HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

Google switches to black background for Earth Hour (google.co.uk)

6 points by danw on Mar 29, 2008 | 1 comments

1292.

Vatican recants with a statue of Galileo (timesonline.co.uk)

6 points by edw519 on Mar 5, 2008 | 0 comments

1293.

Software Schedules and the Parable of the Loaf of Bread (blog.slickedit.com)

6 points by jsj1971 on Mar 5, 2008 | 0 comments

1294.

Maps of world where area represents disease, deaths, rather than just landmass (worldmapper.org)

6 points by iamwil on Mar 1, 2008 | 0 comments

1295.

Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words (nytimes.com)

6 points by robg on Mar 2, 2008 | 0 comments

1296.

A Challenge To Traditional Education? O'Reilly Introduces Mathematica Web App and Courses (popsci.com)

6 points by manvsmachine on Mar 2, 2008 | 0 comments

1297.

New strategy for potential HIV vaccine (thinkgene.com)

6 points by rms on Mar 2, 2008 | 0 comments

1298.

In praise of the humble but world-changing tuber (economist.com)

6 points by daviday on Mar 3, 2008 | 0 comments

1299.

Multi-Touch gestures in any application (blogs.zdnet.com)

6 points by edw519 on Mar 3, 2008 | 0 comments

1300.

Fractals and the Fractal Dimension (vanderbilt.edu)

6 points by hhm on Mar 7, 2008 | 0 comments

1301.

MegaPhone developer on iPhone SDK: "It exceeded all of my expectations" (thestandard.com)

6 points by ilamont on Mar 7, 2008 | 0 comments

1302.

Game Loop (dewitters.koonsolo.com)

6 points by kirubakaran on Mar 10, 2008 | 0 comments

1303.

Where Every Ad Knows Your Name (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

6 points by makimaki on Mar 11, 2008 | 0 comments

1304.

Announcing Google I/O: A two day developer gathering in SF (google-code-updates.blogspot.com)

6 points by luccastera on Mar 11, 2008 | 0 comments

1305.

3D pannable video - Click and drag to pan the camera around (immersivemedia.com)

6 points by Readmore on Mar 11, 2008 | 0 comments

1306.

Starling — Unicode string library for Erlang (12monkeys.co.uk)

6 points by nickb on Mar 11, 2008 | 0 comments

1307.

Silicon Valley Star Starts Up New Kind of Social Network (abcnews.go.com)

6 points by dcurtis on Mar 13, 2008 | 0 comments

1308.

Pitching Guy Kawasaki in an elevator (howtosplitanatom.com)

6 points by transburgh on Mar 13, 2008 | 0 comments

1309.

And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support (readwriteweb.com)

6 points by dood on Mar 13, 2008 | 0 comments

1310.

StartupCamp Toronto 2 - Tuesday, April 29th (startupnorth.ca)

6 points by jmacd on Mar 14, 2008 | 0 comments

1311.

Who Might Be Spying on Your Communications? (Hint -- It's Not Just the NSA) (voip-news.com)

6 points by sagar13d on Mar 14, 2008 | 0 comments

1312.

Clever trick with uninitialized memory (research.swtch.com)

6 points by hhm on Mar 14, 2008 | 0 comments

1313.

Introduction to the Lambda Calculus [pdf] (scribd.com)

6 points by mk on Mar 14, 2008 | 0 comments

1314.

Why Is It So Hard To Say "I'm Sorry," Sarah? (centernetworks.com)

6 points by jmorin007 on Mar 15, 2008 | 0 comments

1315.

The future is parallel - start with string searches on multiple cores (ddj.com)

6 points by bdfh42 on Mar 16, 2008 | 0 comments

1316.

What Makes People Give? (like A/B testing for philanthropy economics) (nytimes.com)

6 points by gojomo on Mar 16, 2008 | 0 comments

1317.

Patent challenges have proven effective, which is why they're endangered (networkworld.com)