HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck (threeriversinstitute.org)

85 points by bjclark on Feb 4, 2009 | 98 comments

1592.

Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming (codinghorror.com)

85 points by Anon84 on Aug 14, 2009 | 98 comments

1593.

China’s Family Planning Goes Awry (feer.com)

85 points by cwan on Dec 8, 2009 | 95 comments

1594.

Could you Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does. (men.style.com)

85 points by browngeek on Jul 22, 2009 | 92 comments

1595.

SEO FAQ (or why you shouldn't hire an SEO "expert") (powazek.com)

85 points by mcargian on Oct 18, 2009 | 82 comments

1596.

Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account (altgate.com)

85 points by epi0Bauqu on Jan 12, 2009 | 78 comments

1597.

Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala (theregister.co.uk)

85 points by astrec on Apr 2, 2009 | 78 comments

1598.

Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA (ikaisays.com)

85 points by mileszs on Apr 3, 2009 | 64 comments

1599.

Not-so-safe Sex (forbes.com)

85 points by araneae on Dec 9, 2009 | 63 comments

1600.

World of Goo Pay-What-You-Want Sale Results (2dboy.com)

85 points by mqt on Oct 20, 2009 | 61 comments

1601.

IE6 is not going away for a long time because of corporate nightmares like these (calink.sprint.com)

85 points by chime on Aug 13, 2009 | 58 comments

1602.

How to Read Other People's Code -- And Why (designbygravity.wordpress.com)

85 points by cschanck on Oct 23, 2009 | 57 comments

1603.

The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (codinghorror.com)

85 points by ajbatac on Feb 9, 2009 | 56 comments

1604.

A design pattern is an artifact of a missing feature in your chosen language (snell-pym.org.uk)

85 points by bensummers on Aug 28, 2009 | 55 comments

1605.

Rob Pike on Richard Stallman (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

85 points by vorador on May 13, 2009 | 54 comments

1606.

The death of if/else cascades, a lightweight alternative (leftrightfold.com)

85 points by kyleburton on Dec 6, 2009 | 51 comments

1607.

Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain (businessinsider.com)

85 points by gamache on Apr 2, 2009 | 50 comments

1608.

Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business (37signals.com)

85 points by aditya on Nov 5, 2009 | 50 comments

1609.

Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors (calacanis.com)

85 points by AndrewWarner on Oct 9, 2009 | 45 comments

1610.

Hall of Shame: companies violating the ffmpeg license (GPL/LGPL) (ffmpeg.org)

85 points by mbrubeck on Aug 27, 2009 | 41 comments

1611.

Secret Perl Operators (catonmat.net)

85 points by pkrumins on Nov 30, 2009 | 41 comments

1612.

White Collars Turn Blue (1996) (mit.edu)

85 points by juliusdavies on Aug 13, 2009 | 40 comments

1613.

4chan vs Scientology: really? (wired.com)

85 points by knieveltech on Sep 23, 2009 | 39 comments

1614.

The Whore of Mensa (woodyallenitalia.tripod.com)

85 points by gnosis on Aug 18, 2009 | 37 comments

1615.

Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants (joelonsoftware.com)

85 points by tptacek on Jan 3, 2009 | 35 comments

1616.

The Truth Behind Last.fm Story: Techcrunch conned? (guardian.co.uk)

85 points by boundlessdreamz on May 28, 2009 | 34 comments

1617.

Programmer Competency Matrix (indiangeek.net)

85 points by coglethorpe on Apr 9, 2009 | 33 comments

1618.

The news here ain't news ()

85 points by apallo on Nov 2, 2009 | 32 comments

1619.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released (debian.net)

85 points by dimm on Feb 15, 2009 | 31 comments

1620.

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs (daringfireball.net)

85 points by prakash on Nov 27, 2009 | 29 comments