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The Apple Tablet

http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/the_tablet

254
143
Make a Mess, Clean it Up

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Make_a_Mess,_Clean_it_Up!.txt

158
20
Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... (2008)

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html?

151
231
The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)

http://www.totlol.com/t/story

352
119
Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/322-Body-By-Victoria.html

308
54
Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety

152
41
Merry Christmas everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014875

113
40
CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

206
64
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/22/copenhagen-climate-change-mark-lynas

349
188
I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like

http://www.thestever.net

166
118
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free

http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/

327
226
Ask HN: More types of flagging?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006589

132
166
_why's Estate

http://viewsourcecode.org/why

191
58
EtherPad Open Source Release

http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-open-source-release

275
73
“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

http://blog.apparentsoft.com/business/124/is-paypal-good-for-your-microisv-business-a-short-paypal-horror-story/

225
96
Comet is dead, long live websockets

http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/12/comet-is-dead-long-live-websockets.html

109
46
Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-15statement.mspx

222
58
Microsoft rips off Plurk

http://blog.plurk.com/2009/12/14/microsoft-rips-plurk/

581
135
World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem

http://blog.plover.com/math/Gdl-Smullyan.html

149
52
Stuff I've learned at Microsoft

http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2009/12/stuff-ive-learned-at-microsoft.html

167
27
Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

http://codinghorror.com

223
165
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

http://www.theinvisibl.com/news/2009/12/08/a-piece-with-a-lot-of-screenshots-about-the-close-tab-behaviour-in-google-chrome/

283
100
Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html

291
96
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/

279
168
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

350
25
EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced

http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced

276
68
Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?=

301
117
Why I gave away my company to charity

http://sivers.org/trust

328
83
Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns-new-dns.html

264
155
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement

http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397

201
69
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

http://sivers.org/kimo

386
60
The End Of The CrunchPad

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/

435
138
Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison

365
146
So I finally tried Wave...

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-i-finally-tried-wave.html

120
36
The Tao of Programming

http://www.textfiles.com/100/taoprogram.pro

122
21
Linux Compose Key

http://sivers.org/compose-key

149
26
Why you should build an application (even if it already exists)

http://vaynermedia.com/2009/11/build-an-application-even-if-it-already-exists/

191
45
One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

http://www.zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/

376
58
Node.js is genuinely exciting

http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/23/node/

197
67
"If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html

120
24
Awesome SQL blog

http://explainextended.com/

155
20
Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails

http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m11d20-ClimateGate--Climate-centers-server-hacked-revealing-documents-and-emails

171
199
Apple's Mistake

http://paulgraham.com/apple.html

723
269
Scroll Clock

http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

216
12
Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer

http://ejohn.org/blog/deep-tracing-of-internet-explorer/

201
14
Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions

http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-borgocrat-scorned.html

175
42
Atlas: Visual IDE for Cappuccino Applications

http://280atlas.com

91
35
Amazing startup pitches (Loopt, Mint, Dropbox, etc) [videos]

http://jonbischke.com/2009/11/13/a-dozen-of-the-best-start-up-pitches-on-the-web/

118
21
Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

120
45
HN Help: I'm lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937430

366
261
Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

200
23
The Go Programming Language

http://golang.org/

377
219
Python language moratorium is accepted

http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/

167
70
Tell HN: Couldn't Sleep Last Night, Wrote a (No-Flash) HTML5 Viewer for YouTube

http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-youtube-videos-in-html5/

110
56
The Unemployment Rate for People Like You

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/06/business/economy/unemployment-lines.html?hp

164
101
Thank you, Rails

http://jacobian.org/writing/thank-you-rails/

297
77
Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)

http://soserio.us/creating-controversy/

210
113
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

588
287
Why do we have an IMG element?

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/11/02/why-do-we-have-an-img-element

148
13
My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed

http://www.astorybeforebed.com

179
116
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/

279
90
Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

163
116
If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?

http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2009/10/30/start-up-studies-a-pop-quiz/

321
185
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910

204
164
What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (How I keep myself busy.)

http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do

154
33
Google Groups is Dead

http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/

259
67
Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities

http://www.reocities.com/

250
65
What Startups Are Really Like

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

382
119
The false god of coffee

http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2009/10/the-false-god-of-coffee.php

124
99
Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Java web app development?

http://www.playframework.org/

165
100
I Was Told I Was Very Smart

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1346357.html

309
113
How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture

http://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

214
23
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point

254
53
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

http://blog.asmartbear.com/rich-vs-king-sold-company.html

195
33
Wall Street's Naked Swindle

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/print

162
95
How Wall Street is making its billions

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/

86
56
C++ in Coders at Work

http://gigamonkeys.com/blog/2009/10/16/coders-c++.html

178
169
What problems does Google Wave solve?

