The Best Hacker News Posts of 2008
We track 205 stories from 2008, averaging 140 points each. paulgraham.com was the most linked source, with 19 stories. Together they drew 15,977 comments, 78 per story on average.
1
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
ycombinator.com · pg · 19 Jul 2008
532 pts
381 comments
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2
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
paulgraham.com · mqt · 16 Oct 2008
254 pts
195 comments
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5
You weren't meant to have a boss
paulgraham.com · dfranke · 20 Mar 2008
239 pts
298 comments
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7
Congrats to PG on getting hitched
twitter.com · champion · 1 Jun 2008
228 pts
95 comments
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8
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape
themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com · rjmetricsjake · 6 Nov 2008
228 pts
26 comments
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9
Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)
fourmilab.ch · eru · 20 Sep 2008
227 pts
56 comments
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11
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
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12
Diary of a Failed Startup
diffle-history.blogspot.com · nostrademons · 23 Jun 2008
224 pts
34 comments
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13
How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)
nukemanbill.blogspot.com · rob · 1 Aug 2008
220 pts
42 comments
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14
Start a side project, says GitHub founder
gist.github.com · aditya · 20 Aug 2008
210 pts
40 comments
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15
Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive
gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 8 May 2008
198 pts
25 comments
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16
So you want to be a consultant?
unixwiz.net · CaptainMorgan · 28 Dec 2008
193 pts
26 comments
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17
New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
youtube.com · paulsb · 17 Mar 2008
192 pts
91 comments
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19
Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer
post-gazette.com · demandred · 25 Jul 2008
187 pts
57 comments
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21
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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25
The other half of "Artists Ship"
paulgraham.com · tyn · 28 Nov 2008
182 pts
125 comments
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26
A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · mqt · 29 Oct 2008
177 pts
66 comments
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28
The nicest math book I own
math-blog.com · acangiano · 22 Dec 2008
175 pts
56 comments
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29
Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement
mattmaroon.com · pchristensen · 24 Oct 2008
174 pts
169 comments
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30
Profitable Until Deemed Illegal
codinghorror.com · imgabe · 12 Dec 2008
174 pts
130 comments
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31
Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
paulgraham.com · Darmani · 16 Feb 2008
173 pts
118 comments
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32
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
blogoscoped.com · nickb · 1 Sep 2008
173 pts
108 comments
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34
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
wired.com · naish · 22 Apr 2008
172 pts
61 comments
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35
Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)
betaversion.org · alexandros · 27 Oct 2008
172 pts
42 comments
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36
Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference
guardian.co.uk · danw · 10 Dec 2008
171 pts
69 comments
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37
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
theatlantic.com · crocus · 15 Jul 2008
170 pts
127 comments
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39
Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
balsamiq.com · pchristensen · 14 Nov 2008
168 pts
72 comments
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40
Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.
blog.reddit.com · icey · 18 Jun 2008
168 pts
66 comments
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41
Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)
techcrunch.com · markbao · 30 Jul 2008
168 pts
45 comments
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42
Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000
getacoder.com · jcapote · 25 Nov 2008
166 pts
83 comments
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45
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
paulgraham.com · mqt · 5 Dec 2008
160 pts
139 comments
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46
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
nytimes.com · chaostheory · 19 Nov 2008
158 pts
188 comments
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47
Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck
portfolio.com · tortilla · 17 Oct 2008
158 pts
67 comments
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49
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs
techcrunch.com · danielrhodes · 13 Aug 2008
156 pts
45 comments
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50
Reflections of a YC Dropout
orianmarx.com · orianmarx · 12 Oct 2008
155 pts
161 comments
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51
How people really use the iPhone
slideshare.net · wird · 10 Nov 2008
155 pts
60 comments
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53
Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?
jstn.cc · danw · 4 Dec 2008
155 pts
34 comments
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54
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
paulgraham.com · Darmani · 17 May 2008
153 pts
198 comments
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55
The Google Chrome download link is live.
google.com · ptm · 2 Sep 2008
153 pts
177 comments
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56
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
herecomeseverybody.org · bdfh42 · 26 Apr 2008
153 pts
55 comments
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57
Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
smashingmagazine.com · makimaki · 15 Dec 2008
153 pts
44 comments
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58
Why There Aren't More Googles
paulgraham.com · ecommercematt · 14 Apr 2008
152 pts
154 comments
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