The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2010

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Introducing Word Lens questvisual.com · jf · 17 Dec 2010

1.3k pts 281 comments

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Today you, tomorrow me reddit.com · bjg · 14 Dec 2010

1.3k pts 203 comments

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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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Tablets paulgraham.com · timf · 1 Dec 2010

387 pts 250 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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Nexus S google.com · tomerico · 6 Dec 2010

364 pts 263 comments

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The Day MAME Saved My Ass ppl-pilot.com · jeff18 · 12 Dec 2010

352 pts 44 comments

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Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs jriley · 2 Dec 2010

347 pts 115 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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Founder Control paulgraham.com · peter123 · 6 Dec 2010

302 pts 56 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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Startup Title Junk cam.ly · danecjensen · 21 Dec 2010

298 pts 26 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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I just need a programmer cs.uni.edu · bgray · 2 Dec 2010

288 pts 101 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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Merry Christmas HN maguay · 23 Dec 2010

283 pts 113 comments

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Breaking a WoW addiction pixelpoppers.com · dreeves · 31 Dec 2010

282 pts 193 comments

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Netflix: Culture of Fear glassdoor.com · ardit33 · 21 Dec 2010

282 pts 99 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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Dropbox hits 1.0 blog.dropbox.com · mattyb · 17 Dec 2010

262 pts 71 comments

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Winning Isn't Normal jasonshen.com · jasonshen · 15 Dec 2010

261 pts 89 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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What is Traitorware? eff.org · gasull · 25 Dec 2010

255 pts 43 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