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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.

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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
2
A Big Case of Oops communities.hp.com · wglb · 26 Feb 2010
395 pts 99 comments
3
HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app mugtug.com · godDLL · 6 Feb 2010
378 pts 89 comments
4
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction nytimes.com · unignorant · 4 Feb 2010
342 pts 235 comments
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I want privacy because I break the law zachaysan.tumblr.com · 3pt14159 · 1 Feb 2010
320 pts 117 comments
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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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Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source developers.facebook.com · ivankirigin · 2 Feb 2010
315 pts 190 comments
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Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky hginit.com · Tichy · 24 Feb 2010
296 pts 71 comments
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Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men lifehack.org · nathanh · 19 Feb 2010
294 pts 171 comments
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The hell that is a restaurant website venomousporridge.com · telemachos · 17 Feb 2010
292 pts 92 comments
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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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Serious threat to the web in Italy googleblog.blogspot.com · alexandros · 24 Feb 2010
282 pts 141 comments
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Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping diveintomark.org · mnemonik · 23 Feb 2010
282 pts 99 comments
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home boingboing.net · kf · 18 Feb 2010
275 pts 157 comments
15
Please Rob Me pleaserobme.com · danw · 17 Feb 2010
270 pts 130 comments
16
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% lukew.com · malyk · 25 Feb 2010
270 pts 50 comments
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network googleblog.blogspot.com · ashishbharthi · 10 Feb 2010
269 pts 149 comments
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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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Things I've learned at Google so far bentilly.blogspot.com · btilly · 1 Feb 2010
264 pts 194 comments
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AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..." trn.n0t.net · johns · 7 Feb 2010
259 pts 102 comments
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Ask YC/HN Archive gabrielweinberg.com · jmonegro · 15 Feb 2010
254 pts 29 comments
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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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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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WTFJS? wtfjs.com · mcantelon · 12 Feb 2010
237 pts 70 comments
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Life Below 600px iampaddy.com · chaostheory · 2 Feb 2010
232 pts 61 comments
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login" daringfireball.net · natemartin · 12 Feb 2010
230 pts 160 comments
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Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act startupvisa.com · icey · 24 Feb 2010
226 pts 215 comments
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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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Business School is a Joke web.archive.org · imgabe · 14 Feb 2010
223 pts 69 comments
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No, you can't do that with H.264 bemasc.net · middayc · 3 Feb 2010
222 pts 78 comments
31
Achievement Porn petermichaud.com · pmichaud · 27 Feb 2010
219 pts 120 comments
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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There are good reasons for saying hello. esmerel.com · indiejade · 22 Feb 2010
214 pts 37 comments
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Stuff paulgraham.com · simonreed · 14 Feb 2010
209 pts 136 comments
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Perfect example of real-life hacking futilitycloset.com · ph0rque · 26 Feb 2010
208 pts 41 comments
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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride pipeline.corante.com · timr · 24 Feb 2010
202 pts 50 comments
37
Ouch marc.info · thaumaturgy · 5 Feb 2010
199 pts 32 comments
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Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building embeddedart.com · spudlyo · 18 Feb 2010
197 pts 207 comments
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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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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Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST mixergy.com · vaksel · 9 Feb 2010
192 pts 77 comments
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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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What Pythonistas Think of Ruby blog.peepcode.com · sant0sk1 · 3 Feb 2010
188 pts 235 comments
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Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt steamykitchen.com · maxklein · 11 Feb 2010
188 pts 142 comments
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PostgreSQL 9.0 - Hot Standby, Streaming Replication depesz.com · gleb · 2 Feb 2010
185 pts 15 comments
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All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase 37signals.com · marilyn · 16 Feb 2010
180 pts 75 comments
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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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-2000 Lines of Code (2004) folklore.org · colinprince · 10 Feb 2010
179 pts 39 comments
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Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser) flashcrash.dempsky.org · zain · 6 Feb 2010
178 pts 86 comments
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Stop Piping Cats ibm.com · helwr · 10 Feb 2010
178 pts 75 comments
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Google Buzz google.com · mbrubeck · 9 Feb 2010
175 pts 171 comments
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MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV squicky.org · z8000 · 6 Feb 2010
175 pts 27 comments
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo en.wikipedia.org · roundsquare · 3 Feb 2010
174 pts 69 comments
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JQuery Quicksand plugin razorjack.net · vijaydev · 17 Feb 2010
171 pts 30 comments
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The Spy at Harriton High strydehax.blogspot.com · ryoshu · 22 Feb 2010
166 pts 77 comments
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It's not bad to leave your laptop plugged in marco.org · garret · 26 Feb 2010
166 pts 28 comments
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The Story the New York Times Won't Touch thebigmoney.com · jakarta · 20 Feb 2010
165 pts 17 comments
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Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress economix.blogs.nytimes.com · chaosmachine · 3 Feb 2010
164 pts 226 comments
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Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games fury.com · bd · 22 Feb 2010
159 pts 33 comments
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The $5 Guerrilla User Test blog.bumblebeelabs.com · shalmanese · 12 Feb 2010
158 pts 48 comments

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