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Top of Month - Dec 2009

1. Microsoft rips off Plurk
   (14 Dec 2009 | 581 points | Comments)

2. There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
   (1 Dec 2009 | 386 points | Comments)

3. The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)
   (28 Dec 2009 | 352 points | Comments)

4. How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
   (7 Dec 2009 | 350 points | Comments)

5. How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.
   (23 Dec 2009 | 349 points | Comments)

6. Why I gave away my company to charity
   (4 Dec 2009 | 328 points | Comments)

7. The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
   (21 Dec 2009 | 327 points | Comments)

8. Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo
   (27 Dec 2009 | 308 points | Comments)

9. Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.
   (5 Dec 2009 | 301 points | Comments)

10. Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
    (9 Dec 2009 | 291 points | Comments)

11. A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome
    (10 Dec 2009 | 283 points | Comments)

12. Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
    (8 Dec 2009 | 279 points | Comments)

13. Squareup
    (1 Dec 2009 | 278 points | Comments)

14. EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced
    (6 Dec 2009 | 276 points | Comments)

15. EtherPad Open Source Release
    (18 Dec 2009 | 275 points | Comments)

16. How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition
    (21 Dec 2009 | 270 points | Comments)

17. Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google
    (3 Dec 2009 | 264 points | Comments)

18. Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
    (4 Dec 2009 | 258 points | Comments)

19. The Apple Tablet
    (31 Dec 2009 | 254 points | Comments)

20. They Killed My Lawyer
    (27 Dec 2009 | 252 points | Comments)

21. Funding Clojure 2010
    (14 Dec 2009 | 239 points | Comments)

22. IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002)
    (9 Dec 2009 | 234 points | Comments)

23. “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
    (17 Dec 2009 | 225 points | Comments)

24. Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"
    (11 Dec 2009 | 223 points | Comments)

25. Google Goggles
    (7 Dec 2009 | 222 points | Comments)

26. Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature
    (15 Dec 2009 | 222 points | Comments)

27. CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN
    (24 Dec 2009 | 206 points | Comments)

28. Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters
    (14 Dec 2009 | 205 points | Comments)

29. Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
    (7 Dec 2009 | 204 points | Comments)

30. My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
    (2 Dec 2009 | 201 points | Comments)

31. What Not To Build
    (9 Dec 2009 | 200 points | Comments)

32. Highcharts: JavaScript Charts that don't suck
    (1 Dec 2009 | 198 points | Comments)

33. The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
    (27 Dec 2009 | 195 points | Comments)

34. _why's Estate
    (19 Dec 2009 | 191 points | Comments)

35. Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
    (7 Dec 2009 | 188 points | Comments)

36. The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother
    (31 Dec 2009 | 185 points | Comments)

37. Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
    (24 Dec 2009 | 183 points | Comments)

38. Google Chrome for Linux
    (8 Dec 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

39. Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs
    (10 Dec 2009 | 181 points | Comments)

40. Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro
    (17 Dec 2009 | 180 points | Comments)

41. Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
    (17 Dec 2009 | 177 points | Comments)

42. Daring Fireball: PastryKit
    (15 Dec 2009 | 176 points | Comments)

43. The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings
    (11 Dec 2009 | 175 points | Comments)

44. Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet?
    (14 Dec 2009 | 174 points | Comments)

45. Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists
    (3 Dec 2009 | 173 points | Comments)

46. Analyzing Y Combinator
    (4 Dec 2009 | 169 points | Comments)

47. Stuff I've learned at Microsoft
    (12 Dec 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

48. Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
    (18 Dec 2009 | 167 points | Comments)

49. VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out
    (17 Dec 2009 | 166 points | Comments)

50. I hired 50 people today. This is what they look like
    (22 Dec 2009 | 166 points | Comments)

51. http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
    (3 Dec 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

52. Bingo Card Creator Annual Report
    (18 Dec 2009 | 164 points | Comments)

53. Browser Pong
    (18 Dec 2009 | 160 points | Comments)

54. Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants
    (14 Dec 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

55. I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack
    (27 Dec 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

56. Make a Mess, Clean it Up
    (30 Dec 2009 | 158 points | Comments)

57. Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)
    (21 Dec 2009 | 153 points | Comments)

58. Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers
    (4 Dec 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

59. Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
    (26 Dec 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

60. Worst. Puzzle. Ever.
    (28 Dec 2009 | 152 points | Comments)

61. Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... (2008)
    (29 Dec 2009 | 151 points | Comments)

62. Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game
    (8 Dec 2009 | 150 points | Comments)

63. World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem
    (13 Dec 2009 | 149 points | Comments)

64. C Craft
    (18 Dec 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

65. The official term for the smell after it rains
    (21 Dec 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

66. How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story
    (22 Dec 2009 | 148 points | Comments)

67. Asshole driven development
    (10 Dec 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

68. Browser Size, from Google Labs
    (17 Dec 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

69. CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
    (22 Dec 2009 | 146 points | Comments)

70. Step one is admitting you have a problem
    (8 Dec 2009 | 145 points | Comments)

71. I made a native Python module for MS Word docx
    (30 Dec 2009 | 144 points | Comments)

72. North Korea Changes Currency
    (2 Dec 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

73. Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word
    (22 Dec 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

74. Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account
    (28 Dec 2009 | 143 points | Comments)

75. Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
    (21 Dec 2009 | 142 points | Comments)

76. Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
    (12 Dec 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

77. Wikileaks needs hacker volunteers
    (31 Dec 2009 | 140 points | Comments)

78. Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO
    (17 Dec 2009 | 139 points | Comments)

79. Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
    (31 Dec 2009 | 138 points | Comments)

80. Of Geeks and Girls
    (1 Dec 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

81. What's the Deal with Fish Oil?
    (17 Dec 2009 | 136 points | Comments)

82. Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure
    (2 Dec 2009 | 134 points | Comments)

83. Antiobjects
    (7 Dec 2009 | 133 points | Comments)

84. Step-by-Step Math
    (2 Dec 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: More types of flagging?
    (20 Dec 2009 | 132 points | Comments)

86. Reuters: Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan
    (15 Dec 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

87. Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?
    (18 Dec 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

88. Swiss Army Knife of Unix Debugging: lsof
    (23 Dec 2009 | 130 points | Comments)

89. Installing Etherpad
    (24 Dec 2009 | 129 points | Comments)

90. The Silver Thief: a smart burglar who perfected his craft
    (29 Dec 2009 | 127 points | Comments)

91. CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination
    (1 Dec 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

92. Joel Inc., Stackoverflow Careers and Jumping Shark
    (10 Dec 2009 | 126 points | Comments)

93. Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
    (21 Dec 2009 | 125 points | Comments)

94. Thorium, the New Green Nuke
    (22 Dec 2009 | 124 points | Comments)

95. Travel by cargo ship around the world
    (9 Dec 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

96. How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion
    (13 Dec 2009 | 123 points | Comments)

97. USB wall outlet - new standard for DC plugs?
    (6 Dec 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

98. Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border
    (12 Dec 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

99. My latest flash game, Robokill 2
    (30 Dec 2009 | 122 points | Comments)

100. Mathjax
     (15 Dec 2009 | 120 points | Comments)