HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable (bluebox.com)

268 points by whiskers on Jul 3, 2013 | 105 comments

1982.

The language of Vim (stackoverflow.com)

268 points by sanathkumar on Mar 28, 2013 | 102 comments

1983.

The If-by-whiskey fallacy (en.wikipedia.org)

268 points by gizzlon on Jan 16, 2013 | 97 comments

1984.

N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens (nytimes.com)

268 points by weu on Sep 28, 2013 | 97 comments

1985.

Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life (github.com)

268 points by cheeaun on Dec 2, 2013 | 94 comments

1986.

Communicating Sequential Processes (swannodette.github.io)

268 points by swannodette on Jul 13, 2013 | 76 comments

1987.

Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial (eff.org)

268 points by alxndr on Oct 2, 2013 | 73 comments

1988.

Encryption is less secure than we thought (mit.edu)

268 points by qubitsam on Aug 14, 2013 | 72 comments

1989.

Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately (blog.torproject.org)

268 points by footpixel on Jun 18, 2013 | 52 comments

1990.

Call me maybe: Cassandra (aphyr.com)

268 points by lucian1900 on Sep 26, 2013 | 51 comments

1991.

Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (2011) (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)

268 points by DavidChouinard on Mar 19, 2013 | 47 comments

1992.

Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History (garynorth.com)

267 points by pearjuice on Dec 1, 2013 | 297 comments

1993.

Microsoft reorganizes (microsoft.com)

267 points by jcarney on Jul 11, 2013 | 271 comments

1994.

'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result (philly.com)

267 points by unfasten on Jul 21, 2013 | 255 comments

1995.

US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)

267 points by jstalin on Nov 21, 2013 | 227 comments

1996.

Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income (mondediplo.com)

267 points by xSwag on May 4, 2013 | 225 comments

1997.

Show HN: govuptime.com (govuptime.com)

267 points by thatrailsguy on Oct 4, 2013 | 168 comments

1998.

NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say (washingtonpost.com)

267 points by mxfh on Dec 8, 2013 | 167 comments

1999.

Why I'll be a solo founder next time (dennybritz.com)

267 points by dennybritz on Aug 5, 2013 | 145 comments

2000.

Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo (dukgo.com)

267 points by dn2k on May 21, 2013 | 135 comments

2001.

How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C (toptal.com)

267 points by crm416 on May 3, 2013 | 112 comments

2002.

MTurk + Google News API = press (customerdevlabs.com)

267 points by langoff on Oct 2, 2013 | 111 comments

2003.

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers (torrentfreak.com)

267 points by melito on Jul 3, 2013 | 110 comments

2004.

What I Learned from a Sex-Crazed Short-Order Cook (linkedin.com)

267 points by kirillzubovsky on Mar 14, 2013 | 95 comments

2005.

D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge (scottaaronson.com)

267 points by YAYERKA on May 16, 2013 | 92 comments

2006.

Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam (zocalopublicsquare.org)

267 points by SeanDav on Apr 25, 2013 | 90 comments

2007.

Two-factor Authentication (github.com)

267 points by tanoku on Sep 3, 2013 | 88 comments

2008.

No-fly list ruling in Portland comes close to declaring it unconstitutional (oregonlive.com)