HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

The Silver Thief: a smart burglar who perfected his craft (stephenjdubner.com)

127 points by adamhowell on Dec 29, 2009 | 26 comments

92.

Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark (cforcoding.com)

126 points by fogus on Dec 10, 2009 | 49 comments

93.

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination (arstechnica.com)

126 points by baxter on Dec 1, 2009 | 35 comments

94.

Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month (blog.asmartbear.com)

125 points by charliepark on Dec 21, 2009 | 8 comments

95.

Thorium, the New Green Nuke (wired.com)

124 points by unignorant on Dec 22, 2009 | 32 comments

96.

Travel by cargo ship around the world (transitionsabroad.com)

123 points by TriinT on Dec 9, 2009 | 40 comments

97.

How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion (businessinsider.com)

123 points by bobbyi on Dec 13, 2009 | 39 comments

98.

Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border (hellforge.gameriot.com)

122 points by arundelo on Dec 12, 2009 | 128 comments

99.

USB wall outlet - new standard for DC plugs? (store.fastmac.com)

122 points by jonnytran on Dec 6, 2009 | 67 comments

100.

My latest flash game, Robokill 2 (rocksolidarcade.com)

122 points by reitzensteinm on Dec 30, 2009 | 62 comments

101.

The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit (economist.com)

120 points by richardburton on Dec 18, 2009 | 66 comments

102.

Mathjax (mathjax.com)

120 points by christopherolah on Dec 15, 2009 | 34 comments

103.

Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome (blog.chromium.org)

119 points by gps408 on Dec 9, 2009 | 38 comments

104.

SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar (gregegan.net)

118 points by arundelo on Dec 22, 2009 | 104 comments

105.

Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Wants to Ditch AJAX, Loves Chrome's New Web Sockets (groups.google.com)

116 points by xanados on Dec 10, 2009 | 36 comments

106.

Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)

114 points by imgabe on Dec 23, 2009 | 129 comments

107.

YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict (techcrunch.com)

113 points by transburgh on Dec 20, 2009 | 60 comments

108.

Zsh: The last shell you will ever need (friedcpu.wordpress.com)

113 points by r11t on Dec 12, 2009 | 41 comments

109.

Merry Christmas everyone

113 points by emilis_info on Dec 25, 2009 | 40 comments

110.

IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (2006) (economist.com)

113 points by InclinedPlane on Dec 24, 2009 | 31 comments

111.

Living in a van - an inspirational story of frugality and achievement (salon.com)

112 points by imajes on Dec 7, 2009 | 53 comments

112.

Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (computer.org)

112 points by andrewbadera on Dec 3, 2009 | 32 comments

113.

Y Combinator Startup Library (ycombinator.com)

112 points by tokenadult on Dec 29, 2009 | 15 comments

114.

An astrophysicist reviews the science of "Avatar". (aintitcool.com)

111 points by ilamparithi on Dec 23, 2009 | 67 comments

115.

Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app) (michaelgrinich.com)

111 points by grinich on Dec 14, 2009 | 39 comments

116.

Spirit Gets Stuck, Makes a Big Discovery (science.nasa.gov)

111 points by mshafrir on Dec 3, 2009 | 27 comments

117.

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time (physorg.com)

111 points by unignorant on Dec 26, 2009 | 15 comments

118.

4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED (gigaom.com)

110 points by Janteh on Dec 23, 2009 | 48 comments

119.

Why I Stopped Throwing Out Junk Mail (byrnehobart.com)

109 points by byrneseyeview on Dec 15, 2009 | 48 comments

120.

Comet is dead, long live websockets (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)

109 points by mbrubeck on Dec 16, 2009 | 46 comments