Points Title 1125 A new approach to China (googleblog.blogspot.com) 779 How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) 713 Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com) 608 A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away (ticketstumbler.com) 584 Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. (boingboing.net) 570 Microsoft rips off Plurk (plurk.com) 539 Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz (fugitivus.wordpress.com) 530 New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines. 514 _why is no more (twitter.com) 489 Dan (dislocatedday.com) 483 Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (ycombinator.com) 430 The End Of The CrunchPad (techcrunch.com) 402 Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" (last.fm) 393 Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business (slash7.com) 390 Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (backblaze.com) 388 A Big Case of Oops (hp.com) 373 What Startups Are Really Like (paulgraham.com) 369 Introducing the Google Chrome OS (googleblog.blogspot.com) 368 Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ (golang.org) 367 Your high IQ will kill your startup (cubeofm.com) 366 There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) (sivers.org) 363 What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) 359 One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar (zenmoments.org) 357 Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms (snopes.com) 355 HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app (mugtug.com) 353 Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com) 348 HN Help: I'm lost 347 How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. (guardian.co.uk) 346 Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr (uggedal.com) 346 The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (okcupid.com) 345 How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (georgehart.com) 344 Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us (techcrunch.com) 341 Evolution of a Python programmer (github.com) 340 How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (appspot.com) 336 The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) (totlol.com) 336 Microsoft’s Creative Destruction (nytimes.com) 334 The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad (etherpad.com) 328 When a co-founder dies (ivylees.com) 326 My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan. (rd.com) 325 Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games (gamasutra.com) 325 Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond. (khanacademy.org) 324 Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store (daringfireball.net) 323 The Innards of Erlang (contekst.org) 321 Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com) 318 The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) 317 Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle (nytimes.com) 316 The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X (dustincurtis.com) 315 Eulogy to _why (ejohn.org) 315 The Duct Tape Programmer (joelonsoftware.com) 315 This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch (gizmodo.com) 315 I want privacy because I break the law (zachaysan.tumblr.com) 314 Realism in UI Design (ignorethecode.net) 312 Deny This, Last.fm (techcrunch.com) 311 If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible? (venturebeat.com) 311 Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source (facebook.com) 308 Why I gave away my company to charity (sivers.org) 307 Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (paulgraham.com) 307 I Have No Talent (railstips.org) 306 So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter? 303 Your looks and your inbox (okcupid.com) 303 I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air (bluwiki.com) 300 Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants (pingdom.com) 298 Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously. (ycombinator.com) 297 Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo (hackerfactor.com) 292 Thank you, Rails (jacobian.org) 291 How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business (jacquesmattheij.com) 290 HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old (ycombinator.com) 286 Did you mean recursion? (google.com) 286 Some things need to change (techcrunch.com) 285 Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source (appspot.com) 285 Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail" (37signals.com) 285 I Was Told I Was Very Smart (theferrett.livejournal.com) 285 The hell that is a restaurant website (venomousporridge.com) 284 Experiment: No Comment Scores 284 Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye (techcrunch.com) 282 A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) 280 Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application (getdropbox.com) 278 The bar for success in our industry is too low (37signals.com) 278 EtherPad Open Source Release (etherpad.com) 278 Serious threat to the web in Italy (googleblog.blogspot.com) 277 Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt (schneier.com) 277 GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission (sucuri.net) 276 Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (techcrunch.com) 276 Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping (diveintomark.org) 274 Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it" (theregister.co.uk) 274 Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men (lifehack.org) 273 EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced (etherpad.com) 272 Squareup (squareup.com) 272 Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White (seobook.com) 271 A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome (theinvisibl.com) 269 Signs that you're a bad programmer (google.com) 269 School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home (boingboing.net) 267 Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL (zedshaw.com) 267 Why I won't be at my high school reunion (scienceblogs.com) 266 "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% (lukew.com) 265 Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell (techcrunch.com) 263 How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition (wired.com) 263 3 Tesla workers die in E. Palo Alto plane crash (sfgate.com) 262 Ramen Profitable (paulgraham.com) 262 Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers (aaronsw.com)