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html

213
67
The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

307
63
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky---its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html

199
71
10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse

http://10gui.com/

171
103
How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily

http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/WriteThinkLearn.htm

241
110
I Don't Code in my Free Time

http://teddziuba.com/2009/10/i-dont-code-in-my-free-time.html

167
134
Piratebay strikes back

http://blog.brokep.com/2009/10/08/fail-in-nl/

178
103
So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325

324
126
Tell HN: Dealing with VCs, my experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=866299

183
38
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

http://gizmodo.com/5374890/this-is-a-photoshop-and-it-blew-my-mind

321
67
Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/fbifile

224
85
Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're Fucking Wrong.)

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2009/10/flipping-is-good.html

127
79
A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

http://ticketstumbler.com/blogs/new-stuff/2009/10/03/a-terrible-tragedy/

626
134
Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/02/mark-zuckerberg-the-evolution-of-a-remarkable-ceo/

131
89
Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge

http://scott-oviwe.posterous.com/private/wIYDQvTIRI

218
29
The Doers Club

http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10707

196
22
Teaching Linear Algebra

http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebra.html

208
59
How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant

319
63
And if only 1% of those people...

http://sivers.org/1pct

210
43
Experiment: No Comment Scores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979

289
313
When a co-founder dies

http://blog.ivylees.com/when-a-co-founder-dies/

335
43
The Duct Tape Programmer

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html

333
118
Reverse Execution in GDB 7 is imminent

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/news/reversible.html

124
40
Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/google-turns-internet-explorer-into-chrome-yes-seriously/

245
92
"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/the-greatest-human-is-dead/article1293395/

186
49
From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/20/from-nothing-to-something-how-to-get-there/

99
41
@2gov - Visas for startup founders movement

http://2gov.org/visa

91
55
The Next Generation Bends Over

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1927-the-next-generation-bends-over

220
204
The Lost Oaks of California Ave

http://paulgraham.com/californiaavenueoaks.html

152
113
First subpixel typeface, ever

http://typophile.com/node/61920

192
40
Learning Advanced JavaScript

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn

257
44
Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/13/intuit-to-acquire-former-techcrunch50-winner-mint-for-170-million/

196
102
How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital

http://inmantechnologyit.blogspot.com/2009/09/social-media-and-my-escape-from-spinal.html

132
88
"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown"

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/09/hello-john-its-gordon-brown.html

199
9
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/

347
83
Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server

291
73
The unspoken truth about managing geeks

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyName=Management&taxonomyId=14

134
16
After the Deadline: Acquired

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/09/08/after-the-deadline-acquired/

185
55
The List of N Things

http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html

146
64
Uzbl: a browser that adheres to the Unix philosophy

http://tuxtraining.com/2009/09/05/uzbl-and-uzbl_tabbed-py-a-browser-that-adheres-to-the-unix-philosophy

74
32
Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/

243
74
How a software engineer invented a breakthrough medical device

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=760

207
81
Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/2/app.html

310
59
The bar for success in our industry is too low

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1890-the-bar-for-success-in-our-industry-is-too-low

282
81
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

401
105
What Kate saw in Silicon Valley

http://paulgraham.com/kate.html

264
107
Sprezzatura

http://sivers.org/sprezzatura

145
26
Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/08/28.html

128
42
Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

http://www.hizook.com/page/hizookcom-frontpage-slashdot-reddit-digg-engadget-hacker-news-result-google-disables-adsense-ac

359
159
Please don't use hnreputation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789469

199
82
No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

http://sivers.org/hellyeah

126
56
Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic

http://trafficwaves.org/

237
146
999999999999999 - 999999999999997

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=999999999999999+-+999999999999997&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

185
101
The Boy Who Heard Too Much

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_much/print

106
36
Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779378

152
78
So long, and thanks for all the fish

http://tipjoys2cents.blogspot.com/2009/08/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-fish.html

245
93
MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI

http://www.menuetos.net/

133
45
_why is no more

http://twitter.com/_why

558
399
Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

184
30
The Android Opportunity

http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/the_android_opportunity

173
136
A New Experiment: The RFS

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

175
57
Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

http://log.scifihifi.com/post/161617118/benjamin-franklins-daily-schedule-via-nick

110
34
How I explained REST to my wife

http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

199
57
R.I.P. Les Paul

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090813/ap_en_mu/us_obit_les_paul

196
34
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759452

202
227
Self-Enforcing Protocols

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/self-enforcing.html

156
56
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/

279
82
Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service

http://tr.im/

104
115
The Case Against Apple

http://calacanis.com/2009/08/08/the-case-against-apple-in-five-parts/

125
126
Signs that you're a bad programmer

http://sites.google.com/site/yacoset/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-bad-programmer

273
121
Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html

171
99
Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp

364
79
YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009/08/04/startups-unite-to-drive-nail-into-the-coffin-of-internet-explorer-6/?

