HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1921.

Scalable XMPP bots with Erlang and exmpp, part I (process-one.net)

79 points by chaosmachine on Aug 20, 2009 | 0 comments

1922.

This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day (simonwillison.net)

78 points by toni on Oct 19, 2009 | 122 comments

1923.

The One in Which I Say Open Source Software Sucks (blog.bitquabit.com)

78 points by JacobK on Jun 30, 2009 | 102 comments

1924.

The trouble with non-profits (aaronsw.com)

78 points by wglb on Sep 7, 2009 | 81 comments

1925.

2000-2009: Microsoft's Decade of Shattered Dreams (betanews.com)

78 points by ssp on Dec 31, 2009 | 77 comments

1926.

The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing (jgc.org)

78 points by jgrahamc on Jun 23, 2009 | 76 comments

1927.

Mac Mini Pays for Itself After 2 Years (cjgill.wordpress.com)

78 points by sahaj on Oct 26, 2009 | 72 comments

1928.

When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule (techcrunch.com)

78 points by vaksel on Sep 7, 2009 | 62 comments

1929.

A Better Way to Load a Plane (abcnews.go.com)

78 points by 11ren on Jan 4, 2009 | 58 comments

1930.

Teenager invents solar panel made from human hair (dailymail.co.uk)

78 points by sophacles on Sep 9, 2009 | 58 comments

1931.

The Andrew Warner Story (quicksprout.com)

78 points by merrick33 on Apr 8, 2009 | 57 comments

1932.

Joel on Software: "By installing Java, you will be able to experience the power of Java" (joelonsoftware.com)

78 points by twampss on Jan 12, 2009 | 56 comments

1933.

Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?

78 points by babyboy808 on Aug 11, 2009 | 55 comments

1934.

Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail (blog.ramamia.com)

78 points by jasonlbaptiste on Feb 27, 2009 | 51 comments

1935.

How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery (mindyourdecisions.com)

78 points by ChaitanyaSai on Feb 1, 2009 | 51 comments

1936.

The Calculus Trap (artofproblemsolving.com)

78 points by tokenadult on Jul 22, 2009 | 50 comments

1937.

The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality (kirkwylie.blogspot.com)

78 points by yangyang on Sep 21, 2009 | 46 comments

1938.

Amazon goes down; takes S3, Salesforce, Target, and others with them. (techcrunch.com)

78 points by Sam_Odio on Dec 24, 2009 | 46 comments

1939.

Calorie restrictive eating for longer life? The story we didn’t hear in the news (junkfoodscience.blogspot.com)

78 points by soundsop on Jul 13, 2009 | 45 comments

1940.

SQL Databases Don't Scale (adamblog.heroku.com)

78 points by DavidSJ on Oct 4, 2009 | 41 comments

1941.

Ask HN: AWS or dedicated server? ()

78 points by bkrausz on Jan 4, 2009 | 40 comments

1942.

Ask HN: After SICP, what next?

78 points by plinkplonk on May 15, 2009 | 35 comments

1943.

FreeBSD 8 released (freebsd.org)

78 points by ptn on Nov 26, 2009 | 33 comments

1944.

On Saying No - The Power of Simply Answering, "No." (esquire.com)

78 points by DarrenMills on Sep 13, 2009 | 32 comments

1945.

Never Criticize Your Competitors (loiclemeur.com)

78 points by sgrove on Aug 23, 2009 | 29 comments

1946.

Never Launch, Just Iterate (marketing.fm)

78 points by spencerfry on Nov 17, 2009 | 28 comments

1947.

If architects had to work like software developers (blog.monochrome.co.uk)

78 points by johns on Sep 8, 2009 | 27 comments

1948.

How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball (cheeptalk.wordpress.com)

78 points by wakeless on Nov 17, 2009 | 27 comments

1949.

Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone right now, no jailbreak, for free (9to5mac.com)

78 points by tortilla on Jun 15, 2009 | 24 comments

1950.

Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (sivers.org)

78 points by lucumo on Sep 2, 2009 | 24 comments