HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

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

2.

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

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

3.

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower (theatlantic.com)

170 points by crocus on Jul 15, 2008 | 127 comments

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Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08) (techcrunch.com)

168 points by markbao on Jul 30, 2008 | 45 comments

5.

Why S3 went down (status.aws.amazon.com)

144 points by slackerIII on Jul 26, 2008 | 36 comments

6.

JL: Why I Do YC (foundersatwork.com)

130 points by theoneill on Jul 5, 2008 | 42 comments

7.

You don't have to sell your company to have financial security (37signals.com)

129 points by pchristensen on Jul 24, 2008 | 89 comments

8.

A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas (weblog.raganwald.com)

123 points by raganwald on Jul 22, 2008 | 32 comments

9.

YC is a cult (danielharan.com)

116 points by jamesgolick on Jul 29, 2008 | 154 comments

10.

Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular? (davidadewumi.com)

109 points by wumi on Jul 6, 2008 | 65 comments

11.

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company (paulgraham.com)

107 points by mqt on Jul 23, 2008 | 83 comments

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DreamIt Ventures 1% Option: To Give or Not To Give... that is the question! (tapinko.com)

107 points by tapinko on Jul 1, 2008 | 6 comments

13.

Profitable After 3 Weeks (balsamiq.com)

100 points by breck on Jul 16, 2008 | 46 comments

14.

Donate to help a MySQler (mysql.com)

96 points by dragonquest on Jul 17, 2008 | 62 comments

15.

Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency (scarybuggames.com)

94 points by mechanical_fish on Jul 12, 2008 | 31 comments

16.

10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company (jasonnazar.com)

93 points by nickb on Jul 11, 2008 | 8 comments

17.

GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup (37signals.blogs.com)

93 points by defunkt on Jul 28, 2008 | 7 comments

18.

Why you should never be a startup girlfriend (stephfinch.com)

92 points by curio on Jul 13, 2008 | 70 comments

19.

Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them (smartnow.com)

90 points by jkopelman on Jul 31, 2008 | 34 comments

20.

Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale (xkcd.com)

89 points by nickb on Jul 30, 2008 | 62 comments

21.

Inside Chernobyl, a strange new lifeform is blooming (cosmosmagazine.com)

87 points by iamelgringo on Jul 26, 2008 | 23 comments

22.

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It. (techcrunch.com)

86 points by demandred on Jul 21, 2008 | 101 comments

23.

We've been working really hard on our startup and now this

86 points by tyohn on Jul 1, 2008 | 74 comments

24.

Locksmiths Pissed Off At Geeks For Letting Out The Secret: Lockpicking Is Easy (theglobeandmail.com)

86 points by nickb on Jul 18, 2008 | 37 comments

25.

Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked (blog.karppinen.fi)

86 points by edw519 on Jul 8, 2008 | 27 comments

26.

How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut) (literature.sdsu.edu)

86 points by smanek on Jul 14, 2008 | 18 comments

27.

I just got sued for patent infringement for operating the voo2do.com todo list (techcrunch.com)