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Top of Month - Apr 2011

1. I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
   (28 Apr 2011 | 1136 points | Comments)

2. Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
   (26 Apr 2011 | 1074 points | Comments)

3. Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
   (7 Apr 2011 | 975 points | Comments)

4. Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
   (25 Apr 2011 | 886 points | Comments)

5. FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
   (15 Apr 2011 | 880 points | Comments)

6. Showoff
   (20 Apr 2011 | 805 points | Comments)

7. Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
   (23 Apr 2011 | 711 points | Comments)

8. Workers Leaving the Googleplex
   (30 Apr 2011 | 690 points | Comments)

9. YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo
   (27 Apr 2011 | 573 points | Comments)

10. Amazon Web Services are down
    (21 Apr 2011 | 560 points | Comments)

11. Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
    (19 Apr 2011 | 554 points | Comments)

12. Nginx 1.0.0 is out
    (12 Apr 2011 | 549 points | Comments)

13. Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
    (7 Apr 2011 | 530 points | Comments)

14. Crash Course: Design for Startups
    (8 Apr 2011 | 523 points | Comments)

15. Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive
    (7 Apr 2011 | 522 points | Comments)

16. Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
    (23 Apr 2011 | 493 points | Comments)

17. Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
    (3 Apr 2011 | 465 points | Comments)

18. Predator Object Tracking Algorithm
    (3 Apr 2011 | 460 points | Comments)

19. The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks
    (10 Apr 2011 | 454 points | Comments)

20. Before I Die...
    (7 Apr 2011 | 449 points | Comments)

21. Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2
    (23 Apr 2011 | 442 points | Comments)

22. Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
    (26 Apr 2011 | 442 points | Comments)

23. Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup
    (14 Apr 2011 | 441 points | Comments)

24. Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
    (28 Apr 2011 | 441 points | Comments)

25. Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
    (6 Apr 2011 | 435 points | Comments)

26. The Programmer Salary Taboo
    (12 Apr 2011 | 421 points | Comments)

27. Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
    (15 Apr 2011 | 421 points | Comments)

28. Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
    (21 Apr 2011 | 421 points | Comments)

29. Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT
    (29 Apr 2011 | 420 points | Comments)

30. Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
    (4 Apr 2011 | 419 points | Comments)

31. LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
    (29 Apr 2011 | 417 points | Comments)

32. Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
    (5 Apr 2011 | 415 points | Comments)

33. IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
    (20 Apr 2011 | 415 points | Comments)

34. Notice: Experimenting with HN
    (11 Apr 2011 | 412 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad
    (4 Apr 2011 | 396 points | Comments)

36. The unofficial Google shell
    (18 Apr 2011 | 396 points | Comments)

37. AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
    (29 Apr 2011 | 385 points | Comments)

38. Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
    (28 Apr 2011 | 384 points | Comments)

39. Physics Engines for Dummies
    (7 Apr 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

40. Apple AirTunes private key extracted
    (11 Apr 2011 | 371 points | Comments)

41. Joel Spolsky: Lunch
    (28 Apr 2011 | 368 points | Comments)

42. Fooling myself to work
    (17 Apr 2011 | 356 points | Comments)

43. "... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'
    (21 Apr 2011 | 352 points | Comments)

44. AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling
    (21 Apr 2011 | 347 points | Comments)

45. GitHub launches Issues 2.0
    (10 Apr 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

46. The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
    (20 Apr 2011 | 345 points | Comments)

47. Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble
    (11 Apr 2011 | 343 points | Comments)

48. Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
    (12 Apr 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

49. Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II
    (27 Apr 2011 | 340 points | Comments)

50. Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
    (27 Apr 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

51. Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing
    (8 Apr 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

52. Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
    (27 Apr 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

53. Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript
    (13 Apr 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

54. Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting
    (19 Apr 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

55. Working with the Chaos Monkey
    (25 Apr 2011 | 310 points | Comments)

56. Hacking The Status Game
    (18 Apr 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

57. Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad
    (1 Apr 2011 | 308 points | Comments)

58. Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
    (14 Apr 2011 | 307 points | Comments)

59. My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)
    (21 Apr 2011 | 307 points | Comments)

60. How to find startup ideas that make money
    (4 Apr 2011 | 305 points | Comments)

61. Bittersweet news from Groklaw: mission accomplished, signing off
    (9 Apr 2011 | 303 points | Comments)

62. Cellular Automaton Music Generator
    (16 Apr 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

63. 7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger than any Cable Company
    (25 Apr 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

64. Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?
    (12 Apr 2011 | 297 points | Comments)

65. DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
    (18 Apr 2011 | 297 points | Comments)

66. What was the code quality of the initial version of Google?
    (15 Apr 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

67. Dropbox Lack of Security
    (19 Apr 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

68. Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
    (25 Apr 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

69. Collect HN: Aprils Fools
    (1 Apr 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

70. A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly
    (23 Apr 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

71. Russia's Crime of the Century
    (24 Apr 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

72. Living in the zone
    (15 Apr 2011 | 289 points | Comments)

73. Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
    (18 Apr 2011 | 287 points | Comments)

74. The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology
    (1 Apr 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

75. Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done
    (5 Apr 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

76. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
    (1 Apr 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

77. Why TechCrunch is over
    (2 Apr 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

78. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
    (26 Apr 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

79. Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide
    (9 Apr 2011 | 283 points | Comments)

80. The Node Beginner Book
    (19 Apr 2011 | 283 points | Comments)

81. Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
    (28 Apr 2011 | 283 points | Comments)

82. 2-D Glasses
    (21 Apr 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

83. Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks
    (16 Apr 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

84. Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (2002)
    (22 Apr 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

85. Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
    (13 Apr 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

86. JQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False
    (17 Apr 2011 | 277 points | Comments)

87. If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email address in your profile
    (7 Apr 2011 | 275 points | Comments)

88. IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
    (11 Apr 2011 | 275 points | Comments)

89. ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone
    (11 Apr 2011 | 273 points | Comments)

90. A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People
    (30 Apr 2011 | 273 points | Comments)

91. Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences
    (5 Apr 2011 | 272 points | Comments)

92. Top Gear responds to Tesla
    (2 Apr 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

93. Success, and Farming vs. Mining
    (2 Apr 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

94. Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education
    (9 Apr 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

95. The Lisp Curse
    (15 Apr 2011 | 268 points | Comments)

96. Doom engine code review
    (22 Apr 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

97. The Montessori Mafia
    (6 Apr 2011 | 263 points | Comments)

98. Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
    (11 Apr 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

99. The Guantanamo Files
    (25 Apr 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

100. Meet news:yc, the open source Hacker News client for your iPhone.
     (6 Apr 2011 | 261 points | Comments)