The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2011
We track 465 stories from February 2011, averaging 188 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 27 stories. Together they drew 36,036 comments, 77 per story on average.
1
Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
andrewljohnson.com · NoKarmaForMe · 1 Feb 2011
704 pts
45 comments
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2
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
searchengineland.com · illdave · 1 Feb 2011
684 pts
272 comments
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3
Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
nytimes.com · epall · 21 Feb 2011
596 pts
423 comments
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4
How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
joncrawford.com · eoghan · 11 Feb 2011
589 pts
112 comments
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5
Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
placekitten.com · thehodge · 28 Feb 2011
569 pts
116 comments
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6
Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
bugzilla.gnome.org · pufuwozu · 27 Feb 2011
543 pts
32 comments
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7
"You've angered the hive"
arstechnica.com · acconrad · 7 Feb 2011
521 pts
214 comments
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8
Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
engadget.com · ldayley · 9 Feb 2011
513 pts
196 comments
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9
Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
googleblog.blogspot.com · atularora · 1 Feb 2011
511 pts
196 comments
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10
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
googleblog.blogspot.com · dannyr · 14 Feb 2011
508 pts
214 comments
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11
I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks
limedaring.com · limedaring · 16 Feb 2011
490 pts
120 comments
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12
Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating
webcache.googleusercontent.com · JacobAldridge · 2 Feb 2011
490 pts
80 comments
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13
How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
felixchan · 15 Feb 2011
488 pts
109 comments
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14
I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
babyli.st · natgordon · 3 Feb 2011
485 pts
179 comments
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15
An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection
blog.readability.com · bensummers · 21 Feb 2011
478 pts
199 comments
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16
Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
github.com · HectorRamos · 13 Feb 2011
476 pts
72 comments
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17
Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
getinpulse.com · erohead · 15 Feb 2011
460 pts
143 comments
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18
Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
isotope.metafizzy.co · bkudria · 7 Feb 2011
459 pts
58 comments
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19
Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
huyng.com · siim · 18 Feb 2011
449 pts
118 comments
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20
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
arstechnica.com · steveklabnik · 10 Feb 2011
432 pts
155 comments
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21
Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light
reddit.com · danteembermage · 21 Feb 2011
431 pts
222 comments
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22
Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
reddit.com · budu · 14 Feb 2011
430 pts
269 comments
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23
U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
torrentfreak.com · Uncle_Sam · 16 Feb 2011
430 pts
152 comments
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24
Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows
nicolasgallagher.com · Seldaek · 17 Feb 2011
426 pts
60 comments
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25
Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
uncontactedtribes.org · timf · 4 Feb 2011
418 pts
363 comments
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26
Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine
torvalds-family.blogspot.com · brianwillis · 28 Feb 2011
410 pts
132 comments
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27
Solving The Hacker News Problem
al3x.net · tianyicui · 22 Feb 2011
407 pts
270 comments
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28
The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2
eurogamer.net · twidlit · 21 Feb 2011
401 pts
125 comments
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29
HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
mikebeauchamp.com · ryanf · 13 Feb 2011
395 pts
207 comments
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30
Is IE9 a modern browser?
people.mozilla.com · etaty · 15 Feb 2011
378 pts
173 comments
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31
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
blog.amirkhella.com · amirkhella · 23 Feb 2011
377 pts
55 comments
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32
This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail
esquire.com · _b8r0 · 27 Feb 2011
356 pts
133 comments
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33
Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python
clips.ua.ac.be · rbreve · 24 Feb 2011
356 pts
22 comments
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35
Show HN: HackerBooks.com
hackerbooks.com · thibaut_barrere · 22 Feb 2011
351 pts
140 comments
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36
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
arstechnica.com · abraham · 16 Feb 2011
345 pts
83 comments
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37
Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
goofygrin.wordpress.com · acconrad · 1 Feb 2011
339 pts
202 comments
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38
This may be the best resume I have ever seen
jimplush.com · beagledude · 5 Feb 2011
339 pts
147 comments
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39
Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony.
geohot.com · elliottcarlson · 20 Feb 2011
336 pts
82 comments
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40
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
wired.com · karzeem · 1 Feb 2011
334 pts
100 comments
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41
Hosni Mubarak finally steps down
english.aljazeera.net · dzlobin · 11 Feb 2011
332 pts
127 comments
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42
Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW
ocw.mit.edu · stiff · 24 Feb 2011
332 pts
44 comments
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43
Ditch Starbucks and work at the library
52tiger.net · apress · 8 Feb 2011
330 pts
209 comments
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44
Random Startup Generator
ykombinator.com · omergertel · 8 Feb 2011
327 pts
53 comments
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45
The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software)
dailykos.com · ph0rque · 17 Feb 2011
326 pts
119 comments
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46
Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable
snowday2011.com · guynamedloren · 3 Feb 2011
323 pts
141 comments
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49
You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)
blog.jamiemurai.com · jammur · 25 Feb 2011
320 pts
109 comments
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51
Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
aws.typepad.com · soamv · 18 Feb 2011
315 pts
92 comments
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54
Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.
thesash.me · thesash · 8 Feb 2011
298 pts
150 comments
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55
E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.
noteslate.com · markkat · 4 Feb 2011
296 pts
116 comments
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56
Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
blog.bitquabit.com · tghw · 23 Feb 2011
296 pts
98 comments
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57
Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 3 Feb 2011
294 pts
87 comments
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58
Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding
foredecker.wordpress.com · there · 28 Feb 2011
288 pts
164 comments
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59
Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
chrome.google.com · jkatka · 9 Feb 2011
288 pts
91 comments
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60
Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.
humbledmba.com · jaf12duke · 15 Feb 2011
288 pts
64 comments
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