HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1081.

Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change (techcrunch.com)

55 points by mvs on Aug 22, 2011 | 15 comments

1082.

The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) (lettersofnote.com)

55 points by cromulent on Aug 18, 2011 | 10 comments

1083.

Tool causes Apache web server to freeze (h-online.com)

55 points by fvbock on Aug 25, 2011 | 8 comments

1084.

The Xbox Story, Part 1: The Birth of a Console (vg247.com)

55 points by Phoenix26 on Aug 3, 2011 | 7 comments

1085.

Fech: The NYT's new Gem for F.E.C. Filings (open.blogs.nytimes.com)

55 points by jashkenas on Aug 29, 2011 | 0 comments

1086.

Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Themselves... (economist.com)

54 points by jkuria on Aug 8, 2011 | 86 comments

1087.

What's rising faster than health care? College costs (lifeinc.today.com)

54 points by chailatte on Aug 16, 2011 | 70 comments

1088.

HP to buy Autonomy for $11 billion (ft.com)

54 points by whyleyc on Aug 19, 2011 | 42 comments

1089.

Closures – A Simple Explanation (Using Ruby) (skorks.com)

54 points by bleakgadfly on Aug 24, 2011 | 30 comments

1090.

MyBitCoin Team Responded to Hacker Attack by Getting Shitfaced (betabeat.com)

54 points by spiffae on Aug 9, 2011 | 27 comments

1091.

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms (uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com)

54 points by cwan on Aug 22, 2011 | 27 comments

1092.

FCC releases report on America's broadband providers (fcc.gov)

54 points by ecaron on Aug 2, 2011 | 22 comments

1093.

Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers' (bbc.co.uk)

54 points by ColinWright on Aug 19, 2011 | 17 comments

1094.

On rvm's *cd* script (batkin.tumblr.com)

54 points by benatkin on Aug 13, 2011 | 16 comments

1095.

The Revenues of a Moderately Successful iPad App (remembary.com)

54 points by peteforde on Aug 12, 2011 | 15 comments

1096.

"Avoid Premature Optimization" Does Not Mean "Write Dumb Code" (prog21.dadgum.com)

54 points by fogus on Aug 18, 2011 | 15 comments

1097.

"Eyeborg" Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera (techcrunch.com)

54 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 26, 2011 | 14 comments

1098.

Scala 2.9.1 final - faster compilation and many other improvements (scala-lang.org)

54 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 31, 2011 | 14 comments

1099.

No, HP, you’re off the mark (bgr.com)

54 points by zacharye on Aug 20, 2011 | 10 comments

1100.

IPython 0.11 - Innovation in iPython (stronginference.com)

54 points by bruth on Aug 3, 2011 | 8 comments

1101.

Abolish Patents (patenthawk.com)

54 points by grellas on Aug 12, 2011 | 7 comments

1102.

Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005) (evhead.com)

54 points by maxplat on Aug 16, 2011 | 6 comments

1103.

Racket intro projects: start hacking on and with Racket (github.com)

54 points by p4bl0 on Aug 27, 2011 | 5 comments

1104.

DeployMint: A Git based Staging and Deployment System for WordPress (markmaunder.com)

54 points by d2 on Aug 19, 2011 | 3 comments

1105.

Planet Money: The Patent War (podcast) (npr.org)

54 points by nextparadigms on Aug 3, 2011 | 2 comments

1106.

Jonathan's Card Experiments And Outcomes (sam.odio.com)

53 points by robryan on Aug 14, 2011 | 87 comments

1107.

Think Windows is insecure? You're wrong, says security firm Kaspersky. (blogs.computerworld.com)

53 points by barista on Aug 13, 2011 | 72 comments

1108.

Profit Profit Profit (daringfireball.net)

53 points by shawndumas on Aug 23, 2011 | 63 comments

1109.

Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' (google.com)

53 points by yariang on Aug 13, 2011 | 42 comments

1110.

Twitter's t.co uses meta tags and JS instead of 301 Redirects to Mask Referrers (getclicky.com)

53 points by ams1 on Aug 20, 2011 | 29 comments