HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn (danwin.com)

132 points by danso on Jan 11, 2012 | 91 comments

512.

Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) (manning.com)

132 points by nathanmarz on Jan 9, 2012 | 65 comments

513.

Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

132 points by bensummers on Jan 26, 2012 | 53 comments

514.

Farewell to MIT (evanjones.ca)

132 points by richardk on Jan 6, 2012 | 31 comments

515.

Hidden features of Python (stackoverflow.com)

132 points by niyazpk on Jan 11, 2012 | 7 comments

516.

Why 13th Chords (jtauber.com)

131 points by llambda on Jan 1, 2012 | 92 comments

517.

DOJ Didn't Need SOPA to Shutdown "rogue site" MegaUpload (venturebeat.com)

131 points by bproper on Jan 20, 2012 | 34 comments

518.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig (2001) (norvig.com)

131 points by samaraga on Jan 8, 2012 | 29 comments

519.

Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server (github.com)

131 points by comice on Jan 15, 2012 | 26 comments

520.

Steve Wozniak's FusionIO: 1 Billion IOPS with software improvement (theverge.com)

131 points by sp332 on Jan 6, 2012 | 25 comments

521.

Fast Lossless Color Image Compression (kdepepo.wordpress.com)

131 points by dochtman on Jan 30, 2012 | 21 comments

522.

The problem with startups is that they can’t solve the big problems. (remarkedly.com)

130 points by krausejj on Jan 27, 2012 | 102 comments

523.

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

130 points by gavinballard on Jan 13, 2012 | 85 comments

524.

Boycotting Hollywood (aaronmoodie.com)

130 points by aaronmoodie on Jan 23, 2012 | 81 comments

525.

"Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?" (unlimitednovelty.com)

130 points by bascule on Jan 31, 2012 | 52 comments

526.

FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement (freebsd.org)

130 points by udp on Jan 12, 2012 | 35 comments

527.

What's new in Linux 3.2 (h-online.com)

130 points by codepopacy on Jan 5, 2012 | 20 comments

528.

Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software (techweekeurope.co.uk)

130 points by jrabone on Jan 21, 2012 | 17 comments

529.

Learning From The Masters: Level Design In The Legend Of Zelda (gamasutra.com)

129 points by rhufnagel on Jan 6, 2012 | 15 comments

530.

Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA (martinfowler.com)

129 points by juandg on Jan 12, 2012 | 8 comments

531.

The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail (vanityfair.com)

128 points by bootload on Jan 6, 2012 | 118 comments

532.

The Fixie Bike Index (blog.priceonomics.com)

128 points by omarish on Jan 17, 2012 | 88 comments

533.

ShowHN: AlreadyHN, a bookmarklet that checks if the current page is on HN (elias.kg)

128 points by eliaskg on Jan 9, 2012 | 34 comments

534.

Anonymous strikes back: takes down DoJ, Universal, RIAA and MPAA sites (geek.com)

128 points by 11031a on Jan 19, 2012 | 31 comments

535.

Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring (github.com)

128 points by cookiestack on Jan 15, 2012 | 10 comments

536.

Go East, Young Man (nytimes.com)

127 points by wallflower on Jan 10, 2012 | 122 comments

537.

New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ (googlesystem.blogspot.com)

127 points by lomegor on Jan 20, 2012 | 107 comments

538.

Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2 (gocardless.com)

127 points by alexchamberlain on Jan 26, 2012 | 92 comments

539.

Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding (37signals.com)

127 points by jlangenauer on Jan 27, 2012 | 54 comments

540.

The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing (forbes.com)

126 points by falling on Jan 31, 2012 | 119 comments