhunt on Oct 19, 2011 | 57 comments

2979.

CSS: Our best practices are killing us (slideshare.net)

168 points by mokkos on Apr 12, 2011 | 53 comments

2980.

Securing an Ubuntu Server (andrewault.net)

168 points by chaosmachine on Mar 12, 2011 | 52 comments

2981.

GitHub is one commit away from being the ultimate blog engine (reefpoints.dockyard.com)

168 points by bcardarella on Nov 14, 2011 | 43 comments

2982.

(Android) Developer Income Report #14 (kreci.net)

168 points by kreci on Sep 22, 2011 | 42 comments

2983.

Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788% (blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)

168 points by robfitz on Oct 24, 2011 | 34 comments

2984.

Depixelizing Pixel Art (research.microsoft.com)

168 points by wmwong on Jun 20, 2011 | 33 comments

2985.

Don't Burn Bridges: A Guide to Networking in Silicon Valley (giftrocket.com)

168 points by kapilkale on Aug 2, 2011 | 31 comments

2986.

Hello from a libc-free world (blogs.oracle.com)

168 points by genieyclo on Oct 26, 2011 | 30 comments

2987.

Icons (including free for commercial use) (iconfinder.com)

168 points by torial on Mar 7, 2011 | 29 comments

2988.

Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released (github.com)

168 points by atambo on Nov 4, 2011 | 27 comments

2989.

Lists of must see TED-talks (quora.com)

168 points by TheAlan on Mar 1, 2011 | 24 comments

2990.

Fibonacci Flim-Flam. (lhup.edu)

168 points by jamesbritt on Oct 16, 2011 | 20 comments

2991.

Coding Horror: Performance is a Feature (codinghorror.com)

168 points by swah on Jun 20, 2011 | 17 comments

2992.

Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs (businessweek.com)

168 points by tilt on Oct 6, 2011 | 11 comments

2993.

Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity (washingtonpost.com)

167 points by lukeqsee on Apr 3, 2011 | 248 comments

2994.

Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team (techcrunch.com)

167 points by andre3k1 on Feb 11, 2011 | 175 comments

2995.

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period (slate.com)

167 points by apress on Jan 14, 2011 | 167 comments

2996.

Someone is stealing your life (1990) (lycaeum.org)

167 points by zizek on Mar 2, 2011 | 157 comments

2997.

Ask HN: How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?

167 points by rkalla on Apr 13, 2011 | 120 comments

2998.

Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time? (answers.onstartups.com)