The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2010
We track 248 stories from April 2010, averaging 174 points each. youtube.com was the most linked source, with 7 stories. Together they drew 19,165 comments, 77 per story on average.
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New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
daringfireball.net · swilliams · 8 Apr 2010
525 pts
480 comments
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Android – Now Ported On The iPhone
appadvice.com · xonder · 22 Apr 2010
494 pts
121 comments
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The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell
tech.mit.edu · dsplittgerber · 11 Apr 2010
446 pts
210 comments
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Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07
youtube.com · dsplittgerber · 5 Apr 2010
439 pts
278 comments
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The case of the 500-mile email
csua.berkeley.edu · Jach · 25 Apr 2010
434 pts
24 comments
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Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
whydoeseverythingsuck.com · thafman · 9 Apr 2010
410 pts
228 comments
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Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
wired.com · mawhidby · 20 Apr 2010
361 pts
106 comments
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Booted out of Bootup Labs
livejamie.com · livejamie · 15 Apr 2010
345 pts
158 comments
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How I got sued by Facebook
petewarden.typepad.com · petewarden · 5 Apr 2010
336 pts
80 comments
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12
The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
vfp62.com · jaxc · 7 Apr 2010
333 pts
87 comments
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Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1
taoeffect.com · itistoday · 10 Apr 2010
320 pts
172 comments
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14
Best Writing Advice for Engineers I've Ever Seen.
engineerwriting.jottit.com · petercooper · 6 Apr 2010
318 pts
73 comments
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HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
finance.yahoo.com · jsm386 · 28 Apr 2010
313 pts
143 comments
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Jobs on Flash: Hypocrisy So Thick You Could Cut it with a Knife
osnews.com · mascarenhas · 29 Apr 2010
309 pts
112 comments
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How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers
google.com · ax0n · 19 Apr 2010
309 pts
72 comments
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We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.
nlcnet.org · samd · 14 Apr 2010
293 pts
195 comments
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The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
antipope.org · protothomas · 30 Apr 2010
286 pts
77 comments
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21
The Collapse of Complex Business Models
shirky.com · nathanperetic · 1 Apr 2010
278 pts
64 comments
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This link says it's from YouTube but it's not
youtube.com · Phantom · 12 Apr 2010
277 pts
57 comments
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Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad
boingboing.net · fogus · 2 Apr 2010
273 pts
186 comments
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Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw
learnpythonthehardway.com · wyclif · 27 Apr 2010
270 pts
160 comments
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26
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud
sec.gov · ra88it · 16 Apr 2010
270 pts
153 comments
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Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
newteevee.com · audionerd · 12 Apr 2010
270 pts
99 comments
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Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right
daringfireball.net · kilian · 2 Apr 2010
269 pts
142 comments
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"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."
youtube.com · jamesbressi · 10 Apr 2010
268 pts
95 comments
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30
Ubuntu 10.04 Released
releases.ubuntu.com · glymor · 29 Apr 2010
267 pts
108 comments
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The scariest pricing idea ever. That works.
thefreelancery.com · pw · 20 Apr 2010
264 pts
71 comments
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Opera Mini approved for iPhone
opera.com · apphacker · 12 Apr 2010
258 pts
93 comments
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Police raid Gizmodo editor's house
techcrunch.com · sgman · 26 Apr 2010
257 pts
294 comments
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34
Not Even In South Park?
nytimes.com · jamesbressi · 26 Apr 2010
257 pts
153 comments
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Microsoft's Guide to Humor
microsoft.com · jakarta · 29 Apr 2010
252 pts
75 comments
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100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.
modeledbehavior.com · yummyfajitas · 16 Apr 2010
251 pts
136 comments
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McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide
andreyf.tumblr.com · andreyf · 21 Apr 2010
249 pts
107 comments
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38
Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt]
slideshare.net · huangm · 24 Apr 2010
247 pts
59 comments
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Android Tries Harder
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com · bensummers · 19 Apr 2010
237 pts
94 comments
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Banned from buying iPads... for life.
protocolsnow.com · mrcharles · 22 Apr 2010
236 pts
167 comments
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45
Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers
google.com · blasdel · 23 Apr 2010
231 pts
159 comments
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46
Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
theflashblog.com · revolvingcur · 9 Apr 2010
229 pts
143 comments
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Vimium - the hacker's browser
vimium.github.com · csmajorfive · 15 Apr 2010
224 pts
98 comments
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go to xkcd.com: The webcomic XKCD now has a command prompt
google.com · biotech · 1 Apr 2010
224 pts
91 comments
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Hong Kong architect turns shoebox apartment into 24 rooms
youtube.com · newsit · 26 Apr 2010
223 pts
53 comments
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Jason Calacanis at his finest
pastebin.com · anderzole · 23 Apr 2010
219 pts
124 comments
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Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme
blog.jperla.com · ljlolel · 25 Apr 2010
213 pts
111 comments
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO & AdWords
gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 6 Apr 2010
212 pts
48 comments
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55
Why 42? - Douglas Adams Explains
groups.google.com · instantramen · 20 Apr 2010
209 pts
64 comments
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Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"
networkworld.com · anderzole · 29 Apr 2010
203 pts
107 comments
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A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad
laughingsquid.com · thomasreggi · 6 Apr 2010
201 pts
108 comments
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Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data
google.com · michaelfairley · 20 Apr 2010
201 pts
53 comments
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