HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13921.

Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance? (quant.stackexchange.com)

52 points by princeverma on Feb 20, 2012 | 49 comments

13922.

Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends (techcrunch.com)

52 points by scapbi on May 11, 2012 | 49 comments

13923.

FloJack: Bringing NFC to iPhone/iPad (kickstarter) (kickstarter.com)

52 points by seats on Oct 24, 2012 | 49 comments

13924.

Code Length Measured in 14 Languages (blog.wolfram.com)

52 points by lispython on Nov 14, 2012 | 48 comments

13925.

On BritRuby (devblog.avdi.org)

52 points by knowtheory on Nov 19, 2012 | 48 comments

13926.

Do scientists really need a PhD? (nature.com)

52 points by mbrubeck on Jan 2, 2012 | 47 comments

13927.

Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself (play.google.com)

52 points by navpatel on Aug 16, 2012 | 46 comments

13928.

Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns (torrentfreak.com)

52 points by cleverjake on Nov 21, 2012 | 46 comments

13929.

CloudFlare partners with Authy to implement two-factor authentication (thenextweb.com)

52 points by danielpal on Nov 28, 2012 | 46 comments

13930.

Massively faster DB with async batching (williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

52 points by willvarfar on Jan 26, 2012 | 45 comments

13931.

Men with shaved heads are perceived to be more masculine (online.wsj.com)

52 points by OJKoukaz on Oct 3, 2012 | 44 comments

13932.

HP's touchpad was bound to be a flop (nytimes.com)

52 points by cpleppert on Jan 1, 2012 | 43 comments

13933.

Acorn Archimedes is 25 (reghardware.com)

52 points by ukdm on Jun 1, 2012 | 43 comments

13934.

Fixing Unix Filenames: Control Characters, Leading Dashes, and Other Problems (dwheeler.com)

52 points by ralph on Sep 6, 2012 | 43 comments

13935.

Font Rendering - Mac vs Ubuntu (arunoda.me)

52 points by arunoda on Oct 10, 2012 | 43 comments

13936.

[] are like Facebook (arelikefacebook.com)

52 points by mschen on Oct 16, 2012 | 43 comments

13937.

Python on Wheels (pythononwheels.org)

52 points by sciurus on Aug 13, 2012 | 41 comments

13938.

Why Task Manager appears slower when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog? (blogs.msdn.com)

52 points by girishmony on Feb 2, 2012 | 41 comments

13939.

Haxx.ly - remix any website with your own css/js to share with friends (haxx.ly)

52 points by mtcmorris on Aug 29, 2012 | 41 comments

13940.

Buy a car with Bitcoins, save $5,000 (theregister.co.uk)

52 points by coinabul on Nov 9, 2012 | 41 comments

13941.

Groupon down 27%, hits new low of $5.50 (google.com)

52 points by AlexMuir on Aug 15, 2012 | 40 comments

13942.

C/C++ Pointer Declaration Syntax – It makes sense (hamberg.no)

52 points by princeverma on Feb 21, 2012 | 40 comments

13943.

The Money/Time fallacy (thoughts.maayank.com)

52 points by maayank on Aug 29, 2012 | 39 comments

13944.

Phusion Passenger Enterprise released (blog.phusion.nl)

52 points by ninh on Aug 1, 2012 | 38 comments

13945.

You Can Make Video Games (youcanmakevideogames.com)

52 points by mwill on Jun 7, 2012 | 37 comments

13946.

Thieves "bug" debit card PIN pads in 63 Barnes & Noble stores (news.yahoo.com)

52 points by geekfactor on Oct 24, 2012 | 37 comments

13947.

The cleanest vimrc you'll ever see (yanpritzker.com)

52 points by skwp on Jan 20, 2012 | 36 comments

13948.

IOS Maps and China (anthonydrendel.com)

52 points by joshus on Sep 24, 2012 | 36 comments

13949.

Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C.I.A. Chief Couldn’t (nytimes.com)

52 points by 001sky on Nov 17, 2012 | 36 comments

13950.

Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive (rt.com)

52 points by narad on Mar 1, 2012 | 35 comments