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.
1
I was once a Facebook fool
public.numair.com · numair · 23 Sep 2011
1.4k pts
163 comments
2
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
stripe.com · pc · 29 Sep 2011
1.2k pts
348 comments
3
Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
bbc.co.uk · pmjoyce · 22 Sep 2011
938 pts
239 comments
4
Bring a stick man to life.
drawastickman.com · kgthegreat · 22 Sep 2011
862 pts
64 comments
5
Fucking Sue Me
pud.com · pud · 11 Sep 2011
695 pts
148 comments
6
If this then that
ifttt.com · armandososa · 7 Sep 2011
673 pts
149 comments
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
8
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
nfarina.com · nfarina · 7 Sep 2011
609 pts
118 comments
9
Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
trello.com · moses1400 · 13 Sep 2011
595 pts
269 comments
10
Linux is now hosted on GitHub
github.com · bpierre · 5 Sep 2011
568 pts
93 comments
11
Facebook is scaring me
scripting.com · moses1400 · 24 Sep 2011
553 pts
270 comments
12
Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
timeshighereducation.co.uk · MikeTaylor · 29 Sep 2011
551 pts
89 comments
13
Hey Google, I want my cache links back
jacquesmattheij.com · vijaydev · 28 Sep 2011
519 pts
172 comments
14
Google Flight Search
google.com · revorad · 13 Sep 2011
516 pts
278 comments
15
A First Look at BankSimple
banksimple.com · ahhrrr · 21 Sep 2011
477 pts
189 comments
16
Logging out of Facbook is not enough
nikcub.appspot.com · nikcub · 25 Sep 2011
475 pts
120 comments
17
Google Correlate by Drawing
google.com · franze · 2 Sep 2011
475 pts
77 comments
18
Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
blog.fogus.me · icey · 9 Sep 2011
467 pts
57 comments
19
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
blamcast.net · chaosmachine · 9 Sep 2011
466 pts
287 comments
20
Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
github.com · harrigan · 19 Sep 2011
461 pts
56 comments
21
Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
notcot.org · monochromatic · 21 Sep 2011
456 pts
75 comments
22
I want to pay for TextMate 2
marco.org · danielsiders · 27 Sep 2011
454 pts
228 comments
23
"Algorithm" is not a four letter word
jamisbuck.org · jashkenas · 29 Sep 2011
443 pts
65 comments
24
Are jobs obsolete?
cnn.com · ekm2 · 7 Sep 2011
436 pts
311 comments
25
How to Rock an Algorithms Interview
blog.palantir.com · harrisreynolds · 26 Sep 2011
435 pts
163 comments
26
Introducing Amazon Silk
amazonsilk.wordpress.com · sant0sk1 · 28 Sep 2011
430 pts
176 comments
27
New Boston Globe website design
bostonglobe.com · ra88it · 12 Sep 2011
424 pts
109 comments
28
Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
getsatisfaction.com · tommypalm · 26 Sep 2011
423 pts
224 comments
29
Programmers' Day
en.wikipedia.org · kexek · 13 Sep 2011
417 pts
84 comments
30
Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
theconversation.edu.au · jamesbritt · 28 Sep 2011
414 pts
81 comments
31
Python and Django on Heroku
blog.heroku.com · craigkerstiens · 28 Sep 2011
414 pts
74 comments
32
How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data
europe-v-facebook.org · stfu · 25 Sep 2011
411 pts
105 comments
33
My job is to watch dreams die
reddit.com · SandB0x · 4 Sep 2011
399 pts
59 comments
34
“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl
plus.google.com · robinhouston · 30 Sep 2011
397 pts
292 comments
35
Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time
good.is · danso · 15 Sep 2011
393 pts
68 comments
36
Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
bloomberg.com · rkudeshi · 28 Sep 2011
391 pts
308 comments
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
38
Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
repl.it · amasad · 30 Sep 2011
390 pts
78 comments
39
Pre-branded domain names for startups
stylate.com · ollie · 29 Sep 2011
389 pts
204 comments
40
First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed
blog.itlater.com · Murkin · 1 Sep 2011
389 pts
198 comments
41
How Github uses Github to build Github
zachholman.com · brown9-2 · 22 Sep 2011
389 pts
66 comments
42
Break Google
mahdiyusuf.com · volksman · 16 Sep 2011
383 pts
87 comments
43
GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
github.com · bkbleikamp · 21 Sep 2011
375 pts
76 comments
44
Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows
technet.microsoft.com · gaika · 16 Sep 2011
372 pts
46 comments
45
What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
appleoutsider.com · barredo · 20 Sep 2011
367 pts
110 comments
46
The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success
viniciusvacanti.com · inmygarage · 12 Sep 2011
365 pts
80 comments
47
The New Apple Advantage
daringfireball.net · aaronbrethorst · 10 Sep 2011
364 pts
337 comments
48
Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers
hackerthings.com · coderdude · 27 Sep 2011
364 pts
134 comments
49
You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
google.com · reg29 · 1 Sep 2011
364 pts
80 comments
50
Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever
pinolio.tumblr.com · justnearme · 7 Sep 2011
354 pts
160 comments
51
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009)
radian.org · mootothemax · 28 Sep 2011
354 pts
92 comments
52
Why you should not go to medical school
blogs.law.harvard.edu · known · 24 Sep 2011
351 pts
173 comments
53
Quake 2 Source Code Review
fabiensanglard.net · DanielRibeiro · 20 Sep 2011
347 pts
19 comments
54
Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
jwz.org · xentronium · 3 Sep 2011
346 pts
106 comments
55
Don't dumb girls down
smh.com.au · CarolineW · 6 Sep 2011
344 pts
261 comments
56
Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
blog.macromates.com · timparker · 26 Sep 2011
341 pts
198 comments
57
Betty Weissman (mother of edw519) 1930-2011
edweissman.com · edw519 · 21 Sep 2011
340 pts
65 comments
58
Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
blog.reddit.com · markgx · 6 Sep 2011
334 pts
115 comments
59
I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology
blog.crohnology.com · seanahrens · 13 Sep 2011
331 pts
75 comments
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