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Top of Month - Nov 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic
    (10 Nov 2010 | 380 points | Comments)

15. Reddit’s Astonishing Altruism
    (13 Nov 2010 | 372 points | Comments)

16. The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger
    (7 Nov 2010 | 371 points | Comments)

17. Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland
    (5 Nov 2010 | 369 points | Comments)

18. Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available
    (10 Nov 2010 | 369 points | Comments)

19. Goodbye, Google App Engine
    (21 Nov 2010 | 362 points | Comments)

20. This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep
    (7 Nov 2010 | 354 points | Comments)

21. The 18 things you must do when launching a new website
    (9 Nov 2010 | 353 points | Comments)

22. S4
    (4 Nov 2010 | 350 points | Comments)

23. Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.
    (2 Nov 2010 | 349 points | Comments)

24. Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar
    (12 Nov 2010 | 344 points | Comments)

25. WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy
    (28 Nov 2010 | 341 points | Comments)

26. HN Office Hours
    (26 Nov 2010 | 340 points | Comments)

27. Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser
    (18 Nov 2010 | 336 points | Comments)

28. Implementing the auto-buying bot from xkcd #576
    (8 Nov 2010 | 333 points | Comments)

29. Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)
    (30 Nov 2010 | 313 points | Comments)

30. The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket
    (1 Nov 2010 | 311 points | Comments)

31. Open ID Is A Nightmare
    (17 Nov 2010 | 311 points | Comments)

32. The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
    (18 Nov 2010 | 298 points | Comments)

33. Google Engineering Management Mistakes
    (3 Nov 2010 | 296 points | Comments)

34. Hacker's Guide to Tea
    (23 Nov 2010 | 294 points | Comments)

35. Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache
    (3 Nov 2010 | 290 points | Comments)

36. Just buy this one
    (5 Nov 2010 | 289 points | Comments)

37. 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard
    (1 Nov 2010 | 286 points | Comments)

38. Reporting a bug on a fragile analysis
    (17 Nov 2010 | 284 points | Comments)

39. Brave New World banned from High School curriculum
    (18 Nov 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

40. TSA encounter at SAN
    (13 Nov 2010 | 277 points | Comments)

41. EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Deployment of Body Scanners at US Airports
    (4 Nov 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

42. My Y Combinator interview.
    (22 Nov 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

43. Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers
    (29 Nov 2010 | 269 points | Comments)

44. Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem
    (4 Nov 2010 | 267 points | Comments)

45. Why I feel like a fraud
    (15 Nov 2010 | 266 points | Comments)

46. PG on the cover of Forbes
    (19 Nov 2010 | 262 points | Comments)

47. I Quit Hacker News
    (23 Nov 2010 | 261 points | Comments)

48. Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole
    (20 Nov 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

49. At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us
    (3 Nov 2010 | 259 points | Comments)

50. The only script in your head
    (30 Nov 2010 | 258 points | Comments)

51. Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
    (23 Nov 2010 | 255 points | Comments)

52. Who is living off their startup fulltime?
    (20 Nov 2010 | 254 points | Comments)

53. How to build discipline and brainwash yourself
    (24 Nov 2010 | 253 points | Comments)

54. Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript
    (8 Nov 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

55. Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism
    (18 Nov 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

56. SSH Commands / Tricks
    (24 Nov 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

57. What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It
    (25 Nov 2010 | 251 points | Comments)

58. Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN
    (17 Nov 2010 | 250 points | Comments)

59. "The web is considered 'public domain'"
    (4 Nov 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

60. Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers
    (17 Nov 2010 | 245 points | Comments)

61. Ron Paul: Airport Scanners: Enough is Enough
    (18 Nov 2010 | 244 points | Comments)

62. Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
    (21 Nov 2010 | 244 points | Comments)

63. The Shadow Scholar
    (13 Nov 2010 | 233 points | Comments)

64. Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
    (12 Nov 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

65. Prof Gives Lecture to Prove He Knows Students Cheated; Over 200 Students Confess
    (21 Nov 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

66. Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
    (25 Nov 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

67. Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders
    (1 Nov 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

68. Why I bill hourly
    (7 Nov 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

69. The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.
    (1 Nov 2010 | 228 points | Comments)

70. ⌘Q is too damn close to ⌘W
    (9 Nov 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

71. Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)
    (22 Nov 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

72. "Rate My Startup" Post Policy
    (2 Nov 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

73. The time I hacked my high school
    (3 Nov 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

74. For 18 minutes, China hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic
    (16 Nov 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

75. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
    (12 Nov 2010 | 223 points | Comments)

76. Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
    (15 Nov 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

77. If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
    (2 Nov 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

78. Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website
    (8 Nov 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

79. Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser
    (24 Nov 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

80. BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
    (30 Nov 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

81. World's largest association of pilots boycotts body scanners
    (9 Nov 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

82. Calculus distilled into hours
    (2 Nov 2010 | 218 points | Comments)

83. Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 license
    (5 Nov 2010 | 217 points | Comments)

84. A Vegan No More
    (23 Nov 2010 | 216 points | Comments)

85. Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator
    (12 Nov 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

86. The unbearable lameness of web 2.0
    (27 Nov 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

87. Full Hacker News database for download (posts, comments, points, date, username)
    (8 Nov 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

88. Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
    (10 Nov 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

89. Cause of today's Github outage
    (15 Nov 2010 | 214 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)
    (1 Nov 2010 | 213 points | Comments)

91. Nerds in Mourning: A friend, father, and founder leaves us
    (2 Nov 2010 | 213 points | Comments)

92. What Android is
    (23 Nov 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

93. Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum
    (29 Nov 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

94. How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment
    (29 Nov 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

95. Why Python rocks for research
    (3 Nov 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

96. Google Voice for iPhone Released
    (16 Nov 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

97. $80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything
    (4 Nov 2010 | 205 points | Comments)

98. Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons, no images (experimental).
    (19 Nov 2010 | 205 points | Comments)

99. My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
    (30 Nov 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

100. We're moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
     (9 Nov 2010 | 203 points | Comments)