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Top of Month - Sep 2011

1. I was once a Facebook fool
   (23 Sep 2011 | 1390 points | Comments)

2. Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
   (29 Sep 2011 | 1249 points | Comments)

3. Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
   (22 Sep 2011 | 938 points | Comments)

4. Bring a stick man to life.
   (22 Sep 2011 | 862 points | Comments)

5. Fucking Sue Me
   (11 Sep 2011 | 695 points | Comments)

6. If this then that
   (7 Sep 2011 | 673 points | Comments)

7. This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
   (23 Sep 2011 | 664 points | Comments)

8. Git Is Simpler Than You Think
   (7 Sep 2011 | 609 points | Comments)

9. Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
   (13 Sep 2011 | 595 points | Comments)

10. Linux is now hosted on GitHub
    (5 Sep 2011 | 568 points | Comments)

11. Facebook is scaring me
    (24 Sep 2011 | 553 points | Comments)

12. Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
    (29 Sep 2011 | 551 points | Comments)

13. Hey Google, I want my cache links back
    (28 Sep 2011 | 519 points | Comments)

14. Google Flight Search
    (13 Sep 2011 | 516 points | Comments)

15. A First Look at BankSimple
    (21 Sep 2011 | 477 points | Comments)

16. Google Correlate by Drawing
    (2 Sep 2011 | 475 points | Comments)

17. Logging out of Facbook is not enough
    (25 Sep 2011 | 475 points | Comments)

18. Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
    (9 Sep 2011 | 467 points | Comments)

19. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
    (9 Sep 2011 | 466 points | Comments)

20. Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
    (19 Sep 2011 | 461 points | Comments)

21. Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
    (21 Sep 2011 | 456 points | Comments)

22. I want to pay for TextMate 2
    (27 Sep 2011 | 454 points | Comments)

23. "Algorithm" is not a four letter word
    (29 Sep 2011 | 443 points | Comments)

24. Are jobs obsolete?
    (7 Sep 2011 | 436 points | Comments)

25. How to Rock an Algorithms Interview
    (26 Sep 2011 | 435 points | Comments)

26. Introducing Amazon Silk
    (28 Sep 2011 | 430 points | Comments)

27. New Boston Globe website design
    (12 Sep 2011 | 424 points | Comments)

28. Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
    (26 Sep 2011 | 423 points | Comments)

29. Programmers' Day
    (13 Sep 2011 | 417 points | Comments)

30. Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers
    (28 Sep 2011 | 414 points | Comments)

31. Python and Django on Heroku
    (28 Sep 2011 | 414 points | Comments)

32. How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secret Tracking Data
    (25 Sep 2011 | 411 points | Comments)

33. My job is to watch dreams die
    (4 Sep 2011 | 399 points | Comments)

34. “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl
    (30 Sep 2011 | 397 points | Comments)

35. Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time
    (15 Sep 2011 | 393 points | Comments)

36. Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
    (28 Sep 2011 | 391 points | Comments)

37. Be Careful when Speaking to Federal Agents - 18 U.S.C. Section 1001
    (16 Sep 2011 | 390 points | Comments)

38. Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
    (30 Sep 2011 | 390 points | Comments)

39. First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed
    (1 Sep 2011 | 389 points | Comments)

40. How Github uses Github to build Github
    (22 Sep 2011 | 389 points | Comments)

41. Pre-branded domain names for startups
    (29 Sep 2011 | 389 points | Comments)

42. Break Google
    (16 Sep 2011 | 383 points | Comments)

43. GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
    (21 Sep 2011 | 375 points | Comments)

44. Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows
    (16 Sep 2011 | 372 points | Comments)

45. What Netflix Could Have Said This Week
    (20 Sep 2011 | 367 points | Comments)

46. The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success
    (12 Sep 2011 | 365 points | Comments)

47. You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
    (1 Sep 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

48. The New Apple Advantage
    (10 Sep 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers
    (27 Sep 2011 | 364 points | Comments)

50. Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever
    (7 Sep 2011 | 354 points | Comments)

51. How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009)
    (28 Sep 2011 | 354 points | Comments)

52. Why you should not go to medical school
    (24 Sep 2011 | 351 points | Comments)

53. Quake 2 Source Code Review
    (20 Sep 2011 | 347 points | Comments)

54. Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
    (3 Sep 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

55. Don't dumb girls down
    (6 Sep 2011 | 344 points | Comments)

56. Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
    (26 Sep 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

57. Betty Weissman (mother of edw519) 1930-2011
    (21 Sep 2011 | 340 points | Comments)

58. Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
    (6 Sep 2011 | 334 points | Comments)

59. I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology
    (13 Sep 2011 | 331 points | Comments)

60. Write your app in HTML5, upload it and get back app-store ready apps
    (30 Sep 2011 | 330 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
    (23 Sep 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

62. One base class to rule them all.
    (5 Sep 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

63. Linus Torvalds now on GitHub
    (4 Sep 2011 | 324 points | Comments)

64. Tilemill: Maps done right
    (1 Sep 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

65. Michael Arrington Resigns From Techcrunch
    (2 Sep 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

66. Minimum Viable Personality
    (29 Sep 2011 | 322 points | Comments)

67. Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now
    (9 Sep 2011 | 321 points | Comments)

68. Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?
    (21 Sep 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

69. Watch other people code
    (14 Sep 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

70. White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit
    (24 Sep 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

71. SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
    (27 Sep 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

72. Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder
    (7 Sep 2011 | 317 points | Comments)

73. Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate
    (29 Sep 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

74. Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents
    (23 Sep 2011 | 315 points | Comments)

75. Facebook Timeline
    (22 Sep 2011 | 314 points | Comments)

76. Metro
    (14 Sep 2011 | 313 points | Comments)

77. Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"
    (8 Sep 2011 | 312 points | Comments)

78. The Tricks Investors Use Against Founders
    (8 Sep 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

79. TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
    (6 Sep 2011 | 308 points | Comments)

80. IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps
    (14 Sep 2011 | 306 points | Comments)

81. Facebook Disconnect
    (25 Sep 2011 | 306 points | Comments)

82. Zynga's Profits Down by 95%
    (27 Sep 2011 | 306 points | Comments)

83. Tim O'Reilly on OccupyWallStreet
    (19 Sep 2011 | 305 points | Comments)

84. Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It.
    (2 Sep 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

85. Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses
    (19 Sep 2011 | 301 points | Comments)

86. Google+ Opens to All
    (20 Sep 2011 | 300 points | Comments)

87. "I've got an idea for an app"
    (6 Sep 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

88. PG's Rarely Asked Questions
    (18 Sep 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

89. What's wrong with this code, really?
    (16 Sep 2011 | 298 points | Comments)

90. Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan
    (9 Sep 2011 | 293 points | Comments)

91. Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?
    (8 Sep 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

92. Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go
    (26 Sep 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

93. Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
    (6 Sep 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

94. ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion
    (8 Sep 2011 | 291 points | Comments)

95. Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.
    (16 Sep 2011 | 288 points | Comments)

96. PostgreSQL 9.1 released
    (12 Sep 2011 | 284 points | Comments)

97. Help, I’m on the IRS hit list
    (20 Sep 2011 | 284 points | Comments)

98. Cracking OSX Lion passwords
    (18 Sep 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

99. SSL broken. (TLS 1.0 cryptographic attack that works. Not just fake certs.)
    (19 Sep 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

100. Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant
     (19 Sep 2011 | 280 points | Comments)