HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)

2744 points by chimeracoder on Aug 22, 2013 | 962 comments

2.

Hyperloop (spacex.com)

2666 points by spikels on Aug 12, 2013 | 954 comments

3.

Aaron Swartz commits suicide (tech.mit.edu)

2103 points by bfaviero on Jan 12, 2013 | 546 comments

4.

Google Reader shutting down (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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

5.

A Most Peculiar Test Drive (teslamotors.com)

1859 points by reneherse on Feb 14, 2013 | 578 comments

6.

Lavabit abruptly shuts down (lavabit.com)

1831 points by cstuder on Aug 8, 2013 | 640 comments

7.

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails (rapgenius.com)

1763 points by tomlemon on Feb 13, 2013 | 423 comments

8.

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

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

9.

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (theguardian.com)

1688 points by sinak on Jul 31, 2013 | 612 comments

10.

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

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

11.

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

1542 points by jenniferDewalt on Jul 24, 2013 | 344 comments

12.

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation (theguardian.com)

1459 points by m1 on Aug 18, 2013 | 449 comments

13.

A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used (jsfiddle.net)

1447 points by ondras on Nov 13, 2013 | 259 comments

14.

SteamOS (store.steampowered.com)

1436 points by kmfrk on Sep 23, 2013 | 513 comments

15.

Amazon Prime Air (amazon.com)

1412 points by wyclif on Dec 2, 2013 | 588 comments

16.

Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 (bombermine.com)

1394 points by cygnus on Feb 27, 2013 | 201 comments

17.

Forced Exposure (groklaw.net)

1391 points by nikai on Aug 20, 2013 | 414 comments

18.

Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling (hacks.mozilla.org)

1388 points by rnyman on Feb 4, 2013 | 69 comments

19.

Coin (onlycoin.com)

1387 points by xuki on Nov 14, 2013 | 690 comments

20.

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling (blog.chromium.org)

1386 points by robin_reala on Feb 4, 2013 | 178 comments

21.

Explain Shell (explainshell.com)

1372 points by auton1 on Dec 2, 2013 | 171 comments

22.

This is a web page (justinjackson.ca)

1354 points by mijustin on Jun 20, 2013 | 420 comments

23.

Started a stupid company. Failed.

1344 points by themanthatfell on Nov 27, 2013 | 407 comments

24.

Gitmo Is Killing Me (nytimes.com)

1333 points by bcn on Apr 15, 2013 | 521 comments

25.

What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project (harthur.wordpress.com)

1331 points by luigi on Jan 24, 2013 | 781 comments

26.

Sprite Lamp (spritelamp.com)

1323 points by cocoflunchy on Nov 8, 2013 | 126 comments

27.

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” (salon.com)

1310 points by gabemart on Jul 7, 2013 | 408 comments

28.

What I Didn't Say (paulgraham.com)

1289 points by twampss on Dec 30, 2013 | 567 comments

29.

Do Things that Don't Scale (paulgraham.com)

1275 points by allang on Jul 14, 2013 | 207 comments

30.

NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor (blog.sfgate.com)

1268 points by gridscomputing on Jun 10, 2013 | 327 comments