The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2010

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So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… techcrunch.com · icey · 21 Sep 2010

1.1k pts 232 comments

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Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site erkie.github.com · stevefink · 28 Sep 2010

684 pts 74 comments

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Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 24 Sep 2010

558 pts 206 comments

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What Happens At Y Combinator ycombinator.com · pg · 27 Sep 2010

549 pts 143 comments

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Bribing maitre d' to skip the line gourmet.com · howard_yeh · 1 Sep 2010

529 pts 177 comments

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Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook eof · 27 Sep 2010

508 pts 266 comments

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Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines apple.com · jakewalker · 9 Sep 2010

464 pts 229 comments

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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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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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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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Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages samy.pl · codexon · 21 Sep 2010

391 pts 108 comments

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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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How to keep someone with you forever issendai.livejournal.com · alfredp · 9 Sep 2010

372 pts 95 comments

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Google Instant Search Released google.com · wlfsbrg · 8 Sep 2010

371 pts 216 comments

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IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight eliainsider.com · turoczy · 14 Sep 2010

366 pts 157 comments

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Leaving .net whatupdave.tumblr.com · chrislloyd · 23 Sep 2010

355 pts 213 comments

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Bill Gates, Hero blog.redfin.com · GlennKelman · 15 Sep 2010

351 pts 227 comments

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I’m done building Facebook apps for clients ryanwaggoner.com · ryanwaggoner · 27 Sep 2010

348 pts 76 comments

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There is a Horse in the Apple Store blog.frankchimero.com · blasdel · 4 Sep 2010

338 pts 112 comments

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Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. npr.org · tomeast · 30 Sep 2010

331 pts 181 comments

21

Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant. feross.net · cristinacordova · 10 Sep 2010

318 pts 71 comments

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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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Facebook is not worth $33 billion 37signals.com · malbiniak · 23 Sep 2010

315 pts 245 comments

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Diaspora Developer Release joindiaspora.com · PStamatiou · 16 Sep 2010

308 pts 196 comments

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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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Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 aws.amazon.com · bpuvanathasan · 9 Sep 2010

290 pts 160 comments

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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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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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Coming Home to Vim stevelosh.com · stevelosh · 20 Sep 2010

285 pts 121 comments

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Products For People Who Make Products For People sheddingbikes.com · michaelfairley · 25 Sep 2010

281 pts 79 comments

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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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My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me salon.com · michael_dorfman · 21 Sep 2010

276 pts 128 comments

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Ask HN: Offer of Employment retracted joboffer · 22 Sep 2010

271 pts 158 comments

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IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version reddit.com · dochtman · 29 Sep 2010

267 pts 196 comments

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James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle eweek.com · 10ren · 22 Sep 2010

262 pts 112 comments

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A clever way to fight IE6 igorpartola.com · IgorPartola · 29 Sep 2010

260 pts 109 comments

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So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain ruhlman.com · jkkramer · 20 Sep 2010

259 pts 63 comments

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Being Poor by John Scalzi whatever.scalzi.com · skmurphy · 21 Sep 2010

257 pts 218 comments

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Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup al3x.net · ssclafani · 7 Sep 2010

254 pts 120 comments

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$250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold texyt.com · starnix17 · 22 Sep 2010

254 pts 112 comments

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The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11) sebastianmarshall.com · lionhearted · 23 Sep 2010

252 pts 167 comments

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Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post 500hats.typepad.com · marklittlewood · 22 Sep 2010

251 pts 167 comments

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Damning Zuckerberg IMs confirmed boingboing.net · btilly · 14 Sep 2010

251 pts 157 comments

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Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 28 Sep 2010

251 pts 135 comments

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Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch kalzumeus.com · pw · 23 Sep 2010

250 pts 139 comments

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Mongrel2 Says, "Goodbye Python" sheddingbikes.com · spahl · 21 Sep 2010

246 pts 236 comments

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Why I stopped reading HN sealedabstract.com · Kilimanjaro · 18 Sep 2010

245 pts 122 comments

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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness camendesign.com · _e_ · 18 Sep 2010

245 pts 55 comments

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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers prog21.dadgum.com · budu · 24 Sep 2010

244 pts 55 comments

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A tale of two cultures blog.jgc.org · jgrahamc · 17 Sep 2010

242 pts 45 comments

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The sad truth about Facebook newsweek.com · edw519 · 26 Sep 2010

241 pts 116 comments

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Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks dropmocks.com · gmurphy · 17 Sep 2010

241 pts 106 comments

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Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer venturebeat.com · ajg1977 · 10 Sep 2010

240 pts 76 comments

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Today is Programmer's Day en.wikipedia.org · guffshemr · 13 Sep 2010

240 pts 38 comments

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What a fig is. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com · kfarzaneh · 12 Sep 2010

239 pts 84 comments

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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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How a startup responds when a giant arrives runkeeper.com · jjacobs22 · 7 Sep 2010

235 pts 30 comments

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Giving up on Google robsheldon.com · thaumaturgy · 13 Sep 2010

231 pts 184 comments

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First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years web.mit.edu · phreeza · 27 Sep 2010

231 pts 37 comments

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The Way I Work: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington inc.com · mjh8136 · 20 Sep 2010

227 pts 68 comments