HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Poll: Do you prefer front end or back end work?

43 points by dangero on Sep 9, 2013 | 51 comments

1502.

Ask HN: Interview as a Service – Any interest?

43 points by shail on Sep 1, 2013 | 49 comments

1503.

German chancellor’s drone “attack” shows the threat of weaponized UAVs (arstechnica.com)

43 points by wallflower on Sep 19, 2013 | 49 comments

1504.

German elections don't make sense (pudo.org)

43 points by mxfh on Sep 14, 2013 | 43 comments

1505.

Is Your Unpaid Internship Illegal? (internlaborrights.com)

43 points by talos on Sep 19, 2013 | 38 comments

1506.

Universe may be curved, not flat (nature.com)

43 points by ColinWright on Sep 23, 2013 | 33 comments

1507.

Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter (techcrunch.com)

43 points by flavmartins on Sep 20, 2013 | 28 comments

1508.

Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO (nextmicrosoftceo.com)

43 points by santu11 on Sep 2, 2013 | 27 comments

1509.

First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record (apple.com)

43 points by phwd on Sep 23, 2013 | 23 comments

1510.

What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago? (theatlantic.com)

43 points by mumbi on Sep 24, 2013 | 15 comments

1511.

Ask HN: Why does "Who is hiring" always drop so quickly from top ranks?

43 points by digitalnalogika on Sep 1, 2013 | 14 comments

1512.

A tech Cinderella story: How Silicon Valley helped a homeless teen go to college (venturebeat.com)

43 points by cwilson on Sep 19, 2013 | 13 comments

1513.

Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com? (longhandpixels.net)

43 points by richtr on Sep 20, 2013 | 12 comments

1514.

The Average American Family Pays $6,000 a Year in Subsidies to Big Business (commondreams.org)

43 points by silverbax88 on Sep 23, 2013 | 12 comments

1515.

Argentina, Brazil agree on cyber-defense alliance against US espionage (rt.com)

43 points by peterkelly on Sep 15, 2013 | 6 comments

1516.

Liveblogging the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2013 (syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk)

43 points by avsm on Sep 23, 2013 | 5 comments

1517.

GitHub Releases API Preview (github.com)

43 points by ejpastorino on Sep 25, 2013 | 2 comments

1518.

Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software? (mashable.com)

43 points by danso on Sep 11, 2013 | 0 comments

1519.

Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux (linux.slashdot.org)

43 points by daGrevis on Sep 19, 2013 | 0 comments

1520.

Two envelopes problem (en.wikipedia.org)

42 points by tchajed on Sep 14, 2013 | 88 comments

1521.

Ask HN: What literature do you read?

42 points by null_ptr on Sep 14, 2013 | 88 comments

1522.

Why Go? Use Racket (cxwangyi.wordpress.com)

42 points by brudgers on Sep 18, 2013 | 76 comments

1523.

Science-Based Medicine Answering Our Critics (sciencebasedmedicine.org)

42 points by tokenadult on Sep 24, 2013 | 56 comments

1524.

There Is No Homework In Finland (neomam.com)

42 points by caffeinewriter on Sep 12, 2013 | 54 comments

1525.

Google security exec: 'Passwords are dead' (news.cnet.com)

42 points by Thereasione on Sep 11, 2013 | 52 comments

1526.

One VM to Rule Them All (medianetwork.oracle.com)

42 points by pron on Sep 10, 2013 | 51 comments

1527.

Hacker Retreat Berlin (hackerretreat.com)

42 points by urlwolf on Sep 26, 2013 | 38 comments

1528.

Google yanks sketchy iMessage clone for Android from app store (computerworld.com)