The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2009

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Apple's Mistake paulgraham.com · EliAndrewC · 19 Nov 2009

723 pts 269 comments

2

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. boingboing.net · Flemlord · 4 Nov 2009

588 pts 287 comments

3

The End Of The CrunchPad techcrunch.com · AndrewWarner · 30 Nov 2009

435 pts 138 comments

4

The Go Programming Language golang.org · snewe · 10 Nov 2009

377 pts 218 comments

5

One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar zenmoments.org · yason · 24 Nov 2009

376 pts 58 comments

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HN Help: I'm lost lostsheep · 12 Nov 2009

366 pts 261 comments

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Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr journal.uggedal.com · uggedal · 29 Nov 2009

365 pts 146 comments

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The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X dustincurtis.com · arjunlall · 4 Nov 2009

323 pts 98 comments

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Your looks and your inbox blog.okcupid.com · thirdusername · 19 Nov 2009

315 pts 102 comments

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Thank you, Rails jacobian.org · jacobian · 6 Nov 2009

297 pts 77 comments

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Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye techcrunch.com · aberman · 24 Nov 2009

289 pts 143 comments

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Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell techcrunch.com · raptrex · 1 Nov 2009

279 pts 90 comments

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Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers aaronsw.com · mqt · 29 Nov 2009

276 pts 97 comments

14

The Nerd Handbook randsinrepose.com · ironkeith · 12 Nov 2009

247 pts 55 comments

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Scroll Clock toki-woki.net · nreece · 18 Nov 2009

216 pts 12 comments

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How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor entrepreneur.venturebeat.com · transburgh · 4 Nov 2009

214 pts 21 comments

17

Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco) soserio.us · antidaily · 5 Nov 2009

210 pts 113 comments

18

Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer ejohn.org · emontero1 · 17 Nov 2009

201 pts 14 comments

19

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal skytopia.com · hassy · 11 Nov 2009

200 pts 23 comments

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Node.js is genuinely exciting simonwillison.net · simonw · 23 Nov 2009

197 pts 67 comments

21

Why you should build an application (even if it already exists) vaynermedia.com · ajv · 25 Nov 2009

191 pts 45 comments

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Introducing Closure Tools googlecode.blogspot.com · txxxxd · 5 Nov 2009

190 pts 69 comments

23

My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed astorybeforebed.com · hillel · 2 Nov 2009

179 pts 116 comments

24

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals inc.com · phatboyslim · 2 Nov 2009

177 pts 136 comments

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My 8 hour journey to a single character lbrandy.com · lbrandy · 23 Nov 2009

176 pts 40 comments

26

Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions fakesteve.net · javery · 16 Nov 2009

175 pts 42 comments

27

Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails examiner.com · nice1 · 20 Nov 2009

171 pts 199 comments

28

Google Closure: How not to write Javascript sitepoint.com · fizx · 12 Nov 2009

171 pts 57 comments

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PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid." quirksmode.org · samstokes · 23 Nov 2009

169 pts 77 comments

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The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not blog.directededge.com · wheels · 5 Nov 2009

167 pts 74 comments

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Python language moratorium is accepted python.org · mcantelon · 9 Nov 2009

167 pts 70 comments

32

Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino gomockingbird.com · boucher · 4 Nov 2009

166 pts 52 comments

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The best questions we got while raising venture capital techcrunch.com · ujjwalg · 18 Nov 2009

165 pts 10 comments

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The Unemployment Rate for People Like You nytimes.com · araneae · 7 Nov 2009

164 pts 101 comments

35

A 2x Faster Web blog.chromium.org · johns · 12 Nov 2009

163 pts 67 comments

36

Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)? eb · 20 Nov 2009

162 pts 201 comments

37

Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger blogs.zoho.com · suprgeek · 4 Nov 2009

161 pts 55 comments

38

A common bug in published code google.com · RiderOfGiraffes · 25 Nov 2009

158 pts 39 comments

39

Tell HN: Can we stop commenting on troll comments? tptacek · 11 Nov 2009

156 pts 166 comments

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Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles marco.org · slater · 9 Nov 2009

156 pts 42 comments

41

Are Google employees being discouraged from using Python for new projects? groups.google.com · megamark16 · 10 Nov 2009

155 pts 87 comments

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Awesome SQL blog explainextended.com · niklas · 21 Nov 2009

155 pts 20 comments

43

Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books samizdat.cc · wakeless · 11 Nov 2009

154 pts 22 comments

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Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips ackkchoo · 24 Nov 2009

153 pts 41 comments

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Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful. blogs.msdn.com · cabacon · 23 Nov 2009

153 pts 18 comments

46

40 years ago today... pg · 4 Nov 2009

150 pts 37 comments

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Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action steveblank.com · wyday · 9 Nov 2009

150 pts 23 comments

48

Linux Compose Key sivers.org · sivers · 26 Nov 2009

149 pts 26 comments

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"I have already used the name Go for *MY* programming language" code.google.com · archon810 · 11 Nov 2009

148 pts 93 comments

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Why do we have an IMG element? diveintomark.org · gthank · 3 Nov 2009

148 pts 13 comments

51

Microsoft's New Killer App jungleg.com · Raphael · 18 Nov 2009

147 pts 65 comments

52

Tell HN: Apple paid my iPhone money, with exceptional service zoomboy · 11 Nov 2009

143 pts 30 comments

53

Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? inc.com · johns · 4 Nov 2009

140 pts 82 comments

54

Announcing Duck It, a new way to search duckduckgo.com · epi0Bauqu · 3 Nov 2009

135 pts 94 comments

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Introducing Resque github.com · mrduncan · 3 Nov 2009

135 pts 15 comments

56

Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com · davi · 3 Nov 2009

134 pts 118 comments

57

Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession cohort11.americanobserver.net · adamhowell · 20 Nov 2009

134 pts 42 comments

58

O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web." radar.oreilly.com · lecha · 16 Nov 2009

133 pts 50 comments

59

Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn? bothsidesofthetable.com · alexjmann · 5 Nov 2009

131 pts 6 comments

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Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny techcrunch.com · vulpes · 12 Nov 2009

127 pts 60 comments