HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

How VCs Block Exits (angelblog.net)

47 points by basilpeters on Jan 20, 2009 | 20 comments

272.

Why do crack dealers still live with their moms? (ted.com)

47 points by tyn on Jan 27, 2009 | 20 comments

273.

Ruby 1.9.1 Released: First Stable Ruby 1.9 Release (groups.google.com)

47 points by mdasen on Jan 30, 2009 | 14 comments

274.

Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)

47 points by jlhamilton on Jan 13, 2009 | 11 comments

275.

Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities

46 points by quellhorst on Jan 25, 2009 | 154 comments

276.

At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard (nytimes.com)

46 points by tokenadult on Jan 13, 2009 | 46 comments

277.

What Life Asks of Us (nytimes.com)

46 points by robg on Jan 27, 2009 | 36 comments

278.

Things to consider before launching a startup (or) Sometimes it's not so fun (blog.penelopetrunk.com)

46 points by cmos on Jan 8, 2009 | 30 comments

279.

Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital (groups.google.com)

46 points by sctb on Jan 13, 2009 | 21 comments

280.

Mozilla gives a $100K grant towards an open video format for the web (techcrunch.com)

46 points by vaksel on Jan 26, 2009 | 16 comments

281.

Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple (guardian.co.uk)

46 points by raju on Jan 2, 2009 | 5 comments

282.

Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2 (paulstamatiou.com)

46 points by twampss on Jan 18, 2009 | 4 comments

283.

Beautifully Documented Code (toolness.com)

46 points by bdfh42 on Jan 8, 2009 | 1 comments

284.

What real life bad habits has programming given you? (stackoverflow.com)

45 points by danw on Jan 28, 2009 | 87 comments

285.

A real letter from a CEO to his employees. (rense.com)

45 points by newsit on Jan 7, 2009 | 75 comments

286.

Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X? (github.com)

45 points by thedob on Jan 29, 2009 | 40 comments

287.

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury (washingtonpost.com)

45 points by chaostheory on Jan 27, 2009 | 36 comments

288.

Amazon’s Kindle 2 Will Debut Feb. 9 (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

45 points by davatk on Jan 27, 2009 | 36 comments

289.

Microsoft is not a web company (seldo.com)

45 points by IsaacSchlueter on Jan 12, 2009 | 32 comments

290.

The Great Internet Video Lie (blogmaverick.com)

45 points by astrec on Jan 27, 2009 | 30 comments

291.

Fuck the Cloud (ascii.textfiles.com)

45 points by henning on Jan 20, 2009 | 23 comments

292.

Is Google App Engine Ready for Prime Time? (sachinrekhi.com)

45 points by sachin on Jan 2, 2009 | 18 comments

293.

No New Language In 2009; New Habits Instead (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)

45 points by r11t on Jan 1, 2009 | 17 comments

294.

Compojure - Clojure web framework (github.com)

45 points by maryrosecook on Jan 20, 2009 | 5 comments

295.

Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I. (github.com)

45 points by r11t on Jan 20, 2009 | 3 comments

296.

[London] Songkick is hiring: Head of Data ()

45 points by petesmithy on Jan 15, 2009 | 0 comments

297.

Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

44 points by frisco on Jan 18, 2009 | 59 comments

298.

PR Nightmare: Charging passengers of Hudson plane crash a cancellation fee (consumerist.com)

44 points by vaksel on Jan 19, 2009 | 39 comments

299.

Ask HN/YC: Seeking advice for building a physical hardware device (esp. Picwing)

44 points by markbao on Jan 19, 2009 | 33 comments

300.

PG on nonprofits/Darfur (paulgraham.com)

44 points by chris11 on Jan 22, 2009 | 30 comments