The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2009
We track 60 stories from April 2009, averaging 141 points each. paulgraham.com was the most linked source, with 3 stories. Together they drew 3,574 comments, 60 per story on average.
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Google uncloaks once-secret server
news.cnet.com · ars · 1 Apr 2009
238 pts
53 comments
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3
Pirate Bay officially loses case
torrentfreak.com · chris11 · 17 Apr 2009
226 pts
164 comments
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4
Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000
jonengle.com · minus · 6 Apr 2009
206 pts
45 comments
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5
Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)
hnstartups.com · markbao · 21 Apr 2009
205 pts
47 comments
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6
Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.
thelocal.se · yason · 23 Apr 2009
202 pts
38 comments
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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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Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
inc.com · twampss · 1 Apr 2009
175 pts
91 comments
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12
Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid
alternet.org · alexitosrv · 17 Apr 2009
172 pts
147 comments
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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
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15
There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste
online.wsj.com · ivankirigin · 30 Apr 2009
162 pts
117 comments
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17
FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why
sites.google.com · vaksel · 4 Apr 2009
158 pts
49 comments
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19
Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News
hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com · chrislo · 14 Apr 2009
154 pts
63 comments
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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
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21
Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce
aws.amazon.com · thamer · 2 Apr 2009
148 pts
60 comments
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23
Programmers Don't Like to Code
rentzsch.com · coglethorpe · 23 Apr 2009
141 pts
45 comments
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24
Caring for your introvert
theatlantic.com · kwamenum86 · 14 Apr 2009
139 pts
64 comments
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25
How to block the DiggBar
daringfireball.net · fromedome · 10 Apr 2009
136 pts
44 comments
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26
An Unschooling Manifesto
blogs.salon.com · jlhamilton · 26 Apr 2009
135 pts
89 comments
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28
GitHub releases integrated issue tracking
github.com · mojombo · 16 Apr 2009
135 pts
47 comments
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29
GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried
blog.getsatisfaction.com · swombat · 1 Apr 2009
133 pts
84 comments
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30
Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx
blog.phusion.nl · _pius · 16 Apr 2009
133 pts
36 comments
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31
China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect)
shanghai.edushi.com · pc · 28 Apr 2009
132 pts
40 comments
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32
"PSD is not my favorite file format"
code.google.com · iamelgringo · 23 Apr 2009
131 pts
33 comments
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33
How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll
musicmachinery.com · mariorz · 28 Apr 2009
127 pts
37 comments
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34
Some perspective on a destroyed career
rondam.blogspot.com · lisper · 4 Apr 2009
126 pts
23 comments
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35
An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
hivelogic.com · tortilla · 30 Apr 2009
124 pts
46 comments
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36
Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music
grooveshark.com · noaharc · 8 Apr 2009
121 pts
56 comments
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37
Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · dmytton · 9 Apr 2009
121 pts
50 comments
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38
4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll
musicmachinery.com · mcantelon · 16 Apr 2009
120 pts
29 comments
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39
Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.
coding.derkeiler.com · asciilifeform · 3 Apr 2009
118 pts
39 comments
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40
Google Code now supports Mercurial
google-code-updates.blogspot.com · durin42 · 24 Apr 2009
118 pts
31 comments
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43
37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."
37signals.com · steamboiler · 2 Apr 2009
112 pts
140 comments
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44
Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet
wholehealthsource.blogspot.com · kortina · 2 Apr 2009
111 pts
65 comments
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45
Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife
inc.com · hwijaya · 25 Apr 2009
111 pts
42 comments
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46
Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
jonbischke.com · jbischke · 25 Apr 2009
110 pts
41 comments
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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
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48
6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec
timetobleed.com · EvilTrout · 29 Apr 2009
107 pts
35 comments
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49
Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
analytics.blogspot.com · timf · 21 Apr 2009
107 pts
29 comments
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50
I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed.
alumnit.ca · blasdel · 5 Apr 2009
107 pts
20 comments
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51
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
betaversion.org · urlwolf · 19 Apr 2009
106 pts
31 comments
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52
How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
wefunction.com · anuraggoel · 14 Apr 2009
105 pts
33 comments
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55
Lessons from a failed startup
venturebeat.com · jasonlbaptiste · 30 Apr 2009
103 pts
37 comments
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58
Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features
arstechnica.com · mblakele · 28 Apr 2009
102 pts
36 comments
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59
Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience
tomaitch.com · tomaitch · 16 Apr 2009
101 pts
32 comments
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60
Your eyes suck at blue (neat image compression trick)
nfg.2y.net · yummyfajitas · 21 Apr 2009
101 pts
25 comments
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