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Top of Month - Jul 2009

1. Introducing the Google Chrome OS
   (8 Jul 2009 | 370 points | Comments)

2. My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.
   (23 Jul 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

3. Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
   (17 Jul 2009 | 320 points | Comments)

4. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
   (22 Jul 2009 | 312 points | Comments)

5. Did you mean recursion?
   (23 Jul 2009 | 290 points | Comments)

6. Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL
   (14 Jul 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

7. Why I won't be at my high school reunion
   (17 Jul 2009 | 271 points | Comments)

8. Ramen Profitable
   (27 Jul 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

9. You should follow me on Twitter
   (14 Jul 2009 | 263 points | Comments)

10. Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
    (20 Jul 2009 | 240 points | Comments)

11. MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors
    (15 Jul 2009 | 231 points | Comments)

12. Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"
    (24 Jul 2009 | 227 points | Comments)

13. Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon
    (27 Jul 2009 | 224 points | Comments)

14. Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
    (22 Jul 2009 | 221 points | Comments)

15. The Trouble with the Segway
    (29 Jul 2009 | 221 points | Comments)

16. FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection
    (31 Jul 2009 | 217 points | Comments)

17. Potion: A Short Pamphlet
    (1 Jul 2009 | 214 points | Comments)

18. Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced
    (20 Jul 2009 | 211 points | Comments)

19. Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
    (31 Jul 2009 | 210 points | Comments)

20. Calling out Hacker News
    (1 Jul 2009 | 209 points | Comments)

21. Unladen Swallow can now compile all Python code to native code using LLVM
    (15 Jul 2009 | 206 points | Comments)

22. My Life Offline
    (24 Jul 2009 | 206 points | Comments)

23. Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS
    (8 Jul 2009 | 204 points | Comments)

24. How to Apply to Y Combinator
    (20 Jul 2009 | 201 points | Comments)

25. A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
    (21 Jul 2009 | 200 points | Comments)

26. Most expensive javascript ever
    (20 Jul 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

27. Draw a math symbol and get the corresponding LaTeX code
    (12 Jul 2009 | 193 points | Comments)

28. I Quit The iPhone
    (31 Jul 2009 | 191 points | Comments)

29. "Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"
    (9 Jul 2009 | 187 points | Comments)

30. The work ethic of MJ - amazing tales from the studio by his engineers
    (3 Jul 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

31. Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
    (6 Jul 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

32. RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD
    (29 Jul 2009 | 178 points | Comments)

33. Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died
    (23 Jul 2009 | 175 points | Comments)

34. Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you disagree with.
    (24 Jul 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

35. Re: You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
    (18 Jul 2009 | 170 points | Comments)

36. Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN
    (6 Jul 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

37. Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip
    (8 Jul 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

38. Chicago Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet
    (28 Jul 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

39. Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice
    (21 Jul 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

40. Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough"
    (29 Jul 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

41. C# is now a better language than Java
    (31 Jul 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

42. Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist
    (11 Jul 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

43. The Firefox 3.5 fiasco
    (9 Jul 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

44. The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy For Becoming Exceptionally Good
    (18 Jul 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

45. Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
    (30 Jul 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

46. Gmail is out of beta
    (7 Jul 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

47. Yahoo committed seppuku today
    (29 Jul 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

48. Amazon Buys Zappos
    (22 Jul 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

49. "All I do is work here"
    (30 Jul 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

50. How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food
    (30 Jul 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: What are you working on?
    (12 Jul 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

52. Jay Leno’s 3D Printer Makes Old Car Parts
    (9 Jul 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

53. How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?
    (2 Jul 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

54. YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye
    (14 Jul 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

55. Serious doubts about the App Store
    (17 Jul 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

56. Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
    (9 Jul 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

57. You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
    (18 Jul 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

58. When I died
    (17 Jul 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

59. Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault
    (28 Jul 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

60. Tell HN: Please Stop Breaking HTTP Clients
    (15 Jul 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

61. Light slowed down to 38 mph
    (31 Jul 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

62. Stack Overflow Architecture
    (16 Jul 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

63. Mixpanel (YC S09) Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics
    (24 Jul 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

64. Django 1.1 is out
    (29 Jul 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

65. Twenty questions about the GPL
    (13 Jul 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

66. The Game Crafter- CafePress for Boardgames
    (16 Jul 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

67. Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan
    (26 Jul 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

68. Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project
    (2 Jul 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

69. Visualization of L1, L2, Ram and Disk latencies [gif]
    (13 Jul 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: What kind of index is Google using here?
    (7 Jul 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

71. How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away
    (23 Jul 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

72. Goodbye, Apple
    (24 Jul 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

73. TechCrunch: Skating on Thin Ice
    (16 Jul 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

74. Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems
    (16 Jul 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

75. Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
    (16 Jul 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

76. Paint that turns walls (or any surface) into a whiteboard.
    (11 Jul 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

77. Applications open for winter 2010 YC funding
    (14 Jul 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

78. Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997
    (16 Jul 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

79. Chinese engineer commits suicide after losing a 4th generation iPhone prototype
    (21 Jul 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

80. My Sys-Con Nightmare
    (27 Jul 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

81. BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library
    (8 Jul 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

82. My Thoughts on NoSQL
    (21 Jul 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

83. 10 years of entrepreneurship
    (9 Jul 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

84. Have you ever been successful in changing your personality?
    (13 Jul 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

85. A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
    (15 Jul 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

86. No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu
    (8 Jul 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

87. Mastering The Fourier Transform in One Day
    (11 Jul 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

88. Why a woman's attractiveness acts as a repellent, explained using probability.
    (23 Jul 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

89. The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC
    (25 Jul 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

90. I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone
    (31 Jul 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

91. Meeting Ticker
    (2 Jul 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

92. To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
    (15 Jul 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

93. Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge
    (20 Jul 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

94. How Google Chrome for Mac appears to launch so fast
    (28 Jul 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

95. The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup
    (28 Jul 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

96. VLC Media Player 1.0.0 is finally out
    (7 Jul 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

97. Couldn't sleep. Wrote some code to displays live feed of latest twitpics.
    (13 Jul 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

98. China and "our standard of living"
    (22 Jul 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

99. Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months
    (30 Jul 2009 | 102 points | Comments)

100. Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"
     (31 Jul 2009 | 102 points | Comments)