HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Google algorithm change launched

688 points by Matt_Cutts on Jan 28, 2011 | 183 comments

2.

My winter break project — Silk (weavesilk.com)

687 points by yurivish on Jan 10, 2011 | 88 comments

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Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO (googleblog.blogspot.com)

679 points by andre3k1 on Jan 20, 2011 | 150 comments

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Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks (cs.cmu.edu)

620 points by elliottcarlson on Jan 12, 2011 | 81 comments

5.

Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide (donttrack.us)

588 points by adityakothadiya on Jan 3, 2011 | 168 comments

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Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android (zdnet.com)

584 points by sigzero on Jan 21, 2011 | 57 comments

7.

Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome (blog.chromium.org)

579 points by spaetzel on Jan 11, 2011 | 349 comments

8.

Trouble In the House of Google (codinghorror.com)

461 points by ZeroMinx on Jan 3, 2011 | 162 comments

9.

Steve's story - Google employee #13 (googler13.blogspot.com)

440 points by paul on Jan 9, 2011 | 89 comments

10.

Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

438 points by nervechannel on Jan 6, 2011 | 208 comments

11.

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service (aws.amazon.com)

438 points by Yrlec on Jan 25, 2011 | 168 comments

12.

Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k (techcrunch.com)

425 points by ssclafani on Jan 29, 2011 | 189 comments

13.

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap (sivers.org)

423 points by razin on Jan 23, 2011 | 72 comments

14.

For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? (superuser.com)

415 points by fakelvis on Jan 12, 2011 | 271 comments

15.

Why 3D doesn't work and never will. (blogs.suntimes.com)

411 points by princeverma on Jan 24, 2011 | 198 comments

16.

So Long and Thanks for all the Bits (jacquesmattheij.com)

404 points by jacquesm on Jan 31, 2011 | 103 comments

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JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] ) (adamcecc.blogspot.com)

403 points by there on Jan 22, 2011 | 46 comments

18.

Dating Denial of Service attack (reddit.com)

390 points by mcantelon on Jan 4, 2011 | 123 comments

19.

How (not) to write Factorial in Java (chaosinmotion.com)

387 points by smanek on Jan 26, 2011 | 199 comments

20.

NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’ (nytimes.com)

383 points by tysone on Jan 6, 2011 | 203 comments

21.

MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners (web.mit.edu)

383 points by ashwinl on Jan 14, 2011 | 38 comments

22.

OAuth Will Murder Your Children (zachholman.com)

380 points by holman on Jan 25, 2011 | 99 comments

23.

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard (googleblog.blogspot.com)

373 points by ssclafani on Jan 31, 2011 | 101 comments

24.

RIP Bill Zeller (metatalk.metafilter.com)

370 points by joshfraser on Jan 6, 2011 | 138 comments

25.

W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled (w3.org)

370 points by hakim on Jan 18, 2011 | 106 comments

26.

Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. (thetyee.ca)

359 points by nirav on Jan 30, 2011 | 268 comments

27.

Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building (botjunkie.com)