HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Aaron Swartz commits suicide (tech.mit.edu)

2103 points by bfaviero on Jan 12, 2013 | 546 comments

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What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project (harthur.wordpress.com)

1331 points by luigi on Jan 24, 2013 | 781 comments

3.

Prosecutor as bully (lessig.tumblr.com)

1200 points by guan on Jan 12, 2013 | 260 comments

4.

Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

1088 points by JaneLovesDotNet on Jan 10, 2013 | 377 comments

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Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows (istartedsomething.com)

1065 points by longzheng on Jan 15, 2013 | 455 comments

6.

Turn your browser into a notepad with one line (coderwall.com)

956 points by bitsweet on Jan 29, 2013 | 178 comments

7.

Why the Fuck? (raganwald.posterous.com)

911 points by mehulkar on Jan 20, 2013 | 499 comments

8.

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

842 points by Anon84 on Jan 29, 2013 | 244 comments

9.

The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime" (unhandled.com)

837 points by secalex on Jan 12, 2013 | 89 comments

10.

I want the world to scroll this way (magicscroll.net)

832 points by rdwallis on Jan 11, 2013 | 299 comments

11.

Make the Metric system the standard in the United States (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

820 points by ovechtrick on Jan 2, 2013 | 530 comments

12.

Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

801 points by olefoo on Jan 12, 2013 | 234 comments

13.

Pixels don’t care (warpspire.com)

764 points by dpearson on Jan 28, 2013 | 133 comments

14.

Megafail (fail0verflow.com)

738 points by comex on Jan 23, 2013 | 198 comments

15.

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit (ycombinator.com)

705 points by pg on Jan 25, 2013 | 168 comments

16.

Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw (news.nationalpost.com)

696 points by lasercat on Jan 21, 2013 | 300 comments

17.

Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz (rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com)

682 points by mxfh on Jan 12, 2013 | 144 comments

18.

Tron Legacy (2010) (jtnimoy.net)

657 points by rsingla on Jan 21, 2013 | 143 comments

19.

If I get hit by a truck... (aaronsw.com)

651 points by artursapek on Jan 12, 2013 | 50 comments

20.

How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail (arstechnica.com)

638 points by govind201 on Jan 27, 2013 | 134 comments

21.

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago (techcrunch.com)

635 points by martinoma on Jan 14, 2013 | 469 comments

22.

An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS (learn.shayhowe.com)

635 points by shay-howe on Jan 14, 2013 | 99 comments

23.

Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee (lists.w3.org)

610 points by edsu on Jan 12, 2013 | 30 comments

24.

What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco (jasonevanish.com)

592 points by jevanish on Jan 17, 2013 | 558 comments

25.

Sublime Text 3 Beta (sublimetext.com)

589 points by conorh on Jan 29, 2013 | 360 comments

26.

Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz (boingboing.net)

570 points by Argorak on Jan 12, 2013 | 20 comments

27.

Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. (mashable.com)

537 points by bluetidepro on Jan 24, 2013 | 357 comments

28.

Stripe Checkout (stripe.com)

536 points by illdave on Jan 18, 2013 | 171 comments

29.

A Short Rant About Working Remotely (ericfarkas.com)

528 points by speric on Jan 31, 2013 | 326 comments

30.

Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early (nanex.net)

526 points by HockeyPlayer on Jan 31, 2013 | 282 comments