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Top of Year 2009

1. How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
   (3 Jun 2009 | 928 points | Comments)

2. Apple's Mistake
   (19 Nov 2009 | 723 points | Comments)

3. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
   (3 Oct 2009 | 626 points | Comments)

4. Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
   (4 Nov 2009 | 588 points | Comments)

5. Microsoft rips off Plurk
   (14 Dec 2009 | 581 points | Comments)

6. _why is no more
   (19 Aug 2009 | 558 points | Comments)

7. New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.
   (31 Jan 2009 | 532 points | Comments)

8. The End Of The CrunchPad
   (30 Nov 2009 | 435 points | Comments)

9. Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
   (23 Feb 2009 | 413 points | Comments)

10. Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
    (1 Sep 2009 | 401 points | Comments)

11. Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
    (26 Mar 2009 | 400 points | Comments)

12. There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
    (1 Dec 2009 | 386 points | Comments)

13. What Startups Are Really Like
    (25 Oct 2009 | 382 points | Comments)

14. What I've Learned from Hacker News
    (25 Feb 2009 | 381 points | Comments)

15. Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++
    (10 Nov 2009 | 377 points | Comments)

16. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar
    (24 Nov 2009 | 376 points | Comments)

17. Introducing the Google Chrome OS
    (8 Jul 2009 | 370 points | Comments)

18. HN Help: I'm lost
    (12 Nov 2009 | 366 points | Comments)

19. Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
    (29 Nov 2009 | 365 points | Comments)

20. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms
    (5 Aug 2009 | 364 points | Comments)

21. Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
    (28 Aug 2009 | 359 points | Comments)

22. The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)
    (28 Dec 2009 | 352 points | Comments)

23. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
    (7 Dec 2009 | 350 points | Comments)

24. How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
    (23 Dec 2009 | 349 points | Comments)

25. How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
    (27 Feb 2009 | 347 points | Comments)

26. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
    (11 Sep 2009 | 347 points | Comments)

27. The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
    (26 Feb 2009 | 338 points | Comments)

28. When a co-founder dies
    (25 Sep 2009 | 335 points | Comments)

29. The Duct Tape Programmer
    (24 Sep 2009 | 333 points | Comments)

30. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
    (20 Aug 2009 | 330 points | Comments)

31. Why I gave away my company to charity
    (4 Dec 2009 | 328 points | Comments)

32. The Innards of Erlang
    (11 Mar 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

33. My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.
    (23 Jul 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

34. Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
    (5 Aug 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

35. The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
    (21 Dec 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

36. So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
    (8 Oct 2009 | 324 points | Comments)

37. The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X
    (4 Nov 2009 | 323 points | Comments)

38. Startups in 13 Sentences
    (23 Feb 2009 | 322 points | Comments)

39. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
    (6 Oct 2009 | 321 points | Comments)

40. If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?
    (30 Oct 2009 | 321 points | Comments)

41. Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
    (17 Jul 2009 | 320 points | Comments)

42. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business
    (28 Sep 2009 | 319 points | Comments)

43. Eulogy to _why
    (19 Aug 2009 | 318 points | Comments)

44. Your looks and your inbox
    (19 Nov 2009 | 315 points | Comments)

45. Deny This, Last.fm
    (23 May 2009 | 312 points | Comments)

46. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
    (22 Jul 2009 | 312 points | Comments)

47. Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
    (3 Sep 2009 | 310 points | Comments)

48. I Was Told I Was Very Smart
    (22 Oct 2009 | 309 points | Comments)

49. Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo
    (27 Dec 2009 | 308 points | Comments)

50. The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"
    (14 Oct 2009 | 307 points | Comments)

51. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
    (8 May 2009 | 303 points | Comments)

52. Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.
    (5 Dec 2009 | 301 points | Comments)

53. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old
    (13 May 2009 | 300 points | Comments)

54. Thank you, Rails
    (6 Nov 2009 | 297 points | Comments)

55. Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
    (31 Mar 2009 | 291 points | Comments)

56. Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source
    (10 Sep 2009 | 291 points | Comments)

57. Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
    (9 Dec 2009 | 291 points | Comments)

58. Did you mean recursion?
    (23 Jul 2009 | 290 points | Comments)

59. Experiment: No Comment Scores
    (26 Sep 2009 | 289 points | Comments)

60. Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
    (24 Nov 2009 | 289 points | Comments)

61. Some things need to change
    (28 Jan 2009 | 287 points | Comments)

62. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome
    (10 Dec 2009 | 283 points | Comments)

63. The bar for success in our industry is too low
    (2 Sep 2009 | 282 points | Comments)

64. Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL
    (14 Jul 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

65. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
    (10 Aug 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

66. Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell
    (1 Nov 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

67. Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
    (8 Dec 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

68. Squareup
    (1 Dec 2009 | 278 points | Comments)

69. Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
    (29 Nov 2009 | 276 points | Comments)

70. EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced
    (6 Dec 2009 | 276 points | Comments)

71. EtherPad Open Source Release
    (18 Dec 2009 | 275 points | Comments)

72. Signs that you're a bad programmer
    (7 Aug 2009 | 273 points | Comments)

73. Why I won't be at my high school reunion
    (17 Jul 2009 | 271 points | Comments)

74. Why HN is slow lately
    (11 Mar 2009 | 270 points | Comments)

75. How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition
    (21 Dec 2009 | 270 points | Comments)

76. Ramen Profitable
    (27 Jul 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

77. What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
    (31 Aug 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

78. Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
    (3 Dec 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

79. You should follow me on Twitter
    (14 Jul 2009 | 263 points | Comments)

80. My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.
    (30 Mar 2009 | 260 points | Comments)

81. Google Groups is Dead
    (27 Oct 2009 | 259 points | Comments)

82. Understanding Git
    (25 Mar 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

83. Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong
    (3 Jun 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

84. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
    (11 Sep 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

85. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
    (4 Dec 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

86. Learning Advanced JavaScript
    (15 Sep 2009 | 257 points | Comments)

87. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
    (20 Oct 2009 | 254 points | Comments)

88. The Apple Tablet
    (31 Dec 2009 | 254 points | Comments)

89. Less, a leaner CSS
    (16 Jun 2009 | 253 points | Comments)

90. Starting up with a friend
    (11 Mar 2009 | 252 points | Comments)

91. They Killed My Lawyer
    (27 Dec 2009 | 252 points | Comments)

92. My $3.3M Mistake
    (27 May 2009 | 251 points | Comments)

93. Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities
    (26 Oct 2009 | 250 points | Comments)

94. Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)
    (22 Feb 2009 | 249 points | Comments)

95. Oracle to buy Sun
    (20 Apr 2009 | 249 points | Comments)

96. Why CSS should not be used for layout
    (3 Feb 2009 | 248 points | Comments)

97. RIP Michael Jackson
    (25 Jun 2009 | 248 points | Comments)

98. The Nerd Handbook
    (12 Nov 2009 | 247 points | Comments)

99. So long, and thanks for all the fish
    (21 Aug 2009 | 245 points | Comments)

100. Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
     (22 Sep 2009 | 245 points | Comments)