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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.

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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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Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN blog.us.playstation.com · estel · 26 Apr 2011
1.1k pts 279 comments
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Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds designfestival.com · jimsteinhart · 7 Apr 2011
975 pts 52 comments
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Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project razorfast.com · driverdan · 25 Apr 2011
886 pts 292 comments
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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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Showoff showoff.io · jgv · 20 Apr 2011
805 pts 214 comments
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Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies michaeleisen.org · rflrob · 23 Apr 2011
711 pts 140 comments
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Workers Leaving the Googleplex andrewnormanwilson.com · maverhick · 30 Apr 2011
690 pts 391 comments
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YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo avos.com · ChrisArchitect · 27 Apr 2011
573 pts 118 comments
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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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Nginx 1.0.0 is out nginx.org · Jim_Neath · 12 Apr 2011
549 pts 75 comments
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Facebook open sources its servers and data centers gigaom.com · arithmetic · 7 Apr 2011
530 pts 98 comments
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Crash Course: Design for Startups paulstamatiou.com · PStamatiou · 8 Apr 2011
523 pts 33 comments
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Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive blog.jitbit.com · jitbit · 7 Apr 2011
522 pts 118 comments
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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter alexeymk.com · AlexeyMK · 23 Apr 2011
493 pts 199 comments
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Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN? pg · 3 Apr 2011
465 pts 680 comments
18
Predator Object Tracking Algorithm gottabemobile.com · helwr · 3 Apr 2011
460 pts 76 comments
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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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Before I Die... candychang.com · Dysiode · 7 Apr 2011
449 pts 70 comments
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Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores Maro · 26 Apr 2011
442 pts 164 comments
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Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2 forums.aws.amazon.com · jln · 23 Apr 2011
442 pts 80 comments
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Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) releases.ubuntu.com · SandB0x · 28 Apr 2011
441 pts 212 comments
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Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup answers.onstartups.com · _pius · 14 Apr 2011
441 pts 67 comments
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Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company inc.com · duck · 6 Apr 2011
435 pts 179 comments
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The Programmer Salary Taboo thurn.ca · andrewmunn · 12 Apr 2011
421 pts 319 comments
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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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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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Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT web.mit.edu · privacyguru · 29 Apr 2011
420 pts 94 comments
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Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done jtnimoy.net · basil · 4 Apr 2011
419 pts 77 comments
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug wired.com · mkrecny · 29 Apr 2011
417 pts 293 comments
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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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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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Notice: Experimenting with HN pg · 11 Apr 2011
412 pts 209 comments
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Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad gumroad.com · sahillavingia · 4 Apr 2011
396 pts 202 comments
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The unofficial Google shell goosh.org · JCB_K · 18 Apr 2011
396 pts 50 comments
37
AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem aws.amazon.com · teoruiz · 29 Apr 2011
385 pts 101 comments
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Eating Healthily for $3 a Day miketuritzin.com · miketuritzin · 28 Apr 2011
384 pts 352 comments
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Physics Engines for Dummies wildbunny.co.uk · twodayslate · 7 Apr 2011
375 pts 14 comments
40
Apple AirTunes private key extracted mafipulation.org · PascalW · 11 Apr 2011
371 pts 94 comments
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Joel Spolsky: Lunch joelonsoftware.com · alexlmiller · 28 Apr 2011
368 pts 197 comments
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Fooling myself to work dextronet.com · jirinovotny · 17 Apr 2011
356 pts 78 comments
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"... 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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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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GitHub launches Issues 2.0 github.com · kneath · 10 Apr 2011
346 pts 53 comments
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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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Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble techcrunch.com · gsharma · 11 Apr 2011
343 pts 132 comments
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Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks apple.stackexchange.com · franze · 12 Apr 2011
341 pts 76 comments
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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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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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Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing myprasanna.posterous.com · domino · 8 Apr 2011
322 pts 123 comments
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Your taste is why your work disappoints you. kottke.org · entangld · 27 Apr 2011
322 pts 57 comments
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Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript github.com · bjonathan · 13 Apr 2011
320 pts 199 comments
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Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting management.fortune.cnn.com · chanks · 19 Apr 2011
316 pts 173 comments
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Working with the Chaos Monkey codinghorror.com · CWIZO · 25 Apr 2011
310 pts 41 comments
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Hacking The Status Game blog.amirkhella.com · amirkhella · 18 Apr 2011
309 pts 90 comments
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Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad arstechnica.com · ivank · 1 Apr 2011
308 pts 52 comments
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Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS. panic.com · taylorbuley · 14 Apr 2011
307 pts 140 comments
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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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