HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels (gigaom.com)

253 points by Tomek_ on Dec 12, 2011 | 124 comments

152.

Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens (seedmagazine.com)

252 points by mindmirror on Dec 22, 2011 | 220 comments

153.

Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox (blog.mozilla.com)

250 points by dochtman on Dec 20, 2011 | 88 comments

154.

Adventures in Aeron Chair Arbitrage (blog.priceonomics.com)

249 points by omarish on Dec 27, 2011 | 107 comments

155.

Ordered List is a GitHubber (github.com)

249 points by tanoku on Dec 5, 2011 | 15 comments

156.

SOPA vote is now December 21 (cbsnews.com)

248 points by hsmyers on Dec 17, 2011 | 66 comments

157.

Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA (torrentfreak.com)

248 points by llambda on Dec 12, 2011 | 59 comments

158.

All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours (hn.my)

247 points by yanowitz on Dec 23, 2011 | 98 comments

159.

All Programmers Are Self-Taught (jgneuf.wordpress.com)

247 points by jgn on Dec 21, 2011 | 79 comments

160.

What Makes Android Revolutionary (osnews.com)

246 points by thomholwerda on Dec 29, 2011 | 146 comments

161.

The Crunchpad is proof of obviousness in iPad design (nikcub.appspot.com)

246 points by nikcub on Dec 9, 2011 | 133 comments

162.

Google takes down profile pic because someone was flipping the bird (parislemon.com)

246 points by kefs on Dec 28, 2011 | 0 comments

163.

How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in the valley') (trapm.com)

245 points by sgrove on Dec 19, 2011 | 171 comments

164.

Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent (patft.uspto.gov)

245 points by meadhikari on Dec 15, 2011 | 95 comments

165.

Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down

245 points by jpadvo on Dec 30, 2011 | 95 comments

166.

TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha (blog.macromates.com)

244 points by fredleblanc on Dec 13, 2011 | 171 comments

167.

Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups (hackersandfounders.tv)

244 points by smilliken on Dec 2, 2011 | 39 comments

168.

Being a "Great Coder" and 10000 Hours (groups.google.com)

242 points by michaelty on Dec 23, 2011 | 69 comments

169.

Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (newscientist.com)

242 points by p4bl0 on Dec 28, 2011 | 23 comments

170.

AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default (adblockplus.org)

241 points by chaud on Dec 12, 2011 | 165 comments

171.

Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber (theverge.com)

241 points by divy on Dec 15, 2011 | 164 comments

172.

A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier (online.wsj.com)

241 points by blakehill on Dec 8, 2011 | 163 comments

173.

Redditors pledging to donate thousands to Wikimedia if they dump GoDaddy (reddit.com)

241 points by aes256 on Dec 23, 2011 | 35 comments

174.

Obama Announces $2B Fund for Startups (whitehouse.gov)

239 points by aba_sababa on Dec 9, 2011 | 164 comments

175.

The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity) (humblebundle.com)

238 points by Jach on Dec 13, 2011 | 67 comments

176.

The legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan (thehindu.com)

238 points by rehack on Dec 26, 2011 | 23 comments

177.

What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)

237 points by systrom on Dec 2, 2011 | 41 comments

178.

Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers (avichal.com)

235 points by yinyinwu on Dec 16, 2011 | 44 comments

179.

My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition) (carpeaqua.com)

234 points by rograndom on Dec 20, 2011 | 120 comments

180.

Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit (reddit.com)

234 points by michael_nielsen on Dec 28, 2011 | 24 comments