HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

11701.

Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010) (economist.com)

77 points by xSwag on May 22, 2013 | 88 comments

11702.

The Case Against High-School Sports (theatlantic.com)

77 points by rmah on Sep 20, 2013 | 88 comments

11703.

HealthCare.gov’s glitches prompt Obama to call in expert troubleshooters (washingtonpost.com)

77 points by cgtyoder on Oct 20, 2013 | 85 comments

11704.

Ask HN: Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?

77 points by boldpanda on Oct 11, 2013 | 84 comments

11705.

Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch with built-in camera, 70 apps (engadget.com)

77 points by hiraki9 on Sep 4, 2013 | 83 comments

11706.

Carry Your Instrument On The Plane – It's The Law (aristake.com)

77 points by radley on Nov 28, 2013 | 83 comments

11707.

This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz (wired.com)

77 points by Libertatea on Dec 4, 2013 | 82 comments

11708.

Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down (nytimes.com)

77 points by kenjackson on Sep 7, 2013 | 77 comments

11709.

What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like? (npr.org)

77 points by rosser on Apr 23, 2013 | 76 comments

11710.

Non-English-based programming languages (en.wikipedia.org)

77 points by steveklabnik on Sep 2, 2013 | 75 comments

11711.

AWS instance was scheduled for retirement (forums.aws.amazon.com)

77 points by themonk on Oct 27, 2013 | 75 comments

11712.

Pharo 2.0 Released (pharo-project.org)

77 points by MarcusDenker on Mar 18, 2013 | 72 comments

11713.

Why I'm Learning Morse Code (burakkanber.com)

77 points by bkanber on Aug 18, 2013 | 72 comments

11714.

The Turkish Coffee Syndrome (deadprogrammer.com)

77 points by jcater on Sep 20, 2013 | 72 comments

11715.

HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? (quantisan.com)

77 points by plam on May 12, 2013 | 71 comments

11716.

These young SF professionals choose to live in RVs (sfgate.com)

77 points by auctiontheory on Sep 1, 2013 | 70 comments

11717.

The Man Who Gets The Science Right On 'The Big Bang Theory' (npr.org)

77 points by AliCollins on Sep 23, 2013 | 70 comments

11718.

7 billion people on 1 page (7billionworld.com)

77 points by morphics on Apr 12, 2013 | 68 comments

11719.

Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?

77 points by GuiA on May 3, 2013 | 68 comments

11720.

On Funemployment (and My Next Job) (erniemiller.org)

77 points by emiller829 on Sep 9, 2013 | 68 comments

11721.

Privacy is not dead (medium.com)

77 points by Nikolas0 on Aug 30, 2013 | 66 comments

11722.

Jolla CEO: You will soon be able turn your Android device into a Sailfish device (talouselama.fi)

77 points by sampo on Nov 30, 2013 | 66 comments

11723.

Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights (techcrunch.com)

77 points by mitmads on Mar 31, 2013 | 65 comments

11724.

29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010) (pubs.acs.org)

77 points by balsam on Aug 21, 2013 | 65 comments

11725.

Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography (infinum.co)

77 points by reisub on Sep 3, 2013 | 65 comments

11726.

Fuduntu: Back to Fundamentals, Gets it Right (linuxadvocates.com)

77 points by tildeslashblog on Mar 28, 2013 | 63 comments

11727.

Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Booms And Busts Won't Kill His Black Market (forbes.com)