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Top of Month - Apr 2009

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

2. Google uncloaks once-secret server
   (1 Apr 2009 | 238 points | Comments)

3. Pirate Bay officially loses case
   (17 Apr 2009 | 226 points | Comments)

4. Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000
   (6 Apr 2009 | 206 points | Comments)

5. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)
   (21 Apr 2009 | 205 points | Comments)

6. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.
   (23 Apr 2009 | 202 points | Comments)

7. The Founder Visa
   (10 Apr 2009 | 200 points | Comments)

8. Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step
   (17 Apr 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

9. Five Founders
   (1 Apr 2009 | 179 points | Comments)

10. Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
    (1 Apr 2009 | 175 points | Comments)

11. The dark side of Dubai
    (7 Apr 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

12. Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid
    (17 Apr 2009 | 172 points | Comments)

13. YC Rejected: Please read.
    (7 Apr 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?
    (30 Apr 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

15. There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste
    (30 Apr 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

16. Fuck the foundries
    (21 Apr 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

17. FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why
    (4 Apr 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

18. Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News
    (14 Apr 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

19. Ubuntu 9.04 released
    (23 Apr 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

20. "I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word
    (28 Apr 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

21. Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce
    (2 Apr 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

22. Stephen Hawking 'very ill'
    (20 Apr 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

23. Programmers Don't Like to Code
    (23 Apr 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

24. Caring for your introvert
    (14 Apr 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

25. How to block the DiggBar
    (10 Apr 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

26. The Banker Who Said No
    (4 Apr 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

27. GitHub releases integrated issue tracking
    (16 Apr 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

28. An Unschooling Manifesto
    (26 Apr 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

29. GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried
    (1 Apr 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

30. Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx
    (16 Apr 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

31. China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect)
    (28 Apr 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

32. "PSD is not my favorite file format"
    (23 Apr 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

33. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll
    (28 Apr 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

34. Some perspective on a destroyed career
    (4 Apr 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

35. An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
    (30 Apr 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

36. Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music
    (8 Apr 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

37. Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?
    (9 Apr 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

38. 4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll
    (16 Apr 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

39. Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.
    (3 Apr 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

40. Google Code now supports Mercurial
    (24 Apr 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

41. How Woz Gets Things Done
    (24 Apr 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

42. The Management Myth (2006)
    (27 Apr 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

43. 37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."
    (2 Apr 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

44. Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet
    (2 Apr 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

45. Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife
    (25 Apr 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

46. Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
    (25 Apr 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

47. Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity
    (14 Apr 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

48. I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed.
    (5 Apr 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

49. Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
    (21 Apr 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

50. 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec
    (29 Apr 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

51. Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
    (19 Apr 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

52. Better
    (12 Apr 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

53. How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
    (14 Apr 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

54. IE 6 Update
    (18 Apr 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

55. Global Warming Delusions
    (25 Apr 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

56. Lessons from a failed startup
    (30 Apr 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

57. A Local Revolution?
    (14 Apr 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

58. Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features
    (28 Apr 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

59. Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience
    (16 Apr 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

60. Your eyes suck at blue (neat image compression trick)
    (21 Apr 2009 | 101 points | Comments)