HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (washingtonpost.com)

1604 points by nqureshi on Oct 30, 2013 | 592 comments

2.

Poll: Where are you currently living?

1132 points by Systemic33 on Oct 21, 2013 | 309 comments

3.

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner (reuters.com)

1101 points by RockyMcNuts on Oct 2, 2013 | 577 comments

4.

Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

996 points by wting on Oct 10, 2013 | 463 comments

5.

Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

904 points by chris_wot on Oct 4, 2013 | 357 comments

6.

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code (countaleph.wordpress.com)

872 points by brryant on Oct 21, 2013 | 342 comments

7.

Here's how I deal with users who steal (pud.com)

774 points by pud on Oct 28, 2013 | 211 comments

8.

Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript (copy.sh)

765 points by g3 on Oct 17, 2013 | 190 comments

9.

Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

763 points by seanmcdirmid on Oct 23, 2013 | 530 comments

10.

Square Cash (square.com)

710 points by rjsamson on Oct 16, 2013 | 281 comments

11.

Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period” (pbs.org)

692 points by selmnoo on Oct 23, 2013 | 400 comments

12.

Scott Adams: How to Be Successful (online.wsj.com)

690 points by codelion on Oct 14, 2013 | 184 comments

13.

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity (theguardian.com)

654 points by brkcmd on Oct 4, 2013 | 176 comments

14.

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult (reuters.com)

638 points by selmnoo on Oct 5, 2013 | 566 comments

15.

After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

624 points by jenniferDewalt on Oct 3, 2013 | 371 comments

16.

What I've been up to for the past year (pud.com)

616 points by pud on Oct 9, 2013 | 171 comments

17.

How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes (pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)

613 points by _wmd on Oct 22, 2013 | 236 comments

18.

Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (heeris.id.au)

607 points by libovness on Oct 28, 2013 | 204 comments

19.

f.lux has been updated to a new version (justgetflux.com)

597 points by dailo10 on Oct 16, 2013 | 261 comments

20.

Model S Fire (teslamotors.com)

594 points by shakes on Oct 4, 2013 | 238 comments

21.

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show (wired.com)

592 points by inglesp on Oct 2, 2013 | 250 comments

22.

Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

587 points by jcastro on Oct 1, 2013 | 255 comments

23.

The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones (idiallo.com)

566 points by firefoxd on Oct 24, 2013 | 396 comments

24.

Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit (silentcircle.wordpress.com)

565 points by cylo on Oct 30, 2013 | 209 comments

25.

LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity (bishopfox.com)

565 points by shenoybr on Oct 24, 2013 | 155 comments

26.

C-- (cminusminus.org)

553 points by msvan on Oct 27, 2013 | 72 comments

27.

Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone (github.com)

547 points by seer on Oct 23, 2013 | 247 comments

28.

Nest introduces their Smoke Detector (nest.com)

539 points by zdean on Oct 8, 2013 | 401 comments

29.

Does life end after 35? (kzhu.net)

530 points by hakkasan on Oct 30, 2013 | 220 comments

30.

April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox" (news.ycombinator.com)

518 points by epa on Oct 28, 2013 | 178 comments