HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style (kotaku.com)

416 points by mohaps on Jan 14, 2013 | 206 comments

62.

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory? (unix.stackexchange.com)

413 points by rawland on Jan 21, 2013 | 153 comments

63.

I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for (erratasec.blogspot.com)

409 points by twentysix on Jan 16, 2013 | 254 comments

64.

JSTOR torrent (thepiratebay.se)

407 points by gasull on Jan 12, 2013 | 82 comments

65.

Rubygems.org compromised (rubygems.org)

405 points by benmmurphy on Jan 30, 2013 | 158 comments

66.

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions (groups.google.com)

402 points by danso on Jan 2, 2013 | 205 comments

67.

Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

402 points by jacoblyles on Jan 13, 2013 | 71 comments

68.

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup (kalzumeus.com)

401 points by timcraft on Jan 31, 2013 | 176 comments

69.

Did porn warp me forever? (salon.com)

398 points by ezl on Jan 13, 2013 | 321 comments

70.

Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away (community.rapid7.com)

398 points by tptacek on Jan 10, 2013 | 166 comments

71.

Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

398 points by gnosis on Jan 31, 2013 | 73 comments

72.

Introducing Graph Search (facebook.com)

395 points by trendspotter on Jan 15, 2013 | 250 comments

73.

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support (blogs.msdn.com)

395 points by logictrip on Jan 30, 2013 | 213 comments

74.

U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz (cornyn.senate.gov)

394 points by danso on Jan 18, 2013 | 141 comments

75.

OXO, Crooks and Robbers? (oxo.com)

389 points by mikeleeorg on Jan 26, 2013 | 81 comments

76.

IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It (theatlantic.com)

388 points by mxfh on Jan 10, 2013 | 151 comments

77.

Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video] (bbc.co.uk)

386 points by shrikant on Jan 7, 2013 | 275 comments

78.

Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out (harpers.org)

383 points by pron on Jan 19, 2013 | 264 comments

79.

US employee 'outsourced job to China' (bbc.co.uk)

383 points by anons2011 on Jan 16, 2013 | 190 comments

80.

Getting Started with Django (gettingstartedwithdjango.com)

383 points by gklein on Jan 22, 2013 | 72 comments

81.

How Lisp is Going to Save the World (landoflisp.com)

382 points by smartial_arts on Jan 9, 2013 | 229 comments

82.

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp (utsalumni.org)

382 points by rrreese on Jan 21, 2013 | 150 comments

83.

Minimal wireframing tool - for free (wireframe.cc)

374 points by usaphp on Jan 4, 2013 | 56 comments

84.

That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer (nytimes.com)

371 points by danso on Jan 31, 2013 | 245 comments

85.

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

370 points by mikebike on Jan 12, 2013 | 70 comments

86.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case (blogs.wsj.com)

369 points by revorad on Jan 17, 2013 | 289 comments

87.

Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe (flightglobal.com)

369 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 30, 2013 | 242 comments

88.

Jonathan James (en.wikipedia.org)

366 points by will_brown on Jan 13, 2013 | 118 comments

89.

A Whole New Code Search (github.com)

366 points by bencevans on Jan 23, 2013 | 109 comments

90.

Programmer Interrupted (blog.ninlabs.com)

366 points by Off on Jan 21, 2013 | 87 comments