HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6001.

Lessons learned defying Joel Spolsky with Django (speakerdeck.com)

138 points by benregn on Apr 27, 2013 | 149 comments

6002.

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (wired.com)

138 points by Libertatea on Jul 2, 2013 | 144 comments

6003.

NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn’t anyone use it? (washingtonpost.com)

138 points by glenstein on Jun 14, 2013 | 135 comments

6004.

A simple solution to credit card fraud, and why you won't see it any time soon (blog.rongarret.info)

138 points by lisper on Feb 22, 2013 | 127 comments

6005.

An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD (clay.io)

138 points by austinhallock on Apr 30, 2013 | 121 comments

6006.

Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee (c-spanvideo.org)

138 points by teawithcarl on Jun 18, 2013 | 119 comments

6007.

Linus: bool is dangerous in C if you don't understand it (lkml.org)

138 points by general_failure on Sep 1, 2013 | 117 comments

6008.

US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law (zdnet.com)

138 points by tanglesome on Aug 22, 2013 | 116 comments

6009.

Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system (theregister.co.uk)

138 points by iProject on Mar 22, 2013 | 114 comments

6010.

Reflected hidden faces in photographs revealed in pupil (kurzweilai.net)

138 points by ca98am79 on Dec 27, 2013 | 112 comments

6011.

Opera Mail – standalone mail client (my.opera.com)

138 points by exterm on Jun 11, 2013 | 105 comments

6012.

The Wikipedia layer has been removed from Google Maps (productforums.google.com)

138 points by ak217 on Sep 7, 2013 | 104 comments

6013.

The secret world of cargo ships (theweek.com)

138 points by danso on Nov 11, 2013 | 102 comments

6014.

WebKit has implemented srcset (mobile.smashingmagazine.com)

138 points by nvk on Aug 21, 2013 | 94 comments

6015.

ZooKeeper vs. Doozer vs. Etcd (devo.ps)

138 points by hunvreus on Sep 11, 2013 | 90 comments

6016.

Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice (joinup.ec.europa.eu)

138 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 22, 2013 | 85 comments

6017.

PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

138 points by bwblabs on Aug 6, 2013 | 84 comments

6018.

Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties? (businessinsider.com)

138 points by jonathansizz on Nov 6, 2013 | 82 comments

6019.

Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents (hackerschool.com)

138 points by akaptur on Apr 30, 2013 | 81 comments

6020.

App.net’s new direction (marco.org)

138 points by brianwillis on Feb 26, 2013 | 80 comments

6021.

UK Government passes “Instagram Act” (theregister.co.uk)

138 points by choult on Apr 29, 2013 | 79 comments

6022.

LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service (blog.mobileworks.com)

138 points by prayag on Oct 3, 2013 | 79 comments

6023.

If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run? (blogs.msdn.com)

138 points by luu on Nov 3, 2013 | 79 comments

6024.

The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire (slate.com)

138 points by doh on Oct 2, 2013 | 74 comments

6025.

Facebook is impersonating users without their consent (bureauofminds.com)

138 points by crcn on Jan 20, 2013 | 73 comments

6026.

Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure (clochure.org)

138 points by old_sound on Apr 1, 2013 | 71 comments

6027.

Dear Jailbreak Community (evasi0n.com)

138 points by cbabraham on Dec 22, 2013 | 67 comments

6028.

My self-published book on being a great developer (theseniorsoftwareengineer.com)