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Top of Month - Jan 2010
  1. A new approach to China
    (12 Jan 2010 | 1145 points | Comments)

  2. Dan
    (28 Jan 2010 | 508 points | Comments)

  3. Evolution of a Python programmer
    (29 Jan 2010 | 366 points | Comments)

  4. The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures
    (20 Jan 2010 | 357 points | Comments)

  5. Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.
    (17 Jan 2010 | 344 points | Comments)

  6. I Have No Talent
    (12 Jan 2010 | 334 points | Comments)

  7. Realism in UI Design
    (21 Jan 2010 | 324 points | Comments)

  8. Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
    (24 Jan 2010 | 278 points | Comments)

  9. How Do You Look When Merging Fails
    (8 Jan 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

  10. A successful Git branching model
    (19 Jan 2010 | 268 points | Comments)

  11. Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009
    (3 Jan 2010 | 262 points | Comments)

  12. What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
    (10 Jan 2010 | 262 points | Comments)

  13. Pure CSS new 3D effect
    (26 Jan 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

  14. Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript
    (13 Jan 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

  15. Personalized Porn [SFW]
    (16 Jan 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

  16. Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)
    (14 Jan 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

  17. A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter
    (21 Jan 2010 | 227 points | Comments)

  18. Will single founders please stand up?
    (11 Jan 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

  19. JQuery 1.4 released
    (14 Jan 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

  20. How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
    (27 Jan 2010 | 213 points | Comments)

  21. Intel's "cripple AMD" function
    (3 Jan 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

  22. Ren & Stimpy animator John K. sends fan illustrated how-to letter
    (11 Jan 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

  23. Windows 3.1 Online - With Minesweeper
    (24 Jan 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

  24. Understanding delete in Javascript
    (11 Jan 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

  25. Learning About Statistical Learning
    (15 Jan 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

  26. The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies
    (27 Jan 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

  27. I Quit My Day Job. Thanks.
    (13 Jan 2010 | 203 points | Comments)

  28. Anic: Faster than C, safer than Java, simpler than *sh
    (9 Jan 2010 | 201 points | Comments)

  29. Why I Feel Like a Fraud
    (18 Jan 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

  30. Automate any GUI using screenshots
    (24 Jan 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

  31. Adobe, Apple, and Flash
    (25 Jan 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

  32. IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people
    (28 Jan 2010 | 197 points | Comments)

  33. Tinkerer’s Sunset
    (29 Jan 2010 | 196 points | Comments)

  34. Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes
    (20 Jan 2010 | 194 points | Comments)

  35. Why you should do OpenGL and not DirectX
    (8 Jan 2010 | 192 points | Comments)

  36. Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites
    (29 Jan 2010 | 189 points | Comments)

  37. Ask HN: Review my site - devcheatsheet.com
    (21 Jan 2010 | 186 points | Comments)

  38. First Person Tetris
    (14 Jan 2010 | 184 points | Comments)

  39. Geek behaviors present during conversations
    (26 Jan 2010 | 183 points | Comments)

  40. The end of Haiti?
    (14 Jan 2010 | 182 points | Comments)

  41. State Department Makes Statement on Google Operations in China
    (13 Jan 2010 | 181 points | Comments)

  42. Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.
    (23 Jan 2010 | 178 points | Comments)

  43. Similar Hacker News Users
    (11 Jan 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

  44. How Not To Promote Your New Startup
    (2 Jan 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

  45. A geek meets the Ikea Lillabo Train Set
    (5 Jan 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

  46. How To Safely Store A Password
    (31 Jan 2010 | 173 points | Comments)

  47. A 'lorem ipsum' for images.
    (26 Jan 2010 | 169 points | Comments)

  48. Facebook rewrites PHP runtime, will open source on Tuesday
    (31 Jan 2010 | 163 points | Comments)

  49. The software fixed the hardware
    (4 Jan 2010 | 162 points | Comments)

  50. A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5
    (2 Jan 2010 | 161 points | Comments)

  51. Joe Hewitt on the iPad
    (29 Jan 2010 | 161 points | Comments)

  52. Sergey Brin's awesome webpage.
    (25 Jan 2010 | 160 points | Comments)

  53. You've been Yelped
    (19 Jan 2010 | 157 points | Comments)

  54. Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot.
    (19 Jan 2010 | 154 points | Comments)

