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Top of Month - Jun 2009

1. How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
   (3 Jun 2009 | 928 points | Comments)

2. Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong
   (3 Jun 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

3. Less, a leaner CSS
   (16 Jun 2009 | 253 points | Comments)

4. RIP Michael Jackson
   (25 Jun 2009 | 248 points | Comments)

5. US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a Hacker)
   (25 Jun 2009 | 239 points | Comments)

6. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
   (10 Jun 2009 | 236 points | Comments)

7. Firefox 3.5 is out
   (30 Jun 2009 | 234 points | Comments)

8. No Hire
   (26 Jun 2009 | 230 points | Comments)

9. Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
   (15 Jun 2009 | 228 points | Comments)

10. Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head and It Is Ugly
    (22 Jun 2009 | 208 points | Comments)

11. Time Wastes Too Fast
    (26 Jun 2009 | 202 points | Comments)

12. Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won)
    (9 Jun 2009 | 195 points | Comments)

13. The Zen of HN
    (22 Jun 2009 | 182 points | Comments)

14. Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament
    (7 Jun 2009 | 177 points | Comments)

15. Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize
    (26 Jun 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

16. Astalavista.com hacked, including details
    (5 Jun 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at
    (1 Jun 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

18. Why you need your own company
    (10 Jun 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

19. Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser
    (16 Jun 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

20. Python to get Google-backed speedup
    (13 Jun 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

21. Things about Web Images I Just Learned
    (16 Jun 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

22. The Learjet repo man
    (8 Jun 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

23. PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips
    (27 Jun 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

24. If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006)
    (30 Jun 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

25. Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
    (17 Jun 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

26. Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
    (16 Jun 2009 | 151 points | Comments)

27. The Flimsy Doorknob & The Forgettable Receipt
    (1 Jun 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

28. On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza A
    (21 Jun 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

29. Last.fm founders quit
    (10 Jun 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

30. Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming
    (12 Jun 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

31. Epitaph for an Entrepreneur - Balancing Family and Work
    (18 Jun 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

32. Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
    (30 Jun 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

33. Bing Is Live
    (1 Jun 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

34. Alan Kay’s reading list
    (18 Jun 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

35. StackExchange- The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform
    (29 Jun 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

36. The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
    (11 Jun 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

37. Review my startup: Revizr. You haven't seen this before.
    (23 Jun 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

38. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
    (6 Jun 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

39. Neat & Simple Resume Template
    (7 Jun 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

40. Web Applications Should Be Compiled
    (2 Jun 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

41. Xkcd meets reality
    (22 Jun 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

42. How to hack your brain - Part I: Sleep
    (25 Jun 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

43. Work smart, not hard: The seven habits of highly effective slackers
    (23 Jun 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

44. An open letter to Jason Calacanis
    (1 Jun 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

45. User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself.
    (13 Jun 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

46. 1 line CSS Grid Framework
    (2 Jun 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

47. Humans prefer cockiness to expertise
    (12 Jun 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

48. Face detection in pure PHP (without OpenCV)
    (24 Jun 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

49. A Tale of Two Programmers
    (28 Jun 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

50. How to Write a Spelling Corrector
    (19 Jun 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

51. The TED Augmented Reality Hoax
    (23 Jun 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

52. JQuery Tools - The UI library for the Web
    (3 Jun 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

53. CrunchPad Prototype
    (3 Jun 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

54. Compare & vote for search results of Bing, Google and Yahoo in a blind test
    (7 Jun 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

55. UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university
    (8 Jun 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

56. Cryptographic Right Answers
    (11 Jun 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

57. _why on teaching kids to code
    (26 Jun 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

58. I, Toaster
    (25 Jun 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

59. Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course
    (11 Jun 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

60. Reading list for those who love to learn
    (18 Jun 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

61. Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only
    (5 Jun 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

62. Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies
    (6 Jun 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

63. Welcome to Your Quarter Life Crisis
    (29 Jun 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

64. Paul Graham and Y Combinator are on the cover of June's Inc Magazine
    (5 Jun 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

65. Working on It (TextMate)
    (14 Jun 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: good math books
    (19 Jun 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

67. Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B
    (10 Jun 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

68. Ruby has entered the Enterprise thanks to the Enterprise gem
    (18 Jun 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

69. A brazen ripoff of Twitvid
    (2 Jun 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

70. Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang
    (6 Jun 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

71. Emacs org-mode Tutorial
    (10 Jun 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

72. Trent Reznor Quits Web 2.0, Offers Cutting Advice To Haters
    (11 Jun 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

73. The Future of Facebook Usernames
    (10 Jun 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

74. Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google
    (9 Jun 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

75. Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
    (11 Jun 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

76. Gates buys Feynman's "Messenger" lectures (to make available to the public)
    (27 Jun 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

77. Show success before asking for help
    (17 Jun 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com
    (3 Jun 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

79. The creator of Monkey Island plays and narrates his game, 20 years later.
    (5 Jun 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

80. The German Tank Problem
    (23 Jun 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

81. How I Learned French in One Year
    (13 Jun 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

82. Ask HN: Math for hackers.
    (24 Jun 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

83. VirtualBox 3.0 Released
    (30 Jun 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

84. Writing apps for the iPhone in Scheme
    (17 Jun 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

85. Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are 'Unemployable'
    (22 Jun 2009 | 101 points | Comments)

86. Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis
    (2 Jun 2009 | 100 points | Comments)

87. GitHub Firewall Install (your own github)
    (2 Jun 2009 | 100 points | Comments)

88. "Pizza profitable" Airbnb now in 1,000 cities worldwide
    (11 Jun 2009 | 100 points | Comments)