HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

Caltech Announces Open Access Policy (caltech.edu)

267 points by kercker on Dec 12, 2013 | 31 comments

2012.

Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data (nytimes.com)

267 points by brnstz on Dec 16, 2013 | 3 comments

2013.

Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks (salon.com)

266 points by nla on Mar 19, 2013 | 209 comments

2014.

Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history' (bbc.co.uk)

266 points by laumars on Mar 27, 2013 | 154 comments

2015.

Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 (econsultancy.com)

266 points by choult on Mar 13, 2013 | 139 comments

2016.

NSA Rejecting FOIA Requests by US Citizens (dailykos.com)

266 points by jmtame on Jul 7, 2013 | 101 comments

2017.

2012 Personal Annual Report (jehiah.cz)

266 points by jehiah on Jan 7, 2013 | 84 comments

2018.

What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

266 points by bcn on Mar 30, 2013 | 71 comments

2019.

How I Structure My Flask Applications (mattupstate.com)

266 points by llambda on Jun 26, 2013 | 46 comments

2020.

Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero (empiricalzeal.com)

266 points by aatish on Jan 5, 2013 | 41 comments

2021.

What every web developer must know about URL encoding (blog.lunatech.com)

266 points by bemmu on Jun 24, 2013 | 35 comments

2022.

I cannot afford to go back to engineering school (medium.com)

265 points by ingrid on Aug 7, 2013 | 270 comments

2023.

Two Months of Soylent (robrhinehart.com)

265 points by caublestone on Mar 18, 2013 | 242 comments

2024.

Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf] (s3.amazonaws.com)

265 points by WestCoastJustin on Dec 6, 2013 | 226 comments

2025.

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life (businessinsider.com)

265 points by awwstn on May 16, 2013 | 169 comments

2026.

You can't impress developers (baus.net)

265 points by cmbaus on Jun 2, 2013 | 163 comments

2027.

Shopify POS (shopify.com)

265 points by remi on Aug 28, 2013 | 120 comments

2028.

Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

265 points by tptacek on Jul 9, 2013 | 118 comments

2029.

Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (darkpatterns.org)

265 points by kjhughes on Aug 30, 2013 | 94 comments

2030.

How well do you know HTML? (jakearchibald.github.io)

265 points by bolshchikov on Jun 9, 2013 | 88 comments

2031.

Kicktrolling (kickstarter.com)

265 points by darkstar999 on Dec 4, 2013 | 81 comments

2032.

Flat Pixels (sachagreif.com)

265 points by jmduke on Feb 12, 2013 | 68 comments

2033.

Skype account hijack technique may affect all users (community.skype.com)

265 points by dewey on Apr 28, 2013 | 66 comments

2034.

The New AWS Command-Line Interface (aws.typepad.com)

265 points by jeffbarr on Sep 4, 2013 | 66 comments

2035.

Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)

265 points by GuiA on Jul 8, 2013 | 64 comments

2036.

Single page apps in depth (singlepageappbook.com)

265 points by jaynate on Apr 13, 2013 | 53 comments

2037.

So You'd Like to Make a Map using Python (sensitivecities.com)

265 points by urschrei on Oct 24, 2013 | 40 comments

2038.

Powerchair: A dad hacks a wheelchair for his disabled 2-year-old son (hackingsma.com)