HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz (fugitivus.wordpress.com)

549 points by godDLL on Feb 12, 2010 | 275 comments

2.

A Big Case of Oops (communities.hp.com)

395 points by wglb on Feb 26, 2010 | 99 comments

3.

HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app (mugtug.com)

378 points by godDLL on Feb 6, 2010 | 89 comments

4.

Microsoft’s Creative Destruction (nytimes.com)

342 points by unignorant on Feb 4, 2010 | 235 comments

5.

I want privacy because I break the law (zachaysan.tumblr.com)

320 points by 3pt14159 on Feb 1, 2010 | 117 comments

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Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants (royal.pingdom.com)

318 points by yannis on Feb 24, 2010 | 109 comments

7.

Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source (developers.facebook.com)

315 points by ivankirigin on Feb 2, 2010 | 190 comments

8.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky (hginit.com)

296 points by Tichy on Feb 24, 2010 | 71 comments

9.

Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men (lifehack.org)

294 points by nathanh on Feb 19, 2010 | 171 comments

10.

The hell that is a restaurant website (venomousporridge.com)

292 points by telemachos on Feb 17, 2010 | 92 comments

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GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission (blog.sucuri.net)

288 points by sucuri2 on Feb 24, 2010 | 119 comments

12.

Serious threat to the web in Italy (googleblog.blogspot.com)

282 points by alexandros on Feb 24, 2010 | 141 comments

13.

Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping (diveintomark.org)

282 points by mnemonik on Feb 23, 2010 | 99 comments

14.

School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home (boingboing.net)

275 points by kf on Feb 18, 2010 | 157 comments

15.

Please Rob Me (pleaserobme.com)

270 points by danw on Feb 17, 2010 | 130 comments

16.

"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% (lukew.com)

270 points by malyk on Feb 25, 2010 | 50 comments

17.

Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network (googleblog.blogspot.com)

269 points by ashishbharthi on Feb 10, 2010 | 149 comments

18.

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good. (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

265 points by paul on Feb 9, 2010 | 78 comments

19.

Things I've learned at Google so far (bentilly.blogspot.com)

264 points by btilly on Feb 1, 2010 | 194 comments

20.

AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..." (trn.n0t.net)

259 points by johns on Feb 7, 2010 | 102 comments

21.

Ask YC/HN Archive (gabrielweinberg.com)

254 points by jmonegro on Feb 15, 2010 | 29 comments

22.

I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.

251 points by kksm19820117 on Feb 20, 2010 | 165 comments

23.

How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter (blog.cubeofm.com)

248 points by maxklein on Feb 7, 2010 | 188 comments

24.

WTFJS? (wtfjs.com)

237 points by mcantelon on Feb 12, 2010 | 70 comments

25.

Life Below 600px (iampaddy.com)

232 points by chaostheory on Feb 2, 2010 | 61 comments

26.

Daring Fireball: "Facebook login" (daringfireball.net)

230 points by natemartin on Feb 12, 2010 | 160 comments

27.

Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act (startupvisa.com)

226 points by icey on Feb 24, 2010 | 215 comments

28.

How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) (nytimes.com)

223 points by Jasber on Feb 19, 2010 | 95 comments

29.

Business School is a Joke (web.archive.org)

223 points by imgabe on Feb 14, 2010 | 69 comments

30.

No, you can't do that with H.264 (bemasc.net)

222 points by middayc on Feb 3, 2010 | 78 comments