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Top of Month - Mar 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Be Relentlessly Resourceful
   (9 Mar 2009 | 241 points | Comments)

9. Why I Sued Google (and Won)
   (6 Mar 2009 | 222 points | Comments)

10. Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009
    (16 Mar 2009 | 222 points | Comments)

11. Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
    (24 Mar 2009 | 219 points | Comments)

12. College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
    (19 Mar 2009 | 194 points | Comments)

13. How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops
    (24 Mar 2009 | 190 points | Comments)

14. Command-line Fu
    (22 Mar 2009 | 189 points | Comments)

15. Zed's "One Battery Review" of Django
    (20 Mar 2009 | 188 points | Comments)

16. Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google
    (20 Mar 2009 | 188 points | Comments)

17. Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
    (27 Mar 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

18. Not Lisp again....
    (5 Mar 2009 | 178 points | Comments)

19. Y Combinator in Erlang
    (11 Mar 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

20. Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch
    (28 Mar 2009 | 170 points | Comments)

21. Google Ventures
    (31 Mar 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

22. IP Address Geolocation database
    (24 Mar 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

23. Why TV Lost
    (3 Mar 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

24. How to be a program manager
    (9 Mar 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

25. Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.
    (12 Mar 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

26. Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots
    (14 Mar 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

27. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval
    (16 Mar 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

28. Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
    (8 Mar 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

29. DHH: Fuck the Real World
    (10 Mar 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

30. Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
    (17 Mar 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

31. How I make 15K a month at AdSense
    (11 Mar 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

32. How to Write Fast Code
    (23 Mar 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

33. The Erlang Distribution
    (11 Mar 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

34. How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
    (5 Mar 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

35. Erlang - The Movie
    (11 Mar 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

36. Dropped IE support for Instapaper
    (2 Mar 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

37. IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc
    (17 Mar 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

38. Python switching to Mercurial
    (30 Mar 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

39. Git is the next Unix
    (6 Mar 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

40. Academic Hacker News
    (6 Mar 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

41. 6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better
    (19 Mar 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

42. How Rich Countries Die
    (16 Mar 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

43. How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy.
    (30 Mar 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

44. How to make PCBs at home in 1 hour without special materials
    (30 Mar 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

45. How to stop the drug wars
    (8 Mar 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

46. Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker
    (5 Mar 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

47. Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
    (12 Mar 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

48. Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what you'd guess
    (10 Mar 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

49. Erlang Shen
    (11 Mar 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

50. Icelandic logic behind the meltdown
    (4 Mar 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

51. SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)
    (17 Mar 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

52. Advice to Summer YC Applicants
    (23 Mar 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

53. Stop pouring hot water down the drain
    (25 Mar 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

54. Getting Started with Erlang [pdf]
    (11 Mar 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

55. Undo Send in Gmail
    (19 Mar 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

56. Color Scheme Designer 3
    (9 Mar 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

57. Don't launch
    (13 Mar 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

58. How to Be an Angel Investor
    (7 Mar 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

59. Six Lessons Learned from Domain Pigeon’s First Six Weeks
    (16 Mar 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

60. Erlang: A Generalized TCP Server
    (11 Mar 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

61. Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking
    (18 Mar 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

62. Mystery of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder is probably solved
    (23 Mar 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

63. Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds
    (6 Mar 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

64. So Here's How Many Games I Sell - Indie Game Developer Story
    (18 Mar 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

65. Fun Hack: How to open many keypad-access doors
    (11 Mar 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

66. HTML 5 Canvas game
    (13 Mar 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

67. Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
    (23 Mar 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

68. Dynamic variables hack in Erlang
    (11 Mar 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

69. Tunneling traffic through DNS, a.k.a free internet in cafes/airports
    (11 Mar 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

70. Training Rats as Traders
    (13 Mar 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

71. How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code
    (18 Mar 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

72. TED: Mike Rowe talks about dirty jobs and innovation
    (9 Mar 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

73. The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
    (13 Mar 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

74. Reverse image search engine
    (27 Mar 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

75. "Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand
    (1 Mar 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

76. Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results
    (11 Mar 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?
    (17 Mar 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

78. Why Marriages Fail
    (28 Mar 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

79. Don't Be Evil but Intentionally Deceptive is OK
    (30 Mar 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

80. Robots [pics]
    (4 Mar 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

81. Unladen Swallow: Making CPython Faster Using LLVM
    (25 Mar 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

82. College vs Start-up - It's not about the job
    (2 Mar 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

83. SIRC Guide to Flirting
    (9 Mar 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

84. Rails is a Ghetto (retracted)
    (19 Mar 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

85. Readability
    (3 Mar 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

86. "But how will Google ever make money? There's the rub."
    (21 Mar 2009 | 101 points | Comments)