The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2010

1

Thoughts on Flash apple.com · andrewdavey · 29 Apr 2010

962 pts 505 comments

2

New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others daringfireball.net · swilliams · 8 Apr 2010

525 pts 480 comments

3

Android – Now Ported On The iPhone appadvice.com · xonder · 22 Apr 2010

494 pts 121 comments

4

The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell tech.mit.edu · dsplittgerber · 11 Apr 2010

446 pts 210 comments

5

Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07 youtube.com · dsplittgerber · 5 Apr 2010

439 pts 278 comments

6

The case of the 500-mile email csua.berkeley.edu · Jach · 25 Apr 2010

434 pts 24 comments

7

Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad whydoeseverythingsuck.com · thafman · 9 Apr 2010

410 pts 228 comments

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An apology... furbo.org · aaronbrethorst · 20 Apr 2010

367 pts 189 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

10

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

12

The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird vfp62.com · jaxc · 7 Apr 2010

333 pts 87 comments

13

Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1 taoeffect.com · itistoday · 10 Apr 2010

320 pts 172 comments

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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HTML5 presentation apirocks.com · r11t · 17 Apr 2010

316 pts 57 comments

16

HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion finance.yahoo.com · jsm386 · 28 Apr 2010

313 pts 143 comments

17

Jobs on Flash: Hypocrisy So Thick You Could Cut it with a Knife osnews.com · mascarenhas · 29 Apr 2010

309 pts 112 comments

18

How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers google.com · ax0n · 19 Apr 2010

309 pts 72 comments

19

We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work. nlcnet.org · samd · 14 Apr 2010

293 pts 195 comments

20

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash antipope.org · protothomas · 30 Apr 2010

286 pts 77 comments

21

The Collapse of Complex Business Models shirky.com · nathanperetic · 1 Apr 2010

278 pts 64 comments

22

This link says it's from YouTube but it's not youtube.com · Phantom · 12 Apr 2010

277 pts 57 comments

23

Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad boingboing.net · fogus · 2 Apr 2010

273 pts 186 comments

24

Organic Startup Ideas paulgraham.com · adamc · 15 Apr 2010

273 pts 105 comments

25

Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw learnpythonthehardway.com · wyclif · 27 Apr 2010

270 pts 160 comments

26

SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud sec.gov · ra88it · 16 Apr 2010

270 pts 153 comments

27

Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video newteevee.com · audionerd · 12 Apr 2010

270 pts 99 comments

28

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

30

Ubuntu 10.04 Released releases.ubuntu.com · glymor · 29 Apr 2010

267 pts 108 comments

31

The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. thefreelancery.com · pw · 20 Apr 2010

264 pts 71 comments

32

Opera Mini approved for iPhone opera.com · apphacker · 12 Apr 2010

258 pts 93 comments

33

Police raid Gizmodo editor's house techcrunch.com · sgman · 26 Apr 2010

257 pts 294 comments

34

Not Even In South Park? nytimes.com · jamesbressi · 26 Apr 2010

257 pts 153 comments

35

Microsoft's Guide to Humor microsoft.com · jakarta · 29 Apr 2010

252 pts 75 comments

36

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

37

McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide andreyf.tumblr.com · andreyf · 21 Apr 2010

249 pts 107 comments

38

Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt] slideshare.net · huangm · 24 Apr 2010

247 pts 59 comments

39

On Geeks and Gays newstilt.com · bootload · 27 Apr 2010

241 pts 226 comments

40

Android Tries Harder pogue.blogs.nytimes.com · bensummers · 19 Apr 2010

237 pts 94 comments

41

Banned from buying iPads... for life. protocolsnow.com · mrcharles · 22 Apr 2010

236 pts 167 comments

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0to255 0to255.com · kylebragger · 12 Apr 2010

236 pts 45 comments

43

Adobe Responds to Jobs blogs.adobe.com · aberman · 30 Apr 2010

235 pts 122 comments

44

Announcing WebKit2 lists.webkit.org · tlrobinson · 8 Apr 2010

232 pts 59 comments

45

Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers google.com · blasdel · 23 Apr 2010

231 pts 159 comments

46

Apple Slaps Developers In The Face theflashblog.com · revolvingcur · 9 Apr 2010

229 pts 143 comments

47

Vimium - the hacker's browser vimium.github.com · csmajorfive · 15 Apr 2010

224 pts 98 comments

48

go to xkcd.com: The webcomic XKCD now has a command prompt google.com · biotech · 1 Apr 2010

224 pts 91 comments

49

Hong Kong architect turns shoebox apartment into 24 rooms youtube.com · newsit · 26 Apr 2010

223 pts 53 comments

50

HN Contractors: Add Yourself scottru · 13 Apr 2010

222 pts 65 comments

51

Jason Calacanis at his finest pastebin.com · anderzole · 23 Apr 2010

219 pts 124 comments

52

Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme blog.jperla.com · ljlolel · 25 Apr 2010

213 pts 111 comments

53

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO & AdWords gabrielweinberg.com · epi0Bauqu · 6 Apr 2010

212 pts 48 comments

54

That Lost 4G Phone dilbert.com · alexitosrv · 26 Apr 2010

211 pts 46 comments

55

Why 42? - Douglas Adams Explains groups.google.com · instantramen · 20 Apr 2010

209 pts 64 comments

56

Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother" networkworld.com · anderzole · 29 Apr 2010

203 pts 107 comments

57

Ask HN: Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation) asym · 7 Apr 2010

201 pts 138 comments

58

A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad laughingsquid.com · thomasreggi · 6 Apr 2010

201 pts 108 comments

59

Google reveals statistics on government requests of its data google.com · michaelfairley · 20 Apr 2010

201 pts 53 comments

60

JQuery Sparklines omnipotent.net · kordless · 28 Apr 2010

201 pts 22 comments