HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Introducing Word Lens (questvisual.com)

1297 points by jf on Dec 17, 2010 | 281 comments

2.

Today you, tomorrow me (reddit.com)

1270 points by bjg on Dec 14, 2010 | 203 comments

3.

Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash (techcrunch.com)

717 points by gspyrou on Dec 8, 2010 | 198 comments

4.

Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable? (41latitude.com)

687 points by ugh on Dec 2, 2010 | 104 comments

5.

Sacked by a Google algorithm (duckworksmagazine.com)

685 points by seanalltogether on Dec 29, 2010 | 283 comments

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Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies (godheadv.blogspot.com)

664 points by ck2 on Dec 7, 2010 | 255 comments

7.

Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website (benthebodyguard.com)

586 points by bjonathan on Dec 2, 2010 | 97 comments

8.

Google Engineer bails out student in jail (neil.fraser.name)

540 points by staktrace on Dec 24, 2010 | 196 comments

9.

What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains. (garrysub.posterous.com)

521 points by zhyder on Dec 10, 2010 | 149 comments

10.

If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming (dump.com)

503 points by dkasper on Dec 15, 2010 | 123 comments

11.

Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis (boingboing.net)

498 points by r11t on Dec 30, 2010 | 61 comments

12.

Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us (techcrunch.com)

486 points by jmorin007 on Dec 16, 2010 | 293 comments

13.

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition (codusoperandi.com)

472 points by jayro on Dec 8, 2010 | 103 comments

14.

Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map (facebook.com)

430 points by psawaya on Dec 14, 2010 | 116 comments

15.

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

429 points by pchristensen on Dec 1, 2010 | 109 comments

16.

Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious? (web.archive.org)

413 points by codybrown on Dec 16, 2010 | 84 comments

17.

Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC (marc.info)

395 points by tptacek on Dec 14, 2010 | 139 comments

18.

Tablets (paulgraham.com)

387 points by timf on Dec 1, 2010 | 250 comments

19.

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison (kkovacs.eu)

380 points by kkovacs on Dec 30, 2010 | 89 comments

20.

Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?

370 points by markbao on Dec 30, 2010 | 188 comments

21.

Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent (thepiratebay.org)

365 points by tenaciousJk on Dec 13, 2010 | 188 comments

22.

Nexus S (google.com)

364 points by tomerico on Dec 6, 2010 | 263 comments

23.

The Day MAME Saved My Ass (ppl-pilot.com)

352 points by jeff18 on Dec 12, 2010 | 44 comments

24.

Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs

347 points by jriley on Dec 2, 2010 | 115 comments

25.

Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out (humblebundle.com)

341 points by steiza on Dec 14, 2010 | 92 comments

26.

Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research (cl.cam.ac.uk)

336 points by randomwalker on Dec 25, 2010 | 54 comments

27.

Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth (theaustralian.com.au)

334 points by ra on Dec 7, 2010 | 131 comments

28.

Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff (kalzumeus.com)