HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Google Reader shutting down (googleblog.blogspot.com)

1964 points by knurdle on Mar 13, 2013 | 695 comments

2.

Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown (bjk5.com)

1734 points by df07 on Mar 6, 2013 | 191 comments

3.

The PyCon Incident (pastebin.com)

1125 points by afraidofadria on Mar 20, 2013 | 986 comments

4.

Diamonds Are Bullshit (blog.priceonomics.com)

1088 points by danielpal on Mar 19, 2013 | 734 comments

5.

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost (amandablumwords.wordpress.com)

1023 points by hexis on Mar 21, 2013 | 367 comments

6.

How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server (plusbryan.com)

960 points by solfox on Mar 4, 2013 | 341 comments

7.

Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort (gkoberger.github.com)

948 points by gkoberger on Mar 18, 2013 | 198 comments

8.

Why I'm switching back to Firefox (campaul.net)

928 points by dave1010uk on Mar 11, 2013 | 423 comments

9.

Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit (designmodo.github.com)

872 points by jamesbritt on Mar 4, 2013 | 191 comments

10.

Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game (playadrift.com)

858 points by seanalltogether on Mar 6, 2013 | 329 comments

11.

The DDoS that almost broke the Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

830 points by jgrahamc on Mar 27, 2013 | 171 comments

12.

You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened? (plus.google.com)

808 points by jmonegro on Mar 20, 2013 | 144 comments

13.

Procrastination is Not Laziness (thoughtcatalog.com)

771 points by alanfalcon on Mar 15, 2013 | 173 comments

14.

White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

752 points by sinak on Mar 4, 2013 | 274 comments

15.

What really happened at PyCon 2013 (peak5390.wordpress.com)

746 points by LeafStorm on Mar 22, 2013 | 104 comments

16.

Unfit for work (apps.npr.org)

738 points by ilamont on Mar 22, 2013 | 447 comments

17.

Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js (usablica.github.com)

716 points by afshinmeh on Mar 15, 2013 | 154 comments

18.

Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues (amazon.com)

708 points by mrcharles on Mar 7, 2013 | 434 comments

19.

I Bought A Firetruck (geckodesigns.kinja.com)

708 points by amartya916 on Mar 24, 2013 | 273 comments

20.

Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant (automatic.com)

690 points by gresrun on Mar 12, 2013 | 295 comments

21.

How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go (blog.iron.io)

688 points by treeder on Mar 12, 2013 | 495 comments

22.

Goodbye, Malcolm (djangoproject.com)

671 points by LeafStorm on Mar 19, 2013 | 39 comments

23.

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again (vice.com)

656 points by Aco- on Mar 13, 2013 | 502 comments

24.

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (wired.com)

646 points by TDL on Mar 15, 2013 | 172 comments

25.

A Note from one of Cloudflare's upstream providers (cluepon.net)

644 points by jauer on Mar 28, 2013 | 87 comments

26.

Unix tricks (mmb.pcb.ub.es)

623 points by shawndumas on Mar 7, 2013 | 224 comments

27.

Future of Firefox DevTools (paulrouget.com)

612 points by paulrouget on Mar 18, 2013 | 165 comments

28.

Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com)

589 points by B-Con on Mar 5, 2013 | 187 comments

29.

A Difficult Situation (blog.sendgrid.com)

587 points by jbaudanza on Mar 21, 2013 | 432 comments

30.

Persona is distributed. Today. (identity.mozilla.com)

573 points by charlieok on Mar 26, 2013 | 147 comments