187
110
Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/08/03bod.html

199
47
$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

https://license.icopyright.net/rights/offer.act?inprocess=t&sid=36&tag=3.5721%3Ficx_id%3DD99Q89400

154
66
ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees

http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/

130
4
FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/31/fcc-takes-on-apple-and-att-over-google-voice-rejection/

217
91
Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline

http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/microsofts_long_slow_decline

142
172
The Trouble with the Segway

http://paulgraham.com/segway.html

221
165
Chicago Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet

http://www.podcastingnews.com/2009/07/28/chicago-realty-group-sues-woman-for-50000-over-a-tweet/

157
69
Ramen Profitable

http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

264
136
Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan

http://zip.4chan.org/g/res/5163554.html

120
73
The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC

http://www.ycombinator.com/arc/news.6sep06.arc

104
19
Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"

http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease_

227
55
My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.

http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/excuses-excuses-an-excerpt-from-teacher-man/article156072.html

327
64
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

312
89
A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geometric_series_14_square2.svg

200
47
Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.

http://chir.ag/projects/ktype/

240
29
Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older?

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i39_yaffe.html

100
51
Re: You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft

http://microturfing.com/

170
73
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/

320
141
Stack Overflow Architecture

http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture

123
49
MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors

http://mantia.me/blog/macbook-pro-thousands-of-colors/

231
148
Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL

http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html

279
174
Twenty questions about the GPL

http://jacobian.org/writing/gpl-questions/

121
79
Draw a math symbol and get the corresponding LaTeX code

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

193
38
Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?30,767183,767183#msg-767183

150
28
SQL Databases Are An Overapplied Solution

http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2009/7/8/sql_databases_are_an_overapplied_solution_and_what_to_use_instead/

83
72
"Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/000849.html

187
31
Introducing the Google Chrome OS

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

370
167
Gmail is out of beta

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html

140
45
Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.

http://sivers.org/tom-williams

181
40
How To Take Ritalin Correctly

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/how_to_take_ritalin_correctly.html

96
68
Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687267

74
128
The work ethic of MJ - amazing tales from the studio by his engineers

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/401331-robmix-tell-us-about-mj.html

181
33
How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?

http://www.pluginid.com/how-much-are-you-living/

132
36
Potion: A Short Pamphlet

http://hackety.org/potion/

214
46
Firefox 3.5 is out

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html

234
71
StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

http://www.stackexchange.com/

135
103
A Tale of Two Programmers

http://mail.linux.ie/pipermail/social/1999-October/000483.html

125
55
PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips

http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_thread/thread/ddfbe82dd80408cc

153
39
No Hire

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-26/no_hire.md#readme

230
115
RIP Michael Jackson

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-chat/

248
158
Face detection in pure PHP (without OpenCV)

http://svay.com/blog/index/post/2009/06/19/Face-detection-in-pure-PHP-(without-OpenCV)

125
15
Review my startup: Revizr. You haven't seen this before.

http://www.revizr.com

131
64
Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head and It Is Ugly

http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/kindles-drm-rears-its-ugly-head-and-it-is-ugly/

208
41
On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza A

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353

142
28
Facebook breaks RFC2045 with quoted printable

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.general/55824

86
34
How to Write a Spelling Corrector

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

124
18
Epitaph for an Entrepreneur - Balancing Family and Work

http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur/

139
47
Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/

152
88
Less, a leaner CSS

http://lesscss.org

253
85
Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/06/15/arment-wwdc-fu

228
142
Working on It (TextMate)

http://blog.macromates.com/2009/working-on-it/

112
106
Python to get Google-backed speedup

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16713

158
69
Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming

http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_24.pdf

139
54
The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-way-i-work-matt-mullenweg.html

132
46
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

236
33
Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bothered-to-ap_b_213176.html

195
137
The Learjet repo man

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/06/lear_jet_repo_man/index.html

153
49
Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/

177
54
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/

130
78
Astalavista.com hacked, including details

http://astalavista.com/

171
64
The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/introducing-the-pancake-a-less-annoying-way-to-move-through-google-street-view/

