HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems (nytimes.com)

85 points by neilc on Apr 5, 2009 | 28 comments

1622.

The Future Internet is rip-off/black hat based (rarestblog.com)

85 points by rarestblog on May 23, 2009 | 27 comments

1623.

GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released (gnu.org)

85 points by boskom on Jul 30, 2009 | 25 comments

1624.

A bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

85 points by Anon84 on Aug 18, 2009 | 20 comments

1625.

Clue: an ANSI C compiler targeting high level languages (cluecc.sourceforge.net)

85 points by khandekars on Jun 4, 2009 | 18 comments

1626.

Grand Prize Awarded To BellKor Pragmatic Chaos (netflixprize.com)

85 points by physcab on Sep 21, 2009 | 18 comments

1627.

Learn Python by writing games (free book) (inventwithpython.com)

85 points by larrykubin on Dec 23, 2009 | 10 comments

1628.

Sun's ZFS lead developer on the reason behind Apple dropping ZFS (mail.opensolaris.org)

85 points by bensummers on Oct 25, 2009 | 8 comments

1629.

Up and Running With Cassandra (blog.evanweaver.com)

85 points by jcsalterego on Jul 7, 2009 | 7 comments

1630.

Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API (collison.ie)

85 points by ktom on Apr 28, 2009 | 5 comments

1631.

Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

84 points by phn1x on May 17, 2009 | 142 comments

1632.

The Real High-Tech Immigrant Problem: They’re Leaving (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

84 points by peter123 on Mar 2, 2009 | 126 comments

1633.

No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (computerworld.com)

84 points by johns on Jul 2, 2009 | 100 comments

1634.

Ask HN: Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? ()

84 points by jcapote on Jun 13, 2009 | 85 comments

1635.

Thank you pg and rtm (catdancer.github.com)

84 points by pogos on May 22, 2009 | 80 comments

1636.

I'll sue you if you use my common-sense JavaScript tests (groups.google.com)

84 points by Rauchg on Dec 14, 2009 | 78 comments

1637.

Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard (pcworld.com)

84 points by jseliger on Jun 20, 2009 | 75 comments

1638.

Meditation: Why Bother? (vipassana.com)

84 points by PieSquared on May 16, 2009 | 70 comments

1639.

IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life (adobegripes.tumblr.com)

84 points by martingordon on Nov 3, 2009 | 64 comments

1640.

What happened to Argentina? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

84 points by jseliger on Oct 7, 2009 | 59 comments

1641.

Programming: Choosing the right name is everything (sites.google.com)

84 points by clawrencewenham on Sep 16, 2009 | 58 comments

1642.

Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation (sciam.com)

84 points by robg on Jan 30, 2009 | 52 comments

1643.

IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links (isnsfw.com)

84 points by grexican on May 4, 2009 | 52 comments

1644.

Congrats, Dropbox (YC S07) (siteanalytics.compete.com)

84 points by fuelfive on Mar 26, 2009 | 51 comments

1645.

Scheme to become two languages (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

84 points by apgwoz on Aug 21, 2009 | 49 comments

1646.

Why are Facebook, Digg and Twitter So Hard To Scale? (highscalability.com)

84 points by yarapavan on Oct 13, 2009 | 49 comments

1647.

Cappuccino Turns One (cappuccino.org)

84 points by boucher on Sep 8, 2009 | 48 comments

1648.

The Capacitor Plague (deadprogrammer.com)

84 points by jcsalterego on Dec 15, 2009 | 47 comments

1649.

OpenBSD needs your help - call for donations (undeadly.org)

84 points by igorhvr on Sep 9, 2009 | 45 comments

1650.

Coding Horror: Code: It's Trivial (codinghorror.com)

84 points by Anon84 on Jul 7, 2009 | 43 comments