The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2009
We track 107 stories from November 2009, averaging 169 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 6 stories. Together they drew 6,899 comments, 64 per story on average.
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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
boingboing.net · Flemlord · 4 Nov 2009
588 pts
287 comments
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The End Of The CrunchPad
techcrunch.com · AndrewWarner · 30 Nov 2009
435 pts
138 comments
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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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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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9
Your looks and your inbox
blog.okcupid.com · thirdusername · 19 Nov 2009
315 pts
102 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
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How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor
entrepreneur.venturebeat.com · transburgh · 4 Nov 2009
214 pts
21 comments
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Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)
soserio.us · antidaily · 5 Nov 2009
210 pts
113 comments
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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
ejohn.org · emontero1 · 17 Nov 2009
201 pts
14 comments
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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
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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
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My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed
astorybeforebed.com · hillel · 2 Nov 2009
179 pts
116 comments
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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
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Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions
fakesteve.net · javery · 16 Nov 2009
175 pts
42 comments
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Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails
examiner.com · nice1 · 20 Nov 2009
171 pts
199 comments
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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
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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
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Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger
blogs.zoho.com · suprgeek · 4 Nov 2009
161 pts
55 comments
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A common bug in published code
google.com · RiderOfGiraffes · 25 Nov 2009
158 pts
39 comments
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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
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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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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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45
Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful.
blogs.msdn.com · cabacon · 23 Nov 2009
153 pts
18 comments
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47
Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action
steveblank.com · wyday · 9 Nov 2009
150 pts
23 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
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Tell HN: Apple paid my iPhone money, with exceptional service
zoomboy · 11 Nov 2009
143 pts
30 comments
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Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
inc.com · johns · 4 Nov 2009
140 pts
82 comments
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Announcing Duck It, a new way to search
duckduckgo.com · epi0Bauqu · 3 Nov 2009
135 pts
94 comments
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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
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Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
cohort11.americanobserver.net · adamhowell · 20 Nov 2009
134 pts
42 comments
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O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web."
radar.oreilly.com · lecha · 16 Nov 2009
133 pts
50 comments
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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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60
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny
techcrunch.com · vulpes · 12 Nov 2009
127 pts
60 comments
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