HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Plagiarism (notes.unwieldy.net)

1230 points by endtwist on May 14, 2012 | 311 comments

2.

Hunting Down My Son's Killer (matt.might.net)

1139 points by synacksynack on May 29, 2012 | 318 comments

3.

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time (stevehanov.ca)

989 points by spiffytech on May 29, 2012 | 147 comments

4.

Please don't learn to code (codinghorror.com)

746 points by AndrewDucker on May 15, 2012 | 266 comments

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Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright (groklaw.net)

735 points by mbreese on May 31, 2012 | 141 comments

6.

Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox (forums.dropbox.com)

723 points by dannyr on May 1, 2012 | 348 comments

7.

Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case (groklaw.net)

723 points by grellas on May 23, 2012 | 165 comments

8.

Recursive Drawing (recursivedrawing.com)

694 points by nreece on May 10, 2012 | 83 comments

9.

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget (zenmoments.org)

688 points by wolfden on May 2, 2012 | 188 comments

10.

Being deaf (davidpeter.me)

676 points by sarenji on May 21, 2012 | 153 comments

11.

Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer (learncodethehardway.org)

670 points by twampss on May 15, 2012 | 218 comments

12.

Please Learn to Code (sachagreif.com)

654 points by sgdesign on May 15, 2012 | 146 comments

13.

Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship (bbc.co.uk)

585 points by mocko on May 25, 2012 | 166 comments

14.

GitHub for Windows (github.com)

549 points by sant0sk1 on May 21, 2012 | 236 comments

15.

The frequent fliers who flew too much (latimes.com)

546 points by ams1 on May 6, 2012 | 222 comments

16.

Welcome To Life (tomscott.com)

545 points by ryannielsen on May 14, 2012 | 183 comments

17.

Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip (cl.cam.ac.uk)

536 points by turnersr on May 27, 2012 | 149 comments

18.

Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests (github.com)

535 points by quellhorst on May 11, 2012 | 267 comments

19.

Google is making a huge and annoying mistake (wilwheaton.typepad.com)

534 points by ColinWright on May 2, 2012 | 261 comments

20.

Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen (superuser.com)

531 points by eavc on May 1, 2012 | 64 comments

21.

My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie (stallman.org)

524 points by gulbrandr on May 11, 2012 | 230 comments

22.

Android Ported to C# (blog.xamarin.com)

516 points by pmjordan on May 1, 2012 | 165 comments

23.

Please learn to write (randsinrepose.com)

516 points by filament on May 16, 2012 | 117 comments

24.

CSS arrow please (cssarrowplease.com)

515 points by jimsteinhart on May 9, 2012 | 73 comments

25.

Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle (plus.google.com)

494 points by vibrunazo on May 16, 2012 | 112 comments

26.

I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k (jzhwu.blogspot.com)

488 points by rremoncake on May 10, 2012 | 370 comments

27.

RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS (rubymotion.com)

485 points by acangiano on May 3, 2012 | 240 comments

28.

Want good programmers? Then pay them. (irrlicht3d.org)

481 points by irrlichthn on May 3, 2012 | 483 comments

29.

Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays (standalone-sysadmin.com)

475 points by MPSimmons on May 22, 2012 | 143 comments

30.

The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images (robinsloan.com)

474 points by nextstep on May 30, 2012 | 251 comments