HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

What killed the Linux desktop (tirania.org)

344 points by foolano on Aug 29, 2012 | 378 comments

62.

Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job (paranoia.dubfire.net)

344 points by wglb on Aug 8, 2012 | 158 comments

63.

You'll never be Chinese (haohaoreport.com)

340 points by ilamont on Aug 10, 2012 | 177 comments

64.

Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy (joshlehman.com)

339 points by joshlehman on Aug 16, 2012 | 201 comments

65.

Khan Academy: Computer Science (khanacademy.org)

336 points by johns on Aug 14, 2012 | 54 comments

66.

Things I do to be consistently happy (joel.is)

335 points by Katelyn on Aug 19, 2012 | 109 comments

67.

The Tim Cook memo: line by line (jacquesmattheij.com)

334 points by plinkplonk on Aug 25, 2012 | 300 comments

68.

Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for.. (blogs.valvesoftware.com)

331 points by liquid_x on Aug 3, 2012 | 159 comments

69.

I can't make this stuff up (plus.google.com)

329 points by vibrunazo on Aug 25, 2012 | 182 comments

70.

Let's build a Tesla museum (The Oatmeal initiative) (Indiegogo.com)

326 points by SanderMak on Aug 15, 2012 | 81 comments

71.

Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked (github.com)

325 points by jaseg on Aug 8, 2012 | 73 comments

72.

John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died. (mail.scipy.org)

324 points by archgoon on Aug 30, 2012 | 32 comments

73.

Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers (blog.burnerapp.com)

323 points by gregcohn on Aug 8, 2012 | 180 comments

74.

How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (michaelnielsen.org)

323 points by cing on Aug 10, 2012 | 67 comments

75.

Font that creates charts (fontfont.com)

321 points by gbvb on Aug 16, 2012 | 61 comments

76.

Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987 (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

320 points by cleverjake on Aug 23, 2012 | 231 comments

77.

Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes (techcrunch.com)

319 points by irunbackwards on Aug 24, 2012 | 354 comments

78.

The fall of Angry Birds (treysmithblog.com)

316 points by bootload on Aug 25, 2012 | 183 comments

79.

Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account (macrumors.com)

314 points by antr on Aug 5, 2012 | 177 comments

80.

The White House just open sourced their first Github repo (github.com)

314 points by maxogden on Aug 23, 2012 | 121 comments

81.

HN statistics (labs.im)

313 points by nhoss2 on Aug 7, 2012 | 63 comments

82.

How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle (waynehale.wordpress.com)

313 points by kibwen on Aug 17, 2012 | 61 comments

83.

Typing Practice for Programmers (typing.io)

311 points by mofeeta on Aug 22, 2012 | 219 comments

84.

"The carpets are so clean, we don't need janitors" (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)

311 points by zdw on Aug 4, 2012 | 113 comments

85.

A Tor of the Dark Web (slifty.com)

310 points by slifty on Aug 17, 2012 | 204 comments

86.

Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser (browserver.org)

308 points by jedschmidt on Aug 10, 2012 | 63 comments

87.

Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

306 points by ecmendenhall on Aug 30, 2012 | 103 comments

88.

4chan: Beyond one billion (4chan.org)

305 points by dmarinoc on Aug 7, 2012 | 124 comments

89.

A Proposal To Improve Hacker News (sridattalabs.com)

304 points by sthatipamala on Aug 17, 2012 | 174 comments

90.

The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (discovermagazine.com)

301 points by danso on Aug 31, 2012 | 60 comments