The Best Hacker News Posts of March 2010

1

A real person, a lot like you sivers.org · terpua · 31 Mar 2010

624 pts 139 comments

2

New IDE: code bubbles cs.brown.edu · maxharris · 10 Mar 2010

414 pts 219 comments

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Wikileaks: Something is up morgue.isprettyawesome.com · bensummers · 24 Mar 2010

407 pts 116 comments

4

Congratulations Patrick JacobAldridge · 30 Mar 2010

400 pts 61 comments

5

Your high IQ will kill your startup blog.cubeofm.com · niyazpk · 4 Mar 2010

384 pts 182 comments

6

Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 20 Mar 2010

359 pts 78 comments

7

Photoshop CS5's new "Content-aware Fill" youtube.com · swombat · 24 Mar 2010

325 pts 95 comments

8

Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines news.ycombinator.com · jsrfded · 15 Mar 2010

318 pts 120 comments

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Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about etudeapp.com · dangrover · 16 Mar 2010

318 pts 112 comments

10

Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness theabyssgazes.blogspot.com · mikecane · 15 Mar 2010

314 pts 64 comments

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I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air sam.bluwiki.com · aston · 2 Mar 2010

310 pts 144 comments

12

Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? needmoney · 6 Mar 2010

304 pts 127 comments

13

U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks - Details on intimidation attempts wikileaks.org · dsplittgerber · 26 Mar 2010

304 pts 113 comments

14

A new approach to China: an update googleblog.blogspot.com · GVRV · 22 Mar 2010

286 pts 122 comments

15

Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined thegcteam.com · cullenking · 16 Mar 2010

281 pts 176 comments

16

Vimcasts vimcasts.org · va_coder · 30 Mar 2010

277 pts 42 comments

17

Solving turnover (unusual dailywtf) thedailywtf.com · presidentender · 18 Mar 2010

276 pts 96 comments

18

China's instructions on reporting on Google washingtonpost.com · yanw · 25 Mar 2010

275 pts 164 comments

19

I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly blog.ksplice.com · jesstess · 16 Mar 2010

274 pts 38 comments

20

Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore kotaku.com · jseliger · 7 Mar 2010

261 pts 175 comments

21

“It turns out” jsomers.net · jsomers · 3 Mar 2010

257 pts 63 comments

22

Crazy or Disciplined? dilbert.com · imgabe · 2 Mar 2010

252 pts 25 comments

23

5 things I knew (or should have) before my startup, but didn't learn until now blog.wepay.com · kschults · 11 Mar 2010

249 pts 65 comments

24

The Panic Status Board panic.com · adamhowell · 9 Mar 2010

247 pts 52 comments

25

Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost idlewords.com · mark_h · 8 Mar 2010

244 pts 36 comments

26

Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000) vanadac.com · vinutheraj · 4 Mar 2010

243 pts 59 comments

27

Flip the stick sivers.org · dwynings · 30 Mar 2010

241 pts 48 comments

28

Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds edwardtufte.com · voidfiles · 8 Mar 2010

236 pts 108 comments

29

Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby joelonsoftware.com · mattyb · 18 Mar 2010

235 pts 111 comments

30

My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 29 Mar 2010

224 pts 65 comments

31

Unix recovery legend ee.ryerson.ca · araneae · 23 Mar 2010

220 pts 83 comments

32

Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton youtube.com · MikeCapone · 21 Mar 2010

219 pts 59 comments

33

OK Go's new music video, featuring an insane Rube Goldberg machine youtube.com · mawhidby · 2 Mar 2010

218 pts 48 comments

34

Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?" gorgorat.com · matth · 16 Mar 2010

212 pts 155 comments

35

Why you should never pay more than $10 for an HDMI cable (Infographic) mint.com · cwan · 31 Mar 2010

210 pts 101 comments

36

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com · jcsalterego · 9 Mar 2010

209 pts 51 comments

37

Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts news.ycombinator.com · pg · 7 Mar 2010

209 pts 46 comments

38

Ask HN: "Basic SEO"? DanHulton · 8 Mar 2010

208 pts 57 comments

39

Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread) niqolas · 18 Mar 2010

200 pts 238 comments

40

Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files? blog.peepcode.com · sant0sk1 · 25 Mar 2010

200 pts 160 comments

41

Kurt Vonnegut: I want to share with you something I’ve learned. laphamsquarterly.org · mapleoin · 23 Mar 2010

200 pts 55 comments

42

How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads slatev.com · bentlegen · 20 Mar 2010

198 pts 37 comments

43

VMware: the new Redis home antirez.com · davidw · 15 Mar 2010

196 pts 39 comments

44

If I Launched a Startup thestartuplawyer.com · fusionman · 17 Mar 2010

196 pts 36 comments

45

Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin's Creed 2 unplayable joystiq.com · protomyth · 7 Mar 2010

195 pts 99 comments

46

The Single Sign On thedailywtf.com · billpg · 9 Mar 2010

195 pts 70 comments

47

The almost-magical "content aware fill" plugin from a few days ago...on gimp. newslily.com · blhack · 26 Mar 2010

194 pts 39 comments

48

Wil Shipley on Apple's Patent Enforcement wilshipley.com · swilliams · 3 Mar 2010

193 pts 107 comments

49

Joel Spolsky On Why He Is Quitting Blogging inc.com · Jim_Neath · 2 Mar 2010

193 pts 97 comments

50

Mahalo's disappearing noindex tags smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com · dazz · 8 Mar 2010

193 pts 72 comments

51

Google releases Skipfish, an open-source web security scanner code.google.com · tptacek · 19 Mar 2010

193 pts 26 comments

52

GoDaddy pulls out of China too washingtonpost.com · jeffmould · 24 Mar 2010

190 pts 68 comments

53

Care about search privacy? Duck Duck Go no longer logs IPs. gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 15 Mar 2010

189 pts 95 comments

54

The World's most Ingenious Thief wired.com · pinstriped_dude · 24 Mar 2010

185 pts 60 comments

55

Why most people don't like jazz dyske.com · RevRal · 19 Mar 2010

181 pts 225 comments

56

Tell HN: Thank you AndrewWarner · 12 Mar 2010

178 pts 64 comments

57

Valve bringing Steam to Mac wired.com · blazamos · 8 Mar 2010

177 pts 78 comments

58

Y Combinator presents 26 new startups venturebeat.com · dwynings · 23 Mar 2010

175 pts 189 comments

59

Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained catonmat.net · pkrumins · 18 Mar 2010

172 pts 23 comments

60

Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette thedailyshow.com · initself · 5 Mar 2010

171 pts 65 comments