HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

We Made Our Book Free – Here's What Happened (discovermeteor.com)

44 points by sgdesign on Dec 23, 2013 | 2 comments

1502.

UN votes to protect privacy in digital age (sfgate.com)

44 points by mwc on Dec 19, 2013 | 0 comments

1503.

Bitcoin solved a major technical problem, but not an economic one (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

43 points by dimitar on Dec 29, 2013 | 78 comments

1504.

Single-Sex vs. Coed: The Evidence (singlesexschools.org)

43 points by dsego on Dec 15, 2013 | 71 comments

1505.

What do PhD Scientists in America Have in Common with Unmarried Women in China? (mindyourdecisions.com)

43 points by strategy on Dec 10, 2013 | 49 comments

1506.

We Pretend to Teach, They Pretend to Learn (online.wsj.com)

43 points by grellas on Dec 27, 2013 | 48 comments

1507.

Spotify's mobile app finally goes free (news.cnet.com)

43 points by brt on Dec 11, 2013 | 45 comments

1508.

In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud Is Quicker Than the Law (dealbook.nytimes.com)

43 points by shiftpgdn on Dec 6, 2013 | 37 comments

1509.

Crypto-anarchy does not require anonymity (blog.oleganza.com)

43 points by oleganza on Dec 28, 2013 | 35 comments

1510.

Google Made My Daughter Cry Today (matthovey.wordpress.com)

43 points by weirdkid on Dec 7, 2013 | 34 comments

1511.

Apple Honors Mandela on Home Page (apple.com)

43 points by aashaykumar92 on Dec 7, 2013 | 29 comments

1512.

BoA Merrill Lynch publishes target price for Bitcoin: $1300 (cryptome.org)

43 points by jackgavigan on Dec 6, 2013 | 22 comments

1513.

Google is building password-free locking and unlocking into Chrome OS (thenextweb.com)

43 points by ninthfrank07 on Dec 11, 2013 | 21 comments

1514.

Discworld Reading Order Guides (lspace.org)

43 points by ColinWright on Dec 26, 2013 | 21 comments

1515.

Britain’s Ministry of Nudges (nytimes.com)

43 points by RougeFemme on Dec 8, 2013 | 18 comments

1516.

The key word in “Data Science” is not Data, it is Science (simplystatistics.org)

43 points by aaronjg on Dec 13, 2013 | 17 comments

1517.

Show HN: Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be of interest (github.com)

43 points by Bambo on Dec 15, 2013 | 14 comments

1518.

Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT (twister.net.co)

43 points by oleganza on Dec 30, 2013 | 13 comments

1519.

The Cap Trap (aaronkharris.com)

43 points by katm on Dec 27, 2013 | 9 comments

1520.

Today's Hoax: The Screaming Google Employee (onthemedia.org)

43 points by smacktoward on Dec 9, 2013 | 7 comments

1521.

Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X (github.com)

43 points by bfirsh on Dec 30, 2013 | 6 comments

1522.

Why Heroku Adopted a Code of Conduct Policy and Sponsored The Ada Initiative (blog.heroku.com)

43 points by steveklabnik on Dec 11, 2013 | 3 comments

1523.

Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them? (newyorker.com)

42 points by dsr12 on Dec 5, 2013 | 98 comments

1524.

Are The Techno Riche Really Ruining San Francisco? Yes, Says Rebecca Solnit (businessweek.com)

42 points by gjenkin on Dec 31, 2013 | 76 comments

1525.

The War on the War on Death Begins (hplusmagazine.com)

42 points by crayola on Dec 2, 2013 | 72 comments

1526.

Spotify Adds Led Zeppelin as It Focuses on Mobile Business (nytimes.com)

42 points by digital55 on Dec 11, 2013 | 60 comments

1527.

JavaScript becoming the lingua franca for mobile development (sdtimes.com)

42 points by cmulligan on Dec 26, 2013 | 52 comments

1528.

Why are there so many crazy bums on San Francisco streets? (trythisroad.wordpress.com)

42 points by wslh on Dec 2, 2013 | 51 comments

1529.

Why does it seem like threading and fibers in Node have been abandoned? (blog.adamcanady.com)

42 points by adamcanady on Dec 2, 2013 | 47 comments

1530.

Lynching on our Doorstep (hackersforcharity.org)

42 points by sp332 on Dec 17, 2013 | 47 comments