HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1531.

Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data (securityfocus.com)

17 points by muriithi on Aug 25, 2009 | 18 comments

1532.

Smart Child Left Behind (nytimes.com)

17 points by tokenadult on Aug 28, 2009 | 18 comments

1533.

The Rails Way: Users and Passwords (therailsway.com)

17 points by sant0sk1 on Aug 3, 2009 | 17 comments

1534.

Ask HN: How did you get your product idea? ()

17 points by hajrice on Aug 12, 2009 | 17 comments

1535.

Why Rails' magic and DSL style might not be good (bens.me.uk)

17 points by bensummers on Aug 5, 2009 | 16 comments

1536.

Ask HN: A simple tcp monitor ?

17 points by jacquesm on Aug 2, 2009 | 15 comments

1537.

Africa's "Crisis": Africa in better shape than most experts think (foreignpolicy.com)

17 points by cwan on Aug 4, 2009 | 15 comments

1538.

Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine?

17 points by jacquesm on Aug 5, 2009 | 15 comments

1539.

iPhone Call Recording: It Makes Too Much Sense Not to Do (louisgray.com)

17 points by mariorz on Aug 10, 2009 | 15 comments

1540.

A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia? (nytimes.com)

17 points by absconditus on Aug 3, 2009 | 14 comments

1541.

Could Grad School Be Fixed? (false-epiphany.com)

17 points by asimjalis on Aug 7, 2009 | 13 comments

1542.

The Great Oil Price Robbery (Indian story helpful to all) (blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com)

17 points by newacc on Aug 8, 2009 | 13 comments

1543.

Ask HN: What do you think of my project? ()

17 points by noaharc on Aug 14, 2009 | 13 comments

1544.

Ask PG: Do you ever fund startups outside of normal Y Comb. funding cycles? ()

17 points by jlgosse on Aug 22, 2009 | 12 comments

1545.

Write when inspired (zeldman.com)

17 points by tomh- on Aug 9, 2009 | 10 comments

1546.

US Consumer Credit Shows Steepest Contraction in Over 5 Decades (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)

17 points by gasull on Aug 11, 2009 | 10 comments

1547.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (richarddawkins.net)

17 points by tokenadult on Aug 11, 2009 | 10 comments

1548.

How To Spend Your Money To Maximize Your Happiness (boston.com)

17 points by kareemm on Aug 30, 2009 | 10 comments

1549.

Steal This Professionally Reported Content (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

17 points by jakewolf on Aug 4, 2009 | 8 comments

1550.

The billion dollar genius ego dilemma (blog.bumblebeelabs.com)

17 points by shalmanese on Aug 9, 2009 | 8 comments

1551.

ILike's $20m Valuation - Platform Dependency has a Cost (techflash.com)

17 points by webwright on Aug 19, 2009 | 8 comments

1552.

Is the TechCrunch50 DemoPit worth it? (blog.expensify.com)

17 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 20, 2009 | 8 comments

1553.

How One Article Increased Sales 22% - From a small e-commerce owner (leosternlicht.com)

17 points by lsternlicht on Aug 20, 2009 | 8 comments

1554.

How Tim O'Reilly Aims to Change Government (nytimes.com)

17 points by vibhavs on Aug 22, 2009 | 8 comments

1555.

Econophysicist Predicts Date of Chinese Stock Market Collapse--Part II (technologyreview.com)

17 points by ca98am79 on Aug 24, 2009 | 8 comments

1556.

Newly discovered carnivorous jungle plant eats rats whole (popsci.com)

17 points by cwan on Aug 25, 2009 | 8 comments

1557.

Google's Ascii Easter Egg (features.csmonitor.com)

17 points by physcab on Aug 31, 2009 | 8 comments

1558.

Startup advice: iPhone developers should stop relying on handshake deals only (deals.venturebeat.com)