The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2009

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_why is no more twitter.com · Jeremysr · 19 Aug 2009

558 pts 399 comments

2

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms snopes.com · chaostheory · 5 Aug 2009

364 pts 79 comments

3

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense hizook.com · beambot · 28 Aug 2009

359 pts 159 comments

4

Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games gamasutra.com · e1ven · 20 Aug 2009

330 pts 45 comments

5

Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store daringfireball.net · ajg1977 · 5 Aug 2009

327 pts 80 comments

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Eulogy to _why ejohn.org · jcsalterego · 19 Aug 2009

318 pts 92 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

9

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley paulgraham.com · albertcardona · 31 Aug 2009

264 pts 107 comments

10

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

12

Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic trafficwaves.org · Mintz · 25 Aug 2009

237 pts 146 comments

13

Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2) qhoxie · 12 Aug 2009

202 pts 227 comments

14

Please don't use hnreputation pg · 27 Aug 2009

199 pts 82 comments

15

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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R.I.P. Les Paul news.yahoo.com · jamesbritt · 13 Aug 2009

196 pts 34 comments

18

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

20

Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews courses.csail.mit.edu · mindhacker · 25 Aug 2009

185 pts 41 comments

21

Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good learnyousomeerlang.com · paulgb · 18 Aug 2009

184 pts 30 comments

22

Thousands call for Turing apology news.bbc.co.uk · jsmcgd · 31 Aug 2009

177 pts 97 comments

23

The Fall of Hacking noname123 · 14 Aug 2009

176 pts 112 comments

24

A New Experiment: The RFS ycombinator.com · pg · 16 Aug 2009

175 pts 57 comments

25

Folding Plug System minkyu.co.uk · r7000 · 24 Aug 2009

174 pts 33 comments

26

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

28

How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night wisebread.com · jmonegro · 3 Aug 2009

169 pts 40 comments

29

How American Health Care Killed My Father theatlantic.com · mhb · 13 Aug 2009

166 pts 105 comments

30

Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead davecaolo.com · henning · 12 Aug 2009

160 pts 113 comments

31

TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success ted.com · qeek · 13 Aug 2009

160 pts 29 comments

32

Why I'm Quitting Gmail archlinux.me · etherealG · 24 Aug 2009

158 pts 61 comments

33

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

35

Self-Enforcing Protocols schneier.com · gthank · 11 Aug 2009

156 pts 56 comments

36

$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story license.icopyright.net · mcantelon · 2 Aug 2009

154 pts 66 comments

37

Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do? gsaines · 22 Aug 2009

152 pts 78 comments

38

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

40

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds gizmodo.com · jedliu · 27 Aug 2009

149 pts 49 comments

41

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

42

SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down snaptalent.com · dannyr · 17 Aug 2009

146 pts 47 comments

43

How not to die paulgraham.com · swombat · 17 Aug 2009

145 pts 47 comments

44

Sprezzatura sivers.org · nreece · 30 Aug 2009

145 pts 26 comments

45

Starting a Bank ma.tt · ionfish · 21 Aug 2009

144 pts 65 comments

46

Why AT&T Killed Google Voice online.wsj.com · mjfern · 19 Aug 2009

144 pts 50 comments

47

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

49

Python Debugging Techniques aymanh.com · edw519 · 31 Aug 2009

141 pts 19 comments

50

Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias blog.asmartbear.com · yarapavan · 17 Aug 2009

140 pts 36 comments

51

The Hacker Survey spreadsheets.google.com · tialys · 25 Aug 2009

139 pts 61 comments

52

IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language zakwilson.posterous.com · Zak · 4 Aug 2009

139 pts 53 comments

53

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

55

MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI menuetos.net · rw · 20 Aug 2009

133 pts 45 comments

56

Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006) seedmagazine.com · randomwalker · 24 Aug 2009

133 pts 19 comments

57

What makes Erlang so great clickcaster.com · pj · 20 Aug 2009

133 pts 6 comments

58

Let's Abolish High School youthrights.net · absconditus · 11 Aug 2009

132 pts 113 comments

59

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