The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2010
We track 389 stories from December 2010, averaging 186 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 13 stories. Together they drew 27,704 comments, 71 per story on average.
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Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
techcrunch.com · gspyrou · 8 Dec 2010
717 pts
198 comments
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Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
41latitude.com · ugh · 2 Dec 2010
687 pts
104 comments
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Sacked by a Google algorithm
duckworksmagazine.com · seanalltogether · 29 Dec 2010
685 pts
283 comments
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Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
godheadv.blogspot.com · ck2 · 7 Dec 2010
664 pts
255 comments
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Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
benthebodyguard.com · bjonathan · 2 Dec 2010
586 pts
97 comments
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Google Engineer bails out student in jail
neil.fraser.name · staktrace · 24 Dec 2010
540 pts
196 comments
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What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
garrysub.posterous.com · zhyder · 10 Dec 2010
521 pts
149 comments
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If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
dump.com · dkasper · 15 Dec 2010
503 pts
123 comments
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Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis
boingboing.net · r11t · 30 Dec 2010
498 pts
61 comments
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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
techcrunch.com · jmorin007 · 16 Dec 2010
486 pts
293 comments
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How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
codusoperandi.com · jayro · 8 Dec 2010
472 pts
103 comments
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Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map
facebook.com · psawaya · 14 Dec 2010
430 pts
116 comments
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Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · pchristensen · 1 Dec 2010
429 pts
109 comments
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Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
web.archive.org · codybrown · 16 Dec 2010
413 pts
84 comments
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Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC
marc.info · tptacek · 14 Dec 2010
395 pts
139 comments
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Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
kkovacs.eu · kkovacs · 30 Dec 2010
380 pts
89 comments
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Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
markbao · 30 Dec 2010
370 pts
188 comments
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Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent
thepiratebay.org · tenaciousJk · 13 Dec 2010
365 pts
188 comments
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Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
humblebundle.com · steiza · 14 Dec 2010
341 pts
92 comments
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Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research
cl.cam.ac.uk · randomwalker · 25 Dec 2010
336 pts
54 comments
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Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
theaustralian.com.au · ra · 7 Dec 2010
334 pts
131 comments
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Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff
kalzumeus.com · revorad · 12 Dec 2010
330 pts
54 comments
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The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.
pindancing.blogspot.com · nochiel · 11 Dec 2010
328 pts
42 comments
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The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page
formstack.com · jaybol · 13 Dec 2010
327 pts
56 comments
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Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome
paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 21 Dec 2010
325 pts
100 comments
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I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
sylvainzimmer.com · tonyskn · 10 Dec 2010
324 pts
88 comments
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Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
fliptomato.wordpress.com · robertk · 3 Dec 2010
319 pts
120 comments
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MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers
mathjax.org · scw · 6 Dec 2010
318 pts
36 comments
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How To Safely Store A Password
codahale.com · IgorPartola · 14 Dec 2010
298 pts
210 comments
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Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)
radiapp.com · pavlov · 26 Dec 2010
297 pts
38 comments
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How to detect a toxic customer
softwarebyrob.com · swombat · 9 Dec 2010
293 pts
114 comments
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CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN
jashkenas.github.com · jashkenas · 24 Dec 2010
289 pts
53 comments
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Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report
kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 18 Dec 2010
288 pts
88 comments
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Breaking a WoW addiction
pixelpoppers.com · dreeves · 31 Dec 2010
282 pts
193 comments
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
googleblog.blogspot.com · Matt_Cutts · 1 Dec 2010
268 pts
79 comments
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The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
blogs.apache.org · davidw · 9 Dec 2010
260 pts
57 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?
fsf.org · tjr · 21 Dec 2010
259 pts
127 comments
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Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
sscheper · 6 Dec 2010
258 pts
202 comments
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Web Programming Is Hard
shubharamani.com · grayhairmomma · 10 Dec 2010
258 pts
154 comments
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The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points
news.ycombinator.com · pg · 12 Dec 2010
256 pts
110 comments
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Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
techblog.netflix.com · jeffmiller · 16 Dec 2010
256 pts
62 comments
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Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
listen.grooveshark.com · codejoust · 4 Dec 2010
254 pts
129 comments
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Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
Athtar · 30 Dec 2010
253 pts
149 comments
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
open.blogs.nytimes.com · tysone · 20 Dec 2010
253 pts
49 comments
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I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
reddit.com · pepsi_can · 8 Dec 2010
252 pts
123 comments
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Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science
boingboing.net · fredoliveira · 10 Dec 2010
249 pts
86 comments
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