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May 2009 Archive
1.
Deny This, Last.fm (techcrunch.com)
312 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 23, 2009 | 68 comments
2.
A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com)
303 points by toddc on May 8, 2009 | 14 comments
3.
HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old (news.ycombinator.com)
300 points by pg on May 13, 2009 | 107 comments
4.
My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org)
251 points by sivers on May 27, 2009 | 44 comments
5.
Is There Anything Good About Men? (denisdutton.com)
232 points by Zarathu on May 2, 2009 | 88 comments
6.
How to Teach a Child to Argue (figarospeech.com)
217 points by dsil on May 29, 2009 | 54 comments
7.
Hacker News Disease (mattmaroon.com)
215 points by sant0sk1 on May 1, 2009 | 104 comments
8.
PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms (autonlab.org)
197 points by coconutrandom on May 14, 2009 | 7 comments
9.
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned (miltonglaser.com)
194 points by ivankirigin on May 4, 2009 | 33 comments
10.
Can you trust 37signals with your password? (jgc.org)
189 points by l0stman on May 2, 2009 | 130 comments
11.
Don’t! The secret of self-control (newyorker.com)
186 points by alextp on May 11, 2009 | 69 comments
12.
My Personal Credit Crisis (nytimes.com)
185 points by cake on May 15, 2009 | 201 comments
13.
Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives (inc.com)
185 points by wyday on May 5, 2009 | 79 comments
14.
Why it's expensive to be poor (washingtonpost.com)
183 points by tialys on May 20, 2009 | 194 comments
15.
The speed, size and dependability of programming languages (gmarceau.qc.ca)
176 points by trjordan on May 31, 2009 | 56 comments
16.
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005) (zedshaw.com)
174 points by vaksel on May 26, 2009 | 116 comments
17.
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. (techcrunch.com)
169 points by blazamos on May 28, 2009 | 99 comments
18.
The night I met Einstein (akshar.co.in)
167 points by dfield on May 2, 2009 | 39 comments
19.
How to Be Persuasive (moskalyuk.com)
160 points by mixmax on May 17, 2009 | 26 comments
20.
Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires (wired.com)
159 points by naish on May 28, 2009 | 53 comments
21.
The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
157 points by silentbicycle on May 4, 2009 | 124 comments
22.
How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) (messynotebook.com)
155 points by thomanil on May 29, 2009 | 41 comments
23.
"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail." (support.microsoft.com)
155 points by iamelgringo on May 25, 2009 | 29 comments
24.
Curing Python's Neglect (zedshaw.com)
149 points by twampss on May 29, 2009 | 91 comments
25.
The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up) (tom.preston-werner.com)
147 points by mojombo on May 18, 2009 | 20 comments
26.
Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?
145 points by auston on May 1, 2009 | 119 comments
27.
The Ultimate Lock Picker (wired.com)
144 points by simonb on May 30, 2009 | 14 comments
28.
Oh Yeah? Where's Your Patches Zed? (zedshaw.com)
140 points by inklesspen on May 30, 2009 | 100 comments
29.
Clojure 1.0 Released (groups.google.com)
139 points by drewr on May 4, 2009 | 31 comments
30.
Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer (gist.github.com)
137 points by aditya on May 6, 2009 | 19 comments