HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7981.

Twitter lands $800 million venture capital deal, breaking record (mercurynews.com)

84 points by johns on Aug 2, 2011 | 66 comments

7982.

How to Avoid Repeating the Debacle That Was the Space Shuttle (discovermagazine.com)

84 points by tokenadult on Jul 24, 2011 | 65 comments

7983.

Apple iPhone spontaneously combusts aboard flight in Australia (bgr.com)

84 points by zacharye on Nov 28, 2011 | 63 comments

7984.

Facebook considering $3-4Bn buyout of Skype (mashable.com)

84 points by pitdesi on May 5, 2011 | 62 comments

7985.

Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review (anandtech.com)

84 points by Synaesthesia on Sep 11, 2011 | 61 comments

7986.

Stephen Hawking: Human Survival Depends on Space Exploration (ca.news.yahoo.com)

84 points by gatsby on Nov 19, 2011 | 60 comments

7987.

GoDaddy no longer on SOPA supporter list. (godaddy.com)

84 points by seltzered_ on Dec 27, 2011 | 57 comments

7988.

Ask HN: Current freelancer and consulting rates survey

84 points by uid on Sep 13, 2011 | 55 comments

7989.

Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart (37signals.com)

84 points by cfontes on Feb 24, 2011 | 54 comments

7990.

Earbits (YC W11) Brings A Twist: Online Radio Where Bands Can Pay For Playtime (techcrunch.com)

84 points by pitdesi on Mar 10, 2011 | 54 comments

7991.

Facebook blocks Google+ ads (plus.google.com)

84 points by tim_sw on Jul 16, 2011 | 53 comments

7992.

People who work from home are more satisfied with their jobs (gigaom.com)

84 points by jimsteinhart on Jul 21, 2011 | 53 comments

7993.

China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight motorcycle engines (boingboing.net)

84 points by matan_a on Sep 27, 2011 | 53 comments

7994.

Ask HN: How do I minimize the taxes from selling my startup?

84 points by exitingfounder on May 1, 2011 | 52 comments

7995.

My social network helped diagnose a rare disease that our doctors missed. (slate.com)

84 points by mattraibert on Jul 14, 2011 | 52 comments

7996.

Ask HN: Has anybody here ever successfully started a videogame company?

84 points by pawn on Sep 28, 2011 | 51 comments

7997.

NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform (nodefu.com)

84 points by ChrisMatthieu on Jan 18, 2011 | 49 comments

7998.

Spend the Summer at Lightspeed (lightspeedvp.com)

84 points by pushpins on Mar 28, 2011 | 49 comments

7999.

Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your startup?

84 points by nischalshetty on Dec 2, 2011 | 46 comments

8000.

I know the websites you visited (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)

84 points by ksri on Dec 3, 2011 | 46 comments

8001.

Dalio, Biggest Hedge Fund Manager: "developed world has reached its debt limit" (nerdinvest.blogspot.com)

84 points by rajpaul on Oct 24, 2011 | 45 comments

8002.

Show HN: My embeddable C/C++ webserver (github.com)

84 points by udp on May 6, 2011 | 44 comments

8003.

Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan (arstechnica.com)

84 points by evo_9 on Jul 7, 2011 | 44 comments

8004.

Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again (boston.com)

84 points by gsivil on May 23, 2011 | 43 comments

8005.

Non-terminating compilation in Java (gist.github.com)

84 points by DanielRibeiro on Nov 22, 2011 | 43 comments

8006.

Misuse of 3-D digital lens leaves 2-D movies in the dark (boston.com)

84 points by justinweiss on May 23, 2011 | 41 comments

8007.

Google retires Google Health and PowerMeter projects (googleblog.blogspot.com)

84 points by rryan on Jun 24, 2011 | 40 comments

8008.

On Grouponzi (parislemon.com)

84 points by mariorz on Jun 4, 2011 | 39 comments

8009.

Personal jetpack in 2012 for $100,000 (ubergizmo.com)

84 points by kia on Sep 10, 2011 | 38 comments

8010.

Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death (reuters.com)

84 points by tokenadult on Nov 27, 2011 | 37 comments