HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Git-achievements: Earn geeky merit badges while learning Git (thechangelog.com)

77 points by pufuwozu on Sep 27, 2010 | 10 comments

512.

Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars? (mediamemo.allthingsd.com)

76 points by jkopelman on Sep 20, 2010 | 79 comments

513.

Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL? (cacm.acm.org)

76 points by yarapavan on Sep 30, 2010 | 78 comments

514.

The future of R - pessimistic thoughts by R founder Ross Ihaka (r-bloggers.com)

76 points by TalGalili on Sep 13, 2010 | 75 comments

515.

Re: Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions (sheddingbikes.com)

76 points by spahl on Sep 28, 2010 | 61 comments

516.

PicoC: a very small C interpreter for scripting (code.google.com)

76 points by rw- on Sep 3, 2010 | 44 comments

517.

Introducing the Go Playground (blog.golang.org)

76 points by enneff on Sep 16, 2010 | 31 comments

518.

Two Reasons You Shouldn't Use MongoDB (ethangunderson.com)

76 points by ethangunderson on Sep 14, 2010 | 26 comments

519.

New Twitter has Gist Support (thechangelog.com)

76 points by vamsee on Sep 19, 2010 | 24 comments

520.

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started (onstartups.com)

76 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sep 27, 2010 | 23 comments

521.

Manos de Mono: The Manifesto (.NET Web Framework) (jacksonh.tumblr.com)

76 points by eduardoflores on Sep 22, 2010 | 22 comments

522.

NoSQL, Heroku, and You (blog.heroku.com)

76 points by shawndumas on Sep 12, 2010 | 18 comments

523.

Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship (news.cnet.com)

76 points by timf on Sep 7, 2010 | 10 comments

524.

Retro-engineering a video game system. (lucidscience.com)

76 points by one010101 on Sep 30, 2010 | 9 comments

525.

You're a Bad Programmer. Embrace It. (java.dzone.com)

75 points by Garbage on Sep 30, 2010 | 65 comments

526.

Myths about prostitution (washingtonpost.com)

75 points by jseliger on Sep 12, 2010 | 64 comments

527.

The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper. (vanityfair.com)

75 points by kitcar on Sep 11, 2010 | 35 comments

528.

Bootstrapping Stormpulse (wensing.tumblr.com)

75 points by wensing on Sep 30, 2010 | 21 comments

529.

Bespin is now Mozilla Skywriter, moves to GitHub (mozillalabs.com)

75 points by js4all on Sep 2, 2010 | 17 comments

530.

Detailed explanation of a recent privilege escalation bug in Linux (timetobleed.com)

75 points by wheels on Sep 27, 2010 | 8 comments

531.

ACTA Action: Call on Obama to end the secrecy, reject the treaty (fsf.org)

75 points by tjr on Sep 12, 2010 | 7 comments

532.

The Genius of the Tinkerer (online.wsj.com)

75 points by mgdiaz on Sep 25, 2010 | 4 comments

533.

Why vertical farms are a crock. (monbiot.com)

74 points by jlangenauer on Sep 17, 2010 | 94 comments

534.

Scott Adams: Phone (dilbert.com)

74 points by cwan on Sep 3, 2010 | 64 comments

535.

Writer Neal Stephenson unveils his digital novel The Mongoliad (venturebeat.com)

74 points by Tichy on Sep 1, 2010 | 51 comments

536.

Dijkstra on the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) (userweb.cs.utexas.edu)

74 points by gnosis on Sep 6, 2010 | 47 comments

537.

Canadian Startups kick ass (rypple.com)

74 points by jsatok on Sep 1, 2010 | 25 comments

538.

LibreOffice tells Oracle to fork off (documentfoundation.org)

74 points by junkbit on Sep 28, 2010 | 25 comments

539.

Every app has a scary basement—dark old mysterious code vital to its operation (miksovsky.blogs.com)

74 points by Terretta on Sep 7, 2010 | 23 comments

540.

Structure Synth, an IDE for creating recursive 3D art (structuresynth.sourceforge.net)

74 points by rufflelesl on Sep 11, 2010 | 23 comments