The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2009
We track 86 stories from March 2009, averaging 151 points each. danieltenner.com was the most linked source, with 3 stories. Together they drew 4,530 comments, 53 per story on average.
1
Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
slash7.com · ahoyhere · 26 Mar 2009
400 pts
150 comments
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2
The Innards of Erlang
contekst.org · jasonlbaptiste · 11 Mar 2009
327 pts
34 comments
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3
Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
37signals.com · ionfish · 31 Mar 2009
291 pts
142 comments
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5
My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.
printthis.clickability.com · gaika · 30 Mar 2009
260 pts
43 comments
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7
Starting up with a friend
danieltenner.com · swombat · 11 Mar 2009
252 pts
59 comments
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8
Be Relentlessly Resourceful
paulgraham.com · herdrick · 9 Mar 2009
241 pts
161 comments
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9
Why I Sued Google (and Won)
huffingtonpost.com · thinkcomp · 6 Mar 2009
222 pts
110 comments
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10
Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009
ycombinator.com · pg · 16 Mar 2009
222 pts
49 comments
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11
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
wisdomandwonder.com · vorador · 24 Mar 2009
219 pts
128 comments
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12
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
washingtonpost.com · peter123 · 19 Mar 2009
194 pts
75 comments
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13
How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops
danieltenner.com · swombat · 24 Mar 2009
190 pts
40 comments
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15
Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google
stopdesign.com · mrkurt · 20 Mar 2009
188 pts
96 comments
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16
Zed's "One Battery Review" of Django
zedshaw.com · jacoblyles · 20 Mar 2009
188 pts
35 comments
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17
Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
wired.com · nadim · 27 Mar 2009
181 pts
82 comments
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20
Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch
ft.com · arihelgason · 28 Mar 2009
170 pts
46 comments
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22
IP Address Geolocation database
blogama.org · jrnkntl · 24 Mar 2009
164 pts
30 comments
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24
How to be a program manager
joelonsoftware.com · twampss · 9 Mar 2009
161 pts
43 comments
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25
Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots
cringely.com · tptacek · 14 Mar 2009
157 pts
73 comments
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26
Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.
techcrunch.com · vaksel · 12 Mar 2009
157 pts
52 comments
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27
Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval
techcrunch.com · vaksel · 16 Mar 2009
153 pts
44 comments
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28
Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
dabuttonfactory.com · palsecam · 8 Mar 2009
149 pts
92 comments
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29
Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
telegraph.co.uk · frisco · 17 Mar 2009
149 pts
42 comments
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31
How I make 15K a month at AdSense
blackhatworld.com · AndrewWarner · 11 Mar 2009
145 pts
83 comments
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32
How to Write Fast Code
asserttrue.blogspot.com · techdog · 23 Mar 2009
143 pts
42 comments
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33
The Erlang Distribution
en.wikipedia.org · coglethorpe · 11 Mar 2009
142 pts
3 comments
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34
How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
fourhourworkweek.com · mattjaynes · 5 Mar 2009
140 pts
64 comments
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36
IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc
engadget.com · sama · 17 Mar 2009
138 pts
141 comments
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37
Dropped IE support for Instapaper
marco.org · atestu · 2 Mar 2009
138 pts
79 comments
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38
Python switching to Mercurial
mail.python.org · davidw · 30 Mar 2009
138 pts
59 comments
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40
6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better
anandtech.com · blasdel · 19 Mar 2009
136 pts
56 comments
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42
How Rich Countries Die
blogs.law.harvard.edu · lackbeard · 16 Mar 2009
135 pts
45 comments
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43
How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy.
slate.com · vaksel · 30 Mar 2009
132 pts
54 comments
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44
How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour without special materials
riccibitti.com · ph0rque · 30 Mar 2009
131 pts
30 comments
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46
Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
streamingcolour.com · twampss · 12 Mar 2009
128 pts
53 comments
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47
Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker
calacanis.com · azharcs · 5 Mar 2009
128 pts
52 comments
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48
Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what you'd guess
sources.redhat.com · aston · 10 Mar 2009
127 pts
70 comments
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50
Icelandic logic behind the meltdown
vanityfair.com · wave · 4 Mar 2009
126 pts
44 comments
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51
SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)
alexisparkinn.com · frisco · 17 Mar 2009
126 pts
34 comments
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52
Advice to Summer YC Applicants
ycombinator.com · pg · 23 Mar 2009
125 pts
53 comments
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53
Stop pouring hot water down the drain
green.yahoo.com · chaostheory · 25 Mar 2009
125 pts
49 comments
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54
Undo Send in Gmail
gmailblog.blogspot.com · KevinBongart · 19 Mar 2009
124 pts
63 comments
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55
Getting Started with Erlang [pdf]
erlang.org · coglethorpe · 11 Mar 2009
124 pts
0 comments
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56
Don't launch
startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com · peter123 · 13 Mar 2009
123 pts
19 comments
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57
Color Scheme Designer 3
colorschemedesigner.com · melvinram · 9 Mar 2009
123 pts
17 comments
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59
Six Lessons Learned from Domain Pigeon’s First Six Weeks
mattmazur.com · matt1 · 16 Mar 2009
122 pts
15 comments
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60
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking
techradar.com · nickb · 18 Mar 2009
119 pts
70 comments
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