The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2009

1

How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) dfranke · 3 Jun 2009

928 pts 78 comments

2

Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong matasano.com · cscott · 3 Jun 2009

258 pts 74 comments

3

Less, a leaner CSS lesscss.org · cloudhead · 16 Jun 2009

253 pts 85 comments

4

RIP Michael Jackson tmz.com · jmtame · 25 Jun 2009

248 pts 158 comments

5

US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a Hacker) v3.espacenet.com · johnnybgoode · 25 Jun 2009

239 pts 58 comments

6

The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection moserware.com · moserware · 10 Jun 2009

236 pts 33 comments

7

Firefox 3.5 is out mozilla.com · ptn · 30 Jun 2009

234 pts 71 comments

8

No Hire github.com · raganwald · 26 Jun 2009

230 pts 115 comments

9

Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers daringfireball.net · dannyr · 15 Jun 2009

228 pts 142 comments

10

Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head and It Is Ugly geardiary.com · _pius · 22 Jun 2009

208 pts 41 comments

11

Time Wastes Too Fast kalman.blogs.nytimes.com · mhb · 26 Jun 2009

202 pts 35 comments

12

Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won) huffingtonpost.com · nhaschka · 9 Jun 2009

195 pts 137 comments

13

The Zen of HN github.com · functional-tree · 22 Jun 2009

182 pts 46 comments

14

Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament torrentfreak.com · mapleoin · 7 Jun 2009

177 pts 54 comments

15

Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize netflixprize.com · derwiki · 26 Jun 2009

174 pts 29 comments

16

Astalavista.com hacked, including details astalavista.com · gmazzola · 5 Jun 2009

171 pts 64 comments

17

Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at almost.at · davidcann · 1 Jun 2009

164 pts 81 comments

18

Why you need your own company sivers.org · sivers · 10 Jun 2009

161 pts 38 comments

19

Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser opera.com · mqt · 16 Jun 2009

160 pts 117 comments

20

Python to get Google-backed speedup techreport.com · mv · 13 Jun 2009

158 pts 69 comments

21

Things about Web Images I Just Learned gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 16 Jun 2009

154 pts 19 comments

22

If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006) timesonline.co.uk · revorad · 30 Jun 2009

153 pts 109 comments

23

The Learjet repo man salon.com · TriinT · 8 Jun 2009

153 pts 49 comments

24

PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips groups.google.com · hailpixel · 27 Jun 2009

153 pts 39 comments

25

Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange siteanalytics.compete.com · heed · 17 Jun 2009

152 pts 88 comments

26

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. sivers.org · sivers · 16 Jun 2009

151 pts 58 comments

27

The Flimsy Doorknob & The Forgettable Receipt dustincurtis.com · bradgessler · 1 Jun 2009

142 pts 60 comments

28

On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza A bunniestudios.com · blasdel · 21 Jun 2009

142 pts 28 comments

29

Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know catonmat.net · pkrumins · 30 Jun 2009

139 pts 76 comments

30

Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming maps.org · kf · 12 Jun 2009

139 pts 54 comments

31

Epitaph for an Entrepreneur - Balancing Family and Work steveblank.com · pchristensen · 18 Jun 2009

139 pts 47 comments

32

Last.fm founders quit blog.last.fm · dsingleton · 10 Jun 2009

139 pts 38 comments

33

Bing Is Live bing.com · jasonlbaptiste · 1 Jun 2009

137 pts 117 comments

34

Alan Kay’s reading list squeakland.org · jacobolus · 18 Jun 2009

137 pts 43 comments

35

StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform stackexchange.com · rayvega · 29 Jun 2009

135 pts 103 comments

36

The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg inc.com · stevenjames · 11 Jun 2009

132 pts 46 comments

37

Review my startup: Revizr. You haven't seen this before. revizr.com · koops · 23 Jun 2009

131 pts 64 comments

38

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education theamericanscholar.org · gabriel · 6 Jun 2009

130 pts 78 comments

39

Neat & Simple Resume Template sampleresumetemplate.net · zeedotme · 7 Jun 2009

130 pts 21 comments

40

Web Applications Should Be Compiled ediblepet.net · csbartus · 2 Jun 2009

129 pts 172 comments

41

Xkcd meets reality zephoria.org · maggie · 22 Jun 2009

129 pts 8 comments

42

How to hack your brain - Part I: Sleep dustincurtis.com · symptic · 25 Jun 2009

128 pts 84 comments

43

Work smart, not hard: The seven habits of highly effective slackers examiner.com · CubeGuy · 23 Jun 2009

127 pts 36 comments

44

An open letter to Jason Calacanis blog.fluther.com · jobenjo · 1 Jun 2009

126 pts 49 comments

45

User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself. forum.skype.com · vaksel · 13 Jun 2009

126 pts 34 comments

46

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise newscientist.com · kungfooey · 12 Jun 2009

125 pts 72 comments

47

A Tale of Two Programmers mail.linux.ie · frisco · 28 Jun 2009

125 pts 55 comments

48

1 line CSS Grid Framework vcarrer.com · vladocar · 2 Jun 2009

125 pts 27 comments

49

Face detection in pure PHP (without OpenCV) svay.com · nreece · 24 Jun 2009

125 pts 15 comments

50

The TED Augmented Reality Hoax unitzeroone.com · llimllib · 23 Jun 2009

124 pts 50 comments

51

How to Write a Spelling Corrector norvig.com · dlnovell · 19 Jun 2009

124 pts 18 comments

52

CrunchPad Prototype techcrunch.com · eo · 3 Jun 2009

123 pts 52 comments

53

Compare & vote for search results of Bing, Google and Yahoo in a blind test blindsearch.fejus.com · vaksel · 7 Jun 2009

123 pts 41 comments

54

JQuery Tools - The UI library for the Web flowplayer.org · huyng · 3 Jun 2009

123 pts 19 comments

55

UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university un.org · dsil · 8 Jun 2009

122 pts 41 comments

56

Cryptographic Right Answers daemonology.net · cperciva · 11 Jun 2009

121 pts 38 comments

57

_why on teaching kids to code vimeo.com · audionerd · 26 Jun 2009

120 pts 13 comments

58

I, Toaster reason.com · tptacek · 25 Jun 2009

119 pts 51 comments

59

Reading list for those who love to learn sivers.org · sivers · 18 Jun 2009

118 pts 88 comments

60

Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course kyle-brady.com · dlnovell · 11 Jun 2009

118 pts 60 comments