HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Steve Jobs has passed away. (apple.com)

4338 points by patricktomas on Oct 5, 2011 | 363 comments

2.

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (jwz.org)

2376 points by jwwest on Nov 29, 2011 | 292 comments

3.

Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died (plus.google.com)

1958 points by fogus on Oct 13, 2011 | 196 comments

4.

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. (bellard.org)

1820 points by neopanz on May 17, 2011 | 239 comments

5.

Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day (techcrunch.com)

1742 points by ericflo on Dec 22, 2011 | 272 comments

6.

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs (nytimes.com)

1736 points by NaOH on Oct 30, 2011 | 121 comments

7.

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple (finance.yahoo.com)

1667 points by taylorbuley on Aug 24, 2011 | 305 comments

8.

John McCarthy Has Died (en.wikipedia.org)

1619 points by apgwoz on Oct 24, 2011 | 218 comments

9.

I was once a Facebook fool (public.numair.com)

1390 points by numair on Sep 23, 2011 | 163 comments

10.

Stripe: instant payment processing for developers (stripe.com)

1249 points by pc on Sep 29, 2011 | 348 comments

11.

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion (techcrunch.com)

1214 points by iamben on Aug 15, 2011 | 369 comments

12.

Steve's Google Platform rant (plus.google.com)

1196 points by tRAS on Oct 12, 2011 | 393 comments

13.

I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count

1136 points by wdewind on Apr 28, 2011 | 228 comments

14.

Ooops. (github.com)

1123 points by peteretep on Jun 16, 2011 | 238 comments

15.

GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" (reddit.com)

1121 points by duiker101 on Dec 22, 2011 | 244 comments

16.

Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired (news.cnet.com)

1120 points by rbanffy on Nov 10, 2011 | 370 comments

17.

A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy (blog.jeffepstein.me)

1086 points by jeffepp on Dec 22, 2011 | 103 comments

18.

Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN (blog.us.playstation.com)

1074 points by estel on Apr 26, 2011 | 279 comments

19.

My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine (blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)

1060 points by robfitz on Oct 28, 2011 | 101 comments

20.

TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement (acko.net)

1056 points by pimeys on May 18, 2011 | 200 comments

21.

Twitter Bootstrap (twitter.github.com)

1047 points by d0vs on Aug 19, 2011 | 108 comments

22.

Enough Is Enough (avc.com)

1032 points by ssclafani on Jun 1, 2011 | 185 comments

23.

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer (kalzumeus.com)

1021 points by jambo on Oct 29, 2011 | 267 comments

24.

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight (ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com)

1017 points by moonlighter on Jul 29, 2011 | 482 comments

25.

In defense of the Google chef (rondam.blogspot.com)

994 points by lisper on Nov 11, 2011 | 188 comments

26.

Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds (designfestival.com)

975 points by jimsteinhart on Apr 7, 2011 | 52 comments

27.

Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned (ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com)

952 points by foxit on Jul 27, 2011 | 380 comments

28.

Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC (bbc.co.uk)

938 points by pmjoyce on Sep 22, 2011 | 239 comments

29.

Osama bin Laden Is Dead (nytimes.com)

924 points by ssclafani on May 2, 2011 | 430 comments

30.

Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly. (harvesthq.github.com)

923 points by utkarshkukreti on Jul 22, 2011 | 76 comments