HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

What college rankings really tell us (newyorker.com)

76 points by boh on Aug 3, 2012 | 70 comments

872.

STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash (philipithomas.com)

76 points by philip1209 on Aug 19, 2012 | 59 comments

873.

Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch (deadman.io)

76 points by m3ntat on Aug 14, 2012 | 51 comments

874.

Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop (sendrail.com)

76 points by ritikm on Aug 11, 2012 | 50 comments

875.

Why Self-Track? The Possibility of Hard-to-Explain Change (quantifiedself.com)

76 points by harscoat on Aug 24, 2012 | 41 comments

876.

Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support (twitter.com)

76 points by _frog on Aug 5, 2012 | 36 comments

877.

Google to buy Frommer's (online.wsj.com)

76 points by rryan on Aug 13, 2012 | 31 comments

878.

Javascript Tips for Non-Specialists (omniti.com)

76 points by rbanffy on Aug 28, 2012 | 31 comments

879.

Steve Mann's unanswered letter to McDonalds' Head of Customer Services (eyetap.blogspot.com)

76 points by kefs on Aug 17, 2012 | 27 comments

880.

Rails, callbacks, workers, and the race you never expected to lose (logicalfriday.com)

76 points by appleton on Aug 21, 2012 | 27 comments

881.

How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook (quod.lib.umich.edu)

76 points by zachrose on Aug 25, 2012 | 27 comments

882.

PeerTalk: iOS and OS X Cocoa library for communicating over USB (rsms.me)

76 points by shinvee on Aug 24, 2012 | 13 comments

883.

Bringing Google+ to work (googleenterprise.blogspot.com)

75 points by eneveu on Aug 29, 2012 | 80 comments

884.

Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life" (techcrunch.com)

75 points by weitingliu on Aug 10, 2012 | 60 comments

885.

First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images (nasa.gov)

75 points by hybrid11 on Aug 12, 2012 | 46 comments

886.

Stanford’s Self-Driving Car Tears It Up On Racetrack – Tops 120 MPH (singularityhub.com)

75 points by protomyth on Aug 19, 2012 | 39 comments

887.

School of Hard Knocks: ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough (nytimes.com)

75 points by tokenadult on Aug 26, 2012 | 33 comments

888.

Tapbots: Don't Panic (tapbots.com)

75 points by googletron on Aug 17, 2012 | 18 comments

889.

The Science of Serif vs Sans Serif Type (alexpoole.info)

75 points by idan on Aug 14, 2012 | 16 comments

890.

Inside FundersClub (YC S12) The Equity Crowdfunding Platform (techcrunch.com)

75 points by dsugarman on Aug 20, 2012 | 15 comments

891.

When Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter “E” (steveblank.com)

75 points by benackles on Aug 20, 2012 | 12 comments

892.

Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything (vancouverdata.blogspot.com)

74 points by robdoherty2 on Aug 15, 2012 | 136 comments

893.

Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project) (moshayedi.net)

74 points by pykello on Aug 9, 2012 | 73 comments

894.

Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City (homesforhackers.com)

74 points by nordicnomad82 on Aug 23, 2012 | 54 comments

895.

Show & Thank HN: my friday night project turns into a venture (postcongress.io)

74 points by scottmotte on Aug 25, 2012 | 47 comments

896.

What Ouya Isn't (games.hazzens.com)

74 points by hazzen on Aug 12, 2012 | 46 comments

897.

Updated: We’ve Deleted Our Facebook Page (blog.limitedrun.com)

74 points by duck on Aug 29, 2012 | 39 comments

898.

University of Reddit (ureddit.com)

74 points by abijlani on Aug 20, 2012 | 36 comments

899.

Wristwatch in only HTML/CSS (codepen.io)

74 points by Flam on Aug 12, 2012 | 35 comments

900.

SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter (kickstarter.com)

74 points by guiseppecalzone on Aug 24, 2012 | 35 comments