HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

391.

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters (technologyreview.com)

121 points by TuxPirate on May 25, 2011 | 53 comments

392.

Google Tasks API Released (code.google.com)

121 points by nikosdimopoulos on May 11, 2011 | 39 comments

393.

Startup vs. Lifestyle Business (A Short Comparison from a Guy Who's Done Both) (corbettbarr.com)

121 points by wallflower on May 21, 2011 | 22 comments

394.

"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

120 points by krishna2 on May 19, 2011 | 61 comments

395.

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (harmful.cat-v.org)

120 points by vimes656 on May 21, 2011 | 45 comments

396.

My Experience as a Female CS Major (jeanhsu.com)

119 points by worldvoyageur on May 2, 2011 | 82 comments

397.

Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing (tech.backtype.com)

119 points by lzimm on May 26, 2011 | 46 comments

398.

Sortfolio for sale (37signals.com)

119 points by wlll on May 4, 2011 | 36 comments

399.

Smaller than Bloom filters (imperialviolet.org)

119 points by fogus on May 2, 2011 | 16 comments

400.

Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins (colorfulwolf.com)

118 points by rheide on May 31, 2011 | 150 comments

401.

Vanity Fair reporter freak-out (webcache.googleusercontent.com)

118 points by apress on May 24, 2011 | 74 comments

402.

Inmates forced to farm gold online in Chinese prisons (thenextweb.com)

118 points by arb99 on May 26, 2011 | 73 comments

403.

Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group (administratosphere.wordpress.com)

118 points by j_baker on May 5, 2011 | 62 comments

404.

Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (w/ video) (engadget.com)

118 points by evangineer on May 30, 2011 | 49 comments

405.

False Start: Google proposal reduces SSL handshake to single round-trip (theregister.co.uk)

118 points by chrisaycock on May 19, 2011 | 41 comments

406.

EveryJS: The Right Tool for the Right Job (everyjs.com)

118 points by bradly on May 30, 2011 | 40 comments

407.

Scrollability (joehewitt.github.com)

118 points by mynameisraj on May 20, 2011 | 38 comments

408.

About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011 (blog.pinboard.in)

118 points by chl on May 26, 2011 | 34 comments

409.

Max Levchin's Early PayPal Photos (levchin.com)

118 points by stevenj on May 16, 2011 | 21 comments

410.

Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse (en.wikipedia.org)

118 points by VeXocide on May 10, 2011 | 12 comments

411.

Collection of Game Development Blogs (gamedev.stackexchange.com)

118 points by Zolomon on May 13, 2011 | 1 comments

412.

IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student (blogs.forbes.com)

117 points by jmjerlecki on May 26, 2011 | 74 comments

413.

William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

117 points by rbanffy on May 19, 2011 | 62 comments

414.

"Ballmer must go", lead investor tells conference (dealbook.nytimes.com)

117 points by nikcub on May 26, 2011 | 51 comments

415.

An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups (danshapiro.com)

117 points by danshapiro on May 2, 2011 | 48 comments

416.

Why the new guy can't code (techcrunch.com)

117 points by vineet on May 7, 2011 | 42 comments

417.

The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment (techcrunch.com)

117 points by playhard on May 15, 2011 | 23 comments

418.

Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin (falkvinge.net)

116 points by mazsa on May 29, 2011 | 190 comments

419.

America Lacks Meaningful Innovation (greaterseas.com)

116 points by m311ton on May 13, 2011 | 108 comments

420.

Bret Victor on working at Apple. (worrydream.com)

116 points by endergen on May 11, 2011 | 68 comments