HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

SteamOS (store.steampowered.com)

1436 points by kmfrk on Sep 23, 2013 | 513 comments

2.

Google Web Designer (google.com)

1126 points by jaysonlane on Sep 30, 2013 | 442 comments

3.

Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?

1065 points by wenxun on Sep 27, 2013 | 461 comments

4.

Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID (ccc.de)

980 points by biafra on Sep 22, 2013 | 446 comments

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I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything (theawl.com)

935 points by mwill on Sep 19, 2013 | 378 comments

6.

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption (nytimes.com)

923 points by ebildsten on Sep 5, 2013 | 388 comments

7.

World (aem1k.com)

918 points by bpierre on Sep 15, 2013 | 96 comments

8.

Nokia acquired by Microsoft (blogs.technet.com)

865 points by jasonpbecker on Sep 3, 2013 | 553 comments

9.

My Friends and I Bought an Island (tynan.com)

832 points by intenex on Sep 16, 2013 | 387 comments

10.

Steam Controller (store.steampowered.com)

783 points by cocoflunchy on Sep 27, 2013 | 361 comments

11.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)

776 points by trevyn on Sep 13, 2013 | 112 comments

12.

The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in (rigsomelight.com)

747 points by brucehauman on Sep 9, 2013 | 310 comments

13.

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page (kitkat.com)

741 points by alexlitov on Sep 3, 2013 | 189 comments

14.

Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier (BeeLineReader.com)

739 points by gnicholas on Sep 5, 2013 | 262 comments

15.

To my daughter's high school programming teacher (usenix.org)

726 points by Anechoic on Sep 10, 2013 | 578 comments

16.

Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (chrisstucchio.com)

711 points by gcoleman on Sep 17, 2013 | 227 comments

17.

How to Advertise on a Porn Website (blog.eat24hours.com)

687 points by dohertyjf on Sep 10, 2013 | 114 comments

18.

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel (theguardian.com)

673 points by dombili on Sep 11, 2013 | 172 comments

19.

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack (wired.com)

671 points by floodcow on Sep 13, 2013 | 262 comments

20.

Fucking Sue Me (2011) (pud.com)

663 points by dsr12 on Sep 11, 2013 | 194 comments

21.

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services (schneier.com)

656 points by chopin on Sep 13, 2013 | 139 comments

22.

First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature (popularmechanics.com)

641 points by zdean on Sep 12, 2013 | 183 comments

23.

Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free (konklone.com)

622 points by rodrigocoelho on Sep 25, 2013 | 251 comments

24.

Tessel: The end of web development as we know it (slideshare.net)

611 points by Frijol on Sep 30, 2013 | 406 comments

25.

Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being (plus.google.com)

579 points by spankalee on Sep 18, 2013 | 385 comments

26.

Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap (theguardian.com)

575 points by ValentineC on Sep 14, 2013 | 194 comments

27.

How a Car Engine Works (jacoboneal.com)

571 points by dfield on Sep 5, 2013 | 170 comments

28.

NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover – I am setting them free (michaeleisen.org)