HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism (bbc.co.uk)

141 points by antoviaque on Jan 5, 2012 | 44 comments

482.

HTML5: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity (verekia.com)

141 points by jverrecchia on Jan 3, 2012 | 31 comments

483.

FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types (daemonology.net)

141 points by cperciva on Jan 16, 2012 | 30 comments

484.

Tools I Use - tmux (rdegges.com)

140 points by b14ck on Jan 8, 2012 | 58 comments

485.

The myth of Japan's failure (nytimes.com)

139 points by sajid on Jan 8, 2012 | 119 comments

486.

Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign (plus.google.com)

139 points by chintan on Jan 4, 2012 | 63 comments

487.

The "Army of One" entrepreneur (swombat.com)

139 points by anthony_franco on Jan 17, 2012 | 51 comments

488.

Why are column oriented databases so much faster than row oriented databases? (siganakis.com)

139 points by siganakis on Jan 29, 2012 | 42 comments

489.

Impressive SOPA blackout (littlehart.net)

139 points by nicholasreed on Jan 18, 2012 | 37 comments

490.

Microsoft suggests customer donate extra X-Box they sent him. (consumerist.com)

139 points by ryanmolden on Jan 6, 2012 | 27 comments

491.

Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? (bhorowitz.com)

139 points by yarapavan on Jan 31, 2012 | 26 comments

492.

Cheaper than free: paying for music after searching for a free download (blog.bandcamp.com)

139 points by spatten on Jan 3, 2012 | 24 comments

493.

B&N refuses to release source code of Nook Tablet, censors user requests (forum.xda-developers.com)

138 points by recoiledsnake on Jan 9, 2012 | 38 comments

494.

Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them (forbes.com)

138 points by Archio on Jan 12, 2012 | 18 comments

495.

Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives (arstechnica.com)

137 points by Feanim on Jan 24, 2012 | 132 comments

496.

Programming is the new High School Diploma (whattofix.com)

137 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 30, 2012 | 114 comments

497.

The Future of Apache CouchDB (blog.cloudant.com)

137 points by jashkenas on Jan 5, 2012 | 18 comments

498.

Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves (blog.notdot.net)

137 points by emson on Jan 18, 2012 | 14 comments

499.

Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google (searchengineland.com)

136 points by coupdegrace on Jan 20, 2012 | 77 comments

500.

Chart of Y Combinator companies' hosting decisions, 2011 edition (jpf.github.com)

136 points by jf on Jan 17, 2012 | 72 comments

501.

Google+ relaxes real-name policy, allows pseudonyms (plus.google.com)

135 points by rryan on Jan 23, 2012 | 105 comments

502.

In which Eben Moglen calls out a reporter for having Facebook (betabeat.com)

135 points by inflatablenerd on Jan 11, 2012 | 105 comments

503.

Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store (log.burningrobot.com)

135 points by jwhelan on Jan 5, 2012 | 60 comments

504.

MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files (torrentfreak.com)

135 points by joeyespo on Jan 27, 2012 | 58 comments

505.

Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (nytimes.com)

134 points by ojbyrne on Jan 29, 2012 | 172 comments

506.

Disqus Research: Pseudonyms Drive Communities (disqus.com)

134 points by simanyay on Jan 9, 2012 | 48 comments

507.

Interview with Facebook's Andrei Alexandrescu (serversidemagazine.com)

134 points by kmavm on Jan 30, 2012 | 24 comments

508.

Letter from Orwell to his publisher regarding 1984 (lettersofnote.com)

133 points by alexholehouse on Jan 4, 2012 | 49 comments

509.

SOPA/PIPA: More than 250k tweets / hr (hotspots.io)

133 points by huangm on Jan 18, 2012 | 27 comments

510.

Welcome Geoff (ycombinator.posterous.com)

133 points by pg on Jan 27, 2012 | 21 comments