HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat (washingtonpost.com)

185 points by prajjwal on Sep 27, 2012 | 50 comments

242.

Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex (davidcelis.com)

184 points by davidcelis on Sep 6, 2012 | 148 comments

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Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop (plus.google.com)

183 points by netsmashers on Sep 3, 2012 | 139 comments

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Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds. (500hats.com)

183 points by relation on Sep 12, 2012 | 76 comments

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Great Barrier Reef underwater panoramas in Google Maps (googleblog.blogspot.com)

183 points by mgdiaz on Sep 26, 2012 | 44 comments

246.

The Probability and Statistics Cookbook (matthias.vallentin.net)

182 points by tel on Sep 16, 2012 | 16 comments

247.

The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using (blog.jgc.org)

181 points by jgrahamc on Sep 14, 2012 | 124 comments

248.

Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California (techcrunch.com)

181 points by iProject on Sep 28, 2012 | 82 comments

249.

Bootstrap Toggle Buttons (github.com)

181 points by fox91 on Sep 30, 2012 | 50 comments

250.

2012 Startup School, Oct 20 at Stanford (startupschool.org)

181 points by pg on Sep 4, 2012 | 40 comments

251.

New Zealand PM requests inquiry into illegal Megaupload wire tapping (beehive.govt.nz)

181 points by polemic on Sep 24, 2012 | 37 comments

252.

Everything that's wrong with Java in a single class (plus.google.com)

180 points by fpp on Sep 20, 2012 | 155 comments

253.

Did Blowing Into The NES Cartridge Really Work? (mentalfloss.com)

180 points by Grovara123 on Sep 25, 2012 | 74 comments

254.

Avgrund.js (labs.voronianski.com)

179 points by electic on Sep 2, 2012 | 40 comments

255.

The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead (anandtech.com)

178 points by sciwiz on Sep 15, 2012 | 94 comments

256.

How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple (cultofmac.com)

177 points by mhartl on Sep 24, 2012 | 138 comments

257.

Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains (technologyreview.com)

177 points by ZoFreX on Sep 14, 2012 | 68 comments

258.

DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber (blog.uber.com)

176 points by japhyr on Sep 22, 2012 | 170 comments

259.

SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before (seenbefore.com)

175 points by chrishan on Sep 24, 2012 | 95 comments

260.

Cost of the Uniloc Lawsuit (x-plane.com)

175 points by mmastrac on Sep 14, 2012 | 66 comments

261.

Zynga: forget games, let’s just do viruses (flirtatiouslabs.com)

175 points by VSerge on Sep 12, 2012 | 61 comments

262.

Apple's HTTP POST caching is a bug (mnot.net)

175 points by igrigorik on Sep 23, 2012 | 26 comments

263.

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) (schneier.com)

174 points by Jach on Sep 27, 2012 | 93 comments

264.

Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client (kalzumeus.com)

173 points by ananthrk on Sep 17, 2012 | 45 comments

265.

Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth (wired.com)

173 points by nicholassmith on Sep 11, 2012 | 40 comments

266.

DIY quest for a 6 watt high-end desktop computer (ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net)

173 points by ck2 on Sep 9, 2012 | 31 comments

267.

Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief (abajournal.com)

172 points by bootload on Sep 6, 2012 | 59 comments

268.

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right (blogmaverick.com)

171 points by nchuhoai on Sep 4, 2012 | 104 comments

269.

Dear ICO, Sue Us (nocookielaw.com)

171 points by colinscape on Sep 5, 2012 | 97 comments

270.

Thanks Mr. Jobs, But it Seems I Can Use a Linux Laptop Now (blog.hypergeometric.com)

170 points by gpapilion on Sep 20, 2012 | 165 comments