HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

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

2.

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

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

3.

When a co-founder dies (blog.ivylees.com)

335 points by rriepe on Sep 25, 2009 | 43 comments

4.

The Duct Tape Programmer (joelonsoftware.com)

333 points by mqt on Sep 24, 2009 | 118 comments

5.

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business (jacquesmattheij.com)

319 points by jacquesm on Sep 28, 2009 | 63 comments

6.

Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application (files.getdropbox.com)

310 points by revorad on Sep 3, 2009 | 59 comments

7.

Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source (bret.appspot.com)

291 points by finiteloop on Sep 10, 2009 | 73 comments

8.

Experiment: No Comment Scores

289 points by pg on Sep 26, 2009 | 313 comments

9.

The bar for success in our industry is too low (37signals.com)

282 points by terpua on Sep 2, 2009 | 81 comments

10.

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm (wired.com)

258 points by mshafrir on Sep 11, 2009 | 87 comments

11.

Learning Advanced JavaScript (ejohn.org)

257 points by Afton on Sep 15, 2009 | 44 comments

12.

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome (techcrunch.com)

245 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sep 22, 2009 | 92 comments

13.

Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps (kalzumeus.com)

243 points by patio11 on Sep 5, 2009 | 74 comments

14.

10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" (number10.gov.uk)

237 points by handelaar on Sep 10, 2009 | 81 comments

15.

The Next Generation Bends Over (37signals.com)

220 points by tptacek on Sep 18, 2009 | 204 comments

16.

Efficient Editing With vim (jmcpherson.org)

218 points by ninjac0der on Sep 25, 2009 | 121 comments

17.

And if only 1% of those people... (sivers.org)

210 points by sivers on Sep 27, 2009 | 43 comments

18.

Teaching Linear Algebra (bentilly.blogspot.com)

208 points by btilly on Sep 29, 2009 | 59 comments

19.

How a software engineer invented a breakthrough medical device (blogs.zdnet.com)

207 points by acangiano on Sep 4, 2009 | 81 comments

20.

How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter (doublefine.com)

207 points by zach on Sep 29, 2009 | 14 comments

21.

"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown" (jgc.org)

199 points by jgrahamc on Sep 12, 2009 | 9 comments

22.

Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million (techcrunch.com)

196 points by adityakothadiya on Sep 14, 2009 | 102 comments

23.

The Doers Club (changeobserver.designobserver.com)

196 points by bootload on Sep 30, 2009 | 22 comments

24.

First subpixel typeface, ever (typophile.com)

192 points by robin_reala on Sep 16, 2009 | 40 comments

25.

I never realized how useful netcat is (en.wikipedia.org)

190 points by tzury on Sep 16, 2009 | 32 comments

26.

GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal (ibm.com)

186 points by soundphed on Sep 28, 2009 | 100 comments

27.

"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died (theglobeandmail.com)

186 points by kitcar on Sep 21, 2009 | 49 comments

28.

JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness (jwz.livejournal.com)

186 points by allenbrunson on Sep 28, 2009 | 24 comments

29.

After the Deadline: Acquired (blog.afterthedeadline.com)

185 points by karlsutt on Sep 8, 2009 | 55 comments

30.

Google acquires reCAPTCHA (googleblog.blogspot.com)

181 points by smikhanov on Sep 16, 2009 | 93 comments