HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

421.

How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails (highscalability.com)

49 points by timf on Sep 23, 2009 | 25 comments

422.

Most of us have a finite supply of willpower (futurepundit.com)

49 points by cwan on Sep 28, 2009 | 22 comments

423.

Securing an HTTPS server (daemonology.net)

49 points by cperciva on Sep 28, 2009 | 17 comments

424.

Facebook Now Lets You Fax Your Photos. (techcrunch.com)

49 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sep 11, 2009 | 15 comments

425.

Bit.ly/robots.txt and the Dangers of Custom Shortened URLs (davidnaylor.co.uk)

49 points by byrneseyeview on Sep 24, 2009 | 15 comments

426.

Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf (amazon.com)

49 points by Kototama on Sep 17, 2009 | 9 comments

427.

John Carmack's account of the Lunar Challenge flights. (armadilloaerospace.com)

49 points by jws on Sep 15, 2009 | 5 comments

428.

Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents (alternet.org)

48 points by edw519 on Sep 4, 2009 | 75 comments

429.

Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs (readwriteweb.com)

48 points by Anon84 on Sep 24, 2009 | 69 comments

430.

Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits (nytimes.com)

48 points by jyu on Sep 10, 2009 | 59 comments

431.

Why Google AppEngine sucks (3.14.by)

48 points by gasull on Sep 22, 2009 | 46 comments

432.

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (It actually exists) (wired.com)

48 points by tsestrich on Sep 22, 2009 | 38 comments

433.

Copying Y Combinator - Why and How (blog.jedchristiansen.com)

48 points by pchristensen on Sep 21, 2009 | 25 comments

434.

Are sales people different from you and me? (blog.businessofsoftware.org)

48 points by neilgd on Sep 22, 2009 | 23 comments

435.

Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking (presentationzen.com)

48 points by peter123 on Sep 7, 2009 | 17 comments

436.

The Self-Employed Are the Happiest (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

48 points by nreece on Sep 17, 2009 | 16 comments

437.

Visualizing Pi (π) (en.wikipedia.org)

48 points by vp on Sep 26, 2009 | 15 comments

438.

Microsoft Patent Checkmate (groklaw.net)

48 points by wglb on Sep 9, 2009 | 13 comments

439.

DjangoCon 2009 Presentations (djangocon.pbworks.com)

48 points by mace on Sep 14, 2009 | 6 comments

440.

The Founders Visa Movement (feld.com)

47 points by GVRV on Sep 10, 2009 | 54 comments

441.

Most Common Passwords (blog.jimmyr.com)

47 points by superberliner on Sep 22, 2009 | 53 comments

442.

Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web? (nytimes.com)

47 points by peter123 on Sep 19, 2009 | 48 comments

443.

A Time Machine time bomb (rondam.blogspot.com)

47 points by lisper on Sep 7, 2009 | 44 comments

444.

Google Homepage Redesign (go.infinise.com)

47 points by grinich on Sep 17, 2009 | 44 comments

445.

Java vs C performance, from Cliff Click of Azul (blogs.azulsystems.com)

47 points by bensummers on Sep 8, 2009 | 43 comments

446.

Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot? (gigaom.com)

47 points by echair on Sep 19, 2009 | 39 comments

447.

Why is DropBox Thriving? (markevanstech.com)

47 points by dcancel on Sep 29, 2009 | 29 comments

448.

Implementation of yesterday's xkcd comic (vkcouplestesting.com)

47 points by araneae on Sep 5, 2009 | 28 comments

449.

Tell HN: Paul Graham on TC50 panel, streaming live (ustream.tv)

47 points by JayNeely on Sep 14, 2009 | 26 comments

450.

How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? (daringfireball.net)

47 points by naish on Sep 18, 2009 | 26 comments