HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8851.

High Altitude Wind Power Startup Soars In Test (earthtechling.com)

2 points by aperrien on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8852.

What about Instagram made it worth a $1B acquisition by Facebook? (quora.com)

2 points by armandososa on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8853.

How Nicholas Wade's grandfather survived the Titanic (nytimes.com)

2 points by laserson on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8854.

Welcome to Wall Street: The Instagram Buy Is All About Facebook's Investors (readwriteweb.com)

2 points by antmaper on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8855.

Using TIOBE To Research My Book Topics (learncodethehardway.org)

2 points by joshuacc on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8856.

Google Tries to "Start Something" Post-SOPA (techpresident.com)

2 points by sethbannon on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8857.

The Most Astounding Fact (youtube.com)

2 points by vecter on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8858.

Comparing Julia and R’s Vocabularies (r-bloggers.com)

2 points by TalGalili on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8859.

How to Write a Functional Program with IO, Mutation, and other effects (scala) (marakana.com)

2 points by mrknvi on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8860.

Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start. (economist.com)

2 points by branola on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8861.

Windows-on-iPad service goes legit as Microsoft licensing demands are met (arstechnica.com)

2 points by evo_9 on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8862.

Detroit makes pitch for ousted Yahoo employees (itworld.com)

2 points by abennett on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8863.

Mubsub: Pub/sub for Node.js and MongoDB (github.com)

2 points by scttnlsn on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8864.

Responsive Web Design in Sass: Using Media Queries in Sass 3.2 (thesassway.com)

2 points by jacobr on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8865.

"Delight users" - the founding of Instagram [2011] (audio/video) (ecorner.stanford.edu)

2 points by speedracr on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8866.

Richard Feynman Presents Quantum Electrodynamics for the NonScientist (openculture.com)

2 points by ColinWright on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8867.

A retirement fund for your JavaScript (garann.com)

2 points by jacobr on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8868.

Facebook and Instagram: Largest mobile-app deal ever? (gigaom.com)

2 points by jetcom on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8869.

Apple should have acquired Instagram (nikita.io)

2 points by websirnik on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8870.

So, what do the Instagram founders do now? ()

2 points by guynamedloren on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8871.

A New Look at Nature’s Role in the Titanic’s Sinking (nytimes.com)

2 points by jedwhite on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8872.

The Boy Who Cried Bubble (startupdispatch.com)

2 points by puranjay on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8873.

Typecaster For Life (blog.sfgate.com)

2 points by ender672 on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8874.

Musk Sees SpaceX IPO in 2013, Says "cash-flow positive" (bloomberg.com)

2 points by benackles on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8875.

Modern HyperCard for Today’s Schools: But Where’s the Community of Practice? (computinged.wordpress.com)

2 points by mbrubeck on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8876.

New Groupon lawsuit targets execs, seeks board seats for shareholders (paidcontent.org)

2 points by daegloe on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8877.

Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science (guardian.co.uk)

2 points by andyjohnson0 on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8878.

On :target (css-tricks.com)

2 points by dwynings on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8879.

Inside Foxconn (marketplace.org)

2 points by spking on Apr 9, 2012 | 0 comments

8880.

Netcat for zeromq in C (github.com)

2 points by EmielMols on Apr 10, 2012 | 0 comments