HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16861.

Would you rather be a novel or a poem? (actual Oxford University admission question) (cnn.com)

5 points by humanlever on Dec 8, 2008 | 4 comments

16862.

Gladwell : Most likely to succeed : How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? (newyorker.com)

5 points by kqr2 on Dec 9, 2008 | 4 comments

16863.

Back from United States or how I learned to copy something else ... (nofeed.org)

5 points by ngw on Dec 10, 2008 | 4 comments

16864.

HP to offer 3-year laptop battery as an option (infoworld.com)

5 points by ccraigIW on Dec 10, 2008 | 4 comments

16865.

Why web hosting businesses work (vs doing a web startup) (blog.iweb.com)

5 points by mtw on Dec 11, 2008 | 4 comments

16866.

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi (fastcompany.com)

5 points by adnymarc on Dec 12, 2008 | 4 comments

16867.

Jason Calacanis: Why we built Mahalo Answers (calacanis.com)

5 points by makimaki on Dec 15, 2008 | 4 comments

16868.

What's killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule (slate.com)

5 points by pg on Dec 21, 2008 | 4 comments

16869.

Banned in Cupertino (news.cnet.com)

5 points by ajbatac on Dec 22, 2008 | 4 comments

16870.

Ask HN: Where do you get your high quality stickers printed? ()

5 points by mojombo on Dec 22, 2008 | 4 comments

16871.

ScienceNews.org: Superglass could be new state of matter (sciencenews.org)

5 points by dpurp on Dec 23, 2008 | 4 comments

16872.

Researchers discover gene mutations linked to longer lifespans (biologynews.net)

5 points by ingenium on Mar 5, 2008 | 3 comments

16873.

Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life (video) (ted.com)

5 points by jbrun on Mar 6, 2008 | 3 comments

16874.

New Digg algorithm angers the social masses (valleywag.com)

5 points by transburgh on Jan 24, 2008 | 3 comments

16875.

ANN: Official ARC Web Site by Paul Graham (arclanguage.com)

5 points by vlad on Jan 15, 2008 | 3 comments

16876.

I'm already listening to music, so shut the f*ck up. thanks. (haineault.com)

5 points by nickb on Jan 15, 2008 | 3 comments

16877.

Cheap Eye Tracking Using Mouse Tracking (glinden.blogspot.com)

5 points by kirubakaran on Jan 16, 2008 | 3 comments

16878.

VC Investments Rise to Six-Year High (news.wired.com)

5 points by mqt on Jan 19, 2008 | 3 comments

16879.

Getting Rid of RDBMs (productionscale.com)

5 points by dedalus on Jan 21, 2008 | 3 comments

16880.

Nascar's Race Problem (portfolio.com)

5 points by daviday on Jan 26, 2008 | 3 comments

16881.

How have YC founders agreed on product names? ()

5 points by ctingom on Jan 26, 2008 | 3 comments

16882.

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)

5 points by gibsonf1 on Jan 28, 2008 | 3 comments

16883.

Is that a rock or a man on Mars? (news.com)

5 points by nreece on Jan 28, 2008 | 3 comments

16884.

RailsConf 2008 registration is now open (railsconf.com)

5 points by gleb on Jan 29, 2008 | 3 comments

16885.

O'Reilly Maker - Create your own O'Reilly book cover (oreillymaker.com)

5 points by danw on Jan 29, 2008 | 3 comments

16886.

7 Billionaires Who Got Undergraduate Business Degrees (businessschooljournal.com)

5 points by transburgh on Jan 31, 2008 | 3 comments

16887.

Average Programmers (jfm3-repl.blogspot.com)

5 points by jmorin007 on Feb 1, 2008 | 3 comments

16888.

A Gentler Capitalism (latimes.com)

5 points by vitaminj on Feb 5, 2008 | 3 comments

16889.

8 Years after disastrous merger, Time Warner to split AOL (news.yahoo.com)

5 points by fleaflicker on Feb 6, 2008 | 3 comments

16890.

What makes an entrepreneur? (doingbusiness.org)

5 points by mhb on Feb 7, 2008 | 3 comments