Points Username Comment on Thread 366 btilly Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm (wired.com) 287 mechanical_fish Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek (onstartups.com) 245 patio11 Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com) 235 pg Why HN is slow lately 215 pg How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) 213 grellas How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) (nytimes.com) 204 TomOfTTB RIP Michael Jackson (tmz.com) 202 Jeremysr _why is no more (twitter.com) 196 mechanical_fish Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail" (37signals.com) 183 boundlessdreamz A new approach to China (googleblog.blogspot.com) 179 spencerfry Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do? 170 fallentimes The Next Generation Bends Over (37signals.com) 158 mdasen No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam (computerworld.com) 151 plinkplonk Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are 'Unemployable' (informationweek.com) 149 noonespecial HN Help: I'm lost 148 mediaman I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air (bluwiki.com) 147 tptacek Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker (calacanis.com) 139 TriinT Reading list for those who love to learn (sivers.org) 139 tdavis A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away (ticketstumbler.com) 139 ssn Did you mean recursion? (google.com) 139 camflan Ask HN: Best code editor? 136 pierrefar Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it" (theregister.co.uk) 135 astine _why is no more (twitter.com) 135 jseifer Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net) 135 philc Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net) 134 cperciva Poll: Turn off News.YC a few hours a day? 131 dkokelley Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms (snopes.com) 131 unexpected Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? 130 pg A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away (ticketstumbler.com) 130 Daniel_Newby School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home (boingboing.net) 129 grellas CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts (techcrunch.com) 128 aaronsw Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file (aaronsw.com) 127 waterlesscloud Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz (fugitivus.wordpress.com) 124 mrcharles What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google (predictablyirrational.com) 124 jm4 MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors (mantia.me) 123 swombat Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? 122 edw519 When a co-founder dies (ivylees.com) 121 fallentimes Tell HN: I didn't get a job due to a failed startup on my resume 120 joshuaxls Experiment: No Comment Scores 120 pg Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application (getdropbox.com) 120 nickfox Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self? 119 bakineggs Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? 118 badger7 "I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word 117 pg Hacker News Disease (mattmaroon.com) 117 dasil003 Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid (harvard.edu) 116 9oliYQjP Why I won't be at my high school reunion (scienceblogs.com) 116 jeresig BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library (bbc.co.uk) 116 pg Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business (slash7.com) 115 pg Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning? 114 pg The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad (etherpad.com) 114 nixme Ask HN: Best code editor? 113 lesterbuck Stephen Hawking 'very ill' (cnn.com) 113 smanek Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are 'Unemployable' (informationweek.com) 111 Feynman Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange (compete.com) 111 ajg1977 Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net) 111 frossie Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle (nytimes.com) 110 jknupp The Trouble with the Segway (paulgraham.com) 109 jcapote Hey, What Happened To Scribd? Traffic Down Over 48% Since June (techcrunch.com) 109 mrshoe The bar for success in our industry is too low (37signals.com) 108 chaosmachine Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan (4chan.org) 108 waldrews Hacker style versus the Dijkstra style 108 travisjeffery I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air (bluwiki.com) 108 staunch I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air (bluwiki.com) 107 Retric Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games (gamasutra.com) 107 gojomo My Public Apology 106 sivers Ask HN: you're rich, now what? 106 ahoyhere Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com) 106 kilowatt Poll: Do you smoke? 105 MicahWedemeyer Chicago Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet (podcastingnews.com) 105 chime How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) 105 amexexployee AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..." (n0t.net) 105 antonovka _why is no more (twitter.com) 105 ryanwaggoner Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 (engadget.com) 104 quoderat Why Isn't Paypal More Successful? (avc.com) 104 kragen The Fall of Hacking 104 chime _why: "Goodbye until I can shake this." (uniqpath.com) 104 markpercival Anti-IRS Rant of Software Engineer who Today Flew Plane into IRS Building (embeddedart.com) 103 siculars A new approach to China (googleblog.blogspot.com) 103 ice_man Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self? 103 petercooper Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? 102 danskil Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites (techcrunch.com) 102 thesethings Poll: Male or female? 102 jm4 Ask HN: What to do when your company misses payroll? 102 bradgessler ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins (serverfault.com) 101 physcab How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food (andrewhyde.net) 101 robotrout Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? (acm.org) 101 old-gregg Six best start-ups from Y Combinator demo day (cnet.com) 100 brh “It turns out” (jsomers.net) 100 anigbrowl Plurk’s official response to Microsoft’s apology (plurk.com) 100 omarchowdhury Ask HN: What do you drink? 100 edw519 Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity? 99 dennykmiu Ask HN: Where do I go from here? 98 koepked Introducing the Google Chrome OS (googleblog.blogspot.com) 98 sounddust Re: You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft (microturfing.com) 98 mattobrien How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18 (zerohedge.blogspot.com) 98 pg Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? 98 showerst Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm (cdixon.org) 98 pol _why is no more (twitter.com) 97 TrevorJ All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours (techcrunch.com) 97 patio11 Ask HN: Is there a point to school?