The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2011

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Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad andrewljohnson.com · NoKarmaForMe · 1 Feb 2011

704 pts 45 comments

2

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results searchengineland.com · illdave · 1 Feb 2011

684 pts 272 comments

3

Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance nytimes.com · epall · 21 Feb 2011

596 pts 423 comments

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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

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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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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"You've angered the hive" arstechnica.com · acconrad · 7 Feb 2011

521 pts 214 comments

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Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform" engadget.com · ldayley · 9 Feb 2011

513 pts 196 comments

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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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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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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

12

Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating webcache.googleusercontent.com · JacobAldridge · 2 Feb 2011

490 pts 80 comments

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

14

I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project. babyli.st · natgordon · 3 Feb 2011

485 pts 179 comments

15

An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection blog.readability.com · bensummers · 21 Feb 2011

478 pts 199 comments

16

Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request github.com · HectorRamos · 13 Feb 2011

476 pts 72 comments

17

Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch getinpulse.com · erohead · 15 Feb 2011

460 pts 143 comments

18

Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts isotope.metafizzy.co · bkudria · 7 Feb 2011

459 pts 58 comments

19

Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal huyng.com · siim · 18 Feb 2011

449 pts 118 comments

20

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price arstechnica.com · steveklabnik · 10 Feb 2011

432 pts 155 comments

21

Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light reddit.com · danteembermage · 21 Feb 2011

431 pts 222 comments

22

Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia reddit.com · budu · 14 Feb 2011

430 pts 269 comments

23

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ torrentfreak.com · Uncle_Sam · 16 Feb 2011

430 pts 152 comments

24

Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows nicolasgallagher.com · Seldaek · 17 Feb 2011

426 pts 60 comments

25

Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe uncontactedtribes.org · timf · 4 Feb 2011

418 pts 363 comments

26

Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine torvalds-family.blogspot.com · brianwillis · 28 Feb 2011

410 pts 132 comments

27

Solving The Hacker News Problem al3x.net · tianyicui · 22 Feb 2011

407 pts 270 comments

28

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 eurogamer.net · twidlit · 21 Feb 2011

401 pts 125 comments

29

HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones) mikebeauchamp.com · ryanf · 13 Feb 2011

395 pts 207 comments

30

Is IE9 a modern browser? people.mozilla.com · etaty · 15 Feb 2011

378 pts 173 comments

31

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago blog.amirkhella.com · amirkhella · 23 Feb 2011

377 pts 55 comments

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

33

Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python clips.ua.ac.be · rbreve · 24 Feb 2011

356 pts 22 comments

34

Nissan Leaf nissanusa.com · dools · 18 Feb 2011

352 pts 185 comments

35

Show HN: HackerBooks.com hackerbooks.com · thibaut_barrere · 22 Feb 2011

351 pts 140 comments

36

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack arstechnica.com · abraham · 16 Feb 2011

345 pts 83 comments

37

Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible goofygrin.wordpress.com · acconrad · 1 Feb 2011

339 pts 202 comments

38

This may be the best resume I have ever seen jimplush.com · beagledude · 5 Feb 2011

339 pts 147 comments

39

Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony. geohot.com · elliottcarlson · 20 Feb 2011

336 pts 82 comments

40

Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code wired.com · karzeem · 1 Feb 2011

334 pts 100 comments

41

Hosni Mubarak finally steps down english.aljazeera.net · dzlobin · 11 Feb 2011

332 pts 127 comments

42

Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW ocw.mit.edu · stiff · 24 Feb 2011

332 pts 44 comments

43

Ditch Starbucks and work at the library 52tiger.net · apress · 8 Feb 2011

330 pts 209 comments

44

Random Startup Generator ykombinator.com · omergertel · 8 Feb 2011

327 pts 53 comments

45

The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All (Sockpuppet Management Software) dailykos.com · ph0rque · 17 Feb 2011

326 pts 119 comments

46

Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable snowday2011.com · guynamedloren · 3 Feb 2011

323 pts 141 comments

47

Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson) slate.com · chwolfe · 2 Feb 2011

322 pts 71 comments

48

Thunderbolt apple.com · arnemart · 24 Feb 2011

320 pts 197 comments

49

You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations) blog.jamiemurai.com · jammur · 25 Feb 2011

320 pts 109 comments

50

Nokia Plan B nokiaplanb.com · wybo · 14 Feb 2011

317 pts 174 comments

51

Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3 aws.typepad.com · soamv · 18 Feb 2011

315 pts 92 comments

52

Broken Links tbray.org · martey · 10 Feb 2011

303 pts 90 comments

53

The 4-Hour Dentist bygonebureau.com · zdw · 2 Feb 2011

300 pts 100 comments

54

Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will. thesash.me · thesash · 8 Feb 2011

298 pts 150 comments

55

E-ink writing pad, Noteslate. noteslate.com · markkat · 4 Feb 2011

296 pts 116 comments

56

Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away blog.bitquabit.com · tghw · 23 Feb 2011

296 pts 98 comments

57

Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 3 Feb 2011

294 pts 87 comments

58

Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding foredecker.wordpress.com · there · 28 Feb 2011

288 pts 164 comments

59

Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox chrome.google.com · jkatka · 9 Feb 2011

288 pts 91 comments

60

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. humbledmba.com · jaf12duke · 15 Feb 2011

288 pts 64 comments