HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

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

2.

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

3.

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

177 points by mqt on Oct 29, 2008 | 66 comments

4.

Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement (mattmaroon.com)

174 points by pchristensen on Oct 24, 2008 | 169 comments

5.

Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide) (betaversion.org)

172 points by alexandros on Oct 27, 2008 | 42 comments

6.

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck (portfolio.com)

158 points by tortilla on Oct 17, 2008 | 67 comments

7.

Reflections of a YC Dropout (orianmarx.com)

155 points by orianmarx on Oct 12, 2008 | 161 comments

8.

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell (newyorker.com)

150 points by robg on Oct 13, 2008 | 40 comments

9.

IPhone NDA officially dropped (developer.apple.com)

145 points by KirinDave on Oct 1, 2008 | 52 comments

10.

Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic (tom.preston-werner.com)

143 points by mojombo on Oct 27, 2008 | 23 comments

11.

☃ (☃.net)

142 points by arthurk on Oct 12, 2008 | 0 comments

12.

Paul Krugman: How I work (princeton.edu)

135 points by gabrielroth on Oct 14, 2008 | 47 comments

13.

Python 2.6 Released (python.org)

130 points by forsaken on Oct 2, 2008 | 31 comments

14.

The Universal Design Pattern (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

127 points by mqt on Oct 20, 2008 | 44 comments

15.

A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes (blog.weatherby.net)

123 points by lanceweatherby on Oct 9, 2008 | 61 comments

16.

Rackspace acquire Slicehost (slicehost.com)

121 points by maryrosecook on Oct 22, 2008 | 54 comments

17.

Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free (stanford.edu)

120 points by petercooper on Oct 30, 2008 | 23 comments

18.

How to go down with style ()

117 points by alecco on Oct 13, 2008 | 32 comments

19.

Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend (thinkvitamin.com)

117 points by madmotive on Oct 29, 2008 | 28 comments

20.

Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?

113 points by nocivus on Oct 23, 2008 | 25 comments

21.

Whiner Jerkins All Hands Meeting Powerpoint Revealed (mattmaroon.com)

111 points by JRM on Oct 13, 2008 | 49 comments

22.

Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich (blogmaverick.com)

108 points by joshstaiger on Oct 4, 2008 | 63 comments

23.

Pixlr - the online image editor (pixlr.com)

105 points by baltoo on Oct 27, 2008 | 48 comments

24.

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer (lbrandy.com)

105 points by lbrandy on Oct 6, 2008 | 47 comments

25.

Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

102 points by michael_dorfman on Oct 30, 2008 | 71 comments

26.

Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose (mathoda.com)

102 points by mathoda on Oct 2, 2008 | 64 comments

27.

I find this startup rather disturbing... (spokeo.com)

100 points by iamelgringo on Oct 14, 2008 | 72 comments

28.

Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free (see.stanford.edu)