The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2009
We track 66 stories from February 2009, averaging 157 points each. paulgraham.com was the most linked source, with 4 stories. Together they drew 4,732 comments, 72 per story on average.
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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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2
What I've Learned from Hacker News
paulgraham.com · mqt · 25 Feb 2009
381 pts
119 comments
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3
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
bret.appspot.com · paul · 27 Feb 2009
347 pts
84 comments
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4
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
etherpad.com · pg · 26 Feb 2009
338 pts
126 comments
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6
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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7
Why CSS should not be used for layout
flownet.com · lisper · 3 Feb 2009
248 pts
147 comments
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9
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
catonmat.net · pkrumins · 2 Feb 2009
201 pts
63 comments
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10
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
evanmiller.org · marcus · 12 Feb 2009
195 pts
56 comments
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11
New Product From 280North: Atlas
280atlas.com · jasonlbaptiste · 24 Feb 2009
192 pts
73 comments
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12
Papers Every Programmer Should Read
blog.objectmentor.com · soundsop · 27 Feb 2009
189 pts
14 comments
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13
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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14
How Not to Pitch to a Startup
particletree.com · unfoldedorigami · 19 Feb 2009
184 pts
44 comments
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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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17
The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote
forabeautifulweb.com · mixmax · 2 Feb 2009
164 pts
30 comments
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18
The Audacity of Doing Nothing
blogs.law.harvard.edu · peter123 · 12 Feb 2009
159 pts
111 comments
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19
On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
blog.directededge.com · wheels · 27 Feb 2009
159 pts
43 comments
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20
How I almost killed Facebook
matt-welsh.blogspot.com · neilc · 26 Feb 2009
157 pts
55 comments
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21
Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?
thepiratebay.org · Flemlord · 24 Feb 2009
154 pts
63 comments
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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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23
I was driven mad by the Chinese education system
en.chinaelections.org · divia · 15 Feb 2009
150 pts
140 comments
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24
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0
eastbayexpress.com · brianmckenzie · 19 Feb 2009
150 pts
59 comments
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25
Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?
newseller · 19 Feb 2009
148 pts
216 comments
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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
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29
That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.
portfolio.com · eli · 12 Feb 2009
142 pts
24 comments
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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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31
The Little Coder's Predicament
whytheluckystiff.net · mqt · 11 Feb 2009
138 pts
104 comments
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32
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
catonmat.net · twampss · 17 Feb 2009
138 pts
22 comments
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33
Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors
selectorgadget.com · tectonic · 26 Feb 2009
137 pts
25 comments
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34
Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE
labs.mozilla.com · mqt · 13 Feb 2009
136 pts
43 comments
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35
Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store
igvita.com · igrigorik · 13 Feb 2009
135 pts
21 comments
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36
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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37
Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator.
chronicle.com · makimaki · 24 Feb 2009
134 pts
56 comments
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38
Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for
nytimes.com · divia · 14 Feb 2009
134 pts
30 comments
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40
Daily Routines: How interesting people organize their day.
dailyroutines.typepad.com · azharcs · 15 Feb 2009
132 pts
31 comments
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41
Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding
ycombinator.com · pg · 9 Feb 2009
131 pts
80 comments
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42
I Became a Savant For a Day
nytimes.com · jackchristopher · 14 Feb 2009
130 pts
52 comments
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44
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
paulgraham.com · mqt · 28 Feb 2009
124 pts
127 comments
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46
How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes
secretgeek.net · Anon84 · 8 Feb 2009
122 pts
44 comments
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47
Download the internet
dotnetdotcom.org · daleharvey · 3 Feb 2009
121 pts
49 comments
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48
An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff
waferbaby.com · sant0sk1 · 16 Feb 2009
115 pts
38 comments
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49
Technology is Heroin
whattofix.com · DanielBMarkham · 7 Feb 2009
113 pts
59 comments
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50
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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52
Programmers, Promise Yourself This
artisansystem.com · leftnode · 3 Feb 2009
109 pts
75 comments
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53
The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding
blogmaverick.com · reitzensteinm · 10 Feb 2009
108 pts
91 comments
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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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55
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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57
Better lighting for your computer
stereopsis.com · nreece · 20 Feb 2009
107 pts
42 comments
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58
All we want are the facts, ma'am.
norvig.com · cdibona · 23 Feb 2009
107 pts
20 comments
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59
Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout
newmediacampaigns.com · JoelSutherland · 3 Feb 2009
106 pts
57 comments
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60
Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek
onstartups.com · bdfh42 · 6 Feb 2009
106 pts
49 comments
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