HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made (gamasutra.com)

141 points by pmarin on Aug 30, 2013 | 14 comments

542.

Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity (garthontech.blogspot.ca)

140 points by RandyRanderson on Aug 25, 2013 | 145 comments

543.

Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor (gingkoapp.com)

140 points by adriano_f on Aug 30, 2013 | 132 comments

544.

How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup (blog.speakeasy.is)

140 points by kevinbracken on Aug 1, 2013 | 112 comments

545.

The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill (economist.com)

140 points by qingu on Aug 8, 2013 | 76 comments

546.

LavaBit's Architecture (2009) (possibility.com)

140 points by yankcrime on Aug 12, 2013 | 57 comments

547.

Trading Halted in Nasdaq-Listed Securities Due to Technical Issue (blogs.wsj.com)

140 points by tomorgan on Aug 22, 2013 | 49 comments

548.

Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

140 points by FredEE on Aug 27, 2013 | 49 comments

549.

Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks (blog.cloudflare.com)

140 points by dknecht on Aug 28, 2013 | 45 comments

550.

What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relativity (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

140 points by halostatue on Aug 14, 2013 | 43 comments

551.

When Einstein Met Tagore (brainpickings.org)

140 points by dboles99 on Aug 12, 2013 | 27 comments

552.

Directed Graph Editor with D3.js (bl.ocks.org)

140 points by wslh on Aug 18, 2013 | 21 comments

553.

The STEM Crisis is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org)

139 points by RougeFemme on Aug 31, 2013 | 145 comments

554.

Scala vs. Go TCP Benchmark (eng.42go.com)

139 points by rck on Aug 6, 2013 | 129 comments

555.

Tesla is unable to sell its vehicles directly to the public in Texas (teslamotors.com)

139 points by dylangs1030 on Aug 23, 2013 | 81 comments

556.

Inside Caracas' Tower of David, the World's Tallest Slum (motherboard.vice.com)

139 points by damian2000 on Aug 3, 2013 | 57 comments

557.

German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA (investmentwatchblog.com)

139 points by devx on Aug 22, 2013 | 45 comments

558.

Getting to Docker 1.0 (blog.docker.io)

139 points by julien421 on Aug 8, 2013 | 38 comments

559.

DIY Cellphone (web.media.mit.edu)

139 points by eksith on Aug 12, 2013 | 35 comments

560.

CloudFlare and Free Speech (blog.cloudflare.com)

139 points by jgrahamc on Aug 9, 2013 | 31 comments

561.

In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning (newyorker.com)

139 points by soneca on Aug 1, 2013 | 19 comments

562.

US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law (zdnet.com)

138 points by tanglesome on Aug 22, 2013 | 116 comments

563.

WebKit has implemented srcset (mobile.smashingmagazine.com)

138 points by nvk on Aug 21, 2013 | 94 comments

564.

Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice (joinup.ec.europa.eu)

138 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 22, 2013 | 85 comments

565.

PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

138 points by bwblabs on Aug 6, 2013 | 84 comments

566.

SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning (techcrunch.com)

138 points by outericky on Aug 6, 2013 | 45 comments

567.

Detaining David Miranda (schneier.com)

138 points by dllthomas on Aug 27, 2013 | 42 comments

568.

Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage (wired.com)

138 points by smanuel on Aug 21, 2013 | 39 comments

569.

U.K. Government Thought Destroying Guardian Hard Drives Would Stop Stories (washingtonpost.com)

138 points by tippytop on Aug 19, 2013 | 36 comments

570.

Smalltalk runtime in the browser (amber-lang.net)

138 points by andreiursan on Aug 15, 2013 | 33 comments