The Best Hacker News Posts of 2010

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

1.3k pts 281 comments

2

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

1.3k pts 203 comments

3

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

5

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

1k pts 96 comments

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Thoughts on Flash apple.com · andrewdavey · 29 Apr 2010

962 pts 505 comments

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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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P ≠ NP scribd.com · zacs · 8 Aug 2010

740 pts 208 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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Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox codebutler.com · cdine · 25 Oct 2010

714 pts 341 comments

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Google Kills Wave googleblog.blogspot.com · elfred · 4 Aug 2010

712 pts 237 comments

12

What Happened to Yahoo paulgraham.com · yagibear · 11 Aug 2010

688 pts 270 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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Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site erkie.github.com · stevefink · 28 Sep 2010

684 pts 74 comments

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Where can I fly for how much? kayak.com · sublemonic · 10 Jun 2010

668 pts 106 comments

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Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies godheadv.blogspot.com · ck2 · 7 Dec 2010

664 pts 255 comments

18

The Top Idea in Your Mind paulgraham.com · tarunkotia · 21 Jul 2010

650 pts 191 comments

19

To Paul Graham Ixiaus · 2 Jun 2010

647 pts 152 comments

20

Hacker Monthly #1 is here hackermonthly.com · bearwithclaws · 1 Jun 2010

641 pts 177 comments

21

A real person, a lot like you sivers.org · terpua · 31 Mar 2010

624 pts 139 comments

22

Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees. needmoney · 8 Oct 2010

620 pts 114 comments

23

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning mariovittone.com · msg · 6 Jul 2010

611 pts 127 comments

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My Thoughts on Oracle v Google blog.headius.com · dochtman · 16 Aug 2010

606 pts 82 comments

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WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference techcrunch.com · sophmonroe · 26 Oct 2010

605 pts 161 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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The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard sivers.org · grep · 12 Nov 2010

567 pts 122 comments

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Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 24 Sep 2010

558 pts 206 comments

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

550 pts 162 comments

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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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What Happens At Y Combinator ycombinator.com · pg · 27 Sep 2010

549 pts 143 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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Bribing maitre d' to skip the line gourmet.com · howard_yeh · 1 Sep 2010

529 pts 177 comments

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Why I Sold Zappos inc.com · dwynings · 7 Jun 2010

526 pts 88 comments

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New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others daringfireball.net · swilliams · 8 Apr 2010

525 pts 480 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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The reverse job applicant reversejobapplication.com · middlegeek · 19 Oct 2010

518 pts 302 comments

38

Why GNU grep is Fast lists.freebsd.org · giu · 23 Aug 2010

512 pts 115 comments

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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Dan blog.dislocatedday.com · swombat · 28 Jan 2010

508 pts 34 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

42

Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis boingboing.net · r11t · 30 Dec 2010

498 pts 61 comments

43

Android – Now Ported On The iPhone appadvice.com · xonder · 22 Apr 2010

494 pts 121 comments

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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Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects steve-yegge.blogspot.com · rimantas · 28 Jul 2010

487 pts 126 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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Welcome to the new decade twitter.com · tswicegood · 15 Aug 2010

486 pts 158 comments

48

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier aws.amazon.com · wave · 21 Oct 2010

479 pts 137 comments

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How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition codusoperandi.com · jayro · 8 Dec 2010

472 pts 103 comments

50

The Acceleration of Addictiveness paulgraham.com · j_baker · 26 Jul 2010

470 pts 269 comments

51

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

470 pts 169 comments

52

Banana equivalent dose en.wikipedia.org · soyelmango · 14 Jun 2010

470 pts 84 comments

53

How to Lose Time and Money paulgraham.com · michael_nielsen · 6 Jul 2010

467 pts 175 comments

54

Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines apple.com · jakewalker · 9 Sep 2010

464 pts 229 comments

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

56

A letter to my students blogs.berkeley.edu · sunkan · 25 Aug 2010

462 pts 169 comments

57

Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc) jacquesm · 27 Oct 2010

461 pts 31 comments

58

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

459 pts 179 comments

59

Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er savemylyfe.blogspot.com · savemylife · 2 Jun 2010

455 pts 316 comments

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Remind HN: Vote DanielBMarkham · 2 Nov 2010

454 pts 382 comments