The Best Hacker News Posts of 2009

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How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) dfranke · 3 Jun 2009

928 pts 78 comments

2

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

723 pts 269 comments

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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

4

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

588 pts 287 comments

5

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

581 pts 135 comments

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_why is no more twitter.com · Jeremysr · 19 Aug 2009

558 pts 399 comments

7

New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. pg · 31 Jan 2009

532 pts 137 comments

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

435 pts 138 comments

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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" blog.last.fm · arthurk · 23 Feb 2009

413 pts 101 comments

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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

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Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business slash7.com · ahoyhere · 26 Mar 2009

400 pts 150 comments

12

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

386 pts 60 comments

13

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

382 pts 119 comments

14

What I've Learned from Hacker News paulgraham.com · mqt · 25 Feb 2009

381 pts 119 comments

15

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

377 pts 218 comments

16

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

376 pts 58 comments

17

Introducing the Google Chrome OS googleblog.blogspot.com · mqt · 8 Jul 2009

370 pts 167 comments

18

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

366 pts 261 comments

19

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

365 pts 146 comments

20

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms snopes.com · chaostheory · 5 Aug 2009

364 pts 79 comments

21

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense hizook.com · beambot · 28 Aug 2009

359 pts 159 comments

22

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

352 pts 119 comments

23

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

350 pts 25 comments

24

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

25

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data bret.appspot.com · paul · 27 Feb 2009

347 pts 84 comments

26

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

347 pts 83 comments

27

The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad etherpad.com · pg · 26 Feb 2009

338 pts 126 comments

28

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

335 pts 43 comments

29

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

333 pts 118 comments

30

Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games gamasutra.com · e1ven · 20 Aug 2009

330 pts 45 comments

31

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

328 pts 83 comments

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

327 pts 226 comments

33

Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store daringfireball.net · ajg1977 · 5 Aug 2009

327 pts 80 comments

34

My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan. rd.com · robg · 23 Jul 2009

327 pts 64 comments

35

The Innards of Erlang contekst.org · jasonlbaptiste · 11 Mar 2009

327 pts 34 comments

36

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

324 pts 126 comments

37

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

323 pts 98 comments

38

Startups in 13 Sentences paulgraham.com · mqt · 23 Feb 2009

322 pts 101 comments

39

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

41

Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle pogue.blogs.nytimes.com · KC8ZKF · 17 Jul 2009

320 pts 141 comments

42

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

319 pts 63 comments

43

Eulogy to _why ejohn.org · jcsalterego · 19 Aug 2009

318 pts 92 comments

44

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

315 pts 102 comments

45

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule paulgraham.com · mqt · 22 Jul 2009

312 pts 89 comments

46

Deny This, Last.fm techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 23 May 2009

312 pts 68 comments

47

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

310 pts 59 comments

48

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

309 pts 113 comments

49

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

308 pts 54 comments

50

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

307 pts 63 comments

51

A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages james-iry.blogspot.com · toddc · 8 May 2009

303 pts 14 comments

52

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

301 pts 117 comments

53

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old news.ycombinator.com · pg · 13 May 2009

300 pts 107 comments

54

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

297 pts 77 comments

55

Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail" 37signals.com · ionfish · 31 Mar 2009

291 pts 142 comments

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

291 pts 96 comments

57

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

291 pts 73 comments

58

Did you mean recursion? google.com · _pius · 23 Jul 2009

290 pts 50 comments

59

Experiment: No Comment Scores pg · 26 Sep 2009

289 pts 313 comments

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

289 pts 143 comments