HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

How do we read code? (blog.theincredibleholk.org)

214 points by erjiang on Dec 19, 2012 | 77 comments

182.

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) (paulgraham.com)

213 points by mmphosis on Dec 8, 2012 | 101 comments

183.

How I coached a basketball team in Afghanistan and what went wrong (nplusonemag.com)

212 points by drpp on Dec 8, 2012 | 59 comments

184.

Kickstarter backers ready class action lawsuit against Code Hero dev (kickstarter.com)

211 points by barredo on Dec 12, 2012 | 193 comments

185.

Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mechanics (lunar.lostgarden.com)

211 points by DanBC on Dec 10, 2012 | 84 comments

186.

Backbone.js 0.9.9 Released (backbonejs.org)

211 points by jashkenas on Dec 13, 2012 | 56 comments

187.

WTF Google, you stole my $5 (programmerstrouble.blogspot.com)

210 points by jtwaleson on Dec 30, 2012 | 114 comments

188.

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas (techcrunch.com)

210 points by Jagat on Dec 10, 2012 | 52 comments

189.

ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Recommendation (itu.int)

209 points by mtgx on Dec 4, 2012 | 155 comments

190.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia (cacm.acm.org)

209 points by tim_sw on Dec 5, 2012 | 88 comments

191.

Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct (slate.com)

209 points by onemach on Dec 15, 2012 | 78 comments

192.

Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008) (rogeralsing.com)

209 points by liamk on Dec 12, 2012 | 53 comments

193.

Joe Biden tried to ban email encryption back in 1991 (dustinkirkland.wordpress.com)

208 points by dmix on Dec 30, 2012 | 120 comments

194.

Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks (stripe.com)

208 points by sas on Dec 19, 2012 | 81 comments

195.

So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008) (varnish-cache.org)

207 points by nwjsmith on Dec 5, 2012 | 128 comments

196.

Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay (kotaku.com.au)

207 points by kotakufanb on Dec 23, 2012 | 98 comments

197.

Touché (cmu.edu)

207 points by interconnector on Dec 4, 2012 | 59 comments

198.

Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public (steamcommunity.com)

206 points by Nathandim on Dec 20, 2012 | 74 comments

199.

Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer (dubhrosa.blogspot.co.uk)

205 points by dons on Dec 24, 2012 | 98 comments

200.

SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off and Lands Vertically [video] (crazyengineers.com)

205 points by po on Dec 25, 2012 | 53 comments

201.

Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming (scattered-thoughts.net)

204 points by jamii on Dec 10, 2012 | 16 comments

202.

Things I wish someone had told me about life after college (zackshapiro.com)

203 points by kine on Dec 15, 2012 | 131 comments

203.

QT 5 launched by new owner, Digia (digia.com)

202 points by easytiger on Dec 19, 2012 | 96 comments

204.

Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network (seattle.gov)

201 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 13, 2012 | 155 comments

205.

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua (blog.cloudflare.com)

201 points by jgrahamc on Dec 8, 2012 | 57 comments

206.

New board in the Arduino Family: Esplora (arduino.cc)

200 points by iamwil on Dec 10, 2012 | 45 comments

207.

Downtime last Saturday (github.com)

199 points by Pr0 on Dec 26, 2012 | 104 comments

208.

China listening in on Skype - Microsoft assumes you approve (en.greatfire.org)

199 points by owltoucan on Dec 21, 2012 | 97 comments

209.

Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers (slate.com)

199 points by wslh on Dec 18, 2012 | 83 comments

210.

Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar (addepar.github.com)

199 points by ldvldv on Dec 20, 2012 | 49 comments