HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

Destructuring with Ruby (tony.pitluga.com)

84 points by drfatbooty on Aug 10, 2011 | 5 comments

722.

Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python (tompinckney.com)

83 points by rjim86 on Aug 3, 2011 | 50 comments

723.

Eight years ago today, an RC plane became the first to fly across the Atlantic (us1.campaign-archive2.com)

83 points by DanLivesHere on Aug 11, 2011 | 31 comments

724.

How Linux mastered Wall Street (itworld.com)

83 points by abennett on Aug 15, 2011 | 29 comments

725.

How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work (joshuablankenship.com)

83 points by joshuacc on Aug 28, 2011 | 7 comments

726.

Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

82 points by ekm2 on Aug 8, 2011 | 103 comments

727.

BankSimple moves to Portland (banksimple.com)

82 points by ahhrrr on Aug 24, 2011 | 96 comments

728.

Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? (theatlantic.com)

82 points by sasvari on Aug 10, 2011 | 90 comments

729.

Microsoft offers webOS developers free Windows Phones and dev tools (winrumors.com)

82 points by Flemlord on Aug 19, 2011 | 81 comments

730.

Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? (cdixon.org)

82 points by dwynings on Aug 28, 2011 | 67 comments

731.

Flipping 10 heads in a row - a small probability demonstration (singingbanana.tumblr.com)

82 points by ColinWright on Aug 20, 2011 | 40 comments

732.

How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox (extremetech.com)

82 points by ukdm on Aug 12, 2011 | 32 comments

733.

Building Lanyrd (lanyrd.com)

82 points by mace on Aug 11, 2011 | 26 comments

734.

Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: "We're Anticipating a Major Fallout" (pehub.com)

82 points by jamesjyu on Aug 11, 2011 | 17 comments

735.

Minecraft creator challenges Bethesda to winner-take-all Quake deathmatch (boingboing.net)

82 points by jaybol on Aug 18, 2011 | 17 comments

736.

One More Thing… (techcrunch.com)

82 points by emwa on Aug 26, 2011 | 14 comments

737.

Observing demos hurts learning, and confusion is a sign of understanding (computinged.wordpress.com)

82 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2011 | 5 comments

738.

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors (siliconfilter.com)

81 points by taylorbuley on Aug 4, 2011 | 100 comments

739.

Redesigning the Technical Hiring Process (jeanhsu.com)

81 points by jeanhsu on Aug 31, 2011 | 56 comments

740.

A Day in the Life of the Modern San Franciscan (rocket-shoes.com)

81 points by paulr on Aug 19, 2011 | 53 comments

741.

Milestone for MIT Press’s bestseller, "Introduction to Algorithms" (web.mit.edu)

81 points by ilamont on Aug 12, 2011 | 48 comments

742.

How You Should Go About Learning NoSQL (openmymind.net)

81 points by latch on Aug 15, 2011 | 46 comments

743.

Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness on 1956 Episode of I’ve Got a Secret (laughingsquid.com)

81 points by barredo on Aug 4, 2011 | 40 comments

744.

Did Apple tamper with evidence in the German Apple v. Samsung case? (androidcentral.com)

81 points by recoiledsnake on Aug 15, 2011 | 39 comments

745.

Chrome extension "Awesome Screenshot" messes with Google search results (seroundtable.com)

81 points by antimora on Aug 18, 2011 | 36 comments

746.

Catching Integer Overflows in C (fefe.de)

81 points by apgwoz on Aug 2, 2011 | 22 comments

747.

A Site Launch Checklist (breccan.com)

81 points by bmcleod on Aug 9, 2011 | 18 comments

748.

Ruby on Rails to power 13,000 schools with 7million+ students in Kerala, India (groups.google.com)

81 points by gorain on Aug 9, 2011 | 17 comments

749.

Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re Diverting Attention (techcrunch.com)

80 points by profitbaron on Aug 4, 2011 | 65 comments

750.

Wadler's critique of SICP (1987) (cs.kent.ac.uk)

80 points by puredanger on Aug 4, 2011 | 50 comments