HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

The Mother of Cobol (i-programmer.info)

12 points by mikejuk on Aug 22, 2009 | 0 comments

1982.

Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate (marginalrevolution.com)

12 points by Anon84 on Aug 24, 2009 | 0 comments

1983.

The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine (wired.com)

12 points by auferstehung on Aug 25, 2009 | 0 comments

1984.

The Definitive Guide to Backing Up and Ditching Your Discs (lifehacker.com)

12 points by edw519 on Aug 26, 2009 | 0 comments

1985.

More Advanced Ruby Method Arguments - Hashes And Block Basics (skorks.com)

12 points by askorkin on Aug 26, 2009 | 0 comments

1986.

Poll: Do You Have A Problem With This Statement

11 points by TomOfTTB on Aug 9, 2009 | 58 comments

1987.

Apple's five worst products ever (wired.com)

11 points by sabon on Aug 25, 2009 | 29 comments

1988.

Tell HN: Go to Google with IE, it offers Chrome DL, but not from Firefox ()

11 points by dan_the_welder on Aug 17, 2009 | 21 comments

1989.

Ask HN: How to estimate (best case) early user growth? ()

11 points by smanek on Aug 23, 2009 | 18 comments

1990.

The Case Against Apple Is Just As Much A Case For Apple (techcrunch.com)

11 points by vaksel on Aug 9, 2009 | 17 comments

1991.

Ask HN: Many Ideas but No "Hacking" Skills ()

11 points by js3309 on Aug 10, 2009 | 15 comments

1992.

Ask HN: Business movie suggestions? ()

11 points by hajrice on Aug 12, 2009 | 13 comments

1993.

No Excuses (weblogs.asp.net)

11 points by baha_man on Aug 12, 2009 | 12 comments

1994.

Ask HN: How would you find a designer? (We've already checked under the bed) ()

11 points by icey on Aug 24, 2009 | 12 comments

1995.

Convincing you to do it wrong (PHP and unsalted passwords) (blog.jrock.us)

11 points by jrockway on Aug 3, 2009 | 11 comments

1996.

Ask HN: What kind of desk chair do you use? ()

11 points by daveambrose on Aug 8, 2009 | 11 comments

1997.

Open source, not $19 billion, may be best health care stimulus (news.cnet.com)

11 points by edw519 on Aug 25, 2009 | 11 comments

1998.

Posterous (YC S08) Finally Has An iPhone App, Could Have Been Way Better (techcrunch.com)

11 points by mkuhn on Aug 20, 2009 | 10 comments

1999.

USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone (nytimes.com)

11 points by peter123 on Aug 10, 2009 | 9 comments

2000.

Ask HN: What Data would you like to see integrated into a web analytics tool? ()

11 points by dageroth on Aug 12, 2009 | 9 comments

2001.

Patriot Scientific acquires Chuck Moore's patents including shboom (patriotscientific.com)

11 points by jacquesm on Aug 9, 2009 | 8 comments

2002.

Income Loss Persists Long After Layoffs (nytimes.com)

11 points by gasull on Aug 12, 2009 | 8 comments

2003.

Ask HN: Which scheme implementation do you recommend? ()

11 points by imad on Aug 13, 2009 | 8 comments

2004.

New Technology Incubator On The Search For ‘Rising Stars’ - WSJ (blogs.wsj.com)

11 points by Mrinal on Aug 14, 2009 | 8 comments

2005.

How to use math to choose a spouse (news.cnet.com)

11 points by _pius on Aug 15, 2009 | 8 comments

2006.

AJAX Search: Is Google Sweating Bing Or Just Feeling The Need For Speed? (techcrunch.com)

11 points by GVRV on Aug 30, 2009 | 8 comments

2007.

The Computer Data Bank: will it kill your freedom? (1968) (blog.modernmechanix.com)

11 points by TriinT on Aug 16, 2009 | 7 comments

2008.

MySpace Disables Auto-Play Of Profile Songs To Get Streaming Costs Under Control (techcrunch.com)