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Top of Month - Feb 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Keep Your Identity Small
   (8 Feb 2009 | 234 points | Comments)

9. A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
   (2 Feb 2009 | 201 points | Comments)

10. How Not To Sort By Average Rating
    (12 Feb 2009 | 195 points | Comments)

11. New Product From 280North: Atlas
    (24 Feb 2009 | 192 points | Comments)

12. Papers Every Programmer Should Read
    (27 Feb 2009 | 189 points | Comments)

13. I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
    (2 Feb 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

14. How Not to Pitch to a Startup
    (19 Feb 2009 | 184 points | Comments)

15. Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.
    (10 Feb 2009 | 172 points | Comments)

16. Hacker News is 2
    (19 Feb 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

17. The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote
    (2 Feb 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

18. The Audacity of Doing Nothing
    (12 Feb 2009 | 159 points | Comments)

19. On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
    (27 Feb 2009 | 159 points | Comments)

20. How I almost killed Facebook
    (26 Feb 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

21. Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?
    (24 Feb 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

22. How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18
    (10 Feb 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

23. I was driven mad by the Chinese education system
    (15 Feb 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

24. Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0
    (19 Feb 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?
    (19 Feb 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

26. Don’t Work for Assholes
    (3 Feb 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

27. Fun With HTTP Headers
    (11 Feb 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

28. "There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates
    (6 Feb 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

29. That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.
    (12 Feb 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

30. Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.
    (25 Feb 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

31. The Little Coder's Predicament
    (11 Feb 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

32. A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
    (17 Feb 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

33. Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors
    (26 Feb 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

34. Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE
    (13 Feb 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

35. Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store
    (13 Feb 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

36. Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for
    (14 Feb 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

37. Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator.
    (24 Feb 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

38. Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in Computer Science
    (26 Feb 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

39. Mindfuck Movies
    (13 Feb 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

40. Daily Routines: How interesting people organize their day.
    (15 Feb 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

41. Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding
    (9 Feb 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

42. I Became a Savant For a Day
    (14 Feb 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

43. Life at Wal-Mart
    (2 Feb 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

44. Mysterious number 6174
    (13 Feb 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

45. Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
    (28 Feb 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

46. How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes
    (8 Feb 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

47. Download the internet
    (3 Feb 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

48. An Interview with _why the Lucky Stiff
    (16 Feb 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

49. Technology is Heroin
    (7 Feb 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

50. Recreating the button
    (5 Feb 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

51. Y Combinator’s FathomDB Takes The Hassle Out Of Managing Your Database
    (28 Feb 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

52. Programmers, Promise Yourself This
    (3 Feb 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

53. Don't use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass instead
    (4 Feb 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

54. The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding
    (10 Feb 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

55. Ask HN: Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN
    (18 Feb 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

56. New Comment Features
    (5 Feb 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

57. Better lighting for your computer
    (20 Feb 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

58. All we want are the facts, ma'am.
    (23 Feb 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

59. Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout
    (3 Feb 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

60. Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic
    (4 Feb 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

61. Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek
    (6 Feb 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

62. Ask HN: please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com
    (20 Feb 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

63. Counting hours doesn't make sense
    (25 Feb 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Would you pay $5/yr for HN?
    (5 Feb 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

65. Y Combinator putting on special event called AngelConf for would-be investors
    (13 Feb 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

66. Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
    (2 Feb 2009 | 100 points | Comments)