HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2641.

Practical Garbage Collection - Part 1: Introduction (worldmodscode.wordpress.com)

181 points by cgbystrom on Dec 27, 2011 | 38 comments

2642.

Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation (ft.com)

181 points by estherschindler on Mar 5, 2011 | 32 comments

2643.

Cranking (43folders.com)

181 points by seancron on May 16, 2011 | 30 comments

2644.

Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute" (infoq.com)

181 points by puredanger on Oct 27, 2011 | 30 comments

2645.

Publicly funded science should be open science (online.wsj.com)

181 points by michael_nielsen on Oct 29, 2011 | 19 comments

2646.

Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S (daringfireball.net)

180 points by mcobrien on Oct 12, 2011 | 141 comments

2647.

Scaling with MongoDB (or how Urban Airship abandoned it for PostgreSQL) (schmichael.com)

180 points by rbranson on Jun 22, 2011 | 101 comments

2648.

What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills? (stackoverflow.com)

180 points by dangrossman on Feb 5, 2011 | 89 comments

2649.

Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN (pintpay.com)

180 points by gpl1 on May 11, 2011 | 87 comments

2650.

Judge Denies Apple Request To Stop Amazon From Using "App Store" (mashable.com)

180 points by tathagatadg on Jul 7, 2011 | 84 comments

2651.

Non-Libyan URL Shortener (gadaf.fi)

180 points by pitdesi on Apr 27, 2011 | 76 comments

2652.

Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results ()

180 points by abi on Oct 21, 2011 | 71 comments

2653.

Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 (exploringbinary.com)

180 points by pietrofmaggi on Feb 1, 2011 | 66 comments

2654.

Why God Hates German Words (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)

180 points by bdr on Jul 30, 2011 | 66 comments

2655.

Byron Sonne’s G20 security focus cost him dearly (torontolife.com)

180 points by colinprince on May 22, 2011 | 66 comments

2656.

False confessions (economist.com)

180 points by j-g-faustus on Aug 14, 2011 | 66 comments

2657.

JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old. (blog.jquery.com)

180 points by philjackson on Dec 9, 2011 | 66 comments

2658.

New iPhone app identifies trees from photos of their leaves (leafsnap.com)

180 points by gmac on May 6, 2011 | 51 comments

2659.

How to Draw a Circle (banu.com)

180 points by hendi_ on Oct 14, 2011 | 50 comments

2660.

Yahoo blocked emails about Wall Street protest (news.cnet.com)

180 points by danso on Sep 21, 2011 | 49 comments

2661.

Notch's 48-hour game: Prelude of the Chambered (s3.amazonaws.com)

180 points by Raphael on Aug 22, 2011 | 45 comments

2662.

The traveling German carpenters (blog.intellum.com)

180 points by luccastera on Apr 6, 2011 | 42 comments

2663.

-- --- •-• ••• • -•-• --- -•• • •• -• •--- •- •••- •- ••• -•-• •-• •• •--• - (mattt.github.com)

180 points by matttthompson on May 10, 2011 | 40 comments

2664.

Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online (dss.collections.imj.org.il)

180 points by mootothemax on Sep 26, 2011 | 40 comments

2665.

Thanks HN (removed.posterous.com)

180 points by pace on Dec 11, 2011 | 37 comments

2666.

CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders (layerstyles.org)

180 points by daleharvey on May 11, 2011 | 35 comments

2667.

Lorempixum: Generate placeholder images (not just gray boxes) (lorempixum.com)

180 points by rondevera on Apr 8, 2011 | 34 comments

2668.

The Hubble Blew My Mind (blog.wekeroad.com)

180 points by friism on Oct 26, 2011 | 28 comments

2669.

Rails 3.1: Release candidate (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

180 points by SingAlong on May 22, 2011 | 26 comments

2670.

Why Palantir Makes My Head Hurt (kellblog.com)

180 points by skmurphy on Oct 31, 2011 | 18 comments