The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2010

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Where can I fly for how much? kayak.com · sublemonic · 10 Jun 2010

668 pts 106 comments

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To Paul Graham Ixiaus · 2 Jun 2010

647 pts 152 comments

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Hacker Monthly #1 is here hackermonthly.com · bearwithclaws · 1 Jun 2010

641 pts 177 comments

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Why I Sold Zappos inc.com · dwynings · 7 Jun 2010

526 pts 88 comments

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Banana equivalent dose en.wikipedia.org · soyelmango · 14 Jun 2010

470 pts 84 comments

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Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er savemylyfe.blogspot.com · savemylife · 2 Jun 2010

455 pts 316 comments

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How to make McDonalds french fries aht.seriouseats.com · dpatru · 6 Jun 2010

396 pts 93 comments

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Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties? noname123 · 30 Jun 2010

391 pts 263 comments

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Introducing Google Command line Tool google-opensource.blogspot.com · dreur · 18 Jun 2010

390 pts 51 comments

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No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010) tauday.com · mhartl · 28 Jun 2010

367 pts 147 comments

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U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan nytimes.com · jfi · 14 Jun 2010

354 pts 218 comments

12

Unix toolbox cb.vu · dreur · 7 Jun 2010

333 pts 23 comments

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Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call prbuckley · 15 Jun 2010

330 pts 118 comments

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Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4 antennasys.com · Anechoic · 25 Jun 2010

327 pts 69 comments

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How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years jasonlbaptiste.com · jasonlbaptiste · 21 Jun 2010

322 pts 73 comments

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Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years? babyboy808 · 20 Jun 2010

313 pts 134 comments

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YouTube wins case against Viacom googleblog.blogspot.com · yanw · 23 Jun 2010

313 pts 43 comments

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After 15 years of practice.. sivers.org · InfinityX0 · 15 Jun 2010

310 pts 97 comments

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There Are No Famous Programmers sheddingbikes.com · suraj · 8 Jun 2010

303 pts 196 comments

20

How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous. robinduckett · 18 Jun 2010

298 pts 115 comments

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Hacker Monthly #2 is out hackermonthly.com · pclark · 30 Jun 2010

298 pts 92 comments

22

The Value of Ideas dilbert.com · alexandros · 4 Jun 2010

285 pts 98 comments

23

Linus vs C++, again realworldtech.com · hernan7 · 10 Jun 2010

275 pts 199 comments

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Rent a White Guy theatlantic.com · arthurdent · 13 Jun 2010

275 pts 69 comments

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This is Why I'll Never be an Adult hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com · maqr · 19 Jun 2010

274 pts 97 comments

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You're Doing It Wrong: CS in the real world queue.acm.org · fragmede · 12 Jun 2010

273 pts 56 comments

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Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase blog.linode.com · JshWright · 16 Jun 2010

270 pts 163 comments

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"You Don't Understand Ordinary People" - Feynman Gives Advice to Wolfram lettersofnote.com · JoelSutherland · 9 Jun 2010

264 pts 78 comments

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5 Ingredients/10 Minutes cookbook - great recipes for a busy hacker [pdf] thestonesoup.com · nirmal · 21 Jun 2010

263 pts 34 comments

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SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry venturebeat.com · timf · 14 Jun 2010

260 pts 109 comments

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Become a morning person. How to end insomnia for $520.99 humbledmba.com · jaf12duke · 6 Jun 2010

256 pts 121 comments

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Officially our best-ever cease and desist thinkgeek.com · andreyf · 21 Jun 2010

252 pts 33 comments

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TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit hackaday.com · mcantelon · 22 Jun 2010

249 pts 102 comments

34

I own you, and you're easily replaceable. chemistry-blog.com · mikexstudios · 23 Jun 2010

247 pts 127 comments

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Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast chronicle.com · dhimes · 25 Jun 2010

247 pts 97 comments

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Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids avc.com · stakent · 20 Jun 2010

245 pts 37 comments

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An interview by a 7th grader paulgraham.com · sharpn · 13 Jun 2010

243 pts 64 comments

38

Writing great documentation jacobian.org · j_baker · 14 Jun 2010

243 pts 25 comments

39

Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? SandB0x · 10 Jun 2010

236 pts 223 comments

40

Bee Sting Theory of Poverty boston.com · chegra · 28 Jun 2010

235 pts 181 comments

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Xz en.wikipedia.org · golwengaud · 24 Jun 2010

232 pts 64 comments

42

Cells. A massively multi-agent Python programming game. phonons.wordpress.com · phreeza · 1 Jun 2010

228 pts 106 comments

43

My 2 Bucks on Pricing chrisashworth.org · kes · 9 Jun 2010

228 pts 28 comments

44

NY hotels trying to outlaw short-term home sublets (i.e. AirBnB) techdirt.com · tjsnyder · 29 Jun 2010

227 pts 80 comments

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The Buzzer en.wikipedia.org · tshtf · 5 Jun 2010

227 pts 55 comments

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GitHub adds Organizations github.com · kneath · 29 Jun 2010

223 pts 45 comments

47

Pixar films don't get finished, they just get released lettersofnote.com · b3n · 11 Jun 2010

221 pts 32 comments

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen sivers.org · dwynings · 19 Jun 2010

220 pts 52 comments

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Romantic Love: The problem with Western cultures nickyee.com · mgh2 · 19 Jun 2010

210 pts 87 comments

50

Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times slate.me · jazzychad · 3 Jun 2010

209 pts 133 comments

51

How to kill a company's morale in one easy memo technocrat.net · mcantor · 23 Jun 2010

209 pts 127 comments

52

How I almost ignored our single best source for customer feedback. jacksonfish.com · hillel · 3 Jun 2010

206 pts 49 comments

53

IE9 To Support CANVAS Tag (plus VIDEO, AUDIO, and SVG) ie.microsoft.com · petercooper · 23 Jun 2010

205 pts 94 comments

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Python-on-a-chip code.google.com · coderdude · 9 Jun 2010

204 pts 44 comments

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'Remove Google Background' surges to number 2 in Google Trends google.com · d2viant · 10 Jun 2010

203 pts 140 comments

56

Less.js will obsolete CSS fadeyev.net · edanm · 20 Jun 2010

202 pts 127 comments

57

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form milk.com · RevRal · 19 Jun 2010

202 pts 98 comments

58

Lego printer youtube.com · ropiku · 2 Jun 2010

201 pts 30 comments

59

AT&T Learns Exactly the Wrong Lesson About Data Usage designbygravity.wordpress.com · cschanck · 9 Jun 2010

200 pts 109 comments

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Solitude and Leadership: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone theamericanscholar.org · jseliger · 30 Jun 2010

200 pts 31 comments