The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2009
We track 66 stories from May 2009, averaging 148 points each. zedshaw.com was the most linked source, with 3 stories. Together they drew 3,845 comments, 58 per story on average.
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A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
james-iry.blogspot.com · toddc · 8 May 2009
303 pts
14 comments
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HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old
news.ycombinator.com · pg · 13 May 2009
300 pts
107 comments
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Is There Anything Good About Men?
denisdutton.com · Zarathu · 2 May 2009
232 pts
88 comments
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How to Teach a Child to Argue
figarospeech.com · dsil · 29 May 2009
217 pts
54 comments
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PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms
autonlab.org · coconutrandom · 14 May 2009
197 pts
7 comments
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Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
miltonglaser.com · ivankirigin · 4 May 2009
194 pts
33 comments
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Can you trust 37signals with your password?
jgc.org · l0stman · 2 May 2009
189 pts
130 comments
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Don’t! The secret of self-control
newyorker.com · alextp · 11 May 2009
186 pts
69 comments
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Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives
inc.com · wyday · 5 May 2009
185 pts
79 comments
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Why it's expensive to be poor
washingtonpost.com · tialys · 20 May 2009
183 pts
194 comments
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The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
gmarceau.qc.ca · trjordan · 31 May 2009
176 pts
56 comments
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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)
zedshaw.com · vaksel · 26 May 2009
174 pts
116 comments
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Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
techcrunch.com · blazamos · 28 May 2009
169 pts
99 comments
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Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires
wired.com · naish · 28 May 2009
159 pts
53 comments
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The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy
scienceblogs.com · silentbicycle · 4 May 2009
157 pts
124 comments
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How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time)
messynotebook.com · thomanil · 29 May 2009
155 pts
41 comments
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"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."
support.microsoft.com · iamelgringo · 25 May 2009
155 pts
29 comments
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The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)
tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 18 May 2009
147 pts
20 comments
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Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?
auston · 1 May 2009
145 pts
119 comments
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Oh Yeah? Where's Your Patches Zed?
zedshaw.com · inklesspen · 30 May 2009
140 pts
100 comments
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Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer
gist.github.com · aditya · 6 May 2009
137 pts
19 comments
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ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins
serverfault.com · spolsky · 27 May 2009
135 pts
27 comments
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VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?
journal.uggedal.com · uggedal · 3 May 2009
128 pts
69 comments
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Oberon, a delightfully insane system
ignorethecode.net · blasdel · 4 May 2009
128 pts
30 comments
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The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General
blog.mixergy.com · NewWorldOrder · 15 May 2009
127 pts
37 comments
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Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye
fravia.com · ilitirit · 5 May 2009
126 pts
52 comments
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Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
blog.wolframalpha.com · callahad · 13 May 2009
126 pts
41 comments
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Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time.
hackademix.net · robin_reala · 4 May 2009
124 pts
40 comments
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Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer
daringfireball.net · tumult · 29 May 2009
124 pts
24 comments
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Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
blogs.law.harvard.edu · lackbeard · 18 May 2009
120 pts
92 comments
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A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education
edutopia.org · jasonlbaptiste · 7 May 2009
119 pts
84 comments
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Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)
chomsky.info · mapleoin · 9 May 2009
119 pts
53 comments
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Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath
newyorker.com · mlinsey · 4 May 2009
116 pts
36 comments
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Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing
aws.typepad.com · ropiku · 18 May 2009
115 pts
42 comments
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Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle
amazon.com · jrockway · 6 May 2009
112 pts
106 comments
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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
voices.washingtonpost.com · smharris65 · 30 May 2009
112 pts
37 comments
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How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users
danieltenner.com · swombat · 18 May 2009
112 pts
32 comments
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The TED commandments - rules every speaker needs to know
timlonghurst.com · amilr · 20 May 2009
111 pts
11 comments
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Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today
radar.oreilly.com · ajbatac · 28 May 2009
110 pts
33 comments
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The Security Implications Of Google Native Client
matasano.com · ilitirit · 15 May 2009
110 pts
23 comments
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3D Realms shuts down. No Duke Nukem forever
shacknews.com · vaksel · 7 May 2009
108 pts
51 comments
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Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
wordoid.com · op · 22 May 2009
106 pts
78 comments
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Building a house for under $5000
simondale.net · arihelgason · 20 May 2009
106 pts
65 comments
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Steve Blank: Gravity Will be Turned Off
steveblank.com · lrm242 · 13 May 2009
106 pts
11 comments
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What lies beneath New York's rivers
nymag.com · tjic · 12 May 2009
105 pts
20 comments
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