The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2008

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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy paulgraham.com · mqt · 16 Oct 2008

254 pts 195 comments

2

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 20 Oct 2008

224 pts 68 comments

3

A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish steve-yegge.blogspot.com · mqt · 29 Oct 2008

177 pts 66 comments

4

Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement mattmaroon.com · pchristensen · 24 Oct 2008

174 pts 169 comments

5

Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide) betaversion.org · alexandros · 27 Oct 2008

172 pts 42 comments

6

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck portfolio.com · tortilla · 17 Oct 2008

158 pts 67 comments

7

Reflections of a YC Dropout orianmarx.com · orianmarx · 12 Oct 2008

155 pts 161 comments

8

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell newyorker.com · robg · 13 Oct 2008

150 pts 40 comments

9

IPhone NDA officially dropped developer.apple.com · KirinDave · 1 Oct 2008

145 pts 52 comments

10

Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 27 Oct 2008

143 pts 23 comments

11

Paul Krugman: How I work princeton.edu · gabrielroth · 14 Oct 2008

135 pts 47 comments

12

Python 2.6 Released python.org · forsaken · 2 Oct 2008

130 pts 31 comments

13

The Universal Design Pattern steve-yegge.blogspot.com · mqt · 20 Oct 2008

127 pts 44 comments

14

A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes blog.weatherby.net · lanceweatherby · 9 Oct 2008

123 pts 61 comments

15

Rackspace acquire Slicehost slicehost.com · maryrosecook · 22 Oct 2008

121 pts 54 comments

16

Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free stanford.edu · petercooper · 30 Oct 2008

120 pts 23 comments

17

How to go down with style alecco · 13 Oct 2008

117 pts 32 comments

18

Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend thinkvitamin.com · madmotive · 29 Oct 2008

117 pts 28 comments

19

Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? nocivus · 23 Oct 2008

113 pts 25 comments

20

Whiner Jerkins All Hands Meeting Powerpoint Revealed mattmaroon.com · JRM · 13 Oct 2008

111 pts 49 comments

21

Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich blogmaverick.com · joshstaiger · 4 Oct 2008

108 pts 63 comments

22

Pixlr - the online image editor pixlr.com · baltoo · 27 Oct 2008

105 pts 48 comments

23

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer lbrandy.com · lbrandy · 6 Oct 2008

105 pts 47 comments

24

Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu · michael_dorfman · 30 Oct 2008

102 pts 71 comments

25

Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose mathoda.com · mathoda · 2 Oct 2008

102 pts 64 comments

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I find this startup rather disturbing... spokeo.com · iamelgringo · 14 Oct 2008

100 pts 72 comments