The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2010
We track 325 stories from September 2010, averaging 177 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 17 stories. Together they drew 24,830 comments, 76 per story on average.
1
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
techcrunch.com · icey · 21 Sep 2010
1.1k pts
232 comments
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2
Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
erkie.github.com · stevefink · 28 Sep 2010
684 pts
74 comments
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3
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 24 Sep 2010
558 pts
206 comments
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5
Bribing maitre d' to skip the line
gourmet.com · howard_yeh · 1 Sep 2010
529 pts
177 comments
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6
Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
eof · 27 Sep 2010
508 pts
266 comments
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7
Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
apple.com · jakewalker · 9 Sep 2010
464 pts
229 comments
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8
What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions
knifetricks.blogspot.com · abraham · 11 Sep 2010
463 pts
281 comments
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9
Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
kadavy.net · kadavy · 28 Sep 2010
428 pts
76 comments
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10
Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer
notch.tumblr.com · xelfer · 10 Sep 2010
418 pts
169 comments
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11
Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages
samy.pl · codexon · 21 Sep 2010
391 pts
108 comments
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12
Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
blog.seattlepi.com · paolomaffei · 3 Sep 2010
375 pts
212 comments
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13
How to keep someone with you forever
issendai.livejournal.com · alfredp · 9 Sep 2010
372 pts
95 comments
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14
Google Instant Search Released
google.com · wlfsbrg · 8 Sep 2010
371 pts
216 comments
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15
IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight
eliainsider.com · turoczy · 14 Sep 2010
366 pts
157 comments
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18
I’m done building Facebook apps for clients
ryanwaggoner.com · ryanwaggoner · 27 Sep 2010
348 pts
76 comments
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19
There is a Horse in the Apple Store
blog.frankchimero.com · blasdel · 4 Sep 2010
338 pts
112 comments
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20
Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.
npr.org · tomeast · 30 Sep 2010
331 pts
181 comments
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21
Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.
feross.net · cristinacordova · 10 Sep 2010
318 pts
71 comments
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22
Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
develop-online.net · bconway · 29 Sep 2010
317 pts
239 comments
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23
Facebook is not worth $33 billion
37signals.com · malbiniak · 23 Sep 2010
315 pts
245 comments
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24
Diaspora Developer Release
joindiaspora.com · PStamatiou · 16 Sep 2010
308 pts
196 comments
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25
Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist
blog.ericgoldman.org · maconic · 20 Sep 2010
294 pts
104 comments
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26
Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
aws.amazon.com · bpuvanathasan · 9 Sep 2010
290 pts
160 comments
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27
Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs
adgrok.com · cjg · 14 Sep 2010
287 pts
144 comments
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28
Don't make your Android app free for 1 day
groups.google.com · dminor · 8 Sep 2010
287 pts
83 comments
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30
Products For People Who Make Products For People
sheddingbikes.com · michaelfairley · 25 Sep 2010
281 pts
79 comments
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31
This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes
codesketch.com · g0atbutt · 11 Sep 2010
280 pts
103 comments
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32
My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me
salon.com · michael_dorfman · 21 Sep 2010
276 pts
128 comments
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34
IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version
reddit.com · dochtman · 29 Sep 2010
267 pts
196 comments
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35
James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
eweek.com · 10ren · 22 Sep 2010
262 pts
112 comments
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36
A clever way to fight IE6
igorpartola.com · IgorPartola · 29 Sep 2010
260 pts
109 comments
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37
So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain
ruhlman.com · jkkramer · 20 Sep 2010
259 pts
63 comments
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38
Being Poor by John Scalzi
whatever.scalzi.com · skmurphy · 21 Sep 2010
257 pts
218 comments
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39
Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup
al3x.net · ssclafani · 7 Sep 2010
254 pts
120 comments
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40
$250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold
texyt.com · starnix17 · 22 Sep 2010
254 pts
112 comments
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41
The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
sebastianmarshall.com · lionhearted · 23 Sep 2010
252 pts
167 comments
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42
Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post
500hats.typepad.com · marklittlewood · 22 Sep 2010
251 pts
167 comments
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43
Damning Zuckerberg IMs confirmed
boingboing.net · btilly · 14 Sep 2010
251 pts
157 comments
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44
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch
techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 28 Sep 2010
251 pts
135 comments
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45
Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch
kalzumeus.com · pw · 23 Sep 2010
250 pts
139 comments
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46
Mongrel2 Says, "Goodbye Python"
sheddingbikes.com · spahl · 21 Sep 2010
246 pts
236 comments
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47
Why I stopped reading HN
sealedabstract.com · Kilimanjaro · 18 Sep 2010
245 pts
122 comments
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48
Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
camendesign.com · _e_ · 18 Sep 2010
245 pts
55 comments
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49
Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
prog21.dadgum.com · budu · 24 Sep 2010
244 pts
55 comments
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51
The sad truth about Facebook
newsweek.com · edw519 · 26 Sep 2010
241 pts
116 comments
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52
Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks
dropmocks.com · gmurphy · 17 Sep 2010
241 pts
106 comments
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53
Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer
venturebeat.com · ajg1977 · 10 Sep 2010
240 pts
76 comments
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54
Today is Programmer's Day
en.wikipedia.org · guffshemr · 13 Sep 2010
240 pts
38 comments
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55
What a fig is.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com · kfarzaneh · 12 Sep 2010
239 pts
84 comments
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56
Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App
startbreakingfree.com · barmstrong · 7 Sep 2010
236 pts
83 comments
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57
How a startup responds when a giant arrives
runkeeper.com · jjacobs22 · 7 Sep 2010
235 pts
30 comments
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59
First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years
web.mit.edu · phreeza · 27 Sep 2010
231 pts
37 comments
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60
The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington
inc.com · mjh8136 · 20 Sep 2010
227 pts
68 comments
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