HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Useful use of cat(1) (in-ulm.de)

115 points by gnosis on Feb 26, 2012 | 45 comments

512.

VeriSign hit by hackers (reuters.com)

115 points by megamark16 on Feb 2, 2012 | 40 comments

513.

The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling (garlikov.com)

115 points by GeneralMaximus on Feb 11, 2012 | 24 comments

514.

History PhD Student Reaches out to Cryptographers to Help Break a Civil War Code (diarycodebreak.wordpress.com)

115 points by justine on Feb 8, 2012 | 20 comments

515.

First new U.S. nuclear reactors in decades approved (latimes.com)

114 points by CWuestefeld on Feb 13, 2012 | 120 comments

516.

Amazon launches as Junglee in India (junglee.com)

114 points by rjim86 on Feb 2, 2012 | 73 comments

517.

The House Y Combinator Should Have Built (hellobubs.com)

114 points by dariusmonsef on Feb 29, 2012 | 72 comments

518.

Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners (wired.com)

114 points by pwg on Feb 15, 2012 | 58 comments

519.

Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey (blog.stackoverflow.com)

114 points by brianwillis on Feb 9, 2012 | 50 comments

520.

Groupon Posts Disappointing 1Q Results, loses $43M (on.wsj.com)

114 points by theli0nheart on Feb 8, 2012 | 37 comments

521.

Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release (phoronix.com)

114 points by tux1968 on Feb 2, 2012 | 25 comments

522.

Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy (plus.google.com)

113 points by dannyr on Feb 22, 2012 | 47 comments

523.

The importance of sleep in a startup (leostartsup.com)

113 points by LeonW on Feb 6, 2012 | 32 comments

524.

Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif (mothereffinganimatedgif.com)

113 points by twakefield on Feb 17, 2012 | 27 comments

525.

IE6 is still trolling developers (coderwall.com)

113 points by bitsweet on Feb 24, 2012 | 21 comments

526.

Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data (news.sciencemag.org)

113 points by cs702 on Feb 23, 2012 | 18 comments

527.

Honest People Might Be Dangerous (sebastianmarshall.com)

112 points by lionhearted on Feb 12, 2012 | 103 comments

528.

Daring Fireball: Cookies and Privacy (daringfireball.net)

112 points by rkudeshi on Feb 25, 2012 | 77 comments

529.

JavaScript at Khan Academy (ejohn.org)

112 points by michaelkscott on Feb 28, 2012 | 60 comments

530.

Google is reporting itself as a malware distributor. (google.com)

112 points by LachlanArthur on Feb 2, 2012 | 40 comments

531.

Visualizing Process Execution (dtrace.org)

112 points by lnmx on Feb 17, 2012 | 11 comments

532.

Why the NFL bans iPads (and other technology) (blog.ericelias.org)

111 points by ericelias on Feb 20, 2012 | 57 comments

533.

Show HN: Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C (github.com)

111 points by udp on Feb 12, 2012 | 54 comments

534.

The Markdown Mindset (hiltmon.com)

111 points by hiltmon on Feb 25, 2012 | 49 comments

535.

How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API in 20 Hours (blog.semantics3.com)

111 points by govind201 on Feb 27, 2012 | 34 comments

536.

Look for opportunities rather than ideas (swombat.com)

111 points by pron on Feb 16, 2012 | 14 comments

537.

Common patterns of markup & style (pea.rs)

111 points by zachwaugh on Feb 6, 2012 | 13 comments

538.

Initializr now includes Bootstrap 2, LESS, H5BP 3 and Modernizr 2.5 (initializr.com)

111 points by jverrecchia on Feb 6, 2012 | 10 comments

539.

The Curious Story of the Smart Developer Who Couldn't Find a Job (he liked) (blog.calbucci.com)

110 points by calbucci on Feb 8, 2012 | 65 comments

540.

Thoughts on Growing Old (nerdyfool.blogspot.com)

110 points by bennesvig on Feb 22, 2012 | 64 comments