HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain (massivegreatness.com)

113 points by rvcamo on Aug 9, 2012 | 78 comments

542.

Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World — IBM Is (techcrunch.com)

113 points by irunbackwards on Aug 21, 2012 | 76 comments

543.

Show HN: My one month side-project, Lucid Tracker: a daily life tracking tool (lucidtracker.com)

113 points by matt1 on Aug 1, 2012 | 67 comments

544.

Does one have to be a genius to do maths? (terrytao.wordpress.com)

113 points by caustic on Aug 11, 2012 | 56 comments

545.

Cling: Running C++ in an interpreter (blog.coldflake.com)

113 points by coldgrnd on Aug 12, 2012 | 48 comments

546.

FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm (nytimes.com)

113 points by vollmarj on Aug 4, 2012 | 40 comments

547.

Science Exchange Reproducibility Initiative (reproducibilityinitiative.org)

113 points by abbottry on Aug 14, 2012 | 35 comments

548.

How I Taught Myself Python/Django in 8 Weekends (tech.yipit.com)

113 points by vacanti on Aug 21, 2012 | 17 comments

549.

Legal myths about the Assange extradition (newstatesman.com)

112 points by gadders on Aug 20, 2012 | 181 comments

550.

Everything in your life is just a list (slate.com)

112 points by jessep on Aug 3, 2012 | 78 comments

551.

Nobody Cares (bennesvig.com)

112 points by bennesvig on Aug 10, 2012 | 69 comments

552.

Pascal's Apology, or why computer science is complicated (carlos.bueno.org)

112 points by aristus on Aug 27, 2012 | 29 comments

553.

Twitter needs to get their shit together (bruun.co)

112 points by konichiwasan on Aug 16, 2012 | 12 comments

554.

Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud (judegomila.com)

111 points by judegomila on Aug 7, 2012 | 66 comments

555.

The humans who outrun horses (smh.com.au)

110 points by olalonde on Aug 31, 2012 | 72 comments

556.

The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers (denniskubes.com)

110 points by denniskubes on Aug 16, 2012 | 71 comments

557.

Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators (pediatrics.aappublications.org)

110 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2012 | 65 comments

558.

Why I am tired of writing pull requests (gist.io)

110 points by gistacoder on Aug 24, 2012 | 64 comments

559.

How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust (blog.makezine.com)

110 points by scottshea on Aug 31, 2012 | 62 comments

560.

A Bad Privacy Bug (blog.pinboard.in)

110 points by stilist on Aug 1, 2012 | 46 comments

561.

reveal.js: HTML5 based Slide Presentation Tool (github.com)

110 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 1, 2012 | 32 comments

562.

How India's favorite TV show uses data to change the world (gigaom.com)

110 points by suprgeek on Aug 11, 2012 | 14 comments

563.

Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners (channel9.msdn.com)

110 points by dwynings on Aug 10, 2012 | 9 comments

564.

Experimental Python 3 support in Django (djangoproject.com)

110 points by mYk on Aug 19, 2012 | 4 comments

565.

The Cheapest Generation (theatlantic.com)

109 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 23, 2012 | 202 comments

566.

What 10gen nailed with MongoDB (calv.info)

109 points by calvinfo on Aug 29, 2012 | 84 comments

567.

I didn't learn programming when I was 12 (kennyletran.com)

109 points by kennyt on Aug 6, 2012 | 80 comments

568.

Where the fuck is my Ari Gold? (youell.com)

109 points by softbuilder on Aug 26, 2012 | 67 comments

569.

Career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer (leanpub.com)

109 points by hekker on Aug 25, 2012 | 63 comments

570.

Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery (news.cnet.com)

109 points by apoorvamehta on Aug 8, 2012 | 58 comments