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Top of Month - Oct 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Apple deprecates Java
    (21 Oct 2010 | 386 points | Comments)

14. Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose
    (23 Oct 2010 | 383 points | Comments)

15. After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?
    (21 Oct 2010 | 379 points | Comments)

16. PayPal robbed my bank account
    (18 Oct 2010 | 378 points | Comments)

17. How Fake Money Saved Brazil
    (4 Oct 2010 | 377 points | Comments)

18. Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
    (1 Oct 2010 | 373 points | Comments)

19. What We Look for in Founders
    (22 Oct 2010 | 362 points | Comments)

20. Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
    (14 Oct 2010 | 352 points | Comments)

21. Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers
    (27 Oct 2010 | 342 points | Comments)

22. Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP
    (16 Oct 2010 | 338 points | Comments)

23. MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem
    (7 Oct 2010 | 329 points | Comments)

24. Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
    (5 Oct 2010 | 319 points | Comments)

25. My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups
    (18 Oct 2010 | 316 points | Comments)

26. Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug
    (12 Oct 2010 | 314 points | Comments)

27. How Hacker News ranking algorithm works
    (11 Oct 2010 | 311 points | Comments)

28. The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19
    (29 Oct 2010 | 311 points | Comments)

29. A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator
    (25 Oct 2010 | 310 points | Comments)

30. Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now
    (8 Oct 2010 | 306 points | Comments)

31. Icon search engine
    (25 Oct 2010 | 304 points | Comments)

32. Use Vim Like A Pro
    (31 Oct 2010 | 301 points | Comments)

33. Google responds aggressively to Oracle Java suit
    (6 Oct 2010 | 297 points | Comments)

34. How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?
    (29 Oct 2010 | 292 points | Comments)

35. The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
    (6 Oct 2010 | 287 points | Comments)

36. The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
    (21 Oct 2010 | 285 points | Comments)

37. How to be a freelance web developer, part 2
    (7 Oct 2010 | 284 points | Comments)

38. Are You A Pirate?
    (31 Oct 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

39. Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
    (20 Oct 2010 | 279 points | Comments)

40. The best JavaScript guide ever
    (6 Oct 2010 | 278 points | Comments)

41. To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
    (10 Oct 2010 | 276 points | Comments)

42. Ewww, You Use PHP?
    (22 Oct 2010 | 276 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized
    (18 Oct 2010 | 274 points | Comments)

44. Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim
    (2 Oct 2010 | 271 points | Comments)

45. Man jailed over computer password refusal
    (5 Oct 2010 | 271 points | Comments)

46. OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole.
    (19 Oct 2010 | 264 points | Comments)

47. Google: What We're Driving At
    (9 Oct 2010 | 259 points | Comments)

48. For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
    (29 Oct 2010 | 259 points | Comments)

49. How to become a freelance web developer
    (6 Oct 2010 | 256 points | Comments)

50. Things Paul Graham is wrong about
    (26 Oct 2010 | 254 points | Comments)

51. How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.
    (13 Oct 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

52. Stop Googling
    (14 Oct 2010 | 251 points | Comments)

53. Founders who can't code
    (5 Oct 2010 | 250 points | Comments)

54. A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta
    (13 Oct 2010 | 249 points | Comments)

55. Why rebel groups love the Toyota Hilux
    (15 Oct 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members?
    (17 Oct 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

57. The New Funding Landscape
    (19 Oct 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

58. ZestCash is Not Good.
    (14 Oct 2010 | 243 points | Comments)

59. "Nah, who needs another search engine?"
    (23 Oct 2010 | 242 points | Comments)

60. Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”
    (6 Oct 2010 | 240 points | Comments)

61. Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
    (7 Oct 2010 | 240 points | Comments)

62. The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)
    (27 Oct 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

63. Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups
    (8 Oct 2010 | 237 points | Comments)

64. Where to submit your startup for some coverage
    (4 Oct 2010 | 235 points | Comments)

65. A great logo is recognizable in any form
    (12 Oct 2010 | 232 points | Comments)

66. Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)
    (18 Oct 2010 | 232 points | Comments)

67. Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
    (6 Oct 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

68. What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?
    (16 Oct 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

69. The Unofficial HN FAQ
    (4 Oct 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

70. Put armor where there aren't bullet holes
    (1 Oct 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

71. Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
    (8 Oct 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

72. Chmod -x chmod
    (9 Oct 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

73. Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage
    (3 Oct 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

74. IE6 effect in HTML5
    (7 Oct 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

75. Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough
    (12 Oct 2010 | 223 points | Comments)

76. From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers
    (19 Oct 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

77. My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned
    (30 Oct 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

78. Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge
    (8 Oct 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

79. Offer HN: Will Work For Karma
    (24 Oct 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

80. Where to See Silicon Valley
    (4 Oct 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

81. Dear Gap, I have your new logo.
    (7 Oct 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

82. Just fucking figure it out
    (30 Oct 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

83. Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes
    (30 Oct 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

84. Announcing Backbone.js: Models, Collections and Views in 2.4kb
    (13 Oct 2010 | 216 points | Comments)

85. Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
    (10 Oct 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

86. My list of ideas, if you're looking for inspiration
    (14 Oct 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

87. 'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening
    (11 Oct 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

88. The Long Beard's Revenge
    (13 Oct 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

89. Compared to you, most people seem dumb
    (25 Oct 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

90. Microsoft Buying Adobe?
    (7 Oct 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

91. Visualization: Guy-to-girl ratio of every bar and restaurant in SF/NYC
    (12 Oct 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

92. The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
    (5 Oct 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

93. EA Artist, Soon To Be Laid Off, Burns EA Management, Discusses Failed MMO
    (13 Oct 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

94. Stop Speaking in Bullshit
    (14 Oct 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

95. OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex
    (12 Oct 2010 | 205 points | Comments)

96. NewsBlur: A feed reader with intelligence
    (26 Oct 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

97. The End of x86?
    (21 Oct 2010 | 203 points | Comments)

98. The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial screencasts are out
    (12 Oct 2010 | 201 points | Comments)

99. Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook
    (25 Oct 2010 | 200 points | Comments)

100. Life and How to Survive It (2008)
     (31 Oct 2010 | 200 points | Comments)