The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2011
We track 485 stories from April 2011, averaging 202 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 11 stories. Together they drew 34,619 comments, 71 per story on average.
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I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
wdewind · 28 Apr 2011
1.1k pts
228 comments
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2
Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
blog.us.playstation.com · estel · 26 Apr 2011
1.1k pts
279 comments
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3
Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
designfestival.com · jimsteinhart · 7 Apr 2011
975 pts
52 comments
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4
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
razorfast.com · driverdan · 25 Apr 2011
886 pts
292 comments
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5
FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
forumserver.twoplustwo.com · bjonathan · 15 Apr 2011
880 pts
384 comments
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7
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
michaeleisen.org · rflrob · 23 Apr 2011
711 pts
140 comments
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8
Workers Leaving the Googleplex
andrewnormanwilson.com · maverhick · 30 Apr 2011
690 pts
391 comments
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9
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo
avos.com · ChrisArchitect · 27 Apr 2011
573 pts
118 comments
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10
Amazon Web Services are down
status.aws.amazon.com · yuvadam · 21 Apr 2011
560 pts
332 comments
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Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
hashify.me · kevinburke · 19 Apr 2011
554 pts
123 comments
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13
Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
gigaom.com · arithmetic · 7 Apr 2011
530 pts
98 comments
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14
Crash Course: Design for Startups
paulstamatiou.com · PStamatiou · 8 Apr 2011
523 pts
33 comments
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15
Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive
blog.jitbit.com · jitbit · 7 Apr 2011
522 pts
118 comments
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16
Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
alexeymk.com · AlexeyMK · 23 Apr 2011
493 pts
199 comments
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18
Predator Object Tracking Algorithm
gottabemobile.com · helwr · 3 Apr 2011
460 pts
76 comments
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19
The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks
thestranger.com · biafra · 10 Apr 2011
454 pts
143 comments
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22
Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2
forums.aws.amazon.com · jln · 23 Apr 2011
442 pts
80 comments
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23
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
releases.ubuntu.com · SandB0x · 28 Apr 2011
441 pts
212 comments
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24
Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup
answers.onstartups.com · _pius · 14 Apr 2011
441 pts
67 comments
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25
Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
inc.com · duck · 6 Apr 2011
435 pts
179 comments
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26
The Programmer Salary Taboo
thurn.ca · andrewmunn · 12 Apr 2011
421 pts
319 comments
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27
Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
baekdal.com · joshwa · 15 Apr 2011
421 pts
170 comments
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28
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
tbbuck.com · mootothemax · 21 Apr 2011
421 pts
115 comments
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29
Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT
web.mit.edu · privacyguru · 29 Apr 2011
420 pts
94 comments
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30
Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
jtnimoy.net · basil · 4 Apr 2011
419 pts
77 comments
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32
IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
radar.oreilly.com · petewarden · 20 Apr 2011
415 pts
190 comments
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33
Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com · citizenkeys · 5 Apr 2011
415 pts
152 comments
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35
Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad
gumroad.com · sahillavingia · 4 Apr 2011
396 pts
202 comments
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37
AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
aws.amazon.com · teoruiz · 29 Apr 2011
385 pts
101 comments
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38
Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
miketuritzin.com · miketuritzin · 28 Apr 2011
384 pts
352 comments
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39
Physics Engines for Dummies
wildbunny.co.uk · twodayslate · 7 Apr 2011
375 pts
14 comments
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40
Apple AirTunes private key extracted
mafipulation.org · PascalW · 11 Apr 2011
371 pts
94 comments
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41
Joel Spolsky: Lunch
joelonsoftware.com · alexlmiller · 28 Apr 2011
368 pts
197 comments
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42
Fooling myself to work
dextronet.com · jirinovotny · 17 Apr 2011
356 pts
78 comments
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43
"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'
thread.gmane.org · signa11 · 21 Apr 2011
352 pts
126 comments
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44
AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling
justinsb.posterous.com · justinsb · 21 Apr 2011
347 pts
80 comments
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46
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
npr.org · adambyrtek · 20 Apr 2011
345 pts
135 comments
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47
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble
techcrunch.com · gsharma · 11 Apr 2011
343 pts
132 comments
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48
Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
apple.stackexchange.com · franze · 12 Apr 2011
341 pts
76 comments
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49
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
tbbuck.com · mootothemax · 27 Apr 2011
340 pts
46 comments
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50
Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
sfgate.com · rrrgggrrr · 27 Apr 2011
326 pts
124 comments
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51
Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing
myprasanna.posterous.com · domino · 8 Apr 2011
322 pts
123 comments
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52
Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
kottke.org · entangld · 27 Apr 2011
322 pts
57 comments
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53
Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript
github.com · bjonathan · 13 Apr 2011
320 pts
199 comments
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54
Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting
management.fortune.cnn.com · chanks · 19 Apr 2011
316 pts
173 comments
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55
Working with the Chaos Monkey
codinghorror.com · CWIZO · 25 Apr 2011
310 pts
41 comments
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56
Hacking The Status Game
blog.amirkhella.com · amirkhella · 18 Apr 2011
309 pts
90 comments
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57
Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
arstechnica.com · ivank · 1 Apr 2011
308 pts
52 comments
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58
Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
panic.com · taylorbuley · 14 Apr 2011
307 pts
140 comments
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59
My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)
washingtonpost.com · boredguy8 · 21 Apr 2011
307 pts
60 comments
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How to find startup ideas that make money
paraschopra.com · sushi · 4 Apr 2011
305 pts
44 comments
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