Best of 2009

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2009. 248 posts.

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How to destroy the earth

Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing...