HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Oracle to buy Sun (sun.com)

249 points by justinsb on Apr 20, 2009 | 121 comments

2.

Google uncloaks once-secret server (news.cnet.com)

238 points by ars on Apr 1, 2009 | 53 comments

3.

Pirate Bay officially loses case (torrentfreak.com)

226 points by chris11 on Apr 17, 2009 | 164 comments

4.

Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000 (jonengle.com)

206 points by minus on Apr 6, 2009 | 45 comments

5.

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC) (hnstartups.com)

205 points by markbao on Apr 21, 2009 | 47 comments

6.

Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations. (thelocal.se)

202 points by yason on Apr 23, 2009 | 38 comments

7.

The Founder Visa (paulgraham.com)

200 points by pg on Apr 10, 2009 | 151 comments

8.

Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

186 points by paul on Apr 17, 2009 | 59 comments

9.

Five Founders (paulgraham.com)

179 points by rams on Apr 1, 2009 | 66 comments

10.

Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise (inc.com)

175 points by twampss on Apr 1, 2009 | 91 comments

11.

The dark side of Dubai (independent.co.uk)

174 points by fiaz on Apr 7, 2009 | 66 comments

12.

Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid (alternet.org)

172 points by alexitosrv on Apr 17, 2009 | 147 comments

13.

YC Rejected: Please read.

171 points by kyro on Apr 7, 2009 | 31 comments

14.

Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

165 points by raganwald on Apr 30, 2009 | 102 comments

15.

There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste (online.wsj.com)

162 points by ivankirigin on Apr 30, 2009 | 117 comments

16.

Fuck the foundries (diveintomark.org)

161 points by zcrar70 on Apr 21, 2009 | 105 comments

17.

How to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code (community.livejournal.com)

159 points by atlbeer on Apr 13, 2009 | 0 comments

18.

FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why (sites.google.com)

158 points by vaksel on Apr 4, 2009 | 49 comments

19.

Ubuntu 9.04 released (ubuntu.com)

154 points by mcxx on Apr 23, 2009 | 116 comments

20.

Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News (hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com)

154 points by chrislo on Apr 14, 2009 | 63 comments

21.

"I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word

154 points by sama on Apr 28, 2009 | 62 comments

22.

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce (aws.amazon.com)

148 points by thamer on Apr 2, 2009 | 60 comments

23.

Stephen Hawking 'very ill' (cnn.com)

144 points by rms on Apr 20, 2009 | 57 comments

24.

Programmers Don't Like to Code (rentzsch.com)

141 points by coglethorpe on Apr 23, 2009 | 45 comments

25.

Caring for your introvert (theatlantic.com)

139 points by kwamenum86 on Apr 14, 2009 | 64 comments

26.

How to block the DiggBar (daringfireball.net)

136 points by fromedome on Apr 10, 2009 | 44 comments

27.

An Unschooling Manifesto (blogs.salon.com)

135 points by jlhamilton on Apr 26, 2009 | 89 comments

28.

The Banker Who Said No (forbes.com)

135 points by dangoldin on Apr 4, 2009 | 63 comments

29.

GitHub releases integrated issue tracking (github.com)

135 points by mojombo on Apr 16, 2009 | 47 comments

30.

GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried (blog.getsatisfaction.com)

133 points by swombat on Apr 1, 2009 | 84 comments