The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2009
We track 146 stories from December 2009, averaging 164 points each. daringfireball.net was the most linked source, with 3 stories. Together they drew 9,754 comments, 67 per story on average.
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There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
sivers.org · icey · 1 Dec 2009
386 pts
60 comments
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3
The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)
totlol.com · TotlolRon · 28 Dec 2009
352 pts
119 comments
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4
How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
georgehart.com · dangoldin · 7 Dec 2009
350 pts
25 comments
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5
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
guardian.co.uk · MartinMond · 23 Dec 2009
349 pts
188 comments
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6
Why I gave away my company to charity
sivers.org · sivers · 4 Dec 2009
328 pts
83 comments
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7
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
steveblank.com · icey · 21 Dec 2009
327 pts
226 comments
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8
Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo
hackerfactor.com · aditya · 27 Dec 2009
308 pts
54 comments
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Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.
ycombinator.com · iamelgringo · 5 Dec 2009
301 pts
117 comments
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10
Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
schneier.com · tlrobinson · 9 Dec 2009
291 pts
96 comments
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11
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome
theinvisibl.com · callahad · 10 Dec 2009
283 pts
100 comments
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12
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
theregister.co.uk · nkohari · 8 Dec 2009
279 pts
168 comments
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14
EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced
etherpad.com · aaroniba · 6 Dec 2009
276 pts
68 comments
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15
EtherPad Open Source Release
etherpad.com · aaroniba · 18 Dec 2009
275 pts
73 comments
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16
How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition
wired.com · TrevorBurnham · 21 Dec 2009
270 pts
75 comments
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17
Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
googlecode.blogspot.com · johns · 3 Dec 2009
264 pts
155 comments
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18
Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
etherpad.com · dreeves · 4 Dec 2009
258 pts
98 comments
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21
Funding Clojure 2010
groups.google.com · swannodette · 14 Dec 2009
239 pts
90 comments
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22
IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002)
t3.org · RiderOfGiraffes · 9 Dec 2009
234 pts
62 comments
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23
“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
blog.apparentsoft.com · sadiq · 17 Dec 2009
225 pts
96 comments
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24
Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"
codinghorror.com · gfunk911 · 11 Dec 2009
223 pts
165 comments
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Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature
microsoft.com · tshtf · 15 Dec 2009
222 pts
58 comments
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27
CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN
jashkenas.github.com · jashkenas · 24 Dec 2009
206 pts
64 comments
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28
Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
news.nationalgeographic.com · kqr2 · 14 Dec 2009
205 pts
27 comments
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29
Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
engadget.com · maudineormsby · 7 Dec 2009
204 pts
211 comments
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30
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
toomuchjoy.com · soundsop · 2 Dec 2009
201 pts
69 comments
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31
What Not To Build
halfanhour.blogspot.com · vorador · 9 Dec 2009
200 pts
72 comments
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32
Highcharts: JavaScript Charts that don't suck
highcharts.com · nym · 1 Dec 2009
198 pts
59 comments
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33
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
zedshaw.com · azharcs · 27 Dec 2009
195 pts
104 comments
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35
Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
steveblank.com · nathanh · 7 Dec 2009
188 pts
35 comments
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36
The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother
thestar.com · ojbyrne · 31 Dec 2009
185 pts
102 comments
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37
Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
victusspiritus.com · messel · 24 Dec 2009
183 pts
63 comments
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39
Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs
danvk.org · nym · 10 Dec 2009
181 pts
36 comments
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40
Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro
penzba.co.uk · RiderOfGiraffes · 17 Dec 2009
180 pts
45 comments
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42
Daring Fireball: PastryKit
daringfireball.net · sant0sk1 · 15 Dec 2009
176 pts
42 comments
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43
The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings
axiis.org · nym · 11 Dec 2009
175 pts
41 comments
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44
Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet?
knol.google.com · martian · 14 Dec 2009
174 pts
62 comments
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45
Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists
zedshaw.com · mattculbreth · 3 Dec 2009
173 pts
70 comments
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46
Analyzing Y Combinator
blog.awesomezombie.com · ig1 · 4 Dec 2009
169 pts
61 comments
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47
Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
googleblog.blogspot.com · jeff18 · 18 Dec 2009
167 pts
37 comments
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48
Stuff I've learned at Microsoft
sriramkrishnan.com · sriramk · 12 Dec 2009
167 pts
27 comments
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49
I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like
thestever.net · steveeq1 · 22 Dec 2009
166 pts
118 comments
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50
VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
forum.videolan.org · anigbrowl · 17 Dec 2009
166 pts
43 comments
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51
http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
to. · Raphael · 3 Dec 2009
164 pts
145 comments
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52
Bingo Card Creator Annual Report
kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 18 Dec 2009
164 pts
38 comments
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Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants
copyblogger.com · JoelSutherland · 14 Dec 2009
158 pts
126 comments
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55
I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack
maxklein.posterous.com · maxklein · 27 Dec 2009
158 pts
73 comments
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57
Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)
youtube.com · chipsy · 21 Dec 2009
153 pts
86 comments
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59
Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
philip.greenspun.com · collision · 26 Dec 2009
152 pts
41 comments
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60
Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers
betterthangrep.com · mustpax · 4 Dec 2009
152 pts
33 comments
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