HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign (sub.garrytan.com)

596 points by kirillzubovsky on Jun 24, 2013 | 206 comments

272.

A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 (thisiscolossal.com)

596 points by tvladeck on Jul 24, 2013 | 136 comments

273.

Model S Fire (teslamotors.com)

594 points by shakes on Oct 4, 2013 | 238 comments

274.

Valve joins the Linux Foundation (thenextweb.com)

593 points by kwestro on Dec 4, 2013 | 290 comments

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (aws.amazon.com)

593 points by teoruiz on Nov 14, 2013 | 239 comments

276.

What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco (jasonevanish.com)

592 points by jevanish on Jan 17, 2013 | 558 comments

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Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) (news.cnet.com)

592 points by bconway on Jun 7, 2013 | 299 comments

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Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry? (linkedin.com)

592 points by _wk3u on Jun 10, 2013 | 277 comments

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Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show (wired.com)

592 points by inglesp on Oct 2, 2013 | 250 comments

280.

Software will not be patentable in New Zealand (nzherald.co.nz)

592 points by bitserf on May 9, 2013 | 122 comments

281.

Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (edition.cnn.com)

591 points by tptacek on Aug 8, 2013 | 363 comments

282.

Rails 4.0: Final version released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)

591 points by thibaut_barrere on Jun 25, 2013 | 151 comments

283.

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain? (eff.org)

590 points by ninthfrank07 on May 7, 2013 | 183 comments

284.

Id Software founder John Carmack resigns (polygon.com)

590 points by footpath on Nov 22, 2013 | 99 comments

285.

Sublime Text 3 Beta (sublimetext.com)

589 points by conorh on Jan 29, 2013 | 360 comments

286.

Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com)

589 points by B-Con on Mar 5, 2013 | 187 comments

287.

Edward Snowden Q&A (guardian.co.uk)

588 points by sethbannon on Jun 17, 2013 | 299 comments

288.

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)

588 points by 001sky on Dec 4, 2013 | 290 comments

289.

A Difficult Situation (blog.sendgrid.com)

587 points by jbaudanza on Mar 21, 2013 | 432 comments

290.

Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

587 points by jcastro on Oct 1, 2013 | 255 comments

291.

Feds, We Need Some Time Apart (defcon.org)

587 points by rosser on Jul 11, 2013 | 250 comments

292.

Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor (cmx.io)

586 points by dr_win on Feb 12, 2013 | 109 comments

293.

Helios (helios.io)

586 points by olivercameron on Apr 2, 2013 | 66 comments

294.

I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb (needwant.com)

583 points by j0ncc on Nov 1, 2013 | 373 comments

295.

The New Yorker Strongbox (newyorker.com)

583 points by danso on May 15, 2013 | 164 comments

296.

Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead (qz.com)

581 points by antr on Aug 16, 2013 | 481 comments

297.

Fix Ubuntu (fixubuntu.com)

581 points by panarky on Nov 8, 2013 | 299 comments

298.

Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims (theatlantic.com)

580 points by emingo on Jun 18, 2013 | 71 comments

299.

Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being (plus.google.com)

579 points by spankalee on Sep 18, 2013 | 385 comments

300.

I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA (reddit.com)

579 points by taylorbuley on Feb 11, 2013 | 146 comments