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Top of Month - Sep 2009

1. Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
   (1 Sep 2009 | 401 points | Comments)

2. Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
   (11 Sep 2009 | 347 points | Comments)

3. When a co-founder dies
   (25 Sep 2009 | 335 points | Comments)

4. The Duct Tape Programmer
   (24 Sep 2009 | 333 points | Comments)

5. How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business
   (28 Sep 2009 | 319 points | Comments)

6. Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
   (3 Sep 2009 | 310 points | Comments)

7. Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source
   (10 Sep 2009 | 291 points | Comments)

8. Experiment: No Comment Scores
   (26 Sep 2009 | 289 points | Comments)

9. The bar for success in our industry is too low
   (2 Sep 2009 | 282 points | Comments)

10. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
    (11 Sep 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

11. Learning Advanced JavaScript
    (15 Sep 2009 | 257 points | Comments)

12. Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
    (22 Sep 2009 | 245 points | Comments)

13. Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps
    (5 Sep 2009 | 243 points | Comments)

14. 10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling"
    (10 Sep 2009 | 237 points | Comments)

15. The Next Generation Bends Over
    (18 Sep 2009 | 220 points | Comments)

16. Efficient Editing With vim
    (25 Sep 2009 | 218 points | Comments)

17. And if only 1% of those people...
    (27 Sep 2009 | 210 points | Comments)

18. Teaching Linear Algebra
    (29 Sep 2009 | 208 points | Comments)

19. How a software engineer invented a breakthrough medical device
    (4 Sep 2009 | 207 points | Comments)

20. How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter
    (29 Sep 2009 | 207 points | Comments)

21. "Hello John. It's Gordon Brown"
    (12 Sep 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

22. Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million
    (14 Sep 2009 | 196 points | Comments)

23. The Doers Club
    (30 Sep 2009 | 196 points | Comments)

24. First subpixel typeface, ever
    (16 Sep 2009 | 192 points | Comments)

25. I never realized how useful netcat is
    (16 Sep 2009 | 190 points | Comments)

26. "The greatest human being who ever lived" has died
    (21 Sep 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

27. GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
    (28 Sep 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

28. JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
    (28 Sep 2009 | 186 points | Comments)

29. After the Deadline: Acquired
    (8 Sep 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

30. Google acquires reCAPTCHA
    (16 Sep 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

31. A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
    (22 Sep 2009 | 178 points | Comments)

32. JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps
    (28 Sep 2009 | 176 points | Comments)

33. Rich, Black, Flunking
    (21 Sep 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

34. Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design
    (3 Sep 2009 | 169 points | Comments)

35. I had my head examined...
    (21 Sep 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

36. The Anatomy of Determination
    (5 Sep 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

37. IPhone Developers: We use our iPhones in bed, allow us to disable landscape
    (24 Sep 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

38. Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
    (24 Sep 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

39. On Applying to Y Combinator
    (30 Sep 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

40. Working hard is overrated
    (27 Sep 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

41. How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating
    (29 Sep 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

42. Abusing Amazon Images
    (30 Sep 2009 | 159 points | Comments)

43. Github and Engineyard part ways
    (11 Sep 2009 | 157 points | Comments)

44. XSS Twitter in minutes; Why you shouldn't store important data with 37signals
    (4 Sep 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

45. Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message
    (14 Sep 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

46. Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons
    (15 Sep 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

47. The Dropbox iPhone App is Out
    (29 Sep 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

48. GitHub is moving to Rackspace
    (15 Sep 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

49. The Lost Oaks of California Ave
    (17 Sep 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

50. Persuade xor Discover
    (22 Sep 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

51. Rich Hickey's Keynote: A deconstruction of object-oriented time [pdf]
    (17 Sep 2009 | 147 points | Comments)

52. The List of N Things
    (7 Sep 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

53. Haiku
    (16 Sep 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

54. John Siracusa's in-depth review of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica
    (1 Sep 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

55. Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account and Disclose Identity
    (25 Sep 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

56. How far can you get from a McDonald's in the continental US?
    (24 Sep 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

57. Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider
    (3 Sep 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

58. Things Every Programmer Should Know - Edited Contributions
    (3 Sep 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

59. Google introduces "Fast Flip"
    (14 Sep 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

60. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time
    (24 Sep 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

61. Coders at work is finally available
    (11 Sep 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

62. You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.
    (30 Sep 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

63. The Most Useful Rope Knots for the Average Person
    (17 Sep 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

64. Everyone must have a CD, even if free
    (21 Sep 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

65. The unspoken truth about managing geeks
    (9 Sep 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

66. How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
    (1 Sep 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

67. I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement
    (2 Sep 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

68. How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
    (13 Sep 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

69. JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator
    (17 Sep 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

70. A full TCP/IP stack in under 200 LoC (and the power of DSLs)
    (26 Sep 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

71. Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide
    (1 Sep 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

72. The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
    (29 Sep 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

73. DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users.
    (24 Sep 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

74. Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp
    (25 Sep 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

75. How to teach
    (12 Sep 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

76. Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com
    (8 Sep 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

77. Looking into the future with Cassandra
    (9 Sep 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

78. IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
    (15 Sep 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

79. How to take down an F-117
    (2 Sep 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

80. MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget.
    (13 Sep 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

81. Linus says Linux has become 'bloated and huge'
    (22 Sep 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

82. Reverse Execution in GDB 7 is imminent
    (23 Sep 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

83. Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
    (11 Sep 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

84. Mythbusters RFID episode banned
    (16 Sep 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

85. Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking
    (24 Sep 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

86. Dive Into Python 3 now finished and downloadable as HTML and PDF
    (17 Sep 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

87. That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
    (23 Sep 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

88. The Y Combinator Experience
    (9 Sep 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

89. OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use
    (25 Sep 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

90. The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)
    (24 Sep 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

91. College, all you can learn, $99/month
    (3 Sep 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

92. Infinite Super Mario AI Source Code
    (14 Sep 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

93. Apple lied to public about Google Voice app rejection
    (18 Sep 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

94. Cursive handwriting considered harmful; bring back italic
    (8 Sep 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

95. Obama mandates FCC to support Network Neutrality
    (21 Sep 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

96. Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable
    (10 Sep 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

97. Before Apple introduced the iPhone
    (8 Sep 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

98. More on today's Gmail issue
    (2 Sep 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

99. List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions
    (2 Sep 2009 | 109 points | Comments)

100. Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing
     (10 Sep 2009 | 109 points | Comments)