HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

I'm Leaving Mojang (notch.net)

1252 points by UnfalseDesign on Sep 15, 2014 | 418 comments

2.

Standard Markdown (standardmarkdown.com)

1167 points by hglaser on Sep 3, 2014 | 366 comments

3.

ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit (isro.gov.in)

1015 points by skbohra123 on Sep 24, 2014 | 154 comments

4.

TXT Record XSS (who.is)

998 points by ryanskidmore on Sep 18, 2014 | 228 comments

5.

I was asked to crack a program in a job interview (erenyagdiran.github.io)

997 points by m00dy on Sep 17, 2014 | 302 comments

6.

Reddit (blog.samaltman.com)

988 points by gatsby on Sep 30, 2014 | 394 comments

7.

Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft (mojang.com)

941 points by jordanmessina on Sep 15, 2014 | 515 comments

8.

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash (seclists.org)

905 points by vault_ on Sep 24, 2014 | 416 comments

9.

My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB) (lists.gnu.org)

826 points by nazri1 on Sep 11, 2014 | 263 comments

10.

Bézier Clock (jackf.net)

810 points by frigaardj on Sep 10, 2014 | 69 comments

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Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM (wired.com)

784 points by suprgeek on Sep 12, 2014 | 237 comments

12.

New Requests for Startups (ycombinator.com)

716 points by comatose_kid on Sep 12, 2014 | 391 comments

13.

Universal SSL (blog.cloudflare.com)

712 points by benjojo12 on Sep 29, 2014 | 240 comments

14.

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (righto.com)

653 points by omnibrain on Sep 28, 2014 | 103 comments

15.

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (nautil.us)

639 points by aatish on Sep 29, 2014 | 107 comments

16.

Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works (a16z.com)

633 points by taylorbuley on Sep 5, 2014 | 260 comments

17.

A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal (hodinkee.com)

610 points by panic on Sep 10, 2014 | 464 comments

18.

I Had a Stroke at 33 (buzzfeed.com)

603 points by Thevet on Sep 21, 2014 | 151 comments

19.

U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data (bloomberg.com)

601 points by coreymgilmore on Sep 30, 2014 | 333 comments

20.

Minix 3.3.0 (minix3.org)

600 points by knz42 on Sep 16, 2014 | 172 comments

21.

How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014 (startupclass.samaltman.com)

594 points by atomroflbomber on Sep 16, 2014 | 139 comments

22.

Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch (jiggity.com)

583 points by strict9 on Sep 12, 2014 | 222 comments

23.

The Road to Rust 1.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

570 points by steveklabnik on Sep 15, 2014 | 238 comments

24.

CVE-2014-7169: Bash Fix Incomplete, Still Exploitable (seclists.org)

557 points by caust1c on Sep 25, 2014 | 210 comments

25.

Commander Keen source code released (github.com)

545 points by vs2 on Sep 16, 2014 | 138 comments

26.

Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) (community.rapid7.com)

543 points by mike-cardwell on Sep 15, 2014 | 224 comments

27.

Failing the startup game at Unbabel (esoteric-code.blogspot.com)

536 points by andreasgonewild on Sep 2, 2014 | 235 comments

28.

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video] (startupclass.samaltman.com)

520 points by declan on Sep 23, 2014 | 185 comments

29.

Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug (troyhunt.com)

517 points by sjcsjc on Sep 25, 2014 | 287 comments

30.

Announcing Keyless SSL (blog.cloudflare.com)

509 points by jgrahamc on Sep 18, 2014 | 184 comments