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Top of Year 2010

1. Introducing Word Lens
   (17 Dec 2010 | 1297 points | Comments)

2. Today you, tomorrow me
   (14 Dec 2010 | 1270 points | Comments)

3. A new approach to China
   (12 Jan 2010 | 1145 points | Comments)

4. So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
   (21 Sep 2010 | 1098 points | Comments)

5. Google Beatbox
   (29 Nov 2010 | 1028 points | Comments)

6. Thoughts on Flash
   (29 Apr 2010 | 962 points | Comments)

7. Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
   (3 Aug 2010 | 776 points | Comments)

8. P ≠ NP
   (8 Aug 2010 | 740 points | Comments)

9. Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
   (8 Dec 2010 | 717 points | Comments)

10. Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
    (25 Oct 2010 | 714 points | Comments)

11. Google Kills Wave
    (4 Aug 2010 | 712 points | Comments)

12. What Happened to Yahoo
    (11 Aug 2010 | 688 points | Comments)

13. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
    (2 Dec 2010 | 687 points | Comments)

14. Sacked by a Google algorithm
    (29 Dec 2010 | 685 points | Comments)

15. Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site
    (28 Sep 2010 | 684 points | Comments)

16. Where can I fly for how much?
    (10 Jun 2010 | 668 points | Comments)

17. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
    (7 Dec 2010 | 664 points | Comments)

18. The Top Idea in Your Mind
    (21 Jul 2010 | 650 points | Comments)

19. To Paul Graham
    (2 Jun 2010 | 647 points | Comments)

20. Hacker Monthly #1 is here
    (1 Jun 2010 | 641 points | Comments)

21. A real person, a lot like you
    (31 Mar 2010 | 624 points | Comments)

22. Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
    (8 Oct 2010 | 620 points | Comments)

23. Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
    (6 Jul 2010 | 611 points | Comments)

24. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
    (16 Aug 2010 | 606 points | Comments)

25. WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
    (26 Oct 2010 | 605 points | Comments)

26. Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
    (2 Dec 2010 | 586 points | Comments)

27. The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard
    (12 Nov 2010 | 567 points | Comments)

28. Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
    (24 Sep 2010 | 558 points | Comments)

29. How Israel handles airport security
    (15 Nov 2010 | 550 points | Comments)

30. Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
    (12 Feb 2010 | 549 points | Comments)

31. What Happens At Y Combinator
    (27 Sep 2010 | 549 points | Comments)

32. Google Engineer bails out student in jail
    (24 Dec 2010 | 540 points | Comments)

33. Bribing maitre d' to skip the line
    (1 Sep 2010 | 529 points | Comments)

34. Why I Sold Zappos
    (7 Jun 2010 | 526 points | Comments)

35. New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
    (8 Apr 2010 | 525 points | Comments)

36. What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
    (10 Dec 2010 | 521 points | Comments)

37. The reverse job applicant
    (19 Oct 2010 | 518 points | Comments)

38. Why GNU grep is Fast
    (23 Aug 2010 | 512 points | Comments)

39. Dan
    (28 Jan 2010 | 508 points | Comments)

40. Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
    (27 Sep 2010 | 508 points | Comments)

41. If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
    (15 Dec 2010 | 503 points | Comments)

42. Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis
    (30 Dec 2010 | 498 points | Comments)

43. Android – Now Ported On The iPhone
    (22 Apr 2010 | 494 points | Comments)

44. A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
    (25 May 2010 | 491 points | Comments)

45. Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
    (28 Jul 2010 | 487 points | Comments)

46. Welcome to the new decade
    (15 Aug 2010 | 486 points | Comments)

47. Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
    (16 Dec 2010 | 486 points | Comments)

48. Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
    (21 Oct 2010 | 479 points | Comments)

49. How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
    (8 Dec 2010 | 472 points | Comments)

50. Banana equivalent dose
    (14 Jun 2010 | 470 points | Comments)

51. The Acceleration of Addictiveness
    (26 Jul 2010 | 470 points | Comments)

52. Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)
    (10 Nov 2010 | 470 points | Comments)

53. How to Lose Time and Money
    (6 Jul 2010 | 467 points | Comments)

54. Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
    (9 Sep 2010 | 464 points | Comments)

55. What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions
    (11 Sep 2010 | 463 points | Comments)

56. A letter to my students
    (25 Aug 2010 | 462 points | Comments)

57. Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)
    (27 Oct 2010 | 461 points | Comments)

58. Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down
    (22 Nov 2010 | 459 points | Comments)

59. Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er
    (2 Jun 2010 | 455 points | Comments)

60. Remind HN: Vote
    (2 Nov 2010 | 454 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind
    (26 Oct 2010 | 453 points | Comments)

62. Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android
    (13 Aug 2010 | 452 points | Comments)

63. The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell
    (11 Apr 2010 | 446 points | Comments)

64. Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...
    (11 Nov 2010 | 443 points | Comments)

65. Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
    (22 Jul 2010 | 441 points | Comments)

66. Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07
    (5 Apr 2010 | 439 points | Comments)

67. Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
    (26 Nov 2010 | 437 points | Comments)

68. Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
    (9 Oct 2010 | 436 points | Comments)

69. The case of the 500-mile email
    (25 Apr 2010 | 434 points | Comments)

70. Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee
    (15 Oct 2010 | 433 points | Comments)

71. Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map
    (14 Dec 2010 | 430 points | Comments)

72. Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm
    (8 Jul 2010 | 429 points | Comments)

73. Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
    (1 Dec 2010 | 429 points | Comments)

74. How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer
    (20 Jul 2010 | 428 points | Comments)

75. Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
    (28 Sep 2010 | 428 points | Comments)

76. When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.
    (16 Nov 2010 | 422 points | Comments)

77. SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower
    (22 Nov 2010 | 422 points | Comments)

78. Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
    (24 Oct 2010 | 421 points | Comments)

79. The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
    (16 Nov 2010 | 420 points | Comments)

80. Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer
    (10 Sep 2010 | 418 points | Comments)

81. "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."
    (11 Aug 2010 | 417 points | Comments)

82. New IDE: code bubbles
    (10 Mar 2010 | 414 points | Comments)

83. Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
    (16 Dec 2010 | 413 points | Comments)

84. Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
    (9 Apr 2010 | 410 points | Comments)

85. An Awesome Book
    (18 Nov 2010 | 409 points | Comments)

86. Wikileaks: Something is up
    (24 Mar 2010 | 407 points | Comments)

87. Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
    (27 Oct 2010 | 406 points | Comments)

88. Congratulations Patrick
    (30 Mar 2010 | 400 points | Comments)

89. Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
    (20 Jul 2010 | 398 points | Comments)

90. Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
    (27 Oct 2010 | 398 points | Comments)

91. How to make McDonalds french fries
    (6 Jun 2010 | 396 points | Comments)

92. A Big Case of Oops
    (26 Feb 2010 | 395 points | Comments)

93. Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC
    (14 Dec 2010 | 395 points | Comments)

94. Common Programmer Health Problems
    (8 Aug 2010 | 394 points | Comments)

95. Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph
    (17 Aug 2010 | 394 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?
    (30 Jun 2010 | 391 points | Comments)

97. Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages
    (21 Sep 2010 | 391 points | Comments)

98. Introducing Google Command line Tool
    (18 Jun 2010 | 390 points | Comments)

99. Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
    (18 Nov 2010 | 389 points | Comments)

100. Tablets
     (1 Dec 2010 | 387 points | Comments)