The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2009

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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" blog.last.fm · arthurk · 23 Feb 2009

413 pts 101 comments

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What I've Learned from Hacker News paulgraham.com · mqt · 25 Feb 2009

381 pts 119 comments

3

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data bret.appspot.com · paul · 27 Feb 2009

347 pts 84 comments

4

The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad etherpad.com · pg · 26 Feb 2009

338 pts 126 comments

5

Startups in 13 Sentences paulgraham.com · mqt · 23 Feb 2009

322 pts 101 comments

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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08) axonflux.com · arjunlall · 22 Feb 2009

249 pts 55 comments

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Why CSS should not be used for layout flownet.com · lisper · 3 Feb 2009

248 pts 147 comments

8

Keep Your Identity Small paulgraham.com · mqt · 8 Feb 2009

234 pts 253 comments

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A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer catonmat.net · pkrumins · 2 Feb 2009

201 pts 63 comments

10

How Not To Sort By Average Rating evanmiller.org · marcus · 12 Feb 2009

195 pts 56 comments

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New Product From 280North: Atlas 280atlas.com · jasonlbaptiste · 24 Feb 2009

192 pts 73 comments

12

Papers Every Programmer Should Read blog.objectmentor.com · soundsop · 27 Feb 2009

189 pts 14 comments

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I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. slate.com · peter123 · 2 Feb 2009

186 pts 96 comments

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How Not to Pitch to a Startup particletree.com · unfoldedorigami · 19 Feb 2009

184 pts 44 comments

15

Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. timothyfitz.wordpress.com · TimothyFitz · 10 Feb 2009

172 pts 73 comments

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Hacker News is 2 ycombinator.com · pg · 19 Feb 2009

165 pts 67 comments

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The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote forabeautifulweb.com · mixmax · 2 Feb 2009

164 pts 30 comments

18

The Audacity of Doing Nothing blogs.law.harvard.edu · peter123 · 12 Feb 2009

159 pts 111 comments

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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database blog.directededge.com · wheels · 27 Feb 2009

159 pts 43 comments

20

How I almost killed Facebook matt-welsh.blogspot.com · neilc · 26 Feb 2009

157 pts 55 comments

21

Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay? thepiratebay.org · Flemlord · 24 Feb 2009

154 pts 63 comments

22

How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 zerohedge.blogspot.com · robg · 10 Feb 2009

153 pts 100 comments

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I was driven mad by the Chinese education system en.chinaelections.org · divia · 15 Feb 2009

150 pts 140 comments

24

Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 eastbayexpress.com · brianmckenzie · 19 Feb 2009

150 pts 59 comments

25

Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now? newseller · 19 Feb 2009

148 pts 216 comments

26

Don’t Work for Assholes powazek.com · danw · 3 Feb 2009

146 pts 64 comments

27

Fun With HTTP Headers nextthing.org · parenthesis · 11 Feb 2009

144 pts 22 comments

28

"There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates ted.com · wyday · 6 Feb 2009

142 pts 70 comments

29

That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen. portfolio.com · eli · 12 Feb 2009

142 pts 24 comments

30

Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy. kk.org · old-gregg · 25 Feb 2009

139 pts 42 comments

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The Little Coder's Predicament whytheluckystiff.net · mqt · 11 Feb 2009

138 pts 104 comments

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A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat catonmat.net · twampss · 17 Feb 2009

138 pts 22 comments

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Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors selectorgadget.com · tectonic · 26 Feb 2009

137 pts 25 comments

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Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE labs.mozilla.com · mqt · 13 Feb 2009

136 pts 43 comments

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Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store igvita.com · igrigorik · 13 Feb 2009

135 pts 21 comments

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Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in Computer Science ir.bbn.com · dedalus · 26 Feb 2009

134 pts 59 comments

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Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator. chronicle.com · makimaki · 24 Feb 2009

134 pts 56 comments

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Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for nytimes.com · divia · 14 Feb 2009

134 pts 30 comments

39

Mindfuck Movies themorningnews.org · chrisconley · 13 Feb 2009

132 pts 95 comments

40

Daily Routines: How interesting people organize their day. dailyroutines.typepad.com · azharcs · 15 Feb 2009

132 pts 31 comments

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Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding ycombinator.com · pg · 9 Feb 2009

131 pts 80 comments

42

I Became a Savant For a Day nytimes.com · jackchristopher · 14 Feb 2009

130 pts 52 comments

43

Life at Wal-Mart boingboing.net · lackbeard · 2 Feb 2009

125 pts 55 comments

44

Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. paulgraham.com · mqt · 28 Feb 2009

124 pts 127 comments

45

Mysterious number 6174 plus.maths.org · imgabe · 13 Feb 2009

124 pts 41 comments

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How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes secretgeek.net · Anon84 · 8 Feb 2009

122 pts 44 comments

47

Download the internet dotnetdotcom.org · daleharvey · 3 Feb 2009

121 pts 49 comments

48

An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff waferbaby.com · sant0sk1 · 16 Feb 2009

115 pts 38 comments

49

Technology is Heroin whattofix.com · DanielBMarkham · 7 Feb 2009

113 pts 59 comments

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Y Combinator’s FathomDB Takes The Hassle Out Of Managing Your Database techcrunch.com · jmorin007 · 28 Feb 2009

110 pts 43 comments

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Recreating the button stopdesign.com · peter123 · 5 Feb 2009

110 pts 37 comments

52

Programmers, Promise Yourself This artisansystem.com · leftnode · 3 Feb 2009

109 pts 75 comments

53

The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding blogmaverick.com · reitzensteinm · 10 Feb 2009

108 pts 91 comments

54

Ask HN: Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN clusterify.com · aneesh · 18 Feb 2009

108 pts 59 comments

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Don't use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass instead gom-jabbar.org · gommm · 4 Feb 2009

108 pts 33 comments

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New Comment Features ycombinator.com · pg · 5 Feb 2009

107 pts 225 comments

57

Better lighting for your computer stereopsis.com · nreece · 20 Feb 2009

107 pts 42 comments

58

All we want are the facts, ma'am. norvig.com · cdibona · 23 Feb 2009

107 pts 20 comments

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Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout newmediacampaigns.com · JoelSutherland · 3 Feb 2009

106 pts 57 comments

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Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek onstartups.com · bdfh42 · 6 Feb 2009

106 pts 49 comments