top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-10-25

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

16 years ago

714 upvotes – 341 comments

A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn

16 years ago

310 upvotes – 87 comments

Icon search engine

http://www.iconfinder.com

16 years ago

304 upvotes – 94 comments

Compared to you, most people seem dumb

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2010/10/25/compared-to-you-most-people-seem-dumb/

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 138 comments

Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstrom#Employee_handbook

16 years ago

200 upvotes – 68 comments

"Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=147321#p147321

16 years ago

180 upvotes – 200 comments

Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/digg-to-lay-off-37-percentof-staff/

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 75 comments

12 Months with MongoDB

http://blog.wordnik.com/12-months-with-mongodb

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 73 comments

Holla - An open source Campfire

http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/2010/10/24/holla.html

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against e.g. FireSheep

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/10/25/how-to-use-ssl-to-secure-your-rails-app-against-firesheep-and-other-evils/

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 43 comments

You can help it get better

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=150

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple and the future of Java

http://www.subfurther.com/blog/?p=1305

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

Search for PHP

http://www.searchforphp.com/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer

http://raganwald.posterous.com/why-i-call-myself-a-javascript-programmer

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: How do you tune your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829124

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Khan Academy + Instant Search = Khan Instant

http://www.khaninstant.com/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

This is how you write a reverse job application

http://www.thejohnnybrown.com/?p=21

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

How Long Does a Flash Drive Last?

http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

EA open sources their internal version of STL

http://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

16 years ago

★ 506 C++
89 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829774

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments
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