The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2009

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A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away ticketstumbler.com · rantfoil · 3 Oct 2009

626 pts 134 comments

2

What Startups Are Really Like paulgraham.com · apu · 25 Oct 2009

382 pts 119 comments

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So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter? Shooter · 8 Oct 2009

324 pts 126 comments

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If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible? entrepreneur.venturebeat.com · bhousel · 30 Oct 2009

321 pts 185 comments

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This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch gizmodo.com · AjJi · 6 Oct 2009

321 pts 67 comments

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I Was Told I Was Very Smart theferrett.livejournal.com · mtinkerhess · 22 Oct 2009

309 pts 113 comments

7

The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office" ribbonfarm.com · mcdoh · 14 Oct 2009

307 pts 63 comments

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Google Groups is Dead ejohn.org · RedWolves · 27 Oct 2009

259 pts 67 comments

9

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you diveintomark.org · mqt · 20 Oct 2009

254 pts 53 comments

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Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities reocities.com · jacquesm · 26 Oct 2009

250 pts 65 comments

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How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily ai.uga.edu · ZLOB-o-ZLOB · 11 Oct 2009

241 pts 110 comments

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What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book beginningruby.org · petercooper · 8 Oct 2009

233 pts 70 comments

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Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking" paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 14 Oct 2009

233 pts 35 comments

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Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file aaronsw.com · wglb · 5 Oct 2009

224 pts 85 comments

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Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge scott-oviwe.posterous.com · pg · 1 Oct 2009

218 pts 29 comments

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How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture github.com · mojombo · 21 Oct 2009

214 pts 23 comments

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What problems does Google Wave solve? danieltenner.com · swombat · 15 Oct 2009

213 pts 67 comments

18

Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes mail.python.org · sammcd · 21 Oct 2009

210 pts 64 comments

19

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released ubuntu.com · zokier · 29 Oct 2009

204 pts 164 comments

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Brewing a Better Rating System blog.steepster.com · jackcheng · 29 Oct 2009

200 pts 35 comments

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Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn telegraph.co.uk · Flemlord · 13 Oct 2009

199 pts 71 comments

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Tools we use for running our startup balsamiq.com · BvS · 30 Oct 2009

198 pts 31 comments

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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company blog.asmartbear.com · dmytton · 19 Oct 2009

195 pts 33 comments

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I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix tomayko.com · pjhyett · 6 Oct 2009

192 pts 53 comments

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Tell HN: Dealing with VCs, my experience jacquesm · 7 Oct 2009

183 pts 38 comments

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Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf www-stat.stanford.edu · wglb · 14 Oct 2009

183 pts 28 comments

27

Amazon Relational Database Service aws.amazon.com · timf · 27 Oct 2009

181 pts 66 comments

28

C++ in Coders at Work gigamonkeys.com · edw519 · 16 Oct 2009

178 pts 169 comments

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Piratebay strikes back blog.brokep.com · bandris · 9 Oct 2009

178 pts 103 comments

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"How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996) guyro.typepad.com · frisco · 6 Oct 2009

173 pts 39 comments

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Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit blog.reddit.com · shimon · 27 Oct 2009

172 pts 76 comments

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Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com · markdennehy · 27 Oct 2009

171 pts 107 comments

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10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse 10gui.com · zain · 12 Oct 2009

171 pts 103 comments

34

Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet wired.com · gojomo · 8 Oct 2009

170 pts 51 comments

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HTML5, meet 1998. geocitieslycostripod.com · xmojo · 19 Oct 2009

168 pts 29 comments

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The curious pricing of the 27" iMac marco.org · AndrewWarner · 26 Oct 2009

167 pts 142 comments

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I Don't Code in my Free Time teddziuba.com · sharms · 10 Oct 2009

167 pts 134 comments

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Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Java web app development? playframework.org · simonw · 23 Oct 2009

165 pts 100 comments

39

Surprises collison.ie · lackbeard · 19 Oct 2009

165 pts 32 comments

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Sysadmin mistakes start-ups make cloudkick.com · polvi · 20 Oct 2009

164 pts 92 comments

41

A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style andyswan.com · icodemyownshit · 13 Oct 2009

164 pts 26 comments

42

Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world berkshirehathaway.com · hop · 31 Oct 2009

163 pts 116 comments

43

Wall Street's Naked Swindle rollingstone.com · jasonlbaptiste · 18 Oct 2009

162 pts 95 comments

44

GitHub's Unicorn Setup github.com · mqt · 9 Oct 2009

162 pts 61 comments

45

XKCD commemerates GeoCities xkcd.com · rglovejoy · 26 Oct 2009

161 pts 31 comments

46

Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity pmarca-archive.posterous.com · suprgeek · 16 Oct 2009

155 pts 27 comments

47

Dirty Little Secret of Success zeldman.com · adamhowell · 22 Oct 2009

154 pts 69 comments

48

What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (How I keep myself busy.) spencerfry.com · spencerfry · 28 Oct 2009

154 pts 33 comments

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The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 23 Oct 2009

152 pts 85 comments

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Observations from a real-world Clojure project groups.google.com · liebke · 29 Oct 2009

152 pts 32 comments

51

Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way) glyph.twistedmatrix.com · sbhat7 · 3 Oct 2009

150 pts 31 comments

52

Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives codinghorror.com · twampss · 14 Oct 2009

149 pts 118 comments

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Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man substitute.livejournal.com · idlewords · 1 Oct 2009

148 pts 111 comments

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"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com groups.google.com · ebloch · 15 Oct 2009

145 pts 39 comments

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Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life npr.org · zjj · 3 Oct 2009

145 pts 23 comments

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How I knew I was done with my company sivers.org · sivers · 13 Oct 2009

144 pts 17 comments

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Rails Idioms + Django Templates + Erlang Power = Chicago Boss chicagoboss.org · paulsmith · 1 Oct 2009

143 pts 79 comments

58

Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data neowin.net · lupin_sansei · 12 Oct 2009

141 pts 75 comments

59

Sell your product with fake screenshots groups.google.com · jmorin007 · 12 Oct 2009

141 pts 57 comments

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Ninite: How we got 18,000 beta users in 4 weeks runitback.tumblr.com · swies · 26 Oct 2009

140 pts 23 comments