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Top of Month - Oct 2009

1. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
   (3 Oct 2009 | 626 points | Comments)

2. What Startups Are Really Like
   (25 Oct 2009 | 382 points | Comments)

3. So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?
   (8 Oct 2009 | 324 points | Comments)

4. This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
   (6 Oct 2009 | 321 points | Comments)

5. If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?
   (30 Oct 2009 | 321 points | Comments)

6. I Was Told I Was Very Smart
   (22 Oct 2009 | 309 points | Comments)

7. The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"
   (14 Oct 2009 | 307 points | Comments)

8. Google Groups is Dead
   (27 Oct 2009 | 259 points | Comments)

9. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
   (20 Oct 2009 | 254 points | Comments)

10. Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities
    (26 Oct 2009 | 250 points | Comments)

11. How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily
    (11 Oct 2009 | 241 points | Comments)

12. What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book
    (8 Oct 2009 | 233 points | Comments)

13. Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"
    (14 Oct 2009 | 233 points | Comments)

14. Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file
    (5 Oct 2009 | 224 points | Comments)

15. Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge
    (1 Oct 2009 | 218 points | Comments)

16. How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture
    (21 Oct 2009 | 214 points | Comments)

17. What problems does Google Wave solve?
    (15 Oct 2009 | 213 points | Comments)

18. Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes
    (21 Oct 2009 | 210 points | Comments)

19. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released
    (29 Oct 2009 | 204 points | Comments)

20. Brewing a Better Rating System
    (29 Oct 2009 | 200 points | Comments)

21. Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn
    (13 Oct 2009 | 199 points | Comments)

22. Tools we use for running our startup
    (30 Oct 2009 | 198 points | Comments)

23. Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company
    (19 Oct 2009 | 195 points | Comments)

24. I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix
    (6 Oct 2009 | 192 points | Comments)

25. Tell HN: Dealing with VCs, my experience
    (7 Oct 2009 | 183 points | Comments)

26. Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf
    (14 Oct 2009 | 183 points | Comments)

27. Amazon Relational Database Service
    (27 Oct 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

28. Piratebay strikes back
    (9 Oct 2009 | 178 points | Comments)

29. C++ in Coders at Work
    (16 Oct 2009 | 178 points | Comments)

30. "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996)
    (6 Oct 2009 | 173 points | Comments)

31. Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit
    (27 Oct 2009 | 172 points | Comments)

32. 10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse
    (12 Oct 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

33. Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
    (27 Oct 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

34. Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet
    (8 Oct 2009 | 170 points | Comments)

35. HTML5, meet 1998.
    (19 Oct 2009 | 168 points | Comments)

36. I Don't Code in my Free Time
    (10 Oct 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

37. The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
    (26 Oct 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

38. Surprises
    (19 Oct 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

39. Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Java web app development?
    (23 Oct 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

40. A story of "launch" disaster: fast-food style
    (13 Oct 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

41. Sysadmin mistakes start-ups make
    (20 Oct 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

42. Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world
    (31 Oct 2009 | 163 points | Comments)

43. GitHub's Unicorn Setup
    (9 Oct 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

44. Wall Street's Naked Swindle
    (18 Oct 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

45. XKCD commemerates GeoCities
    (26 Oct 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

46. Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity
    (16 Oct 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

47. Dirty Little Secret of Success
    (22 Oct 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

48. What's A Non-Programmer To Do? (How I keep myself busy.)
    (28 Oct 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

49. The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary
    (23 Oct 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

50. Observations from a real-world Clojure project
    (29 Oct 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

51. Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way)
    (3 Oct 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

52. Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives
    (14 Oct 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

53. Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man
    (1 Oct 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

54. Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life
    (3 Oct 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

55. "We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com
    (15 Oct 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

56. How I knew I was done with my company
    (13 Oct 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

57. Rails Idioms + Django Templates + Erlang Power = Chicago Boss
    (1 Oct 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

58. Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
    (12 Oct 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

59. Sell your product with fake screenshots
    (12 Oct 2009 | 141 points | Comments)

60. Ninite: How we got 18,000 beta users in 4 weeks
    (26 Oct 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

61. Get Out of My Building
    (8 Oct 2009 | 137 points | Comments)

62. Introducing Google Building Maker
    (13 Oct 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

63. 37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other
    (21 Oct 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

64. Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)
    (22 Oct 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

65. What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true
    (25 Oct 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

66. Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO
    (2 Oct 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

67. Apple releases new 27″ LED Cinema Display – comes with a free Mac
    (20 Oct 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

68. Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're Fucking Wrong.)
    (4 Oct 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

69. Unladen Swallow 2009Q3 Released with LLVM optimized Python
    (21 Oct 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

70. So You're Moving to San Francisco
    (5 Oct 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

71. What does HTML5 mean for us?
    (29 Oct 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
    (13 Oct 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

73. Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
    (28 Oct 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

74. Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger
    (28 Oct 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

75. The false god of coffee
    (24 Oct 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

76. Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own
    (28 Oct 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

77. Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?
    (1 Oct 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

78. You should feel pain when unclear
    (12 Oct 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

79. I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
    (27 Oct 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

80. Does math have big scary teeth or something?
    (29 Oct 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

81. Ask HN: What's in your .emacs file?
    (1 Oct 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

82. Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills
    (16 Oct 2009 | 121 points | Comments)

83. IntelliJ IDEA goes open source
    (15 Oct 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

84. Why to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress
    (22 Oct 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

85. Decoding the USPS barcode
    (5 Oct 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

86. Underscore.js: Functional Programming for jQuery
    (28 Oct 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

87. Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications
    (28 Oct 2009 | 116 points | Comments)

88. Fundable comes to an ugly end
    (2 Oct 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

89. Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps
    (7 Oct 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

90. Damn the torpedoes
    (13 Oct 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

91. World of Goo does a Radiohead. Pay whatever you like.
    (14 Oct 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

92. Dear Palm, it's just not working out
    (20 Oct 2009 | 115 points | Comments)

93. Why is e^(pi i) = -1?
    (30 Oct 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

94. What's Going on at the Bay Bridge
    (31 Oct 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

95. An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth
    (1 Oct 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

96. Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications
    (5 Oct 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

97. Why I like Redis
    (22 Oct 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?
    (26 Oct 2009 | 112 points | Comments)

99. Ooc - modern object oriented c
    (15 Oct 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

100. Cottage Computer Programming
     (27 Oct 2009 | 111 points | Comments)