HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

Choosing a Rhodes Scholarship over the NFL? (sports.espn.go.com)

29 points by tortilla on Jan 17, 2009 | 25 comments

542.

Nerd Merit Badges: 01 - Contribute to an Open Source Project (nerdmeritbadges.com)

29 points by tlrobinson on Jan 18, 2009 | 19 comments

543.

Why Table Tennis is a Great Hacker Sport (jamesyu.org)

29 points by jamesjyu on Jan 12, 2009 | 18 comments

544.

"Crap" iPhone App Milking $200/hr (iphonedev.in)

29 points by kanny96 on Jan 22, 2009 | 16 comments

545.

Ask YC: Hacker Groups (please help me fill out) (gabrielweinberg.com)

29 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 6, 2009 | 15 comments

546.

Motivating Minds (The Economist on why TDD makes you work harder) (economist.com)

29 points by friism on Jan 25, 2009 | 14 comments

547.

Screenbin - like pastebin, but for screen (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

29 points by polvi on Jan 14, 2009 | 10 comments

548.

The Dragon in My Garage (web.archive.org)

29 points by markessien on Jan 3, 2009 | 9 comments

549.

Y Combinator Firm CO2Stats Caught in Frenzy of Environmental Cost of Google Search (xconomy.com)

29 points by bbuderi on Jan 12, 2009 | 9 comments

550.

Work Smarter and Harder (callmejeffrey.com)

29 points by brm on Jan 16, 2009 | 9 comments

551.

Worse is worse (artima.com)

29 points by soundsop on Jan 17, 2009 | 3 comments

552.

Young entrepreneur Martin Schaedel (23) dies in plane crash (alleyinsider.com)

29 points by ThomPete on Jan 30, 2009 | 2 comments

553.

[SF] Justin.tv is hiring talented network engineers to take us from 100 gbps to 1 tbps... (justin.tv)

29 points by justin on Jan 13, 2009 | 0 comments

554.

Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?

28 points by moder on Jan 7, 2009 | 55 comments

555.

Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme? (iht.com)

28 points by noor420 on Jan 1, 2009 | 44 comments

556.

ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer (techcrunch.com)

28 points by gaz on Jan 19, 2009 | 26 comments

557.

Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? ()

28 points by s3graham on Jan 30, 2009 | 25 comments

558.

Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown (blog.wired.com)

28 points by albertni on Jan 29, 2009 | 22 comments

559.

Javascript is good enough (alarmingdevelopment.org)

28 points by jefffoster on Jan 31, 2009 | 21 comments

560.

Ask HN: First freelance job. Any tips on contracts?

28 points by ballpark on Jan 21, 2009 | 20 comments

561.

As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million. But then he got bored (men.style.com)

28 points by ashwinl on Jan 30, 2009 | 20 comments

562.

Why Microsoft should forget about Yahoo and buy Palm (slate.com)

28 points by rogercosseboom on Jan 20, 2009 | 18 comments

563.

Official Google Blog: "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?? (googleblog.blogspot.com)

28 points by Anon84 on Jan 31, 2009 | 18 comments

564.

The technical story of Muxtape (tlvx.net)

28 points by atestu on Jan 29, 2009 | 17 comments

565.

Satyam Chairman Resigns After Falsifying Accounts, Shares Fall (bloomberg.com)

28 points by medianama on Jan 7, 2009 | 15 comments

566.

The frat boy ships out (economist.com)

28 points by kalvin on Jan 22, 2009 | 15 comments

567.

Introducing Malicious Code Reviews (paulbiggar.blogspot.com)

28 points by jasonmc on Jan 26, 2009 | 14 comments

568.

Python: New patch may give speedups of up to 20% (svn.python.org)

28 points by ks on Jan 25, 2009 | 13 comments

569.

Eric Schmidt wishes Google could save newspapers (money.cnn.com)

28 points by gibsonf1 on Jan 7, 2009 | 11 comments

570.

Growing Up is Hard (overcomingbias.com)

28 points by rms on Jan 4, 2009 | 10 comments