HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12631.

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute to kill snakes (usnews.nbcnews.com)

71 points by BrandonMarc on Dec 3, 2013 | 82 comments

12632.

Google on NSA: No server access, no back door, no drop box, no free-for-all (venturebeat.com)

71 points by moultano on Jun 20, 2013 | 80 comments

12633.

Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth (scinotions.com)

71 points by recordcore on Aug 29, 2013 | 80 comments

12634.

United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' Patent System (forbes.com)

71 points by jamessun on Mar 13, 2013 | 74 comments

12635.

An inside look at Google’s data-driven job interview process (washingtonpost.com)

71 points by weu on Sep 4, 2013 | 74 comments

12636.

Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days (en.greatfire.org)

71 points by nkurz on Nov 23, 2013 | 73 comments

12637.

Why We Don't Use Heroku (grouptalent.com)

71 points by whather on Mar 15, 2013 | 70 comments

12638.

Bitfury 400 GH/s Bitcoin Mining Rig Hits US Shores (thegenesisblock.com)

71 points by cgi_man on Aug 2, 2013 | 70 comments

12639.

Louis C.K.: I won't let my kids have cell phones (news.cnet.com)

71 points by kunai on Sep 21, 2013 | 70 comments

12640.

Amazon and Google are on a collision course (tech.fortune.cnn.com)

71 points by Brajeshwar on May 8, 2013 | 68 comments

12641.

Ballmer on Ballmer: His Exit From Microsoft (online.wsj.com)

71 points by aleem on Nov 15, 2013 | 67 comments

12642.

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? (slate.com)

71 points by tokenadult on Feb 8, 2013 | 65 comments

12643.

Fool's Gold 2.0: The siren song of Bitcoin (aarongreenspan.com)

71 points by thinkcomp on Dec 1, 2013 | 65 comments

12644.

The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design (daringfireball.net)

71 points by cremnob on Jan 18, 2013 | 64 comments

12645.

The Period Is Pissed (newrepublic.com)

71 points by dkasper on Nov 25, 2013 | 64 comments

12646.

Why I chose to write Nuuton in Go (nuuton.com)

71 points by orangethirty on May 15, 2013 | 63 comments

12647.

WordPress 3.6 arrives with better post locking, built-in HTML5 media player (thenextweb.com)

71 points by Lightning on Aug 2, 2013 | 63 comments

12648.

Apple is losing the war of words (mondaynote.com)

71 points by mitmads on Mar 17, 2013 | 61 comments

12649.

Neuroon: Sleep mask for polyphasic sleep (kickstarter.com)

71 points by jellyksong on Dec 3, 2013 | 61 comments

12650.

I Finally Deleted my LinkedIn Account (thomashunter.name)

71 points by renownedmedia on Apr 28, 2013 | 60 comments

12651.

Judge: Child porn suspect doesn't need to decrypt files today (news.cnet.com)

71 points by ars on Jun 5, 2013 | 60 comments

12652.

Cool C Programming (sathyamvellal.in)

71 points by intull on Nov 5, 2013 | 60 comments

12653.

The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate (nextcity.org)

71 points by sethbannon on Dec 23, 2013 | 60 comments

12654.

Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Google on price' (channelregister.co.uk)

71 points by ximeng on Jul 16, 2013 | 59 comments

12655.

Server-side view or client-side MVC? (kailuowang.blogspot.com)

71 points by kailuowang on Feb 26, 2013 | 58 comments

12656.

The Tragic Beauty of Google+ (techland.time.com)

71 points by technologizer on May 16, 2013 | 58 comments

12657.

Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem (online.wsj.com)

71 points by jmacd on Nov 4, 2013 | 58 comments

12658.

Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, Make Them Smarter (singularityhub.com)

71 points by olalonde on Mar 30, 2013 | 57 comments

12659.

Apple Is Using Sass, And They’re Doing It Wrong (blog.kaelig.fr)

71 points by kaelig on May 22, 2013 | 52 comments

12660.

A Full-Featured, $38 Tablet Is Coming to the U.S. (blogs.wsj.com)

71 points by brk on Dec 17, 2013 | 52 comments