Best of 2009

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

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Corrupted Word Files for Sale

On one hand, this is clever: We offer a wide array of corrupted Word files that are guaranteed not to open on a Mac or PC. A corrupted file is a file that contains scrambled and unrecoverable data due to hardware or software failure. Files may become corrupted when something goes wrong while a file is being saved e.g…