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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.

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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
2
The Innards of Erlang contekst.org · jasonlbaptiste · 11 Mar 2009
327 pts 34 comments
3
Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail" 37signals.com · ionfish · 31 Mar 2009
291 pts 142 comments
4
Why HN is slow lately pg · 11 Mar 2009
270 pts 122 comments
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
6
Understanding Git eecs.harvard.edu · cduan · 25 Mar 2009
258 pts 12 comments
7
Starting up with a friend danieltenner.com · swombat · 11 Mar 2009
252 pts 59 comments
8
Be Relentlessly Resourceful paulgraham.com · herdrick · 9 Mar 2009
241 pts 161 comments
9
Why I Sued Google (and Won) huffingtonpost.com · thinkcomp · 6 Mar 2009
222 pts 110 comments
10
Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009 ycombinator.com · pg · 16 Mar 2009
222 pts 49 comments
11
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python wisdomandwonder.com · vorador · 24 Mar 2009
219 pts 128 comments
12
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek washingtonpost.com · peter123 · 19 Mar 2009
194 pts 75 comments
13
How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops danieltenner.com · swombat · 24 Mar 2009
190 pts 40 comments
14
Command-line Fu commandlinefu.com · mariorz · 22 Mar 2009
189 pts 22 comments
15
Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google stopdesign.com · mrkurt · 20 Mar 2009
188 pts 96 comments
16
Zed's "One Battery Review" of Django zedshaw.com · jacoblyles · 20 Mar 2009
188 pts 35 comments
17
Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre wired.com · nadim · 27 Mar 2009
181 pts 82 comments
18
Not Lisp again.... funcall.blogspot.com · spydez · 5 Mar 2009
178 pts 39 comments
19
Y Combinator in Erlang bc.tech.coop · coglethorpe · 11 Mar 2009
174 pts 2 comments
20
Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch ft.com · arihelgason · 28 Mar 2009
170 pts 46 comments
21
Google Ventures google.com · epi0Bauqu · 31 Mar 2009
167 pts 46 comments
22
IP Address Geolocation database blogama.org · jrnkntl · 24 Mar 2009
164 pts 30 comments
23
Why TV Lost paulgraham.com · ecommercematt · 3 Mar 2009
161 pts 183 comments
24
How to be a program manager joelonsoftware.com · twampss · 9 Mar 2009
161 pts 43 comments
25
Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots cringely.com · tptacek · 14 Mar 2009
157 pts 73 comments
26
Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good. techcrunch.com · vaksel · 12 Mar 2009
157 pts 52 comments
27
Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval techcrunch.com · vaksel · 16 Mar 2009
153 pts 44 comments
28
Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons dabuttonfactory.com · palsecam · 8 Mar 2009
149 pts 92 comments
29
Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon telegraph.co.uk · frisco · 17 Mar 2009
149 pts 42 comments
30
DHH: Fuck the Real World rubyrailways.com · pet3r · 10 Mar 2009
149 pts 36 comments
31
How I make 15K a month at AdSense blackhatworld.com · AndrewWarner · 11 Mar 2009
145 pts 83 comments
32
How to Write Fast Code asserttrue.blogspot.com · techdog · 23 Mar 2009
143 pts 42 comments
33
The Erlang Distribution en.wikipedia.org · coglethorpe · 11 Mar 2009
142 pts 3 comments
34
How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders fourhourworkweek.com · mattjaynes · 5 Mar 2009
140 pts 64 comments
35
Erlang - The Movie lambda-the-ultimate.org · moe · 11 Mar 2009
140 pts 4 comments
36
IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc engadget.com · sama · 17 Mar 2009
138 pts 141 comments
37
Dropped IE support for Instapaper marco.org · atestu · 2 Mar 2009
138 pts 79 comments
38
Python switching to Mercurial mail.python.org · davidw · 30 Mar 2009
138 pts 59 comments
39
Git is the next Unix advogato.org · kmt · 6 Mar 2009
137 pts 34 comments
40
6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better anandtech.com · blasdel · 19 Mar 2009
136 pts 56 comments
41
Academic Hacker News cs.toronto.edu · ambition · 6 Mar 2009
136 pts 37 comments
42
How Rich Countries Die blogs.law.harvard.edu · lackbeard · 16 Mar 2009
135 pts 45 comments
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
44
How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour without special materials riccibitti.com · ph0rque · 30 Mar 2009
131 pts 30 comments
45
How to stop the drug wars economist.com · arjunb · 8 Mar 2009
129 pts 155 comments
46
Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue streamingcolour.com · twampss · 12 Mar 2009
128 pts 53 comments
47
Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker calacanis.com · azharcs · 5 Mar 2009
128 pts 52 comments
48
Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what you'd guess sources.redhat.com · aston · 10 Mar 2009
127 pts 70 comments
49
Erlang Shen en.wikipedia.org · noodle · 11 Mar 2009
127 pts 6 comments
50
Icelandic logic behind the meltdown vanityfair.com · wave · 4 Mar 2009
126 pts 44 comments
51
SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966) alexisparkinn.com · frisco · 17 Mar 2009
126 pts 34 comments
52
Advice to Summer YC Applicants ycombinator.com · pg · 23 Mar 2009
125 pts 53 comments
53
Stop pouring hot water down the drain green.yahoo.com · chaostheory · 25 Mar 2009
125 pts 49 comments
54
Undo Send in Gmail gmailblog.blogspot.com · KevinBongart · 19 Mar 2009
124 pts 63 comments
55
Getting Started with Erlang [pdf] erlang.org · coglethorpe · 11 Mar 2009
124 pts 0 comments
56
Don't launch startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com · peter123 · 13 Mar 2009
123 pts 19 comments
57
Color Scheme Designer 3 colorschemedesigner.com · melvinram · 9 Mar 2009
123 pts 17 comments
58
How to Be an Angel Investor paulgraham.com · sama · 7 Mar 2009
122 pts 54 comments
59
Six Lessons Learned from Domain Pigeon’s First Six Weeks mattmazur.com · matt1 · 16 Mar 2009
122 pts 15 comments
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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