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Top of Month - Nov 2009

1. Apple's Mistake
   (19 Nov 2009 | 723 points | Comments)

2. Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
   (4 Nov 2009 | 588 points | Comments)

3. The End Of The CrunchPad
   (30 Nov 2009 | 435 points | Comments)

4. Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++
   (10 Nov 2009 | 377 points | Comments)

5. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar
   (24 Nov 2009 | 376 points | Comments)

6. HN Help: I'm lost
   (12 Nov 2009 | 366 points | Comments)

7. Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
   (29 Nov 2009 | 365 points | Comments)

8. The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X
   (4 Nov 2009 | 323 points | Comments)

9. Your looks and your inbox
   (19 Nov 2009 | 315 points | Comments)

10. Thank you, Rails
    (6 Nov 2009 | 297 points | Comments)

11. Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
    (24 Nov 2009 | 289 points | Comments)

12. Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell
    (1 Nov 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

13. Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
    (29 Nov 2009 | 276 points | Comments)

14. The Nerd Handbook
    (12 Nov 2009 | 247 points | Comments)

15. Scroll Clock
    (18 Nov 2009 | 216 points | Comments)

16. How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor
    (4 Nov 2009 | 214 points | Comments)

17. Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)
    (5 Nov 2009 | 210 points | Comments)

18. Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
    (17 Nov 2009 | 201 points | Comments)

19. Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
    (11 Nov 2009 | 200 points | Comments)

20. Node.js is genuinely exciting
    (23 Nov 2009 | 197 points | Comments)

21. Why you should build an application (even if it already exists)
    (25 Nov 2009 | 191 points | Comments)

22. Introducing Closure Tools
    (5 Nov 2009 | 190 points | Comments)

23. My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed
    (2 Nov 2009 | 179 points | Comments)

24. The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
    (2 Nov 2009 | 177 points | Comments)

25. My 8 hour journey to a single character
    (23 Nov 2009 | 176 points | Comments)

26. Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions
    (16 Nov 2009 | 175 points | Comments)

27. Google Closure: How not to write Javascript
    (12 Nov 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

28. Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails
    (20 Nov 2009 | 171 points | Comments)

29. PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
    (23 Nov 2009 | 169 points | Comments)

30. The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not
    (5 Nov 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

31. Python language moratorium is accepted
    (9 Nov 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

32. Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
    (4 Nov 2009 | 166 points | Comments)

33. The best questions we got while raising venture capital
    (18 Nov 2009 | 165 points | Comments)

34. The Unemployment Rate for People Like You
    (7 Nov 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

35. A 2x Faster Web
    (12 Nov 2009 | 163 points | Comments)

36. Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?
    (20 Nov 2009 | 162 points | Comments)

37. Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger
    (4 Nov 2009 | 161 points | Comments)

38. A common bug in published code
    (25 Nov 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

39. Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
    (9 Nov 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

40. Tell HN: Can we stop commenting on troll comments?
    (11 Nov 2009 | 156 points | Comments)

41. Are Google employees being discouraged from using Python for new projects?
    (10 Nov 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

42. Awesome SQL blog
    (21 Nov 2009 | 155 points | Comments)

43. Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books
    (11 Nov 2009 | 154 points | Comments)

44. Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful.
    (23 Nov 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

45. Tell HN: Four (hopefully) unique and useful start-up tips
    (24 Nov 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

46. 40 years ago today...
    (4 Nov 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

47. Steve Blank: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action
    (9 Nov 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

48. Linux Compose Key
    (26 Nov 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

49. Why do we have an IMG element?
    (3 Nov 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

50. Microsoft's New Killer App
    (18 Nov 2009 | 147 points | Comments)

51. Tell HN: Apple paid my iPhone money, with exceptional service
    (11 Nov 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

52. Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
    (4 Nov 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

53. Announcing Duck It, a new way to search
    (3 Nov 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

54. Introducing Resque
    (3 Nov 2009 | 135 points | Comments)

55. Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B
    (3 Nov 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

56. Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
    (20 Nov 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

57. O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web."
    (16 Nov 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

58. Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?
    (5 Nov 2009 | 131 points | Comments)

59. Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny
    (12 Nov 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

60. I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedicate to her.
    (10 Nov 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

61. 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
    (16 Nov 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

62. How to Drop Out
    (2 Nov 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

63. OMG Ponies (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail)
    (3 Nov 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

64. Running a freemium web app? Here's a big reason we're growing.
    (6 Nov 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

65. Command line tricks
    (24 Nov 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

66. 9,73,241,561,1081,1849,_?_
    (5 Nov 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

67. Google Wave's Scrollbars
    (16 Nov 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

68. Hackerspace raided in Sweden
    (30 Nov 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

69. The Tao of Programming
    (27 Nov 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

70. Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
    (11 Nov 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

71. Starcraft AI competition
    (12 Nov 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

72. Things Worth Knowing About Coffee
    (13 Nov 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

73. "If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute."
    (22 Nov 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

74. So I finally tried Wave...
    (28 Nov 2009 | 120 points | Comments)

75. 16 Year Old CEOs, What Has The World Come To?
    (3 Nov 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

76. Amazing startup pitches (Loopt, Mint, Dropbox, etc) [videos]
    (14 Nov 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

77. Tips for Intermediate Git Users
    (17 Nov 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

78. Yawn. It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain
    (27 Nov 2009 | 118 points | Comments)

79. Xkcd - story of our lives
    (18 Nov 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

80. Negative Cashback from Microsoft's Bing Cashback
    (23 Nov 2009 | 117 points | Comments)

81. Exhaustive list of things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10
    (3 Nov 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

82. Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google
    (16 Nov 2009 | 114 points | Comments)

83. Google Go started in 1972
    (12 Nov 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

84. Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade
    (22 Nov 2009 | 113 points | Comments)

85. IKEA's brilliant Facebook campaign
    (25 Nov 2009 | 111 points | Comments)

86. Fighter Pilots Face A Dismal Future
    (8 Nov 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

87. Tell HN: Couldn't Sleep Last Night, Wrote a (No-Flash) HTML5 Viewer for YouTube
    (8 Nov 2009 | 110 points | Comments)

88. How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control
    (8 Nov 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

89. Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement
    (24 Nov 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

90. WikiLeaks publishing over half a million intercepted pages from 9/11/2001
    (25 Nov 2009 | 108 points | Comments)

91. Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves
    (9 Nov 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

92. "There is absolutely no design document whatsoever...[it] lives in Sid's brain."
    (24 Nov 2009 | 107 points | Comments)

93. Reddit decommissions its last Y Combinator funded server
    (10 Nov 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

94. Rogue Amoeba abandons iPhone because of App Store approval insanity
    (13 Nov 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

95. Dropbox (YC S07) Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users
    (25 Nov 2009 | 106 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: I want to learn statistics and data mining
    (21 Nov 2009 | 105 points | Comments)

97. My app ShoveBox is on NYTimes.com for some reason
    (17 Nov 2009 | 104 points | Comments)

98. It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests
    (4 Nov 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

99. Rejection massively reduces IQ
    (7 Nov 2009 | 103 points | Comments)

100. My Nightmare Interviews With Google
     (13 Nov 2009 | 103 points | Comments)