HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996) (nytimes.com)

303 points by mtrn on Feb 22, 2013 | 81 comments

1532.

Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python (textblob.readthedocs.org)

303 points by sloria on Aug 10, 2013 | 46 comments

1533.

R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World (nextbigwhat.com)

303 points by Brajeshwar on Jun 3, 2013 | 45 comments

1534.

Aaron's domain registration runs out in Sept. We should archive it in his memory (networksolutions.com)

303 points by riordan on Jan 12, 2013 | 35 comments

1535.

The limits of Google’s openness (blogs.technet.com)

302 points by pablosanchez on Aug 15, 2013 | 293 comments

1536.

The string type is broken (mortoray.com)

302 points by DmitryNovikov on Nov 27, 2013 | 222 comments

1537.

Portal Released For Steam On Linux (phoronix.com)

302 points by mindstab on May 2, 2013 | 146 comments

1538.

How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read? (eff.org)

302 points by sinak on Nov 7, 2013 | 125 comments

1539.

Introducing Contributions (github.com)

302 points by jakebellacera on Jan 7, 2013 | 89 comments

1540.

Ruby on Rails 4.0.0.beta1 released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

302 points by steveklabnik on Feb 26, 2013 | 88 comments

1541.

Sayonara, V8 (groups.google.com)

302 points by fridek on Aug 19, 2013 | 87 comments

1542.

Introducing TogetherJS (hacks.mozilla.org)

302 points by conductor on Oct 16, 2013 | 82 comments

1543.

Require companies to use the term "licensing" instead of "buying" with DRM goods (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

302 points by vyrotek on Mar 10, 2013 | 55 comments

1544.

California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills (xconomy.com)

301 points by waderoush on Jan 15, 2013 | 303 comments

1545.

The Lie Hollywood Loves to Tell (jmtame.posthaven.com)

301 points by joshmattvander on Mar 29, 2013 | 249 comments

1546.

Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning (washingtonpost.com)

301 points by clint on Dec 18, 2013 | 234 comments

1547.

Linux is not about choice (2008) (redhat.com)

301 points by emillon on May 6, 2013 | 230 comments

1548.

iMessage for Android (play.google.com)

301 points by robbiet480 on Sep 24, 2013 | 221 comments

1549.

Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system (scarcecapital.com)

301 points by zygomega on Apr 15, 2013 | 190 comments

1550.

Posterous will turn off on April 30 (blog.posterous.com)

301 points by brownday on Feb 15, 2013 | 131 comments

1551.

Motherfucking Website (motherfuckingwebsite.com)

301 points by titlex on Nov 24, 2013 | 129 comments

1552.

Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs (mcclatchydc.com)

301 points by stesch on Jun 27, 2013 | 128 comments

1553.

Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th? (calculatedriskblog.com)

301 points by MaysonL on Dec 2, 2013 | 117 comments

1554.

Hacking Github with Webkit (homakov.blogspot.com)

301 points by homakov on Mar 9, 2013 | 78 comments

1555.

Favicon Cheatsheet (github.com)

301 points by eliot_sykes on Sep 2, 2013 | 54 comments

1556.

Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples (bbc.co.uk)

301 points by doublerebel on Sep 26, 2013 | 44 comments

1557.

Off (marco.org)

300 points by mh_ on Oct 24, 2013 | 216 comments

1558.

KitKat's new website (kitkat.com)

300 points by dionyziz on Sep 4, 2013 | 150 comments

1559.

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet (theatlantic.com)

300 points by sinak on Nov 19, 2013 | 149 comments

1560.

What happened with LEGO (therealityprose.wordpress.com)

300 points by AlexMuir on Feb 7, 2013 | 124 comments