HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Calibre version 1.0 released (calibre-ebook.com)

313 points by kseistrup on Aug 25, 2013 | 121 comments

122.

Mesh Networks (motherjones.com)

312 points by dil8 on Aug 26, 2013 | 99 comments

123.

I'm Building a GitHub for Writers (madebyloren.com)

311 points by guynamedloren on Aug 29, 2013 | 143 comments

124.

Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox (jwz.org)

309 points by mfincham on Aug 8, 2013 | 146 comments

125.

40 Days Without Booze (jdmoyer.com)

308 points by stock_toaster on Aug 14, 2013 | 274 comments

126.

My Final Post (reduser.net)

308 points by cwilson on Aug 19, 2013 | 119 comments

127.

We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries (figure53.com)

307 points by ry0ohki on Aug 31, 2013 | 159 comments

128.

The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act (theguardian.com)

305 points by jacquesm on Aug 22, 2013 | 66 comments

129.

Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 (files.righto.com)

303 points by kens on Aug 30, 2013 | 96 comments

130.

Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python (textblob.readthedocs.org)

303 points by sloria on Aug 10, 2013 | 46 comments

131.

The limits of Google’s openness (blogs.technet.com)

302 points by pablosanchez on Aug 15, 2013 | 293 comments

132.

Sayonara, V8 (groups.google.com)

302 points by fridek on Aug 19, 2013 | 87 comments

133.

How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound (jacklinstudios.com)

300 points by anewcolor on Aug 10, 2013 | 69 comments

134.

NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls (theguardian.com)

300 points by LoganCale on Aug 9, 2013 | 62 comments

135.

Map of America's Racial Segregation (wired.com)

299 points by Aqua_Geek on Aug 26, 2013 | 182 comments

136.

Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA (independent.ie)

299 points by waffle_ss on Aug 4, 2013 | 172 comments

137.

Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)

298 points by aforarnold on Aug 30, 2013 | 210 comments

138.

I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. (nytimes.com)

296 points by clbrook on Aug 25, 2013 | 243 comments

139.

Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists (salon.com)

294 points by exit on Aug 7, 2013 | 177 comments

140.

A Wretched Google Interview Experience (symbo1ics.com)

293 points by reikonomusha on Aug 20, 2013 | 337 comments

141.

Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative (freelists.org)

293 points by rumcajz on Aug 20, 2013 | 114 comments

142.

Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle (wired.com)

293 points by bcl on Aug 8, 2013 | 88 comments

143.

Text-based terminal screencasts (showterm.io)

293 points by daw___ on Aug 10, 2013 | 51 comments

144.

I quit my job (madebyloren.com)

289 points by guynamedloren on Aug 8, 2013 | 189 comments

145.

Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers (freeprogrammersblog.vhex.net)

289 points by aartur on Aug 24, 2013 | 126 comments

146.

How to trap a whistleblower (salon.com)

289 points by alsothings on Aug 18, 2013 | 113 comments

147.

NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst (pbs.org)

289 points by chakalakasp on Aug 3, 2013 | 106 comments

148.

Why I left Google (medium.com)

288 points by chauzer on Aug 17, 2013 | 212 comments

149.

FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (news.cnet.com)

288 points by ojbyrne on Aug 2, 2013 | 97 comments

150.

Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? (thestringer.com.au)

285 points by r0h1n on Aug 24, 2013 | 78 comments