The Best Hacker News Posts of July 2009

1

Introducing the Google Chrome OS googleblog.blogspot.com · mqt · 8 Jul 2009

370 pts 167 comments

2

My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan. rd.com · robg · 23 Jul 2009

327 pts 64 comments

3

Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle pogue.blogs.nytimes.com · KC8ZKF · 17 Jul 2009

320 pts 141 comments

4

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule paulgraham.com · mqt · 22 Jul 2009

312 pts 89 comments

5

Did you mean recursion? google.com · _pius · 23 Jul 2009

290 pts 50 comments

6

Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL zedshaw.com · twampss · 14 Jul 2009

279 pts 174 comments

7

Why I won't be at my high school reunion scienceblogs.com · saurabh · 17 Jul 2009

271 pts 262 comments

8

Ramen Profitable paulgraham.com · cpach · 27 Jul 2009

264 pts 136 comments

9

You should follow me on Twitter dustincurtis.com · tdavis · 14 Jul 2009

263 pts 71 comments

10

Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster. chir.ag · chime · 20 Jul 2009

240 pts 29 comments

11

MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors mantia.me · ams1 · 15 Jul 2009

231 pts 148 comments

12

Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease" osnews.com · mlLK · 24 Jul 2009

227 pts 55 comments

13

Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon progit.org · laktek · 27 Jul 2009

224 pts 25 comments

14

The Trouble with the Segway paulgraham.com · mqt · 29 Jul 2009

221 pts 165 comments

15

Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon blogs.zappos.com · dwynings · 22 Jul 2009

221 pts 32 comments

16

FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection techcrunch.com · vaksel · 31 Jul 2009

217 pts 91 comments

17

Potion: A Short Pamphlet hackety.org · raju · 1 Jul 2009

214 pts 46 comments

18

Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced googlecode.blogspot.com · mark_h · 20 Jul 2009

211 pts 58 comments

19

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale vimeo.com · marcusbooster · 31 Jul 2009

210 pts 48 comments

20

Calling out Hacker News blog.bitquabit.com · boilerbill · 1 Jul 2009

209 pts 68 comments

21

My Life Offline aaronsw.com · blasdel · 24 Jul 2009

206 pts 52 comments

22

Unladen Swallow can now compile all Python code to native code using LLVM code.google.com · kirubakaran · 15 Jul 2009

206 pts 21 comments

23

Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS fakesteve.blogspot.com · gabrielroth · 8 Jul 2009

204 pts 104 comments

24

How to Apply to Y Combinator ycombinator.com · pg · 20 Jul 2009

201 pts 131 comments

25

A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3 en.wikipedia.org · Flemlord · 21 Jul 2009

200 pts 47 comments

26

Most expensive javascript ever my.opera.com · pclark · 20 Jul 2009

199 pts 38 comments

27

Draw a math symbol and get the corresponding LaTeX code detexify.kirelabs.org · MartinMond · 12 Jul 2009

193 pts 38 comments

28

I Quit The iPhone techcrunch.com · terpua · 31 Jul 2009

191 pts 99 comments

29

"Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?" lists.canonical.org · asciilifeform · 9 Jul 2009

187 pts 31 comments

30

Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story. sivers.org · sivers · 6 Jul 2009

181 pts 40 comments

31

The work ethic of MJ - amazing tales from the studio by his engineers gearslutz.com · imajes · 3 Jul 2009

181 pts 33 comments

32

RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD techcrunch.com · vaksel · 29 Jul 2009

178 pts 66 comments

33

Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died inc.com · twampss · 23 Jul 2009

175 pts 63 comments

34

Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you disagree with. andreyf · 24 Jul 2009

174 pts 111 comments

35

Re: You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft microturfing.com · FraaJad · 18 Jul 2009

170 pts 73 comments

36

Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN hackerhackernews.com · sqs · 6 Jul 2009

164 pts 56 comments

37

Chicago Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet podcastingnews.com · MicahWedemeyer · 28 Jul 2009

157 pts 69 comments

38

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip clemesha.org · iamelgringo · 8 Jul 2009

157 pts 41 comments

39

Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice wired.com · navanit · 21 Jul 2009

156 pts 21 comments

40

Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" linux.slashdot.org · boundlessdreamz · 29 Jul 2009

153 pts 50 comments

41

C# is now a better language than Java brizzled.clapper.org · fogus · 31 Jul 2009

152 pts 133 comments

42

Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist forum.nin.com · KC8ZKF · 11 Jul 2009

150 pts 28 comments

43

The Firefox 3.5 fiasco weblogs.asp.net · felixmar · 9 Jul 2009

145 pts 108 comments

44

The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy For Becoming Exceptionally Good calnewport.com · ankeshk · 18 Jul 2009

145 pts 34 comments

45

Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline daringfireball.net · tumult · 30 Jul 2009

142 pts 172 comments

46

Yahoo committed seppuku today calacanis.com · timtrueman · 29 Jul 2009

140 pts 73 comments

47

Gmail is out of beta googleblog.blogspot.com · mcav · 7 Jul 2009

140 pts 45 comments

48

Amazon Buys Zappos techcrunch.com · transburgh · 22 Jul 2009

139 pts 40 comments

49

"All I do is work here" sethgodin.typepad.com · pclark · 30 Jul 2009

138 pts 44 comments

50

How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food andrewhyde.net · markbao · 30 Jul 2009

137 pts 132 comments

51

Ask HN: What are you working on? Anon84 · 12 Jul 2009

136 pts 229 comments

52

Jay Leno’s 3D Printer Makes Old Car Parts popularmechanics.com · staunch · 9 Jul 2009

133 pts 65 comments

53

YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye techcrunch.com · transburgh · 14 Jul 2009

132 pts 48 comments

54

How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living? pluginid.com · zen53 · 2 Jul 2009

132 pts 36 comments

55

Serious doubts about the App Store marco.org · mcav · 17 Jul 2009

131 pts 41 comments

56

Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com · blasdel · 9 Jul 2009

130 pts 33 comments

57

You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft microspotting.com · SwellJoe · 18 Jul 2009

127 pts 97 comments

58

Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault techcrunch.com · foppr · 28 Jul 2009

126 pts 62 comments

59

When I died blog.maryrosecook.com · maryrosecook · 17 Jul 2009

126 pts 31 comments

60

Light slowed down to 38 mph news.harvard.edu · aliasaria · 31 Jul 2009

124 pts 39 comments