The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2009
We track 131 stories from August 2009, averaging 148 points each. paulgraham.com was the most linked source, with 3 stories. Together they drew 8,397 comments, 64 per story on average.
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Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms
snopes.com · chaostheory · 5 Aug 2009
364 pts
79 comments
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Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
hizook.com · beambot · 28 Aug 2009
359 pts
159 comments
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Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
gamasutra.com · e1ven · 20 Aug 2009
330 pts
45 comments
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Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
daringfireball.net · ajg1977 · 5 Aug 2009
327 pts
80 comments
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Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 10 Aug 2009
279 pts
82 comments
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Signs that you're a bad programmer
sites.google.com · clawrencewenham · 7 Aug 2009
273 pts
121 comments
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What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
paulgraham.com · albertcardona · 31 Aug 2009
264 pts
107 comments
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So long, and thanks for all the fish
tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com · ivankirigin · 21 Aug 2009
245 pts
93 comments
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You're a little company, now act like one
blog.asmartbear.com · lrm242 · 31 Aug 2009
240 pts
53 comments
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Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic
trafficwaves.org · Mintz · 25 Aug 2009
237 pts
146 comments
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How I explained REST to my wife
tomayko.com · CodeChutney · 14 Aug 2009
199 pts
57 comments
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Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
apple.com · sdfx · 3 Aug 2009
199 pts
47 comments
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YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6
deals.venturebeat.com · drusenko · 4 Aug 2009
187 pts
110 comments
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999999999999999 - 999999999999997
google.com · unalone · 24 Aug 2009
185 pts
101 comments
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Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews
courses.csail.mit.edu · mindhacker · 25 Aug 2009
185 pts
41 comments
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Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good
learnyousomeerlang.com · paulgb · 18 Aug 2009
184 pts
30 comments
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Thousands call for Turing apology
news.bbc.co.uk · jsmcgd · 31 Aug 2009
177 pts
97 comments
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The Android Opportunity
daringfireball.net · superjohan · 17 Aug 2009
173 pts
136 comments
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Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions
jpf.github.com · jf · 6 Aug 2009
171 pts
99 comments
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How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night
wisebread.com · jmonegro · 3 Aug 2009
169 pts
40 comments
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How American Health Care Killed My Father
theatlantic.com · mhb · 13 Aug 2009
166 pts
105 comments
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Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead
davecaolo.com · henning · 12 Aug 2009
160 pts
113 comments
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TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
ted.com · qeek · 13 Aug 2009
160 pts
29 comments
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Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?
dvorak.org · chanux · 12 Aug 2009
157 pts
89 comments
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Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
daringfireball.net · Oompa · 6 Aug 2009
157 pts
88 comments
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$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story
license.icopyright.net · mcantelon · 2 Aug 2009
154 pts
66 comments
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Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
en.wikipedia.org · waldrews · 28 Aug 2009
152 pts
17 comments
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-= sequoia capital =-
tlrobinson.net · jasonlbaptiste · 19 Aug 2009
150 pts
45 comments
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IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds
gizmodo.com · jedliu · 27 Aug 2009
149 pts
49 comments
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Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599
jetblue.com · rufo · 12 Aug 2009
146 pts
79 comments
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SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down
snaptalent.com · dannyr · 17 Aug 2009
146 pts
47 comments
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Why AT&T Killed Google Voice
online.wsj.com · mjfern · 19 Aug 2009
144 pts
50 comments
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The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix
slideshare.net · male_salmon · 4 Aug 2009
144 pts
46 comments
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Facebook has acquired FriendFeed
blog.friendfeed.com · Pistos2 · 10 Aug 2009
143 pts
8 comments
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Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
blog.asmartbear.com · yarapavan · 17 Aug 2009
140 pts
36 comments
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The Hacker Survey
spreadsheets.google.com · tialys · 25 Aug 2009
139 pts
61 comments
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IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language
zakwilson.posterous.com · Zak · 4 Aug 2009
139 pts
53 comments
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How FlightCaster (YC S09) was built (RoR + JVM + Clojure + Hadoop)
groups.google.com · zemariamm · 19 Aug 2009
137 pts
29 comments
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Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.
yourworldoftext.com · bdr · 4 Aug 2009
136 pts
71 comments
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MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI
menuetos.net · rw · 20 Aug 2009
133 pts
45 comments
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Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006)
seedmagazine.com · randomwalker · 24 Aug 2009
133 pts
19 comments
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Let's Abolish High School
youthrights.net · absconditus · 11 Aug 2009
132 pts
113 comments
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Why Can't Gmail Search?
designbygravity.wordpress.com · cschanck · 24 Aug 2009
131 pts
85 comments
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_why: "Goodbye until I can shake this."
mislav.uniqpath.com · luigi · 20 Aug 2009
130 pts
50 comments
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