HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

421.

The iPhone 5 (daringfireball.net)

131 points by spearo77 on Sep 19, 2012 | 205 comments

422.

Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins (venturebeat.com)

131 points by zacharycohn on Sep 5, 2012 | 137 comments

423.

Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx (highscalability.com)

131 points by diego on Sep 26, 2012 | 91 comments

424.

Show HN: A Handcrafted Web (scrollkit.com)

131 points by kateray on Sep 13, 2012 | 82 comments

425.

Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” (domainnamewire.com)

131 points by xhrpost on Sep 27, 2012 | 73 comments

426.

App Academy is an intensive web development course in San Francisco (appacademy.io)

131 points by ruggeri on Sep 11, 2012 | 69 comments

427.

World `countries` – database table for MySQL (echobehind.wordpress.com)

131 points by pericd on Sep 23, 2012 | 41 comments

428.

How a bedroom developer's 'ugly little game' became an App Store hit (wired.co.uk)

131 points by shawndumas on Sep 5, 2012 | 36 comments

429.

SlabText.js (frequency-decoder.com)

131 points by electic on Sep 2, 2012 | 16 comments

430.

How can I submit prior art to the Patent Office? (meta.patents.stackexchange.com)

131 points by bugsbunnyak on Sep 27, 2012 | 13 comments

431.

Do Web Developers Ever Learn? (bitroar.posterous.com)

130 points by dennisgorelik on Sep 24, 2012 | 91 comments

432.

Java flaw allows “complete” bypass of security sandbox (arstechnica.com)

130 points by scottfr on Sep 25, 2012 | 53 comments

433.

The GitHub hiring experience (github.com)

130 points by Empro on Sep 24, 2012 | 38 comments

434.

Thank you Apple (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

129 points by zdw on Sep 22, 2012 | 129 comments

435.

BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored (bbc.co.uk)

129 points by anons2011 on Sep 4, 2012 | 93 comments

436.

Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt (techcrunch.com)

129 points by cwilson on Sep 13, 2012 | 78 comments

437.

Why Quora Won't Scale (socialtimes.com)

129 points by desbest on Sep 13, 2012 | 77 comments

438.

If the world’s population lived like... (infographic) (persquaremile.com)

129 points by thibaut_barrere on Sep 1, 2012 | 55 comments

439.

Is Alzheimer's Type 3 Diabetes? (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

129 points by timr on Sep 26, 2012 | 53 comments

440.

Kickstarting a hackerspace in Iraq (boingboing.net)

129 points by jebagu on Sep 16, 2012 | 17 comments

441.

Vim Koans (blog.sanctum.geek.nz)

129 points by janogonzalez on Sep 23, 2012 | 13 comments

442.

Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists? (campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com)

128 points by charbonnelb on Sep 6, 2012 | 143 comments

443.

Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive is great, and no one has noticed (venturebeat.com)

128 points by rfreytag on Sep 28, 2012 | 128 comments

444.

Russia reveals secret diamond field containing "trillions of carats" (csmonitor.com)

128 points by pavel_lishin on Sep 17, 2012 | 34 comments

445.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)

127 points by whoishiring on Sep 1, 2012 | 117 comments

446.

Tent.is alpha (tent.is)

127 points by Titanous on Sep 25, 2012 | 97 comments

447.

Coding skill vs. employee skill (mikecr.it)

127 points by mcrittenden on Sep 10, 2012 | 96 comments

448.

Brazilian judge orders arrest of Google Brazil president (m.sfgate.com)

127 points by robk on Sep 25, 2012 | 69 comments

449.

App Store Bit Rot (undsoversum.de)

127 points by kronawetter on Sep 18, 2012 | 53 comments

450.

Just Cause 2 Multiplayer: Behind the scenes with gaming's greatest hack (redbull.co.uk)

127 points by bensillis on Sep 17, 2012 | 39 comments