HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

61.

Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX (blog.wolfire.com)

408 points by intull on Dec 5, 2013 | 175 comments

62.

White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts (nytimes.com)

408 points by rosser on Dec 22, 2013 | 65 comments

63.

How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web (keacher.com)

407 points by teuobk on Dec 12, 2013 | 90 comments

64.

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental (eff.org)

406 points by tijs on Dec 13, 2013 | 203 comments

65.

DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list (boingboing.net)

404 points by dredmorbius on Dec 4, 2013 | 117 comments

66.

Email Introduction Etiquette (blog.42floors.com)

402 points by jaf12duke on Dec 13, 2013 | 116 comments

67.

I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won (erichelgeson.github.io)

400 points by helfire on Dec 31, 2013 | 108 comments

68.

On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com)

399 points by fernly on Dec 29, 2013 | 68 comments

69.

A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining (guidetodatamining.com)

399 points by carlosgg on Dec 8, 2013 | 32 comments

70.

DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs (github.com)

395 points by sneak on Dec 30, 2013 | 200 comments

71.

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com)

394 points by sampo on Dec 6, 2013 | 194 comments

72.

H5N1 (blog.samaltman.com)

394 points by olivercameron on Dec 11, 2013 | 184 comments

73.

Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (hanselman.com)

392 points by kissgyorgy on Dec 21, 2013 | 187 comments

74.

Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you (edmarkovich.blogspot.com)

387 points by xyzelement on Dec 2, 2013 | 310 comments

75.

Letter From A Psychopath (twitlonger.com)

383 points by mannjani on Dec 20, 2013 | 330 comments

76.

Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and 0 revenue (sergioschuler.com)

380 points by sergioschuler on Dec 31, 2013 | 159 comments

77.

Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid (reuters.com)

380 points by joshfraser on Dec 18, 2013 | 131 comments

78.

People Don’t Actually Like Creativity (slate.com)

375 points by wikiburner on Dec 6, 2013 | 214 comments

79.

NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses" (forbes.com)

372 points by mzarate06 on Dec 16, 2013 | 171 comments

80.

What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies (thebillfold.com)

369 points by ohjeez on Dec 20, 2013 | 196 comments

81.

Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013 (thegatesnotes.com)

369 points by ohjeez on Dec 26, 2013 | 167 comments

82.

What is it like to be a geek in a prison? (quora.com)

368 points by edw519 on Dec 26, 2013 | 249 comments

83.

The NSA: An Inside View (lorensr.me)

367 points by lorendsr on Dec 15, 2013 | 313 comments

84.

Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again (overwatering.org)

365 points by jms_ on Dec 1, 2013 | 316 comments

85.

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014 (web.law.duke.edu)

365 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 31, 2013 | 160 comments

86.

Telegram protocol defeated. Authors are going to modify crypto-algorithm (translate.google.com)

360 points by xytop on Dec 22, 2013 | 207 comments

87.

The real use of money is to buy freedom (paraschopra.com)

357 points by paraschopra on Dec 24, 2013 | 295 comments

88.

Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined (myth.io)

357 points by ianstormtaylor on Dec 17, 2013 | 152 comments

89.

President Obama calls on every American to learn code (youtube.com)

356 points by bbayer on Dec 9, 2013 | 426 comments

90.

Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame (arstechnica.com)

351 points by jseliger on Dec 7, 2013 | 259 comments