HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance (guardian.co.uk)

1254 points by grey-area on Jun 9, 2013 | 293 comments

32.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months (microsoft.com)

1227 points by tomorgan on Aug 23, 2013 | 763 comments

33.

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (eff.org)

1227 points by FlemishBeeCycle on Jun 6, 2013 | 444 comments

34.

Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM (branded3.com)

1223 points by kemayo on Apr 30, 2013 | 409 comments

35.

Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" (plus.google.com)

1217 points by cdvonstinkpot on Nov 6, 2013 | 396 comments

36.

Prosecutor as bully (lessig.tumblr.com)

1200 points by guan on Jan 12, 2013 | 260 comments

37.

Ubuntu Edge (indiegogo.com)

1188 points by ergo14 on Jul 22, 2013 | 378 comments

38.

Doug Engelbart has died (ietf.org)

1178 points by sbarre on Jul 3, 2013 | 94 comments

39.

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies (bbc.co.uk)

1137 points by antr on Dec 5, 2013 | 341 comments

40.

Poll: Where are you currently living?

1132 points by Systemic33 on Oct 21, 2013 | 309 comments

41.

Google Web Designer (google.com)

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

42.

The PyCon Incident (pastebin.com)

1125 points by afraidofadria on Mar 20, 2013 | 986 comments

43.

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner (reuters.com)

1101 points by RockyMcNuts on Oct 2, 2013 | 577 comments

44.

Project Loon (google.com)

1094 points by sabalaba on Jun 15, 2013 | 286 comments

45.

Diamonds Are Bullshit (blog.priceonomics.com)

1088 points by danielpal on Mar 19, 2013 | 734 comments

46.

Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

1088 points by JaneLovesDotNet on Jan 10, 2013 | 377 comments

47.

Victory Lap for Ask Patents (joelonsoftware.com)

1075 points by jaydles on Jul 22, 2013 | 151 comments

48.

Skeuocard (kenkeiter.com)

1066 points by gooddelta on Aug 1, 2013 | 196 comments

49.

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

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

50.

Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows (istartedsomething.com)

1065 points by longzheng on Jan 15, 2013 | 455 comments

51.

Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review (ietf.org)

1056 points by tptacek on Dec 20, 2013 | 140 comments

52.

Why HN was down

1049 points by pg on Feb 18, 2013 | 287 comments

53.

Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript (codepen.io)

1048 points by NathanKP on Apr 23, 2013 | 153 comments

54.

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (osnews.com)

1036 points by thomholwerda on Nov 12, 2013 | 261 comments

55.

I will not do a tech interview (medium.com)

1032 points by ikeellis on Aug 21, 2013 | 542 comments

56.

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost (amandablumwords.wordpress.com)

1023 points by hexis on Mar 21, 2013 | 367 comments

57.

What is Happening in Istanbul? (defnesumanblogs.com)

1007 points by bencevans on Jun 2, 2013 | 485 comments

58.

US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program (washingtonpost.com)