HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

What is the enlightenment I'm supposed to attain after studying finite automata? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)

172 points by johndcook on Dec 24, 2012 | 64 comments

272.

Moonbase: A plug and play engine for making web animations (moonbase.com)

172 points by kylebragger on Dec 19, 2012 | 39 comments

273.

Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89 (bbc.co.uk)

172 points by 1337biz on Dec 9, 2012 | 29 comments

274.

Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong (reason.com)

171 points by tokenadult on Dec 25, 2012 | 105 comments

275.

Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation (moz.com)

171 points by sharkweek on Dec 27, 2012 | 92 comments

276.

Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?

171 points by diminium on Dec 26, 2012 | 87 comments

277.

Rust 0.5 released (mail.mozilla.org)

171 points by graue on Dec 21, 2012 | 52 comments

278.

Postgres 9.2 – The Database You Helped Build (postgres.heroku.com)

171 points by Pr0 on Dec 6, 2012 | 40 comments

279.

Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009) (blog.fogus.me)

171 points by krat0sprakhar on Dec 2, 2012 | 35 comments

280.

ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” (torrentfreak.com)

171 points by spdy on Dec 30, 2012 | 8 comments

281.

A Common Pricing Mistake (thinktraffic.net)

170 points by nathanbarry on Dec 12, 2012 | 40 comments

282.

Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata (mobileprivacy.org)

169 points by MarlonPro on Dec 3, 2012 | 104 comments

283.

Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days (freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com)

169 points by profquail on Dec 14, 2012 | 24 comments

284.

Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering (talks.golang.org)

168 points by enneff on Dec 4, 2012 | 119 comments

285.

Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns (mymodernmet.com)

168 points by ColinWright on Dec 15, 2012 | 25 comments

286.

Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System (arstechnica.com)

167 points by Reltair on Dec 3, 2012 | 67 comments

287.

Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM (fullstackoptimization.com)

167 points by franze on Dec 11, 2012 | 39 comments

288.

Receiveee.com - disposable email address (Receiveee.com)

166 points by kornnflake on Dec 26, 2012 | 123 comments

289.

Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene (indiegogo.com)

166 points by vikramhaer on Dec 7, 2012 | 98 comments

290.

Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College Alums (web.williams.edu)

166 points by kafkaesque on Dec 10, 2012 | 60 comments

291.

The End: NZBMatrix closes (nzbmatrix.com)

165 points by Savid on Dec 9, 2012 | 128 comments

292.

Show HN: Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching (visimojo.com)

165 points by martinaglv on Dec 5, 2012 | 64 comments

293.

PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP (github.com)

165 points by dbaupp on Dec 30, 2012 | 47 comments

294.

Make a Donation to the Internet Archive (archive.org)

165 points by cleverjake on Dec 10, 2012 | 31 comments

295.

The Minimum Wage Machine (blakefallconroy.com)

164 points by sharkweek on Dec 12, 2012 | 193 comments

296.

Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True (finance.yahoo.com)

163 points by sev on Dec 3, 2012 | 166 comments

297.

Netflix signs licensing agreement with Disney (engadget.com)

163 points by MarlonPro on Dec 4, 2012 | 73 comments

298.

University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon (velocity.uwaterloo.ca)