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Top of Month - Jan 2009

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

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

3. A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...
   (8 Jan 2009 | 224 points | Comments)

4. Why Google Employees Quit
   (18 Jan 2009 | 202 points | Comments)

5. How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008
   (7 Jan 2009 | 190 points | Comments)

6. Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks
   (14 Jan 2009 | 188 points | Comments)

7. Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George
   (25 Jan 2009 | 188 points | Comments)

8. The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective
   (14 Jan 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

9. How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage
   (29 Jan 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

10. Potion - a little fast OO language by _why
    (8 Jan 2009 | 183 points | Comments)

11. The 37signals Effect
    (19 Jan 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

12. Taming Perfectionism
    (27 Jan 2009 | 170 points | Comments)

13. Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it
    (30 Jan 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

14. Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins
    (15 Jan 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

15. Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence
    (14 Jan 2009 | 159 points | Comments)

16. YHackers: Click that "New" link
    (22 Jan 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

17. Working from Home: Why It Sucks
    (26 Jan 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

18. Steve Jobs speaks out about his health
    (5 Jan 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

19. Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like?
    (20 Jan 2009 | 151 points | Comments)

20. Starting this summer, YC will be in California year-round
    (22 Jan 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

21. Congratulations PG on the coming child
    (22 Jan 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

22. Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week)
    (9 Jan 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

23. Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
    (22 Jan 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

24. How to Choose Chart Types (pic)
    (24 Jan 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

25. My Git Workflow
    (20 Jan 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

26. Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry
    (13 Jan 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

27. Advice from a once burnt-out programmer
    (11 Jan 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

28. Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar
    (6 Jan 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

29. How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget
    (17 Jan 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

30. Anatomy of a Program in Memory
    (27 Jan 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

31. Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS
    (3 Jan 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

32. Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page
    (6 Jan 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

33. Why I Hate Frameworks
    (13 Jan 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

34. Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008
    (5 Jan 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

35. Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
    (9 Jan 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk?
    (20 Jan 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

37. How to Pick a Language
    (23 Jan 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

38. Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog
    (6 Jan 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

39. How Cook's Illustrated thrives while others are dying
    (12 Jan 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

40. I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard
    (29 Jan 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

41. News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats)
    (15 Jan 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

42. Hack your brain: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
    (12 Jan 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

43. The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself
    (11 Jan 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

44. The $300 Million Button
    (14 Jan 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

45. Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0
    (19 Jan 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

46. Gmail goes offline with Google Gears
    (28 Jan 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

47. Teensy USB Development Board - 16MHz, $19
    (30 Jan 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

48. How we use IRC at Last.fm
    (9 Jan 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

49. English-Prime - English without "is"
    (5 Jan 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation?
    (16 Jan 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

51. Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
    (11 Jan 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

52. Unusual disk latency
    (2 Jan 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

53. 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
    (9 Jan 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

54. JQuery 1.3 Released
    (14 Jan 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

55. Designing Web Interfaces: Standard Screen Patterns
    (21 Jan 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Best HN threads in '08?
    (2 Jan 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

57. The best paper airplane in the world
    (5 Jan 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

58. Slashdotter on the value of ideas versus execution
    (7 Jan 2009 | 100 points | Comments)

59. Why PHP won
    (16 Jan 2009 | 100 points | Comments)