97
18
How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976

928
78
Web Applications Should Be Compiled

http://ediblepet.net/2009/05/23/web-applications-should-be-compile/

129
172
Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at

http://almost.at

164
81
The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

http://gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html

176
56
The Ultimate Lock Picker

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-06/ff_keymaster?currentPage=all

144
14
How to Teach a Child to Argue

http://www.figarospeech.com/teach-a-kid-to-argue/

217
54
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-drips-with-ambition-can-it-fulfill-googles-grand-web-vision/

169
99
My $3.3M Mistake

http://sivers.org/mistake

251
44
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

174
116
"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/168702

155
29
Teensy++ $24 AVR board, USB, 63/4/2KiB flash/RAM/EEPROM, 46 I/O, 8 analo., 9 PWM

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/?not_a_duplicate

84
19
Deny This, Last.fm

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/

312
68
Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

http://wordoid.com

106
78
Please Unplug

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/05/please-unplug.php

92
38
Why it's expensive to be poor

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html?referrer=emailarticle

183
194
Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-19-n33.html

102
83
The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html

147
20
How to Be Persuasive

http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be-persuasive/1624

160
26
Wolfram Alpha Live

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/

91
117
My Personal Credit Crisis

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17foreclosure-t.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all

185
201
PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms

http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

197
7
HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

300
107
What lies beneath New York's rivers

http://nymag.com/news/features/56609/

105
20
Don’t! The secret of self-control

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all#

186
69
Remind HN: Call your mother

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602005

96
18
Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

http://www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm

119
53
A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

303
14
A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education

http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine

119
84
Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02

137
19
Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed-and-why-bh-thrives.html

185
79
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html

194
33
VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-and-prgmr

128
69
Is There Anything Good About Men?

http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

232
88
Hacker News Disease

http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/

215
104
Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586140

165
102
6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec

http://timetobleed.com/6-line-eventmachine-bugfix-2x-faster-gc-1300-requestssec/

107
35
"I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583555

154
62
The Management Myth (2006)

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200606/stewart-business

113
22
An Unschooling Manifesto

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/04/25.html#a2369

135
89
Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060301/confessions_Printer_Friendly.html

111
42
Google Code now supports Mercurial

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html

118
31
Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/

202
38
Is Git more than a version control system? Reimplementing CouchDB with Git+Bash...

http://www.ordecon.com/2009/04/22/is-git-more-than-just-a-version-control-system/

82
36
Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

http://hnstartups.com/

205
47
Oracle to buy Sun

http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

249
121
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/page/4/

106
31
IE 6 Update

http://ie6update.com/

103
31
Pirate Bay officially loses case

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-the-verdict-090417/

226
164
GitHub releases integrated issue tracking

http://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker

135
47
The Pond

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/04/15/the_pond.html

96
12
Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News

http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

154
63
Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)

http://www.math.umass.edu/~hajir/m300f05/m300notes-f05.pdf

79
4
Better

http://www.43folders.com/better

105
16
The Endurance Running Hypothesis

http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_running_man_revisited/

88
40
The Founder Visa

http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html

200
151
Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html

121
50
Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music

http://grooveshark.com/

121
56
The dark side of Dubai

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

174
66
Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

http://www.jonengle.com/2009/04/accused/

206
45
I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed.

http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/log/?m=200904#05

107
20
FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why

http://sites.google.com/site/mnsclec/index

158
49
Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.

http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html

118
39
Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/

148
60
Google uncloaks once-secret server

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

238
53
Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

291
142
My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=My+Manhattan+Project&expire=&urlID=35003522&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness%2F55687%2F&partnerID=73272

260
43
David Moon's Programming Language for Old Timers

http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/

91
17
Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/03775904-177c-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac.html

170
46
Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_settlers

181
82
Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business

http://www.slash7.com/articles/2009/3/26/google-is-evil-worse-than-paypal-don-t-use-google-checkout-for-your-business

400
150
Understanding Git

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/

258
12
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python

http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python

219
128
How to Write Fast Code

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-write-fast-code.html

143
42
Command-line Fu

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes

189
22
"But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub."

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000127_947.htm

101
27
Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

188
96
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801434_pf.html

194
75
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/australia-issues-wikileaks-linking-fine-warning-585894

119
70
Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html

149
42
Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009

http://ycombinator.com/party.html

222
49
Poll: How old are you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039

122
124
Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots

http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/

157
73
Don't launch

http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-launch.html

123
19
Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/11/grand-central-to-finally-launch-as-google-voice-its-very-very-good/

157
52
The Innards of Erlang

http://contekst.org/blog/?p=55

327
34
DHH: Fuck the Real World

http://www.rubyrailways.com/dhh-fuck-the-real-world/

149
36
Be Relentlessly Resourceful

http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html

241
161
Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

http://dabuttonfactory.com

149
92
How to Be an Angel Investor

http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html

122
54
Why I Sued Google (and Won)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-google-and-won_b_172403.html

222
110
Not Lisp again....

