HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)

928 points by dfranke on Jun 3, 2009 | 78 comments

2.

Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com)

723 points by EliAndrewC on Nov 19, 2009 | 269 comments

3.

A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away (ticketstumbler.com)

626 points by rantfoil on Oct 3, 2009 | 133 comments

4.

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. (boingboing.net)

588 points by Flemlord on Nov 4, 2009 | 287 comments

5.

Microsoft rips off Plurk (blog.plurk.com)

581 points by abraham on Dec 14, 2009 | 135 comments

6.

_why is no more (twitter.com)

558 points by Jeremysr on Aug 19, 2009 | 399 comments

7.

New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.

532 points by pg on Jan 31, 2009 | 137 comments

8.

The End Of The CrunchPad (techcrunch.com)

435 points by AndrewWarner on Nov 30, 2009 | 138 comments

9.

Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" (blog.last.fm)

413 points by arthurk on Feb 23, 2009 | 101 comments

10.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (blog.backblaze.com)

401 points by bensummers on Sep 1, 2009 | 105 comments

11.

Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business (slash7.com)

400 points by ahoyhere on Mar 26, 2009 | 150 comments

12.

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) (sivers.org)

386 points by icey on Dec 1, 2009 | 60 comments

13.

What Startups Are Really Like (paulgraham.com)

382 points by apu on Oct 25, 2009 | 119 comments

14.

What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com)

381 points by mqt on Feb 25, 2009 | 119 comments

15.

Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ (golang.org)

377 points by snewe on Nov 10, 2009 | 219 comments

16.

One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar (zenmoments.org)

376 points by yason on Nov 24, 2009 | 58 comments

17.

Introducing the Google Chrome OS (googleblog.blogspot.com)

370 points by mqt on Jul 8, 2009 | 167 comments

18.

HN Help: I'm lost

366 points by lostsheep on Nov 12, 2009 | 261 comments

19.

Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr (journal.uggedal.com)

365 points by uggedal on Nov 29, 2009 | 146 comments

20.

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms (snopes.com)

364 points by chaostheory on Aug 5, 2009 | 79 comments

21.

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com)

359 points by beambot on Aug 28, 2009 | 159 comments

22.

The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) (totlol.com)

352 points by TotlolRon on Dec 28, 2009 | 119 comments

23.

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (georgehart.com)

350 points by dangoldin on Dec 7, 2009 | 25 comments

24.

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. (guardian.co.uk)

349 points by MartinMond on Dec 23, 2009 | 188 comments

25.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (bret.appspot.com)

347 points by paul on Feb 27, 2009 | 84 comments

26.

Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us (techcrunch.com)

347 points by vaksel on Sep 11, 2009 | 83 comments

27.

The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad (etherpad.com)