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.
1
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
ycombinator.com · pg · 19 Jul 2008
532 pts
381 comments
2
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
paulgraham.com · mqt · 16 Oct 2008
254 pts
195 comments
3
Love, Internet Style
youtube.com · dmoney · 12 Dec 2008
242 pts
43 comments
4
Arc's Out
paulgraham.com · pg · 29 Jan 2008
240 pts
124 comments
5
You weren't meant to have a boss
paulgraham.com · dfranke · 20 Mar 2008
239 pts
298 comments
6
Wow, check out this guy's comment
jmtame · 29 Dec 2008
233 pts
101 comments
7
Congrats to PG on getting hitched
twitter.com · champion · 1 Jun 2008
228 pts
95 comments
8
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape
themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com · rjmetricsjake · 6 Nov 2008
228 pts
26 comments
9
Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)
fourmilab.ch · eru · 20 Sep 2008
227 pts
56 comments
10
I don't want to work very hard
flaneur · 11 Dec 2008
224 pts
193 comments
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
12
Diary of a Failed Startup
diffle-history.blogspot.com · nostrademons · 23 Jun 2008
224 pts
34 comments
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
14
Start a side project, says GitHub founder
gist.github.com · aditya · 20 Aug 2008
210 pts
40 comments
15
Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive
gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 8 May 2008
198 pts
25 comments
16
So you want to be a consultant?
unixwiz.net · CaptainMorgan · 28 Dec 2008
193 pts
26 comments
17
New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
youtube.com · paulsb · 17 Mar 2008
192 pts
91 comments
18
Lies We Tell Kids
paulgraham.com · mqt · 13 May 2008
188 pts
418 comments
19
Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer
post-gazette.com · demandred · 25 Jul 2008
187 pts
57 comments
20
After Credentials
paulgraham.com · mqt · 16 Dec 2008
186 pts
201 comments
21
Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
duckduckgo.com · epi0Bauqu · 25 Sep 2008
186 pts
138 comments
22
Tell HN: Vote.
speek · 4 Nov 2008
184 pts
289 comments
23
How to Disagree
paulgraham.com · PieSquared · 29 Mar 2008
183 pts
224 comments
24
Be Good
paulgraham.com · vsingh · 20 Apr 2008
182 pts
202 comments
25
The other half of "Artists Ship"
paulgraham.com · tyn · 28 Nov 2008
182 pts
125 comments
26
A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · mqt · 29 Oct 2008
177 pts
66 comments
27
Hacker News Site Guidelines
ycombinator.com · pg · 10 Mar 2008
177 pts
35 comments
28
The nicest math book I own
math-blog.com · acangiano · 22 Dec 2008
175 pts
56 comments
29
Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement
mattmaroon.com · pchristensen · 24 Oct 2008
174 pts
169 comments
30
Profitable Until Deemed Illegal
codinghorror.com · imgabe · 12 Dec 2008
174 pts
130 comments
31
Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
paulgraham.com · Darmani · 16 Feb 2008
173 pts
118 comments
32
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
blogoscoped.com · nickb · 1 Sep 2008
173 pts
108 comments
33
Let's End Adolescence
businessweek.com · robg · 9 Nov 2008
172 pts
162 comments
34
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
wired.com · naish · 22 Apr 2008
172 pts
61 comments
35
Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)
betaversion.org · alexandros · 27 Oct 2008
172 pts
42 comments
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
37
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
theatlantic.com · crocus · 15 Jul 2008
170 pts
127 comments
38
The High-Res Society
paulgraham.com · mqt · 3 Dec 2008
168 pts
127 comments
39
Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
balsamiq.com · pchristensen · 14 Nov 2008
168 pts
72 comments
40
Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.
blog.reddit.com · icey · 18 Jun 2008
168 pts
66 comments
41
Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)
techcrunch.com · markbao · 30 Jul 2008
168 pts
45 comments
42
Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000
getacoder.com · jcapote · 25 Nov 2008
166 pts
83 comments
43
I'm out, baby
palish · 11 Sep 2008
164 pts
99 comments
44
Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
LukeG · 24 Nov 2008
163 pts
208 comments
45
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
paulgraham.com · mqt · 5 Dec 2008
160 pts
139 comments
46
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
nytimes.com · chaostheory · 19 Nov 2008
158 pts
188 comments
47
Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck
portfolio.com · tortilla · 17 Oct 2008
158 pts
67 comments
48
Cities and Ambition
paulgraham.com · mqt · 27 May 2008
156 pts
306 comments
49
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs
techcrunch.com · danielrhodes · 13 Aug 2008
156 pts
45 comments
50
Reflections of a YC Dropout
orianmarx.com · orianmarx · 12 Oct 2008
155 pts
161 comments
51
How people really use the iPhone
slideshare.net · wird · 10 Nov 2008
155 pts
60 comments
52
Rails and Merb Merge
yehudakatz.com · jarnold · 23 Dec 2008
155 pts
52 comments
53
Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?
jstn.cc · danw · 4 Dec 2008
155 pts
34 comments
54
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
paulgraham.com · Darmani · 17 May 2008
153 pts
198 comments
55
The Google Chrome download link is live.
google.com · ptm · 2 Sep 2008
153 pts
177 comments
56
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
herecomeseverybody.org · bdfh42 · 26 Apr 2008
153 pts
55 comments
57
Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
smashingmagazine.com · makimaki · 15 Dec 2008
153 pts
44 comments
58
Why There Aren't More Googles
paulgraham.com · ecommercematt · 14 Apr 2008
152 pts
154 comments
59
How do you generate passive income?
myoung8 · 6 Dec 2008
151 pts
146 comments
60
My Public Apology
tdavis · 21 Nov 2008
151 pts
108 comments