  55. Illegal prime
    (11 Jan 2010 | 152 points | Comments)

  56. How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
    (22 Jan 2010 | 150 points | Comments)

  57. Apple's New Thing (iPod) - Oct. 2001
    (28 Jan 2010 | 149 points | Comments)

  58. Nexus One
    (5 Jan 2010 | 148 points | Comments)

  59. Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
    (5 Jan 2010 | 148 points | Comments)

  60. Things UNIX can do atomically
    (6 Jan 2010 | 148 points | Comments)

  61. Startup Equity For Employees
    (17 Jan 2010 | 148 points | Comments)

  62. The iPad Big Picture
    (28 Jan 2010 | 148 points | Comments)

  63. Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009)
    (19 Jan 2010 | 147 points | Comments)

  64. J.D. Salinger Dead at 91
    (28 Jan 2010 | 147 points | Comments)

  65. How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation
    (3 Jan 2010 | 144 points | Comments)

  66. Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
    (13 Jan 2010 | 144 points | Comments)

  67. On the iPad
    (28 Jan 2010 | 143 points | Comments)

  68. Save Wikileaks -- donate now or lost it forever
    (29 Jan 2010 | 142 points | Comments)

  69. The greatest program ever written
    (6 Jan 2010 | 141 points | Comments)

  70. Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
    (8 Jan 2010 | 140 points | Comments)

  71. The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service
    (12 Jan 2010 | 140 points | Comments)

  72. Why git is so fast (or why Java is not as fast as C)
    (2 Jan 2010 | 139 points | Comments)

  73. YC applications open for summer 2010; note earlier deadline
    (25 Jan 2010 | 139 points | Comments)

  74. Improving sales with 3 characters and a misspelling
    (21 Jan 2010 | 138 points | Comments)

  75. Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls.
    (12 Jan 2010 | 137 points | Comments)

  76. Strategic SEO for Startups
    (24 Jan 2010 | 137 points | Comments)

  77. The Deadliest place on Earth? Surviving The Giant Crystal Cave
    (9 Jan 2010 | 133 points | Comments)

  78. On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life
    (12 Jan 2010 | 133 points | Comments)

  79. I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year
    (20 Jan 2010 | 133 points | Comments)

  80. Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL
    (6 Jan 2010 | 132 points | Comments)

  81. Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show
    (15 Jan 2010 | 132 points | Comments)

  82. Ask HN: I made $24k over the last month. Now what?
    (18 Jan 2010 | 132 points | Comments)

  83. Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
    (5 Jan 2010 | 131 points | Comments)

  84. Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
    (9 Jan 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

  85. After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
    (26 Jan 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

  86. Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
    (31 Jan 2010 | 130 points | Comments)

  87. Ok Go on Why Labels Won't Let You Embed YouTube Videos
    (18 Jan 2010 | 129 points | Comments)

  88. Why Poor Countries Are Poor
    (19 Jan 2010 | 129 points | Comments)

  89. Just in case you fall out of a plane without your 'chute
    (29 Jan 2010 | 129 points | Comments)

  90. Middle school evacuated because of a science project
    (16 Jan 2010 | 126 points | Comments)

  91. TechCrunch Hacked
    (26 Jan 2010 | 126 points | Comments)

  92. Tips for a new Django developer
    (29 Jan 2010 | 126 points | Comments)

  93. Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?
    (1 Jan 2010 | 125 points | Comments)

  94. Unladen Swallow: Python 3’S Best Feature
    (7 Jan 2010 | 125 points | Comments)

  95. Letter to the Patent Office from Professor Donald Knuth (circa 1994)
    (7 Jan 2010 | 125 points | Comments)

  96. Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "Bullshit" and Adobe "Lazy"
    (31 Jan 2010 | 125 points | Comments)

  97. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III
    (15 Jan 2010 | 124 points | Comments)

  98. Black Perl
    (30 Jan 2010 | 124 points | Comments)

  99. Ask PG: What have I done wrong?
    (15 Jan 2010 | 123 points | Comments)

  100. OpenBTS: Cheap, open source cellular network
    (17 Jan 2010 | 121 points | Comments)