The Best Hacker News Posts of 2009
We track 1,149 stories from 2009, averaging 156 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 35 stories. Together they drew 72,828 comments, 63 per story on average.
1
How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
dfranke · 3 Jun 2009
928 pts
78 comments
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3
A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
ticketstumbler.com · rantfoil · 3 Oct 2009
626 pts
134 comments
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4
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
boingboing.net · Flemlord · 4 Nov 2009
588 pts
287 comments
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7
New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.
pg · 31 Jan 2009
532 pts
137 comments
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8
The End Of The CrunchPad
techcrunch.com · AndrewWarner · 30 Nov 2009
435 pts
138 comments
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9
Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
blog.last.fm · arthurk · 23 Feb 2009
413 pts
101 comments
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10
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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11
Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
slash7.com · ahoyhere · 26 Mar 2009
400 pts
150 comments
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12
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
sivers.org · icey · 1 Dec 2009
386 pts
60 comments
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13
What Startups Are Really Like
paulgraham.com · apu · 25 Oct 2009
382 pts
119 comments
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14
What I've Learned from Hacker News
paulgraham.com · mqt · 25 Feb 2009
381 pts
119 comments
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16
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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17
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
googleblog.blogspot.com · mqt · 8 Jul 2009
370 pts
167 comments
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19
Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
journal.uggedal.com · uggedal · 29 Nov 2009
365 pts
146 comments
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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
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21
Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
hizook.com · beambot · 28 Aug 2009
359 pts
159 comments
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22
The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)
totlol.com · TotlolRon · 28 Dec 2009
352 pts
119 comments
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23
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
georgehart.com · dangoldin · 7 Dec 2009
350 pts
25 comments
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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
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25
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
bret.appspot.com · paul · 27 Feb 2009
347 pts
84 comments
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26
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
techcrunch.com · vaksel · 11 Sep 2009
347 pts
83 comments
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27
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
etherpad.com · pg · 26 Feb 2009
338 pts
126 comments
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29
The Duct Tape Programmer
joelonsoftware.com · mqt · 24 Sep 2009
333 pts
118 comments
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30
Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
gamasutra.com · e1ven · 20 Aug 2009
330 pts
45 comments
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31
Why I gave away my company to charity
sivers.org · sivers · 4 Dec 2009
328 pts
83 comments
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32
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
steveblank.com · icey · 21 Dec 2009
327 pts
226 comments
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33
Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
daringfireball.net · ajg1977 · 5 Aug 2009
327 pts
80 comments
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34
My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.
rd.com · robg · 23 Jul 2009
327 pts
64 comments
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35
The Innards of Erlang
contekst.org · jasonlbaptiste · 11 Mar 2009
327 pts
34 comments
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36
So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
Shooter · 8 Oct 2009
324 pts
126 comments
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37
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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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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40
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
gizmodo.com · AjJi · 6 Oct 2009
321 pts
67 comments
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41
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com · KC8ZKF · 17 Jul 2009
320 pts
141 comments
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42
How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business
jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 28 Sep 2009
319 pts
63 comments
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44
Your looks and your inbox
blog.okcupid.com · thirdusername · 19 Nov 2009
315 pts
102 comments
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45
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
paulgraham.com · mqt · 22 Jul 2009
312 pts
89 comments
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46
Deny This, Last.fm
techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 23 May 2009
312 pts
68 comments
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47
Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
files.getdropbox.com · revorad · 3 Sep 2009
310 pts
59 comments
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48
I Was Told I Was Very Smart
theferrett.livejournal.com · mtinkerhess · 22 Oct 2009
309 pts
113 comments
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49
Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo
hackerfactor.com · aditya · 27 Dec 2009
308 pts
54 comments
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50
The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"
ribbonfarm.com · mcdoh · 14 Oct 2009
307 pts
63 comments
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51
A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
james-iry.blogspot.com · toddc · 8 May 2009
303 pts
14 comments
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52
Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.
ycombinator.com · iamelgringo · 5 Dec 2009
301 pts
117 comments
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53
HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old
news.ycombinator.com · pg · 13 May 2009
300 pts
107 comments
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55
Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
37signals.com · ionfish · 31 Mar 2009
291 pts
142 comments
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56
Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
schneier.com · tlrobinson · 9 Dec 2009
291 pts
96 comments
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57
Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source
bret.appspot.com · finiteloop · 10 Sep 2009
291 pts
73 comments
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60
Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
techcrunch.com · aberman · 24 Nov 2009
289 pts
143 comments
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