HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4201.

Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial (azabani.com)

152 points by delan on May 5, 2012 | 56 comments

4202.

Laws of Physics Can’t Trump the Bonds of Love (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

152 points by wallflower on Dec 26, 2012 | 55 comments

4203.

Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy (expletiveinserted.com)

152 points by ajessup on Jan 20, 2012 | 54 comments

4204.

Python Web Programming (docs.python.org)

152 points by plessthanpt05 on May 14, 2012 | 54 comments

4205.

American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics (1045theteam.com)

152 points by ColinWright on Aug 4, 2012 | 52 comments

4206.

Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (metafilter.com)

152 points by AbyCodes on Apr 14, 2012 | 51 comments

4207.

Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America" (arstechnica.com)

152 points by Libertatea on Dec 11, 2012 | 51 comments

4208.

Twitter's descent into the extractive (37signals.com)

152 points by zdw on Nov 17, 2012 | 49 comments

4209.

German Scientists Create Aerographite, the Lightest Material in the World (sciencespacerobots.com)

152 points by japaget on Jul 18, 2012 | 46 comments

4210.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition (news.railstutorial.org)

152 points by mhartl on Jun 5, 2012 | 44 comments

4211.

How does SSL work? (security.stackexchange.com)

152 points by lucb1e on Sep 29, 2012 | 44 comments

4212.

Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times (tnr.com)

152 points by joejohnson on Nov 6, 2012 | 43 comments

4213.

Early Startup Time Wasters (talkfast.org)

152 points by icey on May 7, 2012 | 42 comments

4214.

24 Pull Requests - Giving little gifts of code for Christmas (24pullrequests.com)

152 points by andrewnez on Nov 30, 2012 | 38 comments

4215.

Brightcove Acquires Zencoder (YC W10) (blog.zencoder.com)

152 points by fowlduck on Jul 26, 2012 | 37 comments

4216.

Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA (arstechnica.com)

152 points by chaosmachine on Jan 14, 2012 | 35 comments

4217.

Twitter Bootstrap with themes, enhancements, and other goodies (ajkochanowicz.github.com)

152 points by willfarrell on Jul 10, 2012 | 34 comments

4218.

Tarsnap now takes credit cards (switching from Paypal to Stripe) (daemonology.net)

152 points by cperciva on Aug 13, 2012 | 34 comments

4219.

Mozilla Game On (gameon.mozilla.org)

152 points by lee337 on Dec 18, 2012 | 34 comments

4220.

Coding is priority number five (bitquabit.com)

152 points by tghw on Apr 13, 2012 | 32 comments

4221.

Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep (scientificamerican.com)

152 points by duaneb on Mar 26, 2012 | 30 comments

4222.

Blur.js: Produce psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements. (blurjs.com)

152 points by Killswitch on Mar 9, 2012 | 28 comments

4223.

On pirates and piracy (radar.oreilly.com)

152 points by jamesbritt on Jan 23, 2012 | 26 comments

4224.

Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk (stackoverflow.com)

152 points by sblom on Jan 29, 2012 | 23 comments

4225.

Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

152 points by pg on Feb 11, 2012 | 22 comments

4226.

A Rails 3.2 application with recurring billing using Stripe (railsapps.github.com)

152 points by DanielKehoe on Oct 25, 2012 | 22 comments

4227.

A camera that can see around corners (nature.com)

152 points by ColinWright on Mar 21, 2012 | 21 comments

4228.

Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe (bbc.co.uk)

152 points by Tim-Boss on Feb 11, 2012 | 12 comments

4229.

Github finally raises funding: $100M from Andreessen Horowitz (gigaom.com)

152 points by mrkmcknz on Jul 9, 2012 | 11 comments

4230.

Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?

151 points by methoddk on Mar 17, 2012 | 200 comments