The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2010

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Google Beatbox translate.google.com · shomyo · 29 Nov 2010

1k pts 96 comments

2

The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard sivers.org · grep · 12 Nov 2010

567 pts 122 comments

3

How Israel handles airport security thestar.com · epo · 15 Nov 2010

550 pts 162 comments

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Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook) google.com · bjonathan · 10 Nov 2010

470 pts 169 comments

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Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down noblasters.com · bobf · 22 Nov 2010

459 pts 179 comments

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Remind HN: Vote DanielBMarkham · 2 Nov 2010

454 pts 382 comments

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Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you... sebastianmarshall.com · kapilkaisare · 11 Nov 2010

443 pts 354 comments

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Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? blog.benstrong.com · bstrong · 26 Nov 2010

437 pts 67 comments

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When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out. blog.izs.me · Rickasaurus · 16 Nov 2010

422 pts 184 comments

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SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower econrates.com · da5e · 22 Nov 2010

422 pts 68 comments

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The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders phoronix.com · pietrofmaggi · 16 Nov 2010

420 pts 96 comments

12

An Awesome Book veryawesomeworld.com · djshah · 18 Nov 2010

409 pts 100 comments

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Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything? tossit · 18 Nov 2010

389 pts 142 comments

14

Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic chetansurpur.com · chetan51 · 10 Nov 2010

380 pts 134 comments

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Reddit’s Astonishing Altruism voltier.com · kqr2 · 13 Nov 2010

372 pts 127 comments

16

The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger aht.seriouseats.com · jacoblyles · 7 Nov 2010

371 pts 34 comments

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Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland digitizor.com · dkd903 · 5 Nov 2010

369 pts 154 comments

18

Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available adafruit.com · jgrahamc · 10 Nov 2010

369 pts 85 comments

19

Goodbye, Google App Engine carlosble.com · vrruiz · 21 Nov 2010

362 pts 95 comments

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This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep google.com · ericflo · 7 Nov 2010

354 pts 139 comments

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The 18 things you must do when launching a new website seomoz.org · danshapiro · 9 Nov 2010

353 pts 26 comments

22

S4 s4.io · m0th87 · 4 Nov 2010

350 pts 59 comments

23

Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5. labs.codecomputerlove.com · ph0rque · 2 Nov 2010

349 pts 124 comments

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Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar ycombinator.posterous.com · pg · 12 Nov 2010

344 pts 77 comments

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WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy nytimes.com · davewiner · 28 Nov 2010

341 pts 254 comments

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HN Office Hours hnofficehours.com · sahillavingia · 26 Nov 2010

340 pts 74 comments

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Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser railsforzombies.org · trevorturk · 18 Nov 2010

336 pts 57 comments

28

Implementing the auto-buying bot from xkcd #576 bieh.net · bensummers · 8 Nov 2010

333 pts 82 comments

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Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work) blog.eladgil.com · eladgil · 30 Nov 2010

313 pts 209 comments

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The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket wanderingearl.com · bobds · 1 Nov 2010

311 pts 202 comments

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Open ID Is A Nightmare blog.wekeroad.com · chanks · 17 Nov 2010

311 pts 109 comments

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The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet techdirt.com · yanw · 18 Nov 2010

298 pts 86 comments

33

Google Engineering Management Mistakes docs.google.com · auxbuss · 3 Nov 2010

296 pts 135 comments

34

Hacker's Guide to Tea worldoftea.org · tony584 · 23 Nov 2010

294 pts 128 comments

35

Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com · mike-cardwell · 3 Nov 2010

290 pts 73 comments

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Just buy this one justbuythisone.com · will_critchlow · 5 Nov 2010

289 pts 99 comments

37

8pen reinvents mobile keyboard the8pen.com · UkiahSmith · 1 Nov 2010

286 pts 123 comments

38

Reporting a bug on a fragile analysis blog.mozilla.com · lordgilman · 17 Nov 2010

284 pts 76 comments

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Brave New World banned from High School curriculum blogs.seattleweekly.com · mfukar · 18 Nov 2010

282 pts 160 comments

40

TSA encounter at SAN johnnyedge.blogspot.com · icey · 13 Nov 2010

277 pts 158 comments

41

My Y Combinator interview. korokithakis.net · StavrosK · 22 Nov 2010

269 pts 109 comments

42

EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Deployment of Body Scanners at US Airports epic.org · mhb · 4 Nov 2010

269 pts 85 comments

43

Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers businesswire.com · jsm386 · 29 Nov 2010

269 pts 82 comments

44

Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem slideshare.net · lionhearted · 4 Nov 2010

267 pts 56 comments

45

Why I feel like a fraud blog.asmartbear.com · gthank · 15 Nov 2010

266 pts 74 comments

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PG on the cover of Forbes forbes.com · GDH · 19 Nov 2010

262 pts 65 comments

47

I Quit Hacker News mattmaroon.com · cwan · 23 Nov 2010

261 pts 231 comments

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Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole techcrunch.com · bdb · 20 Nov 2010

260 pts 33 comments

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At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 3 Nov 2010

259 pts 86 comments

50

The only script in your head headjs.com · timf · 30 Nov 2010

258 pts 33 comments

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Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend blogs.gnome.org · biehl · 23 Nov 2010

255 pts 36 comments

52

Who is living off their startup fulltime? webbruce · 20 Nov 2010

254 pts 182 comments

53

How to build discipline and brainwash yourself ryanwaggoner.com · ryanwaggoner · 24 Nov 2010

253 pts 128 comments

54

Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism daringfireball.net · mcantelon · 18 Nov 2010

252 pts 128 comments

55

Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript playground.deaxon.com · js4all · 8 Nov 2010

252 pts 109 comments

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SSH Commands / Tricks blog.urfix.com · julian37 · 24 Nov 2010

252 pts 67 comments

57

What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It docs1.google.com · ThomPete · 25 Nov 2010

251 pts 50 comments

58

Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN press.web.cern.ch · jcsalterego · 17 Nov 2010

250 pts 89 comments

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"The web is considered 'public domain'" illadore.livejournal.com · slater · 4 Nov 2010

248 pts 100 comments

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Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers ladyada.net · there · 17 Nov 2010

245 pts 33 comments