HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

14251.

SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’ (techcrunch.com)

61 points by ColinWright on Aug 28, 2014 | 53 comments

14252.

Patents that kill (economist.com)

61 points by graeham on Aug 8, 2014 | 52 comments

14253.

Google Cloud SQL now available with an SLA, 500 GB databases, and encryption (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)

61 points by diggan on Feb 19, 2014 | 51 comments

14254.

Medicare Millionaires Emerge in Data on Doctor Payments (bloomberg.com)

61 points by adventured on Apr 9, 2014 | 51 comments

14255.

Isobuild: why Meteor created a new package system (meteor.com)

61 points by Mandar on Aug 28, 2014 | 51 comments

14256.

“The Imitation Game” and Alan Turing’s Real Contribution to Computing (charlespetzold.com)

61 points by johndcook on Dec 11, 2014 | 51 comments

14257.

Easel Is Shutting Down (blog.easel.io)

61 points by jcater on Sep 17, 2014 | 50 comments

14258.

A Tool Will Let You See Anyone’s Email Address on LinkedIn (yahoo.com)

61 points by MarlonPro on Mar 31, 2014 | 50 comments

14259.

Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map (vis.oobrien.com)

61 points by wf on Sep 18, 2014 | 49 comments

14260.

Why have today's designers stopped dreaming? (creativebloq.com)

61 points by chestnut-tree on Apr 13, 2014 | 49 comments

14261.

The commando scientist billionaire who died fighting terrorists (philipithomas.com)

61 points by philip1209 on May 22, 2014 | 49 comments

14262.

Inside the Starbucks at CIA HQ (washingtonpost.com)

61 points by philipdlang on Sep 28, 2014 | 49 comments

14263.

Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net (wired.com)

61 points by e15ctr0n on Sep 2, 2014 | 48 comments

14264.

Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition (gentoo.org)

61 points by mariuz on Sep 5, 2014 | 48 comments

14265.

Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone’s Price to 99 Cents (nytimes.com)

61 points by pcl on Sep 11, 2014 | 47 comments

14266.

C++ Quiz (q.viva64.com)

61 points by omgtehlion on Sep 18, 2014 | 47 comments

14267.

Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor? (nytimes.com)

61 points by mp4box on Sep 21, 2014 | 47 comments

14268.

Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet (shirt.codes)

61 points by krithix on Sep 23, 2014 | 47 comments

14269.

Health Insurance in 3 Minutes (healthsherpa.com)

61 points by mwasser on Mar 22, 2014 | 46 comments

14270.

Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push (zdnet.com)

61 points by msoad on Dec 29, 2014 | 46 comments

14271.

When Drones Fall From The Sky (washingtonpost.com)

61 points by ilamont on Jun 21, 2014 | 45 comments

14272.

College considers basing president’s salary off that of cleaning staff (washingtonpost.com)

61 points by voidlogic on Feb 22, 2014 | 44 comments

14273.

Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa (ariannasimpson.com)

61 points by frankdenbow on Feb 24, 2014 | 44 comments

14274.

Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

61 points by budwin on Jun 1, 2014 | 44 comments

14275.

Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python (qtile.org)

61 points by diogoleal on Sep 23, 2014 | 43 comments

14276.

The Grand Illusion: Does time have a future? (laphamsquarterly.org)

61 points by benbreen on Oct 17, 2014 | 43 comments

14277.

Systems software research is still irrelevant (trmm.net)

61 points by mbrubeck on Nov 24, 2014 | 43 comments

14278.

Show HN: Massren – multi-rename tool using your text editor (github.com)

61 points by laurent123456 on Feb 18, 2014 | 42 comments

14279.

IBM fires small-town workers (theguardian.com)

61 points by jmsduran on Mar 2, 2014 | 42 comments

14280.

A Catfish Stole My Identity (row-k.tumblr.com)

61 points by alxhill on Jan 30, 2014 | 41 comments