The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2009

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New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. pg · 31 Jan 2009

532 pts 137 comments

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Some things need to change techcrunch.com · zhyder · 28 Jan 2009

287 pts 204 comments

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A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough... radian.org · jdnier · 8 Jan 2009

224 pts 51 comments

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Why Google Employees Quit techcrunch.com · peter123 · 18 Jan 2009

202 pts 98 comments

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How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008 pseudocoder.com · hbien · 7 Jan 2009

190 pts 60 comments

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Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks inc.com · twampss · 14 Jan 2009

188 pts 84 comments

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Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George friendfeed.com · brlewis · 25 Jan 2009

188 pts 77 comments

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How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage userscape.com · matthewking · 29 Jan 2009

185 pts 65 comments

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The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective semyon.com · prakash · 14 Jan 2009

185 pts 60 comments

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Potion - a little fast OO language by _why github.com · arockwell · 8 Jan 2009

183 pts 55 comments

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The 37signals Effect lbrandy.com · wheels · 19 Jan 2009

171 pts 75 comments

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Taming Perfectionism defmacro.org · apgwoz · 27 Jan 2009

170 pts 39 comments

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Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it pclark · 30 Jan 2009

164 pts 53 comments

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Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins ibm.com · jaspertheghost · 15 Jan 2009

162 pts 53 comments

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Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence blogs.wsj.com · bootload · 14 Jan 2009

159 pts 107 comments

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YHackers: Click that "New" link bprater · 22 Jan 2009

157 pts 59 comments

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Working from Home: Why It Sucks geeksinboston.com · shimon · 26 Jan 2009

156 pts 101 comments

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Steve Jobs speaks out about his health apple.com · spif · 5 Jan 2009

153 pts 91 comments

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Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like? upload.wikimedia.org · makimaki · 20 Jan 2009

151 pts 46 comments

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Starting this summer, YC will be in California year-round ycombinator.com · pg · 22 Jan 2009

150 pts 101 comments

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Congratulations PG on the coming child trickjarrett · 22 Jan 2009

149 pts 52 comments

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Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week) blog.penelopetrunk.com · AlexeyMK · 9 Jan 2009

146 pts 72 comments

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Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 22 Jan 2009

144 pts 29 comments

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How to Choose Chart Types (pic) flickr.com · nickb · 24 Jan 2009

143 pts 12 comments

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My Git Workflow gweezlebur.com · PStamatiou · 20 Jan 2009

142 pts 25 comments

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Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry blog.dreamhost.com · jadence · 13 Jan 2009

139 pts 49 comments

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Advice from a once burnt-out programmer miketec.org · anuraggoel · 11 Jan 2009

136 pts 52 comments

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How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget gamedev.net · frisco · 17 Jan 2009

134 pts 51 comments

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Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar frisnit.com · theoneill · 6 Jan 2009

134 pts 27 comments

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Anatomy of a Program in Memory duartes.org · signa11 · 27 Jan 2009

134 pts 23 comments

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Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS jamesmolloy.co.uk · yawniek · 3 Jan 2009

130 pts 16 comments

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Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page ycombinator.com · popat · 6 Jan 2009

129 pts 32 comments

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Why I Hate Frameworks discuss.joelonsoftware.com · Jebdm · 13 Jan 2009

126 pts 125 comments

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Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself. bemmu · 9 Jan 2009

123 pts 251 comments

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Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk? derwiki · 20 Jan 2009

123 pts 80 comments

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How to Pick a Language web.mac.com · jimbokun · 23 Jan 2009

123 pts 71 comments

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Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008 blog.cusec.net · edwardog · 5 Jan 2009

123 pts 51 comments

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Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog crunchgear.com · tptacek · 6 Jan 2009

122 pts 88 comments

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How Cook's Illustrated thrives while others are dying 37signals.com · brm · 12 Jan 2009

119 pts 31 comments

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I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard mattiasgeniar.be · Anon84 · 29 Jan 2009

118 pts 45 comments

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News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats) ycombinator.com · pg · 15 Jan 2009

117 pts 82 comments

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Hack your brain: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio boston.com · makimaki · 12 Jan 2009

116 pts 37 comments

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The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself softwarebyrob.com · swapspace · 11 Jan 2009

114 pts 23 comments

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The $300 Million Button uie.com · astrec · 14 Jan 2009

113 pts 43 comments

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Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0 briancarper.net · mqt · 19 Jan 2009

112 pts 68 comments

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Teensy USB Development Board - 16MHz, $19 pjrc.com · andreyf · 30 Jan 2009

110 pts 58 comments

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Gmail goes offline with Google Gears gmailblog.blogspot.com · wastedbrains · 28 Jan 2009

110 pts 50 comments

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How we use IRC at Last.fm metabrew.com · dcancel · 9 Jan 2009

109 pts 35 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? daniel_ · 16 Jan 2009

108 pts 161 comments

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English-Prime - English without "is" en.wikipedia.org · silentbicycle · 5 Jan 2009

108 pts 76 comments

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Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles radar.oreilly.com · agrinshtein · 11 Jan 2009

107 pts 20 comments

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Unusual disk latency blogs.sun.com · there · 2 Jan 2009

106 pts 22 comments

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'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years online.wsj.com · epi0Bauqu · 9 Jan 2009

105 pts 141 comments

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JQuery 1.3 Released blog.jquery.com · rickharrison · 14 Jan 2009

105 pts 29 comments

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Designing Web Interfaces: Standard Screen Patterns designingwebinterfaces.com · nreece · 21 Jan 2009

105 pts 22 comments

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The best paper airplane in the world zurqui.com · wallflower · 5 Jan 2009

104 pts 30 comments

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Ask HN: Best HN threads in '08? iloveyouocean · 2 Jan 2009

104 pts 16 comments

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Slashdotter on the value of ideas versus execution ask.slashdot.org · alex_c · 7 Jan 2009

100 pts 70 comments

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Why PHP won startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com · eries · 16 Jan 2009

100 pts 59 comments