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

178
39
Icelandic logic behind the meltdown

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?printable=true&currentPage=all

126
44
Why TV Lost

http://paulgraham.com/convergence.html

161
183
Dropped IE support for Instapaper

http://www.marco.org/82950480

138
79
"Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

107
129
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.

http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

124
127
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

347
84
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad

http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/slider/13sentences

338
126
What I've Learned from Hacker News

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

381
119
New Product From 280North: Atlas

http://280atlas.com/

192
73
Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit

413
101
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)

http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup

249
55
How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook

http://i.gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

91
47
Better lighting for your computer

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

107
42
How Not to Pitch to a Startup

http://particletree.com/features/how-not-to-pitch-to-a-startup/

184
44
Ask HN: Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN

http://clusterify.com/

108
59
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-netcat/

138
22
An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff

http://waferbaby.com/setup/2009/02/13/_why

115
38
I was driven mad by the Chinese education system

http://en.chinaelections.org/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=19911

150
140
Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

134
30
Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE

http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/02/introducing-bespin/

136
43
How Not To Sort By Average Rating

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

195
56
Fun With HTTP Headers

http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-headers

144
22
Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.

http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/

172
73
Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

http://ycombinator.com/s2009.html

131
80
Keep Your Identity Small

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

234
253
Technology is Heroin

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/technology_is_h.php

113
59
"There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

142
70
Recreating the button

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/02/04/recreating-the-button.html

110
37
Don't use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass instead

http://gom-jabbar.org/articles/2009/02/04/don-t-use-css-or-table-layout-use-sass-ad-compass

108
33
Why CSS should not be used for layout

http://www.flownet.com/ron/css-rant.html

248
147
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

201
63
GoDaddy CoFounder: Never give up (but be very quick to change).

http://www.bobparsons.me/SuccesskeyNevergiveupbutbeveryquicktochangeTurning15000into64millionKissing64milliongoodbye.html

81
43
New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289

532
137
Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458409

164
53
How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage

http://www.userscape.com/blog/index.php/site/how_to_sell_more_software_by_adding_12_characters_to_your_homepage/#When:14:08:00Z

185
65
Some things need to change

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/28/some-things-need-to-change/

287
204
Taming Perfectionism

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/taming-perfectionism.html

170
39
Working from Home: Why It Sucks

http://geeksinboston.com/2009/01/26/working-from-home-why-it-sucks/

156
101
Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

http://friendfeed.com/e/903ca674-71cf-4bfa-1858-0612a0d5364d/Congratulations-Paul-Jessica-Welcome-to-the-world/

188
77
How to Choose Chart Types (pic)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amit-agarwal/3196386402/sizes/l/

143
12
How to Pick a Language

http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-4113-938C-968F65256D76.html

123
71
YHackers: Click that "New" link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=445454

157
59
Designing Web Interfaces: Standard Screen Patterns

http://designingwebinterfaces.com/designing-web-interfaces-12-screen-patterns

105
22
Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Mediawiki-database-schema.png?

151
46
The 37signals Effect

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2009/01/the-37signals-effect/

171
75
Why Google Employees Quit

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/

202
98
How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2259.asp

134
51
Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436331

108
161
Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/?S_TACT=105AGX54&S_CMP=C0115&ca=dnw-1002&open&cm_mmc=4633-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10731_101108&cmibm_em=dm:0:6992641

162
53
Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-thanks-or-no-thanks_Printer_Friendly.html?partner=fogcreek

188
84
Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laundry/

139
49
How Cook's Illustrated thrives while others are dying

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1518-how-cooks-illustrated-thrives-while-others-are-dying

119
31
Advice from a once burnt-out programmer

http://www.miketec.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/9-Sure,-Change-Jobs!.html

136
52
My NSA polygraph experiences

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1231592631

98
46
Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week)

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-tricks-i-learned-from-years-of-hating-tim-ferriss/

146
72
A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

http://radian.org/notebook/porsche

224
51
How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/01/04/how-much-money-i-made-from-side-projects-in-2008/

190
60
Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar

http://www.frisnit.com/radar/

134
27
Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html

153
91
Overnight success takes a long time

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/overnight-success-takes-long-time.html

98
47
Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html

130
16
Unusual disk latency

http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency

106
22
Google tells users to drop IE6

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40785/140/

64
14