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Top of Month - Dec 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
    (30 Dec 2010 | 380 points | Comments)

20. Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
    (30 Dec 2010 | 370 points | Comments)

21. Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent
    (13 Dec 2010 | 365 points | Comments)

22. Nexus S
    (6 Dec 2010 | 364 points | Comments)

23. The Day MAME Saved My Ass
    (12 Dec 2010 | 352 points | Comments)

24. Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs
    (2 Dec 2010 | 347 points | Comments)

25. Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
    (14 Dec 2010 | 341 points | Comments)

26. Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research
    (25 Dec 2010 | 336 points | Comments)

27. Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
    (7 Dec 2010 | 334 points | Comments)

28. Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff
    (12 Dec 2010 | 330 points | Comments)

29. The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.
    (11 Dec 2010 | 328 points | Comments)

30. The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page
    (13 Dec 2010 | 327 points | Comments)

31. Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome
    (21 Dec 2010 | 325 points | Comments)

32. I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
    (10 Dec 2010 | 324 points | Comments)

33. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
    (3 Dec 2010 | 319 points | Comments)

34. MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers
    (6 Dec 2010 | 318 points | Comments)

35. Founder Control
    (6 Dec 2010 | 302 points | Comments)

36. How To Safely Store A Password
    (14 Dec 2010 | 298 points | Comments)

37. Startup Title Junk
    (21 Dec 2010 | 298 points | Comments)

38. Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)
    (26 Dec 2010 | 297 points | Comments)

39. How to detect a toxic customer
    (9 Dec 2010 | 293 points | Comments)

40. CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN
    (24 Dec 2010 | 289 points | Comments)

41. I just need a programmer
    (2 Dec 2010 | 288 points | Comments)

42. Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report
    (18 Dec 2010 | 288 points | Comments)

43. Merry Christmas HN
    (23 Dec 2010 | 283 points | Comments)

44. Netflix: Culture of Fear
    (21 Dec 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

45. Breaking a WoW addiction
    (31 Dec 2010 | 282 points | Comments)

46. Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
    (1 Dec 2010 | 268 points | Comments)

47. Dropbox hits 1.0
    (17 Dec 2010 | 262 points | Comments)

48. Winning Isn't Normal
    (15 Dec 2010 | 261 points | Comments)

49. The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
    (9 Dec 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

50. Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?
    (21 Dec 2010 | 259 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
    (6 Dec 2010 | 258 points | Comments)

52. Web Programming Is Hard
    (10 Dec 2010 | 258 points | Comments)

53. The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points
    (12 Dec 2010 | 256 points | Comments)

54. Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
    (16 Dec 2010 | 256 points | Comments)

55. What is Traitorware?
    (25 Dec 2010 | 255 points | Comments)

56. Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
    (4 Dec 2010 | 254 points | Comments)

57. Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
    (20 Dec 2010 | 253 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
    (30 Dec 2010 | 253 points | Comments)

59. I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
    (8 Dec 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

60. Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science
    (10 Dec 2010 | 249 points | Comments)

61. What's really wrong with BlackBerry
    (12 Dec 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

62. Having a launched product is hard
    (21 Dec 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

63. Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
    (30 Dec 2010 | 248 points | Comments)

64. The Full Stack, Part I
    (2 Dec 2010 | 243 points | Comments)

65. Dropbox for Teams
    (9 Dec 2010 | 243 points | Comments)

66. Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
    (7 Dec 2010 | 242 points | Comments)

67. Visa.com Now Also Down Under DDoS
    (8 Dec 2010 | 242 points | Comments)

68. Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
    (14 Dec 2010 | 241 points | Comments)

69. Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Give Away Fortune
    (9 Dec 2010 | 239 points | Comments)

70. Appointment Reminder Launches
    (6 Dec 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

71. Getting shot by a handgun
    (21 Dec 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

72. Bitly News
    (2 Dec 2010 | 236 points | Comments)

73. The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media
    (17 Dec 2010 | 236 points | Comments)

74. Developer responds to allegations of FBI backdoor in OpenBSD IPSec
    (15 Dec 2010 | 235 points | Comments)

75. Plea HN: Any work?
    (4 Dec 2010 | 234 points | Comments)

76. Why I love math
    (19 Dec 2010 | 231 points | Comments)

77. Yesterday I had this crazy idea: People pay me $15, I make them a web design
    (8 Dec 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

78. The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired
    (27 Dec 2010 | 230 points | Comments)

79. FreeBSD/EC2 lives
    (13 Dec 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

80. Title Junk
    (20 Dec 2010 | 229 points | Comments)

81. 1960s IT department
    (30 Dec 2010 | 228 points | Comments)

82. Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf]
    (8 Dec 2010 | 227 points | Comments)

83. The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing
    (22 Dec 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

84. Touching Your Junk: An Ontological Complaint
    (29 Dec 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

85. It's not an arsenic-based life form
    (2 Dec 2010 | 224 points | Comments)

86. Write code like you just learned how to program
    (24 Dec 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

87. You don't really want a million dollars
    (20 Dec 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

88. Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money
    (25 Dec 2010 | 221 points | Comments)

89. What’s Next for Delicious?
    (17 Dec 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

90. RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007
    (27 Dec 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

91. Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster
    (15 Dec 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

92. How to Become a Software Contractor
    (21 Dec 2010 | 219 points | Comments)

93. Introducing Apache Wave
    (7 Dec 2010 | 218 points | Comments)

94. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees
    (13 Dec 2010 | 217 points | Comments)

95. Close the Washington Monument
    (2 Dec 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

96. Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life
    (20 Dec 2010 | 211 points | Comments)

97. Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism
    (11 Dec 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

98. Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]
    (25 Dec 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

99. BMW Burns Logo onto Cinema-Goers’ Eyes
    (16 Dec 2010 | 209 points | Comments)

100. Comic Sans Criminal
     (21 Dec 2010 | 209 points | Comments)