HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox (codebutler.com)

714 points by cdine on Oct 25, 2010 | 341 comments

2.

Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.

620 points by needmoney on Oct 8, 2010 | 114 comments

3.

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference (techcrunch.com)

605 points by sophmonroe on Oct 26, 2010 | 161 comments

4.

The reverse job applicant (reversejobapplication.com)

518 points by middlegeek on Oct 19, 2010 | 302 comments

5.

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier (aws.amazon.com)

479 points by wave on Oct 21, 2010 | 137 comments

6.

Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)

461 points by jacquesm on Oct 27, 2010 | 31 comments

7.

Show HN: I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind

453 points by kabuks on Oct 26, 2010 | 120 comments

8.

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic (nytimes.com)

436 points by recampbell on Oct 9, 2010 | 205 comments

9.

Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee (worldofsu.com)

433 points by gavingmiller on Oct 15, 2010 | 105 comments

10.

Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

421 points by tzury on Oct 24, 2010 | 54 comments

11.

Tell HN: Please stop offering your services

406 points by swombat on Oct 27, 2010 | 106 comments

12.

Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video. (landoflisp.com)

398 points by drcode on Oct 27, 2010 | 108 comments

13.

Apple deprecates Java (developer.apple.com)

386 points by tomeast on Oct 21, 2010 | 268 comments

14.

Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

383 points by allanmac on Oct 23, 2010 | 70 comments

15.

After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?

379 points by exhaustedhacker on Oct 21, 2010 | 184 comments

16.

PayPal robbed my bank account (jacquesmattheij.com)

378 points by jacquesm on Oct 18, 2010 | 185 comments

17.

How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org)

377 points by nl on Oct 4, 2010 | 131 comments

18.

Why Wesabe Lost to Mint (blog.precipice.org)

373 points by Concours on Oct 1, 2010 | 195 comments

19.

What We Look for in Founders (paulgraham.com)

362 points by anateus on Oct 22, 2010 | 174 comments

20.

Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please) (arstechnica.com)

352 points by bluesmoon on Oct 14, 2010 | 177 comments

21.

Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers (news.ycombinator.com)

342 points by bradleyjoyce on Oct 27, 2010 | 21 comments

22.

Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP (kottke.org)

338 points by bengebre on Oct 16, 2010 | 83 comments

23.

MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem (groups.google.com)

329 points by pc on Oct 7, 2010 | 174 comments

24.

Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share (gs.statcounter.com)

319 points by CyrilMazur on Oct 5, 2010 | 67 comments

25.

My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups (gabrielweinberg.com)

316 points by taylorwc on Oct 18, 2010 | 81 comments

26.

Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug (iconeye.com)

314 points by shedd on Oct 12, 2010 | 140 comments

27.

The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19 (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)