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Top of Month - May 2009

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

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

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

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

5. Is There Anything Good About Men?
   (2 May 2009 | 232 points | Comments)

6. How to Teach a Child to Argue
   (29 May 2009 | 217 points | Comments)

7. Hacker News Disease
   (1 May 2009 | 215 points | Comments)

8. PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms
   (14 May 2009 | 197 points | Comments)

9. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
   (4 May 2009 | 194 points | Comments)

10. Can you trust 37signals with your password?
    (2 May 2009 | 189 points | Comments)

11. Don’t! The secret of self-control
    (11 May 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

12. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives
    (5 May 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

13. My Personal Credit Crisis
    (15 May 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

14. Why it's expensive to be poor
    (20 May 2009 | 183 points | Comments)

15. The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
    (31 May 2009 | 176 points | Comments)

16. Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)
    (26 May 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

17. Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
    (28 May 2009 | 169 points | Comments)

18. The night I met Einstein
    (2 May 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

19. How to Be Persuasive
    (17 May 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

20. Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires
    (28 May 2009 | 159 points | Comments)

21. The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy
    (4 May 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

22. "If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."
    (25 May 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

23. How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time)
    (29 May 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

24. Curing Python's Neglect
    (29 May 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

25. The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)
    (18 May 2009 | 147 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?
    (1 May 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

27. The Ultimate Lock Picker
    (30 May 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

28. Oh Yeah? Where's Your Patches Zed?
    (30 May 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

29. Clojure 1.0 Released
    (4 May 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

30. Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer
    (6 May 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

31. Dear American Airlines...
    (18 May 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

32. eieio
    (29 May 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

33. ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins
    (27 May 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

34. Burnout
    (26 May 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

35. A Life Offline
    (18 May 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

36. VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?
    (3 May 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

37. Oberon, a delightfully insane system
    (4 May 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

38. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General
    (15 May 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

39. Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye
    (5 May 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

40. Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
    (13 May 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

41. Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time.
    (4 May 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

42. Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer
    (29 May 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

43. Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
    (18 May 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

44. A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education
    (7 May 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

45. Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)
    (9 May 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

46. Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath
    (4 May 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

47. Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing
    (18 May 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

48. How SQLite Is Tested
    (30 May 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

49. Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle
    (6 May 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

50. How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users
    (18 May 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

51. Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
    (30 May 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

52. The TED commandments - rules every speaker needs to know
    (20 May 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

53. The Security Implications Of Google Native Client
    (15 May 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

54. Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today
    (28 May 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

55. Magic Ink
    (9 May 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

56. 3D Realms shuts down. No Duke Nukem forever
    (7 May 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

57. Steve Blank: Gravity Will be Turned Off
    (13 May 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

58. Building a house for under $5000
    (20 May 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
    (22 May 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

60. What lies beneath New York's rivers
    (12 May 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

61. I Just Logged In As You
    (4 May 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

62. Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit
    (19 May 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

63. InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ER visit is free
    (27 May 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

64. The Case For Working With Your Hands
    (22 May 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

65. Attention NoScript users
    (1 May 2009 | 100 points | Comments)

66. Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit
    (26 May 2009 | 100 points | Comments)