The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2008
We track 25 stories from September 2008, averaging 134 points each. Together they drew 1,723 comments, 69 per story on average.
1
Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)
fourmilab.ch · eru · 20 Sep 2008
227 pts
56 comments
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2
Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
duckduckgo.com · epi0Bauqu · 25 Sep 2008
186 pts
138 comments
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3
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
blogoscoped.com · nickb · 1 Sep 2008
173 pts
108 comments
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5
The Google Chrome download link is live.
google.com · ptm · 2 Sep 2008
153 pts
177 comments
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6
Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)
blog.getdropbox.com · dhouston · 11 Sep 2008
144 pts
80 comments
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7
Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C
scumola · 9 Sep 2008
140 pts
120 comments
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8
Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer
cnn.com · gibsonf1 · 30 Sep 2008
139 pts
84 comments
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9
Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
sidsavara.com · colinplamondon · 23 Sep 2008
135 pts
73 comments
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10
Django 1.0 is finally here
code.djangoproject.com · zain · 3 Sep 2008
132 pts
20 comments
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11
$700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets
msnbc.msn.com · kirse · 29 Sep 2008
130 pts
189 comments
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12
A guy tries to find the origins of a Windows desktop image
vanityfair.com · marketer · 1 Sep 2008
129 pts
15 comments
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13
How My Start-Up Failed
stanfordalumni.org · parenthesis · 14 Sep 2008
128 pts
61 comments
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15
The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)
detailingworld.co.uk · daniel-cussen · 5 Sep 2008
127 pts
37 comments
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18
How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town
gourmet.com · antiform · 29 Sep 2008
117 pts
41 comments
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19
10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill.
tenthousandcents.com · shafqat · 24 Sep 2008
115 pts
48 comments
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20
The best description of the fed bailout
angrybear.blogspot.com · myth_drannon · 23 Sep 2008
114 pts
24 comments
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21
Lehman going bankrupt. Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com · furiouslol · 14 Sep 2008
110 pts
85 comments
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22
"Why I Hate Django" - DjangoCon 2008 Keynote by Cal Henderson [vid]
uk.youtube.com · danw · 16 Sep 2008
107 pts
24 comments
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23
How To Become An Open-Source Contractor
emiller.info · antiform · 30 Sep 2008
103 pts
15 comments
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24
Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk
iamelgringo.blogspot.com · kf · 9 Sep 2008
102 pts
39 comments
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25
Jason Fried - 10 Things We've Learned at 37Signals
krisjordan.com · KrisJordan · 17 Sep 2008
102 pts
28 comments
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