The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2009

1

Microsoft rips off Plurk blog.plurk.com · abraham · 14 Dec 2009

581 pts 135 comments

2

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) sivers.org · icey · 1 Dec 2009

386 pts 60 comments

3

The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) totlol.com · TotlolRon · 28 Dec 2009

352 pts 119 comments

4

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves georgehart.com · dangoldin · 7 Dec 2009

350 pts 25 comments

5

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. guardian.co.uk · MartinMond · 23 Dec 2009

349 pts 188 comments

6

Why I gave away my company to charity sivers.org · sivers · 4 Dec 2009

328 pts 83 comments

7

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free steveblank.com · icey · 21 Dec 2009

327 pts 226 comments

8

Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo hackerfactor.com · aditya · 27 Dec 2009

308 pts 54 comments

9

Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously. ycombinator.com · iamelgringo · 5 Dec 2009

301 pts 117 comments

10

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt schneier.com · tlrobinson · 9 Dec 2009

291 pts 96 comments

11

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome theinvisibl.com · callahad · 10 Dec 2009

283 pts 100 comments

12

Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it" theregister.co.uk · nkohari · 8 Dec 2009

279 pts 168 comments

13

Squareup squareup.com · tiffani · 1 Dec 2009

278 pts 155 comments

14

EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced etherpad.com · aaroniba · 6 Dec 2009

276 pts 68 comments

15

EtherPad Open Source Release etherpad.com · aaroniba · 18 Dec 2009

275 pts 73 comments

16

How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition wired.com · TrevorBurnham · 21 Dec 2009

270 pts 75 comments

17

Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google googlecode.blogspot.com · johns · 3 Dec 2009

264 pts 155 comments

18

Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad etherpad.com · dreeves · 4 Dec 2009

258 pts 98 comments

19

The Apple Tablet daringfireball.net · adamhowell · 31 Dec 2009

254 pts 143 comments

20

They Killed My Lawyer foreignpolicy.com · nice1 · 27 Dec 2009

252 pts 65 comments

21

Funding Clojure 2010 groups.google.com · swannodette · 14 Dec 2009

239 pts 90 comments

22

IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002) t3.org · RiderOfGiraffes · 9 Dec 2009

234 pts 62 comments

23

“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story blog.apparentsoft.com · sadiq · 17 Dec 2009

225 pts 96 comments

24

Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss" codinghorror.com · gfunk911 · 11 Dec 2009

223 pts 165 comments

25

Google Goggles google.com · andrewpbrett · 7 Dec 2009

222 pts 74 comments

26

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature microsoft.com · tshtf · 15 Dec 2009

222 pts 58 comments

27

CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN jashkenas.github.com · jashkenas · 24 Dec 2009

206 pts 64 comments

28

Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters news.nationalgeographic.com · kqr2 · 14 Dec 2009

205 pts 27 comments

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Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 engadget.com · maudineormsby · 7 Dec 2009

204 pts 211 comments

30

My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement toomuchjoy.com · soundsop · 2 Dec 2009

201 pts 69 comments

31

What Not To Build halfanhour.blogspot.com · vorador · 9 Dec 2009

200 pts 72 comments

32

Highcharts: JavaScript Charts that don't suck highcharts.com · nym · 1 Dec 2009

198 pts 59 comments

33

The Master, The Expert, The Programmer zedshaw.com · azharcs · 27 Dec 2009

195 pts 104 comments

34

_why's Estate viewsourcecode.org · Jeremysr · 19 Dec 2009

191 pts 58 comments

35

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides? steveblank.com · nathanh · 7 Dec 2009

188 pts 35 comments

36

The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother thestar.com · ojbyrne · 31 Dec 2009

185 pts 102 comments

37

Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff victusspiritus.com · messel · 24 Dec 2009

183 pts 63 comments

38

Google Chrome for Linux google.com · drp · 8 Dec 2009

181 pts 78 comments

39

Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs danvk.org · nym · 10 Dec 2009

181 pts 36 comments

40

Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro penzba.co.uk · RiderOfGiraffes · 17 Dec 2009

180 pts 45 comments

41

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones online.wsj.com · bbg · 17 Dec 2009

177 pts 131 comments

42

Daring Fireball: PastryKit daringfireball.net · sant0sk1 · 15 Dec 2009

176 pts 42 comments

43

The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings axiis.org · nym · 11 Dec 2009

175 pts 41 comments

44

Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet? knol.google.com · martian · 14 Dec 2009

174 pts 62 comments

45

Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists zedshaw.com · mattculbreth · 3 Dec 2009

173 pts 70 comments

46

Analyzing Y Combinator blog.awesomezombie.com · ig1 · 4 Dec 2009

169 pts 61 comments

47

Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local googleblog.blogspot.com · jeff18 · 18 Dec 2009

167 pts 37 comments

48

Stuff I've learned at Microsoft sriramkrishnan.com · sriramk · 12 Dec 2009

167 pts 27 comments

49

I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like thestever.net · steveeq1 · 22 Dec 2009

166 pts 118 comments

50

VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out forum.videolan.org · anigbrowl · 17 Dec 2009

166 pts 43 comments

51

http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener to. · Raphael · 3 Dec 2009

164 pts 145 comments

52

Bingo Card Creator Annual Report kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 18 Dec 2009

164 pts 38 comments

53

Browser Pong stewdio.org · marcusbooster · 18 Dec 2009

160 pts 21 comments

54

Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants copyblogger.com · JoelSutherland · 14 Dec 2009

158 pts 126 comments

55

I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack maxklein.posterous.com · maxklein · 27 Dec 2009

158 pts 73 comments

56

Make a Mess, Clean it Up folklore.org · snprbob86 · 30 Dec 2009

158 pts 20 comments

57

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture) youtube.com · chipsy · 21 Dec 2009

153 pts 86 comments

58

Worst. Puzzle. Ever. rondam.blogspot.com · lisper · 28 Dec 2009

152 pts 44 comments

59

Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety philip.greenspun.com · collision · 26 Dec 2009

152 pts 41 comments

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Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers betterthangrep.com · mustpax · 4 Dec 2009

152 pts 33 comments