HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Microsoft rips off Plurk (blog.plurk.com)

581 points by abraham on Dec 14, 2009 | 135 comments

2.

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) (sivers.org)

386 points by icey on Dec 1, 2009 | 60 comments

3.

The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) (totlol.com)

352 points by TotlolRon on Dec 28, 2009 | 119 comments

4.

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (georgehart.com)

350 points by dangoldin on Dec 7, 2009 | 25 comments

5.

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. (guardian.co.uk)

349 points by MartinMond on Dec 23, 2009 | 188 comments

6.

Why I gave away my company to charity (sivers.org)

328 points by sivers on Dec 4, 2009 | 83 comments

7.

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com)

327 points by icey on Dec 21, 2009 | 226 comments

8.

Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo (hackerfactor.com)

308 points by aditya on Dec 27, 2009 | 54 comments

9.

Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously. (ycombinator.com)

301 points by iamelgringo on Dec 5, 2009 | 117 comments

10.

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt (schneier.com)

291 points by tlrobinson on Dec 9, 2009 | 96 comments

11.

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome (theinvisibl.com)

283 points by callahad on Dec 10, 2009 | 100 comments

12.

Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it" (theregister.co.uk)

279 points by nkohari on Dec 8, 2009 | 168 comments

13.

Squareup (squareup.com)

278 points by tiffani on Dec 1, 2009 | 155 comments

14.

EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced (etherpad.com)

276 points by aaroniba on Dec 6, 2009 | 68 comments

15.

EtherPad Open Source Release (etherpad.com)

275 points by aaroniba on Dec 18, 2009 | 73 comments

16.

How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition (wired.com)

270 points by TrevorBurnham on Dec 21, 2009 | 75 comments

17.

Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google (googlecode.blogspot.com)

264 points by johns on Dec 3, 2009 | 155 comments

18.

Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad (etherpad.com)

258 points by dreeves on Dec 4, 2009 | 98 comments

19.

The Apple Tablet (daringfireball.net)

254 points by adamhowell on Dec 31, 2009 | 143 comments

20.

They Killed My Lawyer (foreignpolicy.com)

252 points by nice1 on Dec 27, 2009 | 65 comments

21.

Funding Clojure 2010 (groups.google.com)

239 points by swannodette on Dec 14, 2009 | 90 comments

22.

IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002) (t3.org)

234 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Dec 9, 2009 | 62 comments

23.

“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story (blog.apparentsoft.com)

225 points by sadiq on Dec 17, 2009 | 96 comments

24.

Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss" (codinghorror.com)

223 points by gfunk911 on Dec 11, 2009 | 165 comments

25.

Google Goggles (google.com)

222 points by andrewpbrett on Dec 7, 2009 | 74 comments

26.

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature (microsoft.com)

222 points by tshtf on Dec 15, 2009 | 58 comments

27.

CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN (jashkenas.github.com)

206 points by jashkenas on Dec 24, 2009 | 64 comments

28.

Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters (news.nationalgeographic.com)

205 points by kqr2 on Dec 14, 2009 | 27 comments

29.

Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 (engadget.com)

204 points by maudineormsby on Dec 7, 2009 | 211 comments

30.

My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement (toomuchjoy.com)

201 points by soundsop on Dec 2, 2009 | 69 comments