The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2011
We track 542 stories from September 2011, averaging 205 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 15 stories. Together they drew 38,942 comments, 72 per story on average.
1
I was once a Facebook fool
public.numair.com · numair · 23 Sep 2011
1.4k pts
163 comments
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2
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
stripe.com · pc · 29 Sep 2011
1.2k pts
348 comments
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3
Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
bbc.co.uk · pmjoyce · 22 Sep 2011
938 pts
239 comments
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4
Bring a stick man to life.
drawastickman.com · kgthegreat · 22 Sep 2011
862 pts
64 comments
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7
This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
conceptart.org · sadiq · 23 Sep 2011
664 pts
99 comments
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8
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
nfarina.com · nfarina · 7 Sep 2011
609 pts
118 comments
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9
Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
trello.com · moses1400 · 13 Sep 2011
595 pts
269 comments
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12
Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
timeshighereducation.co.uk · MikeTaylor · 29 Sep 2011
551 pts
89 comments
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13
Hey Google, I want my cache links back
jacquesmattheij.com · vijaydev · 28 Sep 2011
519 pts
172 comments
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15
A First Look at BankSimple
banksimple.com · ahhrrr · 21 Sep 2011
477 pts
189 comments
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16
Logging out of Facbook is not enough
nikcub.appspot.com · nikcub · 25 Sep 2011
475 pts
120 comments
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18
Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
blog.fogus.me · icey · 9 Sep 2011
467 pts
57 comments
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19
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
blamcast.net · chaosmachine · 9 Sep 2011
466 pts
287 comments
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20
Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
github.com · harrigan · 19 Sep 2011
461 pts
56 comments
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21
Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
notcot.org · monochromatic · 21 Sep 2011
456 pts
75 comments
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22
I want to pay for TextMate 2
marco.org · danielsiders · 27 Sep 2011
454 pts
228 comments
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23
"Algorithm" is not a four letter word
jamisbuck.org · jashkenas · 29 Sep 2011
443 pts
65 comments
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25
How to Rock an Algorithms Interview
blog.palantir.com · harrisreynolds · 26 Sep 2011
435 pts
163 comments
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26
Introducing Amazon Silk
amazonsilk.wordpress.com · sant0sk1 · 28 Sep 2011
430 pts
176 comments
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27
New Boston Globe website design
bostonglobe.com · ra88it · 12 Sep 2011
424 pts
109 comments
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28
Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
getsatisfaction.com · tommypalm · 26 Sep 2011
423 pts
224 comments
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30
Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
theconversation.edu.au · jamesbritt · 28 Sep 2011
414 pts
81 comments
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31
Python and Django on Heroku
blog.heroku.com · craigkerstiens · 28 Sep 2011
414 pts
74 comments
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32
How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data
europe-v-facebook.org · stfu · 25 Sep 2011
411 pts
105 comments
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34
“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl
plus.google.com · robinhouston · 30 Sep 2011
397 pts
292 comments
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35
Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time
good.is · danso · 15 Sep 2011
393 pts
68 comments
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36
Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
bloomberg.com · rkudeshi · 28 Sep 2011
391 pts
308 comments
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37
Be Careful when Speaking to Federal Agents - 18 U.S.C. Section 1001
library.findlaw.com · conover · 16 Sep 2011
390 pts
176 comments
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38
Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
repl.it · amasad · 30 Sep 2011
390 pts
78 comments
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39
Pre-branded domain names for startups
stylate.com · ollie · 29 Sep 2011
389 pts
204 comments
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40
First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed
blog.itlater.com · Murkin · 1 Sep 2011
389 pts
198 comments
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41
How Github uses Github to build Github
zachholman.com · brown9-2 · 22 Sep 2011
389 pts
66 comments
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43
GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
github.com · bkbleikamp · 21 Sep 2011
375 pts
76 comments
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44
Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows
technet.microsoft.com · gaika · 16 Sep 2011
372 pts
46 comments
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45
What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
appleoutsider.com · barredo · 20 Sep 2011
367 pts
110 comments
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46
The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success
viniciusvacanti.com · inmygarage · 12 Sep 2011
365 pts
80 comments
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47
The New Apple Advantage
daringfireball.net · aaronbrethorst · 10 Sep 2011
364 pts
337 comments
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48
Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers
hackerthings.com · coderdude · 27 Sep 2011
364 pts
134 comments
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49
You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
google.com · reg29 · 1 Sep 2011
364 pts
80 comments
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50
Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever
pinolio.tumblr.com · justnearme · 7 Sep 2011
354 pts
160 comments
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51
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009)
radian.org · mootothemax · 28 Sep 2011
354 pts
92 comments
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52
Why you should not go to medical school
blogs.law.harvard.edu · known · 24 Sep 2011
351 pts
173 comments
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53
Quake 2 Source Code Review
fabiensanglard.net · DanielRibeiro · 20 Sep 2011
347 pts
19 comments
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54
Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
jwz.org · xentronium · 3 Sep 2011
346 pts
106 comments
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56
Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
blog.macromates.com · timparker · 26 Sep 2011
341 pts
198 comments
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57
Betty Weissman (mother of edw519) 1930-2011
edweissman.com · edw519 · 21 Sep 2011
340 pts
65 comments
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58
Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
blog.reddit.com · markgx · 6 Sep 2011
334 pts
115 comments
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59
I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology
blog.crohnology.com · seanahrens · 13 Sep 2011
331 pts
75 comments
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60
Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
build.phonegap.com · geoffroy · 30 Sep 2011
330 pts
93 comments
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