HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer (modernperlbooks.com)

147 points by pmoriarty on Jan 17, 2015 | 114 comments

512.

Hacked. A Short Story (kukuruku.co)

147 points by skazka16 on Jan 19, 2015 | 46 comments

513.

Why we offer parental leave (aerofs.com)

146 points by yurisagalov on Jan 27, 2015 | 139 comments

514.

The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (2011) (dorophone.blogspot.com)

146 points by rlander on Jan 31, 2015 | 113 comments

515.

Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s (medium.com)

146 points by samclemens on Jan 16, 2015 | 82 comments

516.

Windows 10 upgrade to be 'free' for one year (bbc.co.uk)

146 points by secfirstmd on Jan 21, 2015 | 73 comments

517.

Engineer Anti-Patterns (dtrace.org)

146 points by deathtrader666 on Jan 8, 2015 | 72 comments

518.

To Be (to.be)

146 points by of on Jan 21, 2015 | 57 comments

519.

Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame (blogs.gnome.org)

145 points by bkor on Jan 19, 2015 | 70 comments

520.

Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective (blog.jonliv.es)

145 points by duggan on Jan 14, 2015 | 66 comments

521.

Speaking While Female (nytimes.com)

144 points by mattybrennan on Jan 12, 2015 | 133 comments

522.

A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in Cambodia (thestar.com)

144 points by gwern on Jan 14, 2015 | 86 comments

523.

John Carmack's adolescent years (2003) (books.google.com)

144 points by danso on Jan 27, 2015 | 77 comments

524.

Show HN: Ultra, a Leiningen plugin for a superior development environment (github.com)

144 points by venantius on Jan 27, 2015 | 18 comments

525.

Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains (bloomberg.com)

143 points by sanxiyn on Jan 8, 2015 | 155 comments

526.

Inactivity 'kills more than obesity' (bbc.co.uk)

143 points by sjcsjc on Jan 15, 2015 | 122 comments

527.

Don't Make Visitors Make Accounts (benburwell.com)

143 points by benburwell on Jan 18, 2015 | 83 comments

528.

Decentralize All the Things (techcrunch.com)

143 points by fidotron on Jan 10, 2015 | 64 comments

529.

OS Technologies to Watch (gfxmonk.net)

143 points by talex5 on Jan 4, 2015 | 44 comments

530.

Unique Ships of the U.S. Navy (news.usni.org)

143 points by protomyth on Jan 30, 2015 | 20 comments

531.

Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) (chrisdone.com)

142 points by karshan on Jan 18, 2015 | 116 comments

532.

The Pirate Bay is counting down (178.175.135.122)

142 points by tpbtpb on Jan 3, 2015 | 110 comments

533.

A Note to My Readers (dish.andrewsullivan.com)

142 points by _pius on Jan 28, 2015 | 55 comments

534.

High-reproducibility and high-accuracy method for automated topic classification (amaral-lab.org)

142 points by jestinjoy1 on Jan 31, 2015 | 36 comments

535.

Two-year-old Nexus 4 issue status changed to obsolete (code.google.com)

141 points by reedlaw on Jan 1, 2015 | 85 comments

536.

Let's Encrypt Developer Preview (github.com)

141 points by julianj on Jan 16, 2015 | 44 comments

537.

Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities (nytimes.com)