HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other (io9.com)

94 points by DanielRibeiro on May 12, 2011 | 67 comments

542.

Why not mmap? (useless-factor.blogspot.com)

94 points by nkurz on May 19, 2011 | 25 comments

543.

Open Education Resources (mindshift.kqed.org)

94 points by nprincigalli on May 6, 2011 | 21 comments

544.

Why you should build an open-source startup (blog.teambox.com)

93 points by michokest on May 20, 2011 | 71 comments

545.

Lost at C? Forth May Be the Answer (forth.org)

93 points by gnosis on May 22, 2011 | 47 comments

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Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt (techcrunch.com)

93 points by ssclafani on May 18, 2011 | 19 comments

547.

Implementing a fast interpreter without resorting to assembly (emulators.com)

93 points by mad on May 27, 2011 | 15 comments

548.

8 bit crop circle hack (dailygrail.com)

93 points by jgamman on May 3, 2011 | 11 comments

549.

Diaspora - Moving Forward (blog.joindiaspora.com)

92 points by sahillavingia on May 16, 2011 | 65 comments

550.

Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead (technologyreview.com)

92 points by Osiris on May 23, 2011 | 65 comments

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The Parser that Cracked the MediaWiki Code (dirkriehle.com)

92 points by rams on May 6, 2011 | 31 comments

552.

The Javascript memory leak we all do (atkinson.posterous.com)

92 points by ra on May 20, 2011 | 29 comments

553.

PROTECT IP Act Would Gut Parts Of The DMCA's Safe Harbors (techdirt.com)

92 points by yanw on May 13, 2011 | 20 comments

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Hire based on interest, not credentials (regardingwork.com)

92 points by fontana on May 15, 2011 | 19 comments

555.

Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack (gist.github.com)

92 points by weavejester on May 31, 2011 | 9 comments

556.

U.S Unemployment By Education Level (bls.gov)

91 points by shrikant on May 8, 2011 | 63 comments

557.

Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (2008) (lkml.org)

91 points by vog on May 12, 2011 | 54 comments

558.

Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery (newscientist.com)

91 points by ColinWright on May 28, 2011 | 49 comments

559.

Is Microsoft trying to end the reign of mobile carriers? (fury.com)

91 points by atularora on May 17, 2011 | 46 comments

560.

dom3d: Rendering 3D with CSS3 (jlongster.com)

91 points by jlongster on May 24, 2011 | 24 comments

561.

Beware of the social ideas (joel.is)

91 points by joelg87 on May 29, 2011 | 10 comments

562.

A Unix shell written in Google Go (github.com)

91 points by jemeshsu on May 18, 2011 | 8 comments

563.

Experimental UK Gov site: alpha.gov.uk (alpha.gov.uk)

90 points by gorm on May 11, 2011 | 41 comments

564.

GPU Password Cracking (mytechencounters.wordpress.com)

90 points by ctingom on May 31, 2011 | 36 comments

565.

Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites (jeffkreeftmeijer.com)

90 points by jkreeftmeijer on May 9, 2011 | 25 comments

566.

Steve Wozniak Calls Paul Allen A Patent Troll (itproportal.com)

90 points by chanks on May 5, 2011 | 18 comments

567.

The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse (theatlantic.com)