HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant (betabeat.com)

280 points by alexkehayias on Sep 19, 2011 | 123 comments

1082.

90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size (github.com)

280 points by mythz on Nov 19, 2011 | 94 comments

1083.

Sony offers hacker a job. Hacker turns them down because of geoHot (inquisitr.com)

280 points by whenimgone on Mar 20, 2011 | 61 comments

1084.

The lost Van Jacobson paper that could save the Internet (rdist.root.org)

280 points by wglb on Dec 30, 2011 | 48 comments

1085.

From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier (dlo.me)

280 points by theli0nheart on Mar 21, 2011 | 43 comments

1086.

Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation (altdevblogaday.org)

280 points by ecaradec on May 17, 2011 | 33 comments

1087.

What happened to all the female developers? (blog.fogcreek.com)

279 points by buzzcut on Jul 26, 2011 | 272 comments

1088.

Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ (cato-at-liberty.org)

279 points by docgnome on Jul 28, 2011 | 234 comments

1089.

Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks (techland.time.com)

279 points by kiba on Apr 16, 2011 | 214 comments

1090.

Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (2002) (gcc.gnu.org)

279 points by AndrewDucker on Apr 22, 2011 | 204 comments

1091.

The mother of all Android malware has arrived (androidpolice.com)

279 points by anon1385 on Mar 2, 2011 | 128 comments

1092.

Applications Open for Winter 2012 YC Funding (ycombinator.com)

279 points by pg on Aug 29, 2011 | 119 comments

1093.

H-P's One-Year Plan (online.wsj.com)

279 points by jkopelman on Aug 29, 2011 | 88 comments

1094.

Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM (smartos.org)

279 points by timf on Aug 15, 2011 | 82 comments

1095.

Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP (forums.macrumors.com)

279 points by d0ne on Aug 24, 2011 | 82 comments

1096.

HN now serving a million page views on weekdays (ycombinator.com)

279 points by pg on Feb 9, 2011 | 80 comments

1097.

Google+ Demo (google.com)

279 points by cskau on Jun 28, 2011 | 76 comments

1098.

Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack (lexaloffle.com)

279 points by dstein on Jan 5, 2011 | 65 comments

1099.

Progress against SOPA (mattcutts.com)

279 points by sathishmanohar on Nov 21, 2011 | 61 comments

1100.

RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried (camendesign.com)

278 points by sant0sk1 on Jan 2, 2011 | 188 comments

1101.

Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0 (jacquesmattheij.com)

278 points by plinkplonk on Feb 11, 2011 | 155 comments

1102.

Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?

278 points by DotOrg on Aug 14, 2011 | 152 comments

1103.

Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo (salaryshare.me)

278 points by rglullis on Apr 13, 2011 | 147 comments

1104.

Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first. (arscives.com)

278 points by RickHull on Jun 12, 2011 | 132 comments

1105.

Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)

278 points by ssclafani on May 25, 2011 | 109 comments

1106.

RSS Rant (feliciaday.com)

278 points by hollerith on Oct 27, 2011 | 101 comments

1107.

Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username (caledonianrecord.com)