The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2010
We track 171 stories from February 2010, averaging 162 points each. mixergy.com was the most linked source, with 4 stories. Together they drew 12,394 comments, 72 per story on average.
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Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
fugitivus.wordpress.com · godDLL · 12 Feb 2010
549 pts
275 comments
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3
HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app
mugtug.com · godDLL · 6 Feb 2010
378 pts
89 comments
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4
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
nytimes.com · unignorant · 4 Feb 2010
342 pts
235 comments
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5
I want privacy because I break the law
zachaysan.tumblr.com · 3pt14159 · 1 Feb 2010
320 pts
117 comments
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6
Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants
royal.pingdom.com · yannis · 24 Feb 2010
318 pts
109 comments
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7
Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source
developers.facebook.com · ivankirigin · 2 Feb 2010
315 pts
190 comments
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8
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky
hginit.com · Tichy · 24 Feb 2010
296 pts
71 comments
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9
Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men
lifehack.org · nathanh · 19 Feb 2010
294 pts
171 comments
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10
The hell that is a restaurant website
venomousporridge.com · telemachos · 17 Feb 2010
292 pts
92 comments
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11
GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission
blog.sucuri.net · sucuri2 · 24 Feb 2010
288 pts
119 comments
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12
Serious threat to the web in Italy
googleblog.blogspot.com · alexandros · 24 Feb 2010
282 pts
141 comments
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13
Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping
diveintomark.org · mnemonik · 23 Feb 2010
282 pts
99 comments
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14
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
boingboing.net · kf · 18 Feb 2010
275 pts
157 comments
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16
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
lukew.com · malyk · 25 Feb 2010
270 pts
50 comments
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17
Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
googleblog.blogspot.com · ashishbharthi · 10 Feb 2010
269 pts
149 comments
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18
If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 9 Feb 2010
265 pts
78 comments
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19
Things I've learned at Google so far
bentilly.blogspot.com · btilly · 1 Feb 2010
264 pts
194 comments
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20
AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."
trn.n0t.net · johns · 7 Feb 2010
259 pts
102 comments
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22
I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.
kksm19820117 · 20 Feb 2010
251 pts
165 comments
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23
How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter
blog.cubeofm.com · maxklein · 7 Feb 2010
248 pts
188 comments
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26
Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
daringfireball.net · natemartin · 12 Feb 2010
230 pts
160 comments
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27
Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act
startupvisa.com · icey · 24 Feb 2010
226 pts
215 comments
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28
How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998)
nytimes.com · Jasber · 19 Feb 2010
223 pts
95 comments
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29
Business School is a Joke
web.archive.org · imgabe · 14 Feb 2010
223 pts
69 comments
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30
No, you can't do that with H.264
bemasc.net · middayc · 3 Feb 2010
222 pts
78 comments
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32
No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
jangosteve.com · JangoSteve · 12 Feb 2010
215 pts
79 comments
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33
There are good reasons for saying hello.
esmerel.com · indiejade · 22 Feb 2010
214 pts
37 comments
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35
Perfect example of real-life hacking
futilitycloset.com · ph0rque · 26 Feb 2010
208 pts
41 comments
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36
Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
pipeline.corante.com · timr · 24 Feb 2010
202 pts
50 comments
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38
Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building
embeddedart.com · spudlyo · 18 Feb 2010
197 pts
207 comments
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39
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, first interview since 1989
cleveland.com · wallflower · 1 Feb 2010
197 pts
72 comments
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40
Chatroulette Creator Is A 17-Year-Old Russian Kid
bits.blogs.nytimes.com · inmygarage · 13 Feb 2010
193 pts
96 comments
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41
Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST
mixergy.com · vaksel · 9 Feb 2010
192 pts
77 comments
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42
Tumblr Stole My [Subdomain] At The Behest of A Corporation
dontplayitcool.tumblr.com · terrellm · 16 Feb 2010
190 pts
90 comments
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43
What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
blog.peepcode.com · sant0sk1 · 3 Feb 2010
188 pts
235 comments
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44
Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt
steamykitchen.com · maxklein · 11 Feb 2010
188 pts
142 comments
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45
PostgreSQL 9.0 - Hot Standby, Streaming Replication
depesz.com · gleb · 2 Feb 2010
185 pts
15 comments
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46
All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
37signals.com · marilyn · 16 Feb 2010
180 pts
75 comments
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47
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures hides lawsuits via 1000+ shell companies
techdirt.com · mbrubeck · 18 Feb 2010
179 pts
47 comments
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48
-2000 Lines of Code (2004)
folklore.org · colinprince · 10 Feb 2010
179 pts
39 comments
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49
Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
flashcrash.dempsky.org · zain · 6 Feb 2010
178 pts
86 comments
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52
MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV
squicky.org · z8000 · 6 Feb 2010
175 pts
27 comments
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53
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
en.wikipedia.org · roundsquare · 3 Feb 2010
174 pts
69 comments
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55
The Spy at Harriton High
strydehax.blogspot.com · ryoshu · 22 Feb 2010
166 pts
77 comments
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56
It's not bad to leave your laptop plugged in
marco.org · garret · 26 Feb 2010
166 pts
28 comments
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57
The Story the New York Times Won't Touch
thebigmoney.com · jakarta · 20 Feb 2010
165 pts
17 comments
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58
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress
economix.blogs.nytimes.com · chaosmachine · 3 Feb 2010
164 pts
226 comments
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59
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games
fury.com · bd · 22 Feb 2010
159 pts
33 comments
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60
The $5 Guerrilla User Test
blog.bumblebeelabs.com · shalmanese · 12 Feb 2010
158 pts
48 comments
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