HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" (blog.last.fm)

413 points by arthurk on Feb 23, 2009 | 101 comments

2.

What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com)

381 points by mqt on Feb 25, 2009 | 119 comments

3.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (bret.appspot.com)

347 points by paul on Feb 27, 2009 | 84 comments

4.

The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad (etherpad.com)

338 points by pg on Feb 26, 2009 | 126 comments

5.

Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com)

322 points by mqt on Feb 23, 2009 | 101 comments

6.

Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08) (axonflux.com)

249 points by arjunlall on Feb 22, 2009 | 55 comments

7.

Why CSS should not be used for layout (flownet.com)

248 points by lisper on Feb 3, 2009 | 147 comments

8.

Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com)

234 points by mqt on Feb 8, 2009 | 253 comments

9.

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer (catonmat.net)

201 points by pkrumins on Feb 2, 2009 | 63 comments

10.

How Not To Sort By Average Rating (evanmiller.org)

195 points by marcus on Feb 12, 2009 | 56 comments

11.

New Product From 280North: Atlas (280atlas.com)

192 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 24, 2009 | 73 comments

12.

Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.objectmentor.com)

189 points by soundsop on Feb 27, 2009 | 14 comments

13.

I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. (slate.com)

186 points by peter123 on Feb 2, 2009 | 96 comments

14.

How Not to Pitch to a Startup (particletree.com)

184 points by unfoldedorigami on Feb 19, 2009 | 44 comments

15.

Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. (timothyfitz.wordpress.com)

172 points by TimothyFitz on Feb 10, 2009 | 73 comments

16.

Hacker News is 2 (ycombinator.com)

165 points by pg on Feb 19, 2009 | 67 comments

17.

The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote (forabeautifulweb.com)

164 points by mixmax on Feb 2, 2009 | 30 comments

18.

The Audacity of Doing Nothing (blogs.law.harvard.edu)

159 points by peter123 on Feb 12, 2009 | 111 comments

19.

On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database (blog.directededge.com)

159 points by wheels on Feb 27, 2009 | 43 comments

20.

How I almost killed Facebook (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

157 points by neilc on Feb 26, 2009 | 55 comments

21.

Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay? (thepiratebay.org)

154 points by Flemlord on Feb 24, 2009 | 63 comments

22.

How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 (zerohedge.blogspot.com)

153 points by robg on Feb 10, 2009 | 100 comments

23.

I was driven mad by the Chinese education system (en.chinaelections.org)

150 points by divia on Feb 15, 2009 | 140 comments

24.

Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 (eastbayexpress.com)

150 points by brianmckenzie on Feb 19, 2009 | 59 comments

25.

Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?

148 points by newseller on Feb 19, 2009 | 216 comments

26.

Don’t Work for Assholes (powazek.com)

146 points by danw on Feb 3, 2009 | 64 comments

27.

Fun With HTTP Headers (nextthing.org)

144 points by parenthesis on Feb 11, 2009 | 22 comments

28.

"There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates (ted.com)