HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

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

2.

What Startups Are Really Like (paulgraham.com)

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

3.

So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?

324 points by Shooter on Oct 8, 2009 | 126 comments

4.

If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible? (entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)

321 points by bhousel on Oct 30, 2009 | 185 comments

5.

This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch (gizmodo.com)

321 points by AjJi on Oct 6, 2009 | 67 comments

6.

I Was Told I Was Very Smart (theferrett.livejournal.com)

309 points by mtinkerhess on Oct 22, 2009 | 113 comments

7.

The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office" (ribbonfarm.com)

307 points by mcdoh on Oct 14, 2009 | 63 comments

8.

Google Groups is Dead (ejohn.org)

259 points by RedWolves on Oct 27, 2009 | 67 comments

9.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you (diveintomark.org)

254 points by mqt on Oct 20, 2009 | 53 comments

10.

Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities (reocities.com)

250 points by jacquesm on Oct 26, 2009 | 65 comments

11.

How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily (ai.uga.edu)

241 points by ZLOB-o-ZLOB on Oct 11, 2009 | 110 comments

12.

What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book (beginningruby.org)

233 points by petercooper on Oct 8, 2009 | 70 comments

13.

Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking" (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

233 points by paul on Oct 14, 2009 | 35 comments

14.

Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file (aaronsw.com)

224 points by wglb on Oct 5, 2009 | 85 comments

15.

Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge (scott-oviwe.posterous.com)

218 points by pg on Oct 1, 2009 | 29 comments

16.

How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture (github.com)

214 points by mojombo on Oct 21, 2009 | 23 comments

17.

What problems does Google Wave solve? (danieltenner.com)

213 points by swombat on Oct 15, 2009 | 67 comments

18.

Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes (mail.python.org)

210 points by sammcd on Oct 21, 2009 | 64 comments

19.

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released (ubuntu.com)

204 points by zokier on Oct 29, 2009 | 164 comments

20.

Brewing a Better Rating System (blog.steepster.com)

200 points by jackcheng on Oct 29, 2009 | 35 comments

21.

Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (telegraph.co.uk)

199 points by Flemlord on Oct 13, 2009 | 71 comments

22.

Tools we use for running our startup (balsamiq.com)

198 points by BvS on Oct 30, 2009 | 31 comments

23.

Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company (blog.asmartbear.com)

195 points by dmytton on Oct 19, 2009 | 33 comments

24.

I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix (tomayko.com)

192 points by pjhyett on Oct 6, 2009 | 53 comments

25.

Tell HN: Dealing with VCs, my experience

183 points by jacquesm on Oct 7, 2009 | 38 comments

26.

Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf (www-stat.stanford.edu)

183 points by wglb on Oct 14, 2009 | 28 comments

27.

Amazon Relational Database Service (aws.amazon.com)

181 points by timf on Oct 27, 2009 | 66 comments

28.

C++ in Coders at Work (gigamonkeys.com)

178 points by edw519 on Oct 16, 2009 | 169 comments

29.

Piratebay strikes back (blog.brokep.com)

178 points by bandris on Oct 9, 2009 | 103 comments

30.

"How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996) (guyro.typepad.com)

173 points by frisco on Oct 6, 2009 | 39 comments