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Top of Month - Aug 2009

1. _why is no more
   (19 Aug 2009 | 558 points | Comments)

2. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms
   (5 Aug 2009 | 364 points | Comments)

3. Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
   (28 Aug 2009 | 359 points | Comments)

4. Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
   (20 Aug 2009 | 330 points | Comments)

5. Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
   (5 Aug 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

6. Eulogy to _why
   (19 Aug 2009 | 318 points | Comments)

7. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
   (10 Aug 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

8. Signs that you're a bad programmer
   (7 Aug 2009 | 273 points | Comments)

9. What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
   (31 Aug 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

10. So long, and thanks for all the fish
    (21 Aug 2009 | 245 points | Comments)

11. You're a little company, now act like one
    (31 Aug 2009 | 240 points | Comments)

12. Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic
    (25 Aug 2009 | 237 points | Comments)

13. Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)
    (12 Aug 2009 | 202 points | Comments)

14. Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
    (3 Aug 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

15. How I explained REST to my wife
    (14 Aug 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

16. Please don't use hnreputation
    (27 Aug 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

17. R.I.P. Les Paul
    (13 Aug 2009 | 196 points | Comments)

18. YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6
    (4 Aug 2009 | 187 points | Comments)

19. 999999999999999 - 999999999999997
    (24 Aug 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

20. Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews
    (25 Aug 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

21. Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good
    (18 Aug 2009 | 184 points | Comments)

22. Thousands call for Turing apology
    (31 Aug 2009 | 177 points | Comments)

23. The Fall of Hacking
    (14 Aug 2009 | 176 points | Comments)

24. A New Experiment: The RFS
    (16 Aug 2009 | 175 points | Comments)

25. Folding Plug System
    (24 Aug 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

26. The Android Opportunity
    (17 Aug 2009 | 173 points | Comments)

27. Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions
    (6 Aug 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

28. How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night
    (3 Aug 2009 | 169 points | Comments)

29. How American Health Care Killed My Father
    (13 Aug 2009 | 166 points | Comments)

30. Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead
    (12 Aug 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

31. TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
    (13 Aug 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

32. Why I'm Quitting Gmail
    (24 Aug 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

33. Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
    (6 Aug 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

34. Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?
    (12 Aug 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

35. Self-Enforcing Protocols
    (11 Aug 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

36. $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story
    (2 Aug 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

37. Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?
    (22 Aug 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

38. Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
    (28 Aug 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

39. -= sequoia capital =-
    (19 Aug 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

40. IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds
    (27 Aug 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

41. Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599
    (12 Aug 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

42. SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down
    (17 Aug 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

43. How not to die
    (17 Aug 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

44. Sprezzatura
    (30 Aug 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

45. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix
    (4 Aug 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

46. Why AT&T Killed Google Voice
    (19 Aug 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

47. Starting a Bank
    (21 Aug 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

48. Facebook has acquired FriendFeed
    (10 Aug 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

49. Python Debugging Techniques
    (31 Aug 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

50. Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
    (17 Aug 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

51. IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language
    (4 Aug 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

52. The Hacker Survey
    (25 Aug 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

53. How FlightCaster (YC S09) was built (RoR + JVM + Clojure + Hadoop)
    (19 Aug 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

54. Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.
    (4 Aug 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

55. What makes Erlang so great
    (20 Aug 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

56. MenuetOS: Written in Assembly, fits on a floppy, has GUI
    (20 Aug 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

57. Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006)
    (24 Aug 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

58. Let's Abolish High School
    (11 Aug 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

59. Why Can't Gmail Search?
    (24 Aug 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

60. ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees
    (1 Aug 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

61. _why: "Goodbye until I can shake this."
    (20 Aug 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

62. An almost perfect real-world hack
    (3 Aug 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

63. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
    (24 Aug 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

64. See Randomness
    (24 Aug 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

65. Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.
    (29 Aug 2009 | 128 points | Comments)

66. How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With?
    (7 Aug 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

67. Paul Graham interview on Econtalk - Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
    (3 Aug 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

68. Infiltrating a Botnet - A Conversation With a Botmaster
    (20 Aug 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

69. The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff
    (20 Aug 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

70. No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.
    (26 Aug 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

71. Checking out of 'Hotel America'
    (3 Aug 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

72. The Case Against Apple
    (8 Aug 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

73. Haskell is 4.2x as good as Erlang at lightweight concurrency. Give it some love.
    (20 Aug 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

74. Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University
    (2 Aug 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

75. The 7 vices of highly creative people
    (5 Aug 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

76. A new Erlang docs repository
    (20 Aug 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

77. Dive Into HTML 5 preview (by Mark Pilgrim)
    (21 Aug 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

78. IE6 No More
    (4 Aug 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

79. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation [video]
    (24 Aug 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

80. Roll Your Own UNIX Clone
    (3 Aug 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

81. (chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button
    (5 Aug 2009 | 119 points | Comments)

82. Apple bans App Store’s 3rd-most prolific developer
    (3 Aug 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

83. _why's best twitter posts
    (20 Aug 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

84. The Status of the P Versus NP Problem
    (26 Aug 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

85. America's unjust sex laws
    (28 Aug 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

86. Why we don't use Galileo's last name
    (21 Aug 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

87. Mirror of _why's projects
    (19 Aug 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

88. A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don't use MessageDigest.isEquals)
    (13 Aug 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

89. Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
    (25 Aug 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Where do you live?
    (10 Aug 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

91. How to price enterprise software
    (13 Aug 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

92. Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform
    (17 Aug 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

93. Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule
    (15 Aug 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

94. Ted Kennedy has died
    (26 Aug 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

95. Verified: Kundra Did Receive an M.S. in Information Systems Management
    (12 Aug 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

96. An employee at Ubisoft quits in style.
    (14 Aug 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

97. Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO
    (21 Aug 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

98. Tips to a new django developer
    (31 Aug 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

99. How Different Groups Use Their Time
    (2 Aug 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

100. I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job
     (5 Aug 2009 | 108 points | Comments)