Points Title 1125 A new approach to China (googleblog.blogspot.com) 937 Thoughts on Flash (apple.com) 811 How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) 757 Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story (alexisohanian.com) 720 P ≠ NP (scribd.com) 714 Apple's Mistake (paulgraham.com) 704 Google Kills Wave (googleblog.blogspot.com) 662 What Happened to Yahoo (paulgraham.com) 660 Where can I fly for how much? (kayak.com) 632 Hacker Monthly #1 is here (hackermonthly.com) 630 The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com) 622 To Paul Graham 613 A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away (ticketstumbler.com) 602 A real person, a lot like you (sivers.org) 598 Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com) 593 My Thoughts on Oracle v Google (headius.com) 584 Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. (boingboing.net) 571 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. 520 New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others (daringfireball.net) 517 _why is no more (twitter.com) 504 Why I Sold Zappos (inc.com) 493 Bribing maitre d' to skip the line (gourmet.com) 489 Dan (dislocatedday.com) 487 Android – Now Ported On The iPhone (appadvice.com) 483 Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (ycombinator.com) 482 A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users. (azarask.in) 479 Welcome to the new decade (twitter.com) 478 Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) 464 How to Lose Time and Money (paulgraham.com) 463 Banana equivalent dose (wikipedia.org) 460 Why GNU grep is Fast (freebsd.org) 451 A letter to my students (berkeley.edu) 450 The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com) 450 Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (marketwatch.com) 443 Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er (savemylyfe.blogspot.com) 433 The End Of The CrunchPad (techcrunch.com) 433 The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (mit.edu) 429 Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07 (youtube.com) 426 How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer (salon.com) 414 Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm (google.com) 410 The case of the 500-mile email (berkeley.edu) 409 Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad (whydoeseverythingsuck.com) 404 Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" (last.fm) 402 "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means." (renaebair.com) 398 Wikileaks: Something is up (isprettyawesome.com) 393 Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business (slash7.com) 392 New IDE: code bubbles (brown.edu) 392 Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police (go.com) 390 Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (backblaze.com) 389 Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph (boingboing.net) 388 A Big Case of Oops (hp.com) 387 Congratulations Patrick 387 How to make McDonalds french fries (seriouseats.com) 385 Introducing Google Command line Tool (google-opensource.blogspot.com) 384 Common Programmer Health Problems (sheddingbikes.com) 383 Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit? 378 Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich (seattle20.com) 378 Rails 3.0: It's ready (rubyonrails.org) 376 What Startups Are Really Like (paulgraham.com) 374 There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) (sivers.org) 372 Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++ (golang.org) 372 Your high IQ will kill your startup (cubeofm.com) 372 _why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius (smashingmagazine.com) 371 One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar (zenmoments.org) 370 One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen (crunchgear.com) 369 Introducing the Google Chrome OS (googleblog.blogspot.com) 369 HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app (mugtug.com) 364 An apology... (furbo.org) 363 What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) 363 What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. (thestar.com) 357 Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms (snopes.com) 356 Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr (uggedal.com) 356 Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks (daringfireball.net) 355 Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day (wired.com) 353 Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense (hizook.com) 353 HN Help: I'm lost 352 I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me. 351 Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards" (techcrunch.com) 350 U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan (nytimes.com) 347 How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (georgehart.com) 347 How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. (guardian.co.uk) 347 The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) (totlol.com) 347 Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines (ycombinator.com) 346 The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (okcupid.com) 345 This document is confidential (google.com) 344 Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us (techcrunch.com) 343 No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010) (tauday.com) 342 How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data (bret.appspot.com) 342 My loss (sivers.org) 341 Evolution of a Python programmer (github.com) 340 Booted out of Bootup Labs (livejamie.com) 340 Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech (swiftkickonline.com) 338 Regrets of the Dying (inspirationandchai.com) 336 Microsoft’s Creative Destruction (nytimes.com) 334 The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad (etherpad.com) 334 Apple's attention to detail (floodlite.tumblr.com) 332 When a co-founder dies (ivylees.com) 331 Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week (kalzumeus.com)