HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com)

723 points by EliAndrewC on Nov 19, 2009 | 269 comments

2.

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. (boingboing.net)

588 points by Flemlord on Nov 4, 2009 | 287 comments

3.

The End Of The CrunchPad (techcrunch.com)

435 points by AndrewWarner on Nov 30, 2009 | 138 comments

4.

Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ (golang.org)

377 points by snewe on Nov 10, 2009 | 219 comments

5.

One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar (zenmoments.org)

376 points by yason on Nov 24, 2009 | 58 comments

6.

HN Help: I'm lost

366 points by lostsheep on Nov 12, 2009 | 261 comments

7.

Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr (journal.uggedal.com)

365 points by uggedal on Nov 29, 2009 | 146 comments

8.

The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X (dustincurtis.com)

323 points by arjunlall on Nov 4, 2009 | 98 comments

9.

Your looks and your inbox (blog.okcupid.com)

315 points by thirdusername on Nov 19, 2009 | 102 comments

10.

Thank you, Rails (jacobian.org)

297 points by jacobian on Nov 6, 2009 | 77 comments

11.

Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye (techcrunch.com)

289 points by aberman on Nov 24, 2009 | 143 comments

12.

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell (techcrunch.com)

279 points by raptrex on Nov 1, 2009 | 90 comments

13.

Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers (aaronsw.com)

276 points by mqt on Nov 29, 2009 | 97 comments

14.

The Nerd Handbook (randsinrepose.com)

247 points by ironkeith on Nov 12, 2009 | 55 comments

15.

Thank You (weblog.raganwald.com)

218 points by raganwald on Nov 11, 2009 | 106 comments

16.

Scroll Clock (toki-woki.net)

216 points by nreece on Nov 18, 2009 | 12 comments

17.

How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor (entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)

214 points by transburgh on Nov 4, 2009 | 21 comments

18.

Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco) (soserio.us)

210 points by antidaily on Nov 5, 2009 | 113 comments

19.

Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer (ejohn.org)

201 points by emontero1 on Nov 17, 2009 | 14 comments

20.

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal (skytopia.com)

200 points by hassy on Nov 11, 2009 | 23 comments

21.

Node.js is genuinely exciting (simonwillison.net)

197 points by simonw on Nov 23, 2009 | 67 comments

22.

Why you should build an application (even if it already exists) (vaynermedia.com)

191 points by ajv on Nov 25, 2009 | 45 comments

23.

Introducing Closure Tools (googlecode.blogspot.com)

190 points by txxxxd on Nov 5, 2009 | 69 comments

24.

My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed (astorybeforebed.com)

179 points by hillel on Nov 2, 2009 | 116 comments

25.

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals (inc.com)

177 points by phatboyslim on Nov 2, 2009 | 136 comments

26.

My 8 hour journey to a single character (lbrandy.com)

176 points by lbrandy on Nov 23, 2009 | 40 comments

27.

Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions (fakesteve.net)