HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1321.

Amazon launches Start-up Challenge (startupsmart.com.au)

42 points by Finntastic on Aug 2, 2011 | 7 comments

1322.

Honey ant queens share a throne (bbc.co.uk)

42 points by narad on Aug 9, 2011 | 7 comments

1323.

Bitcoin Hackathon, 2.-4. September, Finland. Programmers/hackers, join the fun (bitcoin-hackathon.com)

42 points by jerguismi on Aug 4, 2011 | 6 comments

1324.

Scala Actors are Just Code - No Magic (dearjunior.blogspot.com)

42 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 7, 2011 | 6 comments

1325.

Fighting the (credit card processing) System (cmu.edu)

42 points by pitdesi on Aug 12, 2011 | 5 comments

1326.

The Story of how MySpace scaled [2007] (mobile.baselinemag.com)

42 points by a4agarwal on Aug 23, 2011 | 2 comments

1327.

Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple (techcrunch.com)

42 points by joshbert on Aug 24, 2011 | 0 comments

1328.

Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for High-concurrency Servers) (usenix.org)

41 points by uriel on Aug 20, 2011 | 40 comments

1329.

Why We Start Indexing from 0 in Computer Science (cs.utexas.edu)

41 points by KlausTrainer on Aug 21, 2011 | 35 comments

1330.

Bitcoin is "Worse is Better" (gwern.net)

41 points by r11t on Aug 28, 2011 | 34 comments

1331.

After firesale, now HP Touchpads get 6 free apps from HP (blog.palm.com)

41 points by karteek on Aug 26, 2011 | 31 comments

1332.

"This is water, this is water." (publicnoises.blogspot.com)

41 points by pavs on Aug 21, 2011 | 29 comments

1333.

MIT study says Arctic ice thinning 4x faster than predicted (bostinnovation.com)

41 points by dmcgregor on Aug 10, 2011 | 28 comments

1334.

How outsourcing will transform scientific research (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

41 points by mrkurt on Aug 16, 2011 | 28 comments

1335.

Google’s Official Profanity API (labs.phurix.net)

41 points by hm2k on Aug 17, 2011 | 22 comments

1336.

Long Beach Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers (lbpost.com)

41 points by scottshea on Aug 14, 2011 | 21 comments

1337.

Only 14 percent of Earth's species have been discovered (news.nationalgeographic.com)

41 points by arocks on Aug 25, 2011 | 20 comments

1338.

Command Line Feedback from RVM and Git (collectiveidea.com)

41 points by joshuacc on Aug 2, 2011 | 19 comments

1339.

Runtime code modification. Erlang? No, Python (blog.ducksboard.com)

41 points by wulczer on Aug 18, 2011 | 17 comments

1340.

There's no excuse for sidebars on my phone (kdpeterson.net)

41 points by kevinpet on Aug 17, 2011 | 16 comments

1341.

It's full of coins (bitcointalk.org)

41 points by scotty79 on Aug 29, 2011 | 16 comments

1342.

Trying to understand incubator math (startupnorth.ca)

41 points by jrodgers on Aug 22, 2011 | 13 comments

1343.

Letter to a Young Developer (avdi.org)

41 points by joshuacc on Aug 19, 2011 | 12 comments

1344.

Recycled plastic bottles bring light to homes in Filipino slums (uk.reuters.com)

41 points by jonknee on Aug 3, 2011 | 11 comments

1345.

Patent Trolls Come In All Shapes and Sizes (betabeat.com)

41 points by citadrianne on Aug 10, 2011 | 9 comments

1346.

The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth) (ed-thelen.org)

41 points by acqq on Aug 7, 2011 | 6 comments

1347.

Dino SDK - Think "Olark for Mobile Apps" (dino.envolve.com)

41 points by mayop100 on Aug 26, 2011 | 5 comments

1348.

BBC Micro on an FPGA - Altera DE1 (mikestirling.co.uk)

41 points by mikestir on Aug 23, 2011 | 3 comments

1349.

Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off? (news.cnet.com)

40 points by ruffdev on Aug 29, 2011 | 45 comments

1350.

Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion (techcrunch.com)

40 points by amirmc on Aug 13, 2011 | 41 comments