The Best Hacker News Posts of 2010
We track 3,443 stories from 2010, averaging 173 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 99 stories. Together they drew 255,744 comments, 74 per story on average.
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A new approach to China
googleblog.blogspot.com · SandB0x · 12 Jan 2010
1.1k pts
368 comments
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So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
techcrunch.com · icey · 21 Sep 2010
1.1k pts
232 comments
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7
Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
alexisohanian.com · mrduncan · 3 Aug 2010
776 pts
83 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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10
Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
codebutler.com · cdine · 25 Oct 2010
714 pts
341 comments
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11
Google Kills Wave
googleblog.blogspot.com · elfred · 4 Aug 2010
712 pts
237 comments
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13
Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
41latitude.com · ugh · 2 Dec 2010
687 pts
104 comments
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14
Sacked by a Google algorithm
duckworksmagazine.com · seanalltogether · 29 Dec 2010
685 pts
283 comments
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15
Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
erkie.github.com · stevefink · 28 Sep 2010
684 pts
74 comments
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16
Where can I fly for how much?
kayak.com · sublemonic · 10 Jun 2010
668 pts
106 comments
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17
Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
godheadv.blogspot.com · ck2 · 7 Dec 2010
664 pts
255 comments
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18
The Top Idea in Your Mind
paulgraham.com · tarunkotia · 21 Jul 2010
650 pts
191 comments
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20
Hacker Monthly #1 is here
hackermonthly.com · bearwithclaws · 1 Jun 2010
641 pts
177 comments
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21
A real person, a lot like you
sivers.org · terpua · 31 Mar 2010
624 pts
139 comments
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22
Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
needmoney · 8 Oct 2010
620 pts
114 comments
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23
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
mariovittone.com · msg · 6 Jul 2010
611 pts
127 comments
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24
My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
blog.headius.com · dochtman · 16 Aug 2010
606 pts
82 comments
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25
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
techcrunch.com · sophmonroe · 26 Oct 2010
605 pts
161 comments
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26
Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
benthebodyguard.com · bjonathan · 2 Dec 2010
586 pts
97 comments
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27
The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard
sivers.org · grep · 12 Nov 2010
567 pts
122 comments
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28
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 24 Sep 2010
558 pts
206 comments
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29
How Israel handles airport security
thestar.com · epo · 15 Nov 2010
550 pts
162 comments
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30
Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
fugitivus.wordpress.com · godDLL · 12 Feb 2010
549 pts
275 comments
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31
What Happens At Y Combinator
ycombinator.com · pg · 27 Sep 2010
549 pts
143 comments
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32
Google Engineer bails out student in jail
neil.fraser.name · staktrace · 24 Dec 2010
540 pts
196 comments
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33
Bribing maitre d' to skip the line
gourmet.com · howard_yeh · 1 Sep 2010
529 pts
177 comments
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35
New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
daringfireball.net · swilliams · 8 Apr 2010
525 pts
480 comments
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36
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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37
The reverse job applicant
reversejobapplication.com · middlegeek · 19 Oct 2010
518 pts
302 comments
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39
Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
eof · 27 Sep 2010
508 pts
266 comments
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41
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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42
Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis
boingboing.net · r11t · 30 Dec 2010
498 pts
61 comments
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43
Android – Now Ported On The iPhone
appadvice.com · xonder · 22 Apr 2010
494 pts
121 comments
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44
A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
azarask.in · aikoto · 25 May 2010
491 pts
114 comments
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45
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
steve-yegge.blogspot.com · rimantas · 28 Jul 2010
487 pts
126 comments
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46
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
techcrunch.com · jmorin007 · 16 Dec 2010
486 pts
293 comments
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47
Welcome to the new decade
twitter.com · tswicegood · 15 Aug 2010
486 pts
158 comments
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49
How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
codusoperandi.com · jayro · 8 Dec 2010
472 pts
103 comments
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50
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
paulgraham.com · j_baker · 26 Jul 2010
470 pts
269 comments
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51
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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52
Banana equivalent dose
en.wikipedia.org · soyelmango · 14 Jun 2010
470 pts
84 comments
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53
How to Lose Time and Money
paulgraham.com · michael_nielsen · 6 Jul 2010
467 pts
175 comments
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54
Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
apple.com · jakewalker · 9 Sep 2010
464 pts
229 comments
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55
What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions
knifetricks.blogspot.com · abraham · 11 Sep 2010
463 pts
281 comments
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56
A letter to my students
blogs.berkeley.edu · sunkan · 25 Aug 2010
462 pts
169 comments
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57
Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)
jacquesm · 27 Oct 2010
461 pts
31 comments
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58
Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down
noblasters.com · bobf · 22 Nov 2010
459 pts
179 comments
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59
Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er
savemylyfe.blogspot.com · savemylife · 2 Jun 2010
455 pts
316 comments
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