HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today (heraldsun.com.au)

980 points by Grovara123 on Aug 25, 2012 | 92 comments

2.

This is how Visa works (eduardo.intermeta.com.br)

931 points by eduardordm on Aug 17, 2012 | 97 comments

3.

Amazon Glacier (aws.amazon.com)

906 points by sqnguyen on Aug 21, 2012 | 378 comments

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Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

871 points by sw007 on Aug 17, 2012 | 431 comments

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This is a bit f'd, Quora (giantrobotlasers.com)

827 points by webwright on Aug 13, 2012 | 226 comments

6.

Textmate2 Goes Open Source (github.com)

780 points by evilduck on Aug 9, 2012 | 300 comments

7.

Design Tip: Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com)

761 points by ivolo on Aug 8, 2012 | 210 comments

8.

An Unexpected Ass Kicking (joelrunyon.com)

746 points by zdw on Aug 5, 2012 | 196 comments

9.

Dear Mark Zuckerberg (daltoncaldwell.com)

743 points by johns on Aug 1, 2012 | 261 comments

10.

I Have 50 Dollars (ihave50dollars.com)

647 points by thehodge on Aug 17, 2012 | 196 comments

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ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (tos-dr.info)

629 points by hugoroy on Aug 7, 2012 | 128 comments

12.

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

611 points by sarchertech on Aug 2, 2012 | 238 comments

13.

Mars Curiosity's first images (mars.jpl.nasa.gov)

592 points by suprgeek on Aug 6, 2012 | 168 comments

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SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor (spaceflightnow.com)

564 points by natep on Aug 3, 2012 | 180 comments

15.

Great work Visa, now I hate you (modern-products.tumblr.com)

551 points by roee on Aug 6, 2012 | 261 comments

16.

Wikipedia Redefined (wikipediaredefined.com)

550 points by troethom on Aug 7, 2012 | 288 comments

17.

What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? (blog.priceonomics.com)

534 points by rohin on Aug 28, 2012 | 347 comments

18.

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)

519 points by mahmud on Aug 20, 2012 | 344 comments

19.

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum (bbc.co.uk)

515 points by anons2011 on Aug 16, 2012 | 499 comments

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Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon (apple.copydesk.org)

494 points by damohasi on Aug 26, 2012 | 120 comments

21.

AMA with Barack Obama (reddit.com)

493 points by duck on Aug 29, 2012 | 250 comments

22.

John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy (ejohn.org)

480 points by spicyj on Aug 14, 2012 | 119 comments

23.

A Man Walks into a Bank (ft.com)

479 points by jkharness87 on Aug 6, 2012 | 175 comments

24.

Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead (daringfireball.net)

471 points by joshus on Aug 17, 2012 | 173 comments

25.

Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles (plus.google.com)

470 points by keyist on Aug 3, 2012 | 153 comments

26.

Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web (tent.io)

469 points by Titanous on Aug 22, 2012 | 221 comments

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37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (fastcompany.com)