The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2009

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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage blog.backblaze.com · bensummers · 1 Sep 2009

401 pts 105 comments

2

Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us techcrunch.com · vaksel · 11 Sep 2009

347 pts 83 comments

3

When a co-founder dies blog.ivylees.com · rriepe · 25 Sep 2009

335 pts 43 comments

4

The Duct Tape Programmer joelonsoftware.com · mqt · 24 Sep 2009

333 pts 118 comments

5

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 28 Sep 2009

319 pts 63 comments

6

Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application files.getdropbox.com · revorad · 3 Sep 2009

310 pts 59 comments

7

Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source bret.appspot.com · finiteloop · 10 Sep 2009

291 pts 73 comments

8

Experiment: No Comment Scores pg · 26 Sep 2009

289 pts 313 comments

9

The bar for success in our industry is too low 37signals.com · terpua · 2 Sep 2009

282 pts 81 comments

10

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm wired.com · mshafrir · 11 Sep 2009

258 pts 87 comments

11

Learning Advanced JavaScript ejohn.org · Afton · 15 Sep 2009

257 pts 44 comments

12

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 22 Sep 2009

245 pts 92 comments

13

Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 5 Sep 2009

243 pts 74 comments

14

10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" number10.gov.uk · handelaar · 10 Sep 2009

237 pts 81 comments

15

The Next Generation Bends Over 37signals.com · tptacek · 18 Sep 2009

220 pts 204 comments

16

Efficient Editing With vim jmcpherson.org · ninjac0der · 25 Sep 2009

218 pts 121 comments

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And if only 1% of those people... sivers.org · sivers · 27 Sep 2009

210 pts 43 comments

18

Teaching Linear Algebra bentilly.blogspot.com · btilly · 29 Sep 2009

208 pts 59 comments

19

How a software engineer invented a breakthrough medical device blogs.zdnet.com · acangiano · 4 Sep 2009

207 pts 81 comments

20

How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter doublefine.com · zach · 29 Sep 2009

207 pts 14 comments

21

"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown" jgc.org · jgrahamc · 12 Sep 2009

199 pts 9 comments

22

Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million techcrunch.com · adityakothadiya · 14 Sep 2009

196 pts 102 comments

23

The Doers Club changeobserver.designobserver.com · bootload · 30 Sep 2009

196 pts 22 comments

24

First subpixel typeface, ever typophile.com · robin_reala · 16 Sep 2009

192 pts 40 comments

25

I never realized how useful netcat is en.wikipedia.org · tzury · 16 Sep 2009

190 pts 32 comments

26

GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal ibm.com · soundphed · 28 Sep 2009

186 pts 100 comments

27

"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died theglobeandmail.com · kitcar · 21 Sep 2009

186 pts 49 comments

28

JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness jwz.livejournal.com · allenbrunson · 28 Sep 2009

186 pts 24 comments

29

After the Deadline: Acquired blog.afterthedeadline.com · karlsutt · 8 Sep 2009

185 pts 55 comments

30

Google acquires reCAPTCHA googleblog.blogspot.com · smikhanov · 16 Sep 2009

181 pts 93 comments

31

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) moserware.com · moserware · 22 Sep 2009

178 pts 8 comments

32

JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps jwz.livejournal.com · sutro · 28 Sep 2009

176 pts 90 comments

33

Rich, Black, Flunking eastbayexpress.com · thamer · 21 Sep 2009

174 pts 151 comments

34

Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design c0t0d0s0.org · bensummers · 3 Sep 2009

169 pts 103 comments

35

I had my head examined... abstractnonsense.com · abstractbill · 21 Sep 2009

165 pts 47 comments

36

The Anatomy of Determination paulgraham.com · revorad · 5 Sep 2009

164 pts 97 comments

37

IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape cwilson · 24 Sep 2009

164 pts 54 comments

38

Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in news.techworld.com · monkeygrinder · 24 Sep 2009

162 pts 71 comments

39

On Applying to Y Combinator blog.directededge.com · wheels · 30 Sep 2009

161 pts 71 comments

40

Working hard is overrated caterina.net · prakash · 27 Sep 2009

160 pts 98 comments

41

How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating blog.okcupid.com · noodle · 29 Sep 2009

160 pts 94 comments

42

Abusing Amazon Images aaugh.com · chaosmachine · 30 Sep 2009

159 pts 34 comments

43

Github and Engineyard part ways engineyard.com · jcapote · 11 Sep 2009

157 pts 95 comments

44

XSS Twitter in minutes; Why you shouldn't store important data with 37signals brian.mastenbrook.net · antonovka · 4 Sep 2009

156 pts 60 comments

45

Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message blog.okcupid.com · smokinn · 14 Sep 2009

155 pts 64 comments

46

Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons typophile.com · marcusbooster · 15 Sep 2009

154 pts 44 comments

47

The Dropbox iPhone App is Out blog.getdropbox.com · jmonegro · 29 Sep 2009

154 pts 36 comments

48

The Lost Oaks of California Ave paulgraham.com · garbowza · 17 Sep 2009

152 pts 113 comments

49

GitHub is moving to Rackspace github.com · mojombo · 15 Sep 2009

152 pts 29 comments

50

Persuade xor Discover paulgraham.com · fallentimes · 22 Sep 2009

148 pts 107 comments

51

Rich Hickey's Keynote: A deconstruction of object-oriented time [pdf] wiki.jvmlangsummit.com · swannodette · 17 Sep 2009

147 pts 43 comments

52

The List of N Things paulgraham.com · djm · 7 Sep 2009

146 pts 64 comments

53

Haiku arstechnica.com · asdlfj2sd33 · 16 Sep 2009

145 pts 29 comments

54

Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity mediapost.com · Flemlord · 25 Sep 2009

141 pts 100 comments

55

John Siracusa's in-depth review of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica arstechnica.com · glhaynes · 1 Sep 2009

141 pts 41 comments

56

How far can you get from a McDonald's in the continental US? weathersealed.com · timf · 24 Sep 2009

140 pts 26 comments

57

Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider etherpad.com · PStamatiou · 3 Sep 2009

139 pts 68 comments

58

Google introduces "Fast Flip" flipper.googlelabs.com · henning · 14 Sep 2009

139 pts 66 comments

59

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time amazon.com · dpapathanasiou · 24 Sep 2009

139 pts 59 comments

60

Things Every Programmer Should Know - Edited Contributions programmer.97things.oreilly.com · edw519 · 3 Sep 2009

139 pts 11 comments