HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (ycombinator.com)

532 points by pg on Jul 19, 2008 | 381 comments

2.

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (paulgraham.com)

254 points by mqt on Oct 16, 2008 | 195 comments

3.

Love, Internet Style (youtube.com)

242 points by dmoney on Dec 12, 2008 | 43 comments

4.

Arc's Out (paulgraham.com)

240 points by pg on Jan 29, 2008 | 124 comments

5.

You weren't meant to have a boss (paulgraham.com)

239 points by dfranke on Mar 20, 2008 | 298 comments

6.

Wow, check out this guy's comment

233 points by jmtame on Dec 29, 2008 | 101 comments

7.

Congrats to PG on getting hitched (twitter.com)

228 points by champion on Jun 1, 2008 | 95 comments

8.

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com)

228 points by rjmetricsjake on Nov 6, 2008 | 26 comments

9.

Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880) (fourmilab.ch)

227 points by eru on Sep 20, 2008 | 56 comments

10.

I don't want to work very hard

224 points by flaneur on Dec 11, 2008 | 193 comments

11.

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (tom.preston-werner.com)

224 points by mojombo on Oct 20, 2008 | 68 comments

12.

Diary of a Failed Startup (diffle-history.blogspot.com)

224 points by nostrademons on Jun 23, 2008 | 34 comments

13.

Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

221 points by prakash on Sep 22, 2008 | 0 comments

14.

How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy) (nukemanbill.blogspot.com)

220 points by rob on Aug 1, 2008 | 42 comments

15.

Start a side project, says GitHub founder (gist.github.com)

210 points by aditya on Aug 20, 2008 | 40 comments

16.

Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive (gabrielweinberg.com)

198 points by epi0Bauqu on May 8, 2008 | 25 comments

17.

So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net)

193 points by CaptainMorgan on Dec 28, 2008 | 26 comments

18.

New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky (youtube.com)

192 points by paulsb on Mar 17, 2008 | 91 comments

19.

Lies We Tell Kids (paulgraham.com)

188 points by mqt on May 13, 2008 | 418 comments

20.

Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer (post-gazette.com)

187 points by demandred on Jul 25, 2008 | 57 comments

21.

After Credentials (paulgraham.com)

186 points by mqt on Dec 16, 2008 | 201 comments

22.

Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? (duckduckgo.com)

186 points by epi0Bauqu on Sep 25, 2008 | 138 comments

23.

Tell HN: Vote.

184 points by speek on Nov 4, 2008 | 289 comments

24.

How to Disagree (paulgraham.com)

183 points by PieSquared on Mar 29, 2008 | 224 comments

25.

Be Good (paulgraham.com)

182 points by vsingh on Apr 20, 2008 | 202 comments

26.

The other half of "Artists Ship" (paulgraham.com)

182 points by tyn on Nov 28, 2008 | 125 comments

27.

Y Combinator: Bookmarklet (ycombinator.com)

178 points by dherman76 on Jan 25, 2008 | 2 comments

28.

A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)