The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2009

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Oracle to buy Sun sun.com · justinsb · 20 Apr 2009

249 pts 121 comments

2

Google uncloaks once-secret server news.cnet.com · ars · 1 Apr 2009

238 pts 53 comments

3

Pirate Bay officially loses case torrentfreak.com · chris11 · 17 Apr 2009

226 pts 164 comments

4

Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000 jonengle.com · minus · 6 Apr 2009

206 pts 45 comments

5

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC) hnstartups.com · markbao · 21 Apr 2009

205 pts 47 comments

6

Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations. thelocal.se · yason · 23 Apr 2009

202 pts 38 comments

7

The Founder Visa paulgraham.com · pg · 10 Apr 2009

200 pts 151 comments

8

Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 17 Apr 2009

186 pts 59 comments

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Five Founders paulgraham.com · rams · 1 Apr 2009

179 pts 66 comments

10

Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise inc.com · twampss · 1 Apr 2009

175 pts 91 comments

11

The dark side of Dubai independent.co.uk · fiaz · 7 Apr 2009

174 pts 66 comments

12

Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid alternet.org · alexitosrv · 17 Apr 2009

172 pts 147 comments

13

YC Rejected: Please read. kyro · 7 Apr 2009

171 pts 31 comments

14

Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead? raganwald · 30 Apr 2009

165 pts 102 comments

15

There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste online.wsj.com · ivankirigin · 30 Apr 2009

162 pts 117 comments

16

Fuck the foundries diveintomark.org · zcrar70 · 21 Apr 2009

161 pts 105 comments

17

FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why sites.google.com · vaksel · 4 Apr 2009

158 pts 49 comments

18

Ubuntu 9.04 released ubuntu.com · mcxx · 23 Apr 2009

154 pts 116 comments

19

Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com · chrislo · 14 Apr 2009

154 pts 63 comments

20

"I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word sama · 28 Apr 2009

154 pts 62 comments

21

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce aws.amazon.com · thamer · 2 Apr 2009

148 pts 60 comments

22

Stephen Hawking 'very ill' cnn.com · kf · 20 Apr 2009

144 pts 57 comments

23

Programmers Don't Like to Code rentzsch.com · coglethorpe · 23 Apr 2009

141 pts 45 comments

24

Caring for your introvert theatlantic.com · kwamenum86 · 14 Apr 2009

139 pts 64 comments

25

How to block the DiggBar daringfireball.net · fromedome · 10 Apr 2009

136 pts 44 comments

26

An Unschooling Manifesto blogs.salon.com · jlhamilton · 26 Apr 2009

135 pts 89 comments

27

The Banker Who Said No forbes.com · dangoldin · 4 Apr 2009

135 pts 63 comments

28

GitHub releases integrated issue tracking github.com · mojombo · 16 Apr 2009

135 pts 47 comments

29

GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried blog.getsatisfaction.com · swombat · 1 Apr 2009

133 pts 84 comments

30

Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx blog.phusion.nl · _pius · 16 Apr 2009

133 pts 36 comments

31

China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect) shanghai.edushi.com · pc · 28 Apr 2009

132 pts 40 comments

32

"PSD is not my favorite file format" code.google.com · iamelgringo · 23 Apr 2009

131 pts 33 comments

33

How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll musicmachinery.com · mariorz · 28 Apr 2009

127 pts 37 comments

34

Some perspective on a destroyed career rondam.blogspot.com · lisper · 4 Apr 2009

126 pts 23 comments

35

An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation hivelogic.com · tortilla · 30 Apr 2009

124 pts 46 comments

36

Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music grooveshark.com · noaharc · 8 Apr 2009

121 pts 56 comments

37

Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana? steve-yegge.blogspot.com · dmytton · 9 Apr 2009

121 pts 50 comments

38

4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll musicmachinery.com · mcantelon · 16 Apr 2009

120 pts 29 comments

39

Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career. coding.derkeiler.com · asciilifeform · 3 Apr 2009

118 pts 39 comments

40

Google Code now supports Mercurial google-code-updates.blogspot.com · durin42 · 24 Apr 2009

118 pts 31 comments

41

How Woz Gets Things Done lifehacker.com · robg · 24 Apr 2009

115 pts 22 comments

42

The Management Myth (2006) theatlantic.com · hko · 27 Apr 2009

113 pts 22 comments

43

37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..." 37signals.com · steamboiler · 2 Apr 2009

112 pts 140 comments

44

Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet wholehealthsource.blogspot.com · kortina · 2 Apr 2009

111 pts 65 comments

45

Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife inc.com · hwijaya · 25 Apr 2009

111 pts 42 comments

46

Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self jonbischke.com · jbischke · 25 Apr 2009

110 pts 41 comments

47

Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity eff.org · vang3lis · 14 Apr 2009

109 pts 55 comments

48

6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec timetobleed.com · EvilTrout · 29 Apr 2009

107 pts 35 comments

49

Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched analytics.blogspot.com · timf · 21 Apr 2009

107 pts 29 comments

50

I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed. alumnit.ca · blasdel · 5 Apr 2009

107 pts 20 comments

51

Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design betaversion.org · urlwolf · 19 Apr 2009

106 pts 31 comments

52

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips wefunction.com · anuraggoel · 14 Apr 2009

105 pts 33 comments

53

Better 43folders.com · brm · 12 Apr 2009

105 pts 16 comments

54

Global Warming Delusions online.wsj.com · Rod · 25 Apr 2009

103 pts 97 comments

55

Lessons from a failed startup venturebeat.com · jasonlbaptiste · 30 Apr 2009

103 pts 37 comments

56

IE 6 Update ie6update.com · auston · 18 Apr 2009

103 pts 31 comments

57

A Local Revolution? paulgraham.com · dbul · 14 Apr 2009

102 pts 99 comments

58

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features arstechnica.com · mblakele · 28 Apr 2009

102 pts 36 comments

59

Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience tomaitch.com · tomaitch · 16 Apr 2009

101 pts 32 comments

60

Your eyes suck at blue (neat image compression trick) nfg.2y.net · yummyfajitas · 21 Apr 2009

101 pts